China

Dai Haifei, a 24-year-old young man who makes his living working for an architectural design company, is the designer, builder, and sole occupant of this one-of-a-kind egg shaped bamboo house.  Haifei got the inspiration for his unique lodging from his company’s own mobile, egg shaped cabin known as “egg...

The man in this video got himself into a spot of bother when he accidentally dropped his phone in his toilet. I imagine that in most instances it would just fall to the bottom of the bowl from where (depending on how the toilet was – it could theoretically...

Swan Lake will never be the same again. From Youtube: This is fantastic video about the “Great Chinese State Circus”, playing “Swank Lake”. Definately one of the most amazing things that I have seen…...

Drivers on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway got a little something that they hadn’t counted on from August 14: a traffic jam that stretched 100 kilometers and that has, thus far, lasted for nine days. Authorities have explained that the 100-kilometer jam was caused by an influx of cargo-bearing heavy trucks...

While it might be argued that a person is “lucky” to be sent to prison in a country where some 68 crimes (including gold and silver smuggling) are punishable by death, beating the firing squad in China is no guarantee of safety. The prisons, it would seem, are just...

CHINA has cancelled a controversial visa restriction on folicaly challenged visitors from Taiwan. Imposed by the southern Chinese city of Xiamen, it stopped bald people, especially business travellers, from applying for one-year multiple-entry permits. It was cancelled earlier this year, according to Taiwan’s Travel Agent Association. Roger Hsu, a spokesman for the...

Seems no one gets a bargain like the Chinese. A 22-year-old man from the central province of Hubeia, received a suspended jail sentence for selling his young son on the Internet for 18,000 yuan or $us2,650 dollars. Surely that is a bargain in any language. The unmarried man sold his two-year-old son to...

Chinese farmer Yang Youde had other ideas when he was told that he was going to hand the land that he had leased until 2019 over to property developers for the paltry sum of 130,000 yuan ($19,030). He didn’t want “department buildings” built on his little slice of central...

A Chinese man has been freed after spending 10 years in jail for a murder that he did not commit that never actually took place. Zhao Zuohai’s neighbor disappeared after the pair were involved in a physical altercation. When a headless, decomposed body was discovered a year-and-a-half later, police...