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Aug 15, 2013 Comments(3)
Exceeding the limit of the one-child policy means a pretty hefty fine. The fines, nicknamed “social maintenance fees”, generate a yearly revenue of about 20 billion RMB for the country. But what is the money obtained from these fines being spent on? ... Read More>>
Aug 14, 2013
As the mercury spikes to 42℃ in many parts of Hunan Province and respite from the heat is nowhere in sight, one group of men have decided to take matters into their own hands by taking their daily Mahjong habit underwater. ... Read More>>
Aug 14, 2013
A 25 year old woman in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province recently gave birth to a healthy baby girl via caesarian section. However, during the operation doctors noticed a strange, long, dark object in a ligament on the right side of her uterus. ... Read More>>
Aug 13, 2013 Comments(8)
On August 8, a man surnamed Jiang got drunk and decided to take a little nap in a container at a shipping yard in Qingdao at around 4am. What he didn’t know at the time is that the container was destined for the US the next day. ... Read More>>
Aug 13, 2013
For once, netizens actually had something positive to say about one of their fellow countrymen acting out of the norm. The subject? An elderly woman who had a shower using water from a public fountain. ... Read More>>
Aug 13, 2013 Comments(6)
In the prison located on Dongguan’s Xinzhou Island, there are currently around 500 foreign inmates. This report looks at the backgrounds of some of the inmates and provides insight into life in Chinese prison for foreigners. ... Read More>>
Aug 12, 2013 Comments(6)
Five first class passengers on a Hebei Airlines flight caused a big commotion and grabbed the wheels of the aircraft pushback tractor just because the airline didn’t arrange a special VIP bus to the connecting flight. Pathetic! ... Read More>>
Aug 12, 2013 Comments(1)
A Beijing university professor surnamed Zhang, has built a fake mountain complete with a dense layer of vegetation on the rooftop of a housing compound near Purple Bamboo Park in Beijing. ... Read More>>
Aug 12, 2013 Comments(8)
More and more young Chinese are heading abroad to study. According to China’s Ministry of Education, in 2012 around 400,000 student visas were issued for America alone. But what are the reasons behind this mass exodus and is this phenomenon a new one? ... Read More>>
Aug 10, 2013
With China playing catch-up with the rest of the world in the fields of leisure and entertainment, it is perhaps unsurprising that theme parks are mushrooming up all around the country. Most interesting about these amusement parks are the wacky themes which ...... Read More>>
Aug 09, 2013 Comments(2)
China’s first 3D printer capable of printing out tissue and other biological matter was unveiled in Hangzhou on August 6. The futuristic printer called “Regenovo” uses a combination of biocompatible polymer, inorganic material, hydrogel and live cells, ...... Read More>>
Aug 09, 2013
Not long ago, Chinese media was enthralled by a 13 year old whiz kid who got admitted into Peking University. Well, it seems they got bored of him and have moved on to their next child idol: 3.8 year old old Wang Wuka from Anhui Province. ... Read More>>
Aug 09, 2013 Comments(5)
In the past few weeks, there has been a worrying spate of violent attacks on the streets of China. But what’s the real underlying reason for all these recent attacks? How can they be prevented from happening again? ... Read More>>
Aug 08, 2013 Comments(1)
Recently, Xinhua published a group of photos that apparently documented a “Western execution”. The images were then quickly reposted on other sites too. However, people soon noticed that there was something slightly off the pictures. ... Read More>>
Aug 08, 2013 Comments(3)
Authorities in Binzhou, Shandong Province were clearly thinking big when they approved plans to build an aircraft-carrier-shaped building out of concrete back in 2005. But all that’s left nowadays is a massive eyesore and a lot of unhappy investors. ... Read More>>
Aug 08, 2013 Comments(1)
Early July, protests in Jiangmen, Guangdong resulted in authorities backing down from plans to construct a uranium plant. This is not the first time Chinese citizens have tangled with authorities and come through on a smaller scale. ... Read More>>
Aug 07, 2013
It seems netizens didn’t have enough human flesh search tasks this week so they started coming up with silly names for Shanghai’s three tallest buildings instead. ... Read More>>
Aug 07, 2013 Comments(1)
On August 6, a man named Li Ming stood trial at the Chaoyang Court in Beijing for unsuccessfully robbing a bank. The reason he resorted to such a desperate measure to obtain money? Li was short 170,000 RMB for the first down payment of his house. ... Read More>>
Aug 07, 2013 Comments(1)
China is riddled with horror-stories associated with mother-in-law horror stories. The most recent story –though innocent enough – tells the tale of a Changchun wife who can’t handle the fact that the mother-in-law still kisses her son goodnight. ... Read More>>
Aug 07, 2013 Comments(1)
Over the past 12-18 months China has witnessed a number of extreme and even deadly weather conditions. This article maps out some of the most significant record-breaking weather extremes in recent Chinese history. ... Read More>>
Aug 06, 2013 Comments(4)
A Wuhan woman recently had the worst hair day ever, after some weirdo on a bus decided it would be fun to chop off her pony tail. ... Read More>>
Aug 06, 2013 Comments(7)
The following story – which involves an American born Chinese giving his Shanghai girlfriend an expensive Mercedes-Benz as a gift – is proof that buying over-the-top, ridiculously expensive luxury items is just not cool. ... Read More>>
Aug 06, 2013
Following on from the GlaxoSmithKline China corruption scandal, two employees at the firm detail how they used various means to bribe doctors into buying their drugs, thus increasing their profit margins. ... Read More>>
Aug 05, 2013 Comments(2)
One man in Jilin decided to forgo the nation’s most popular current pastime of bitching about the hot weather and instead decided to embrace the heat – literally. ... Read More>>
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