Rare Buddhist Flower Discovered Under Nun’s Washing Machine

According to Buddhist legend, the Udumbara flower, also known as Youtan Poluo, blooms once every 3,000 years. Its name in Sanskrit translates to an auspicious flower from heaven. Such a cluster of tin…

Chinese Woman Dazzles Crowd with Impressive Hula Hoop Skills

At the 2010 New Year World Peace Gala in Chicago, which was held on January 9th, 2010, Jin Linlin amazed the crowd with her impressive hula hoop abilities. And impressive they are. To call this…

Property Developers Bury Defiant Grandma Alive

Owen Lift tried everything to persuade his good friend Larry Donner to Throw Momma from the Train, but he had a change of heart at the last minute. He realized that offing an old Lady is just plain wr…

China Reports Thousands of Dinosaur Footprints

More than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing the same way, have been discovered by researchers after a three-month excavation in the eastern Shandong province of China. Possibly representing a migr…

Terrifying Teacher Punishes Pupils with Strange Syringe

Even though violent crime is considered relatively rare in China, shocking events do happen within the borders of the world's most populous country. Every few years, it seems that a violent student-te…

Advertisement for Boyfriend Results in Thousands of Potential Suitors

With the advent of online dating websites such as OK Cupid and mass classified ad websites such as Craigslist, the search for a mate has left the bars and hopped onto the internet. One woman attempted…

Antique China Vase Turns Up In Ireland, Sells For $150k

A vase thought to have belonged to an 18th Century Chinese emperor turned up an auction in rural Ireland earlier this month and sold for more than 70 times its asking price. The 12-inch tall blue a…

Hunky Homeless Man Wins Hearts With High Fashion

A homeless man in eastern central China has caused a stir with his movie star good looks and dress sense from the catwalks of international high fashion. Xilige, 35, in the port city of Ningbo in Z…

Pigs Get Time Off To Improve Pork Quality

A city in Central China has imposed mandatory rules on slaughterhouses designed to make pigs more comfortable before they are killed so that their meat tastes better. Pigs should be left alone for …

14 Month-Old Child Grows Fish Scales Over Body

Nothing beats spending a warm spring day in the park, playing football with your friends or tossin' the old frisbee around with your beloved Australian cattle dog named Captain Fluffy. When you get to…

China Farmer Lives Up A Tree

A 65-year-old farmer in southeast China has been living in a treehouse for the last decade. Su Yuanren of Nan'an, Quanzhou City in Fujian province says he prefers to live in the fresh air. His wife…

Ants and Worms: They Do a Body Good!

Times are tough and personal health is on many people's minds. Despite the overwhelming concern, it still comes as an utter shock that some people prefer the crunchy remains of ants and earthworms as …

No Bull: Tiger Loses Challenge With Bull

The hunter became the hunted in an odd series of events that recently occurred at the Yancheng Zoo in Changzhou, Jiangsu province China. In an attempt to restore a tiger’s natural instincts, a live …

Introducing Beijing’s Supermarket of Love

A few weeks ago, Weird Asia News reporter Bill Lehane covered China's bachelor epidemic, wherein "as many as 24 million eligible bachelors in China may never be able to marry because of a lack of wome…