Snake with a Foot Discovered in China

A snake measuring sixteen inches long has been discovered in China by Dean Qiongxiu, making its grand entrance by clinging to the bathroom wall with a clawed talon. Unfortunately, its life was cut …

Chinese Butter Bridge Hinders Jumpers

A thousand-foot-long bridge in southeast China is providing an essential lesson in that country’s culinary tastes: The Chinese are not wild about butter. The proof is in the fact that Guangzhou a…

Are Two Snake Heads More Poisonous Than One?

A two-headed cobra has been born in China. Such anomalies among snakes are rare but they do happen. As far as anyone knows, this is the first incidence of such an occurrence with a cobra. The o…

Tamarin Monkeys Rock Out To Metallica

Primates of the human variety like many different types of music – from classical to rap to country to rock- but monkeys are a little pickier. Researchers in Bejing have recently found that monkeys …

Chinese Farmer Breeds Divine-Looking Pear

What’s green, juicy, and sweet, and improves your karma? You’ll never guess! For centuries, statues of a sitting, big-bellied Buddha have illustrated what’s commonly called a “pear-shaped 

Ugly Blind Date Causes Teen Suicide

Lying about your age and beauty is par for the course when it comes to Internet dating. In China, such deceptions had deadly results for one lovesick teen who killed himself after a disappointing meet…

Customer Beaten to Death by Walmart Employees

At Walmart, theft is not tolerated. At least not at the Walmart in Jingdezhen, China, where a customer died at the hands of Walmart employees who suspected her of stealing. It started out when …

Raging River Preferable to Nagging Wife

Unable to deal with the endless nagging of his wife any longer, a Chinese man felt the raging waters of the Yangtze River were an adequate substitute. Zhou, a truck driver, and his wife were on…

Sperm Bank Hoax Was Fun While It Lasted

Any healthy, red-blooded male reader would have told you that the news, late last year, about the Shanghai Sperm Bank seemed almost too good to be true. And indeed, if the report was anything to go b…

China Cracks Down On Sexting

How do you solve the problem of cell phone users who send sexually explicit text messages? Well, if you’re the Chinese government, you just monitor everyone’s text messages and throw the sleazy se…

Rare Long-Eared Jerboa Poses for a Picture

The Mountain of Flames in Turpan City, China, known for having the coolest name for a mountain in existence, has a new distinction to add to its credentials: home for the rare long-eared Jerboa. …

In China, A House is not Always a House

It would seem that in Henan Province, China, appearances really are deceiving. At a glance, you might see some new two story buildings with freshly painted walls near the road, but, alas, nothing i…

China’s Dog License Laws Going to the Dogs

Public hearings are becoming more and more a part of our daily lives, but who would have thought that getting a dog would require one? Residents from the downtown Luwan District in Shanghai are beg…

Brick Wielding Grandpa Attacks Red-light Runners

The daring vigilante act of a retired teacher captured the world's imagination last month when he smashed the cars of traffic violators with a brick. The three hour spectacle took place in the city of…