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…

Obama Appears in Chinese Billboards

You might not expect to see President Obama posed in advertisements across China, but a walk through the Shanxi province last week would have countered that belief. President Obama didn't approve the …

Art in China Just Got Hairy

A Chinese hairdresser is turning the leftover locks of his grooming trade into building blocks for his artistic inclinations, and the results prove that there is no end to what you can do if you have …

Flower Hails Kings… or Lacewing Bugs

The Udumbara is a rare flower that seems to sprout without roots, and it’s caused a lot of controversy in China. According to legend, the flowers are supposed to come only every 3,000 years a…

Outbreak of Pneumonic Plague in China

Chinese authorities recently announced an outbreak of the Pneumonic Plague, which could be worse than the current H1N1 virus that is threatening the world. At the last count, three people have died an…

Monster Rat Caught in China

A long ways away from New York and with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles nowhere in site, a giant rat was caught in the province of Fujian in China earlier this year, scooped up by the scruff of his n…