A Whale of A Painter Splatters Art World

Can whales paint pictures? Think before you respond, as at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World oceanarium in China the answer might surprise you. A seven-year-old Beluga whale named Xiao Qiang began his …

Chinese Granny Saves The Day

Who says heroes or heroines have to be less than 65 years of age? Perhaps they even decide on their own prime. Case in point; Granny Cai, who has become a local celebrity in Fuzhou, Fujian province, C…

Chinese Zoo Tigers Are Upfront and Personal With Visitors

In keeping with that old expression about letting the cat out of the bag, Wenzhou Zoo, Zhejiang province has done just that literally, and has received much criticism for its actions. Visitors to t…

Britons Suffer Chemical Burns From Chinese Sofas

As many as 2,000 people in the UK are to receive compensation after they received chemical burns from sofas made in China. The sofas, manufactured by Chinese firms Linkwise and Eurosofa, contained …

The Shave Mobile: For The Hairy Multi-Tasker

Convenience and timesaving are two features that are usually big sellers when it comes to the preferences of the modern consumer. We don’t however, usually connect those two dots when talking about …

Governmental Thugs: China’s Black Taxi Entrapment Scandal

It would seem that not all thugs wear masks and point guns in our faces. Case in point; Sun Zhongjie, a driver who became the latest victim of the governmental “hooks” of Shanghai who “work…

Thousands Sterilized In China Population Crackdown

Thousands of people in one county of southern China have been sterilized in just days as part of a crackdown on violations of the country's controversial one-child policy. A 20-day campaign was beg…

Accused China Official Aimed To Bed 800 Women

A government official in east China has been detained after allegedly accepting bribes in order to fund a personal target of sleeping with 800 women. The 47-year-old department head from the city o…

China’s Cyber Vigilantes: Do They Go Too Far?

Are Chinese human-flesh search engines seeking justice or revenge? This controversial aspect of China’s internet culture, in which individuals accused of specific crimes (which they may or may not h…

Ordos: China’s Modern Ghost Town

Founded in February of 2001, Ordos, whose name translates from the Mongolian into “palaces,” is an enigmatic riddle. It is an empty city although it is inhabited and it is richer by far than the n…

Introducing the Dwarf Empire of China

James Brown once said that this is a man’s world, but for dwarfs, this is more like a tall man’s world. This outlook especially holds true in Asia, where the struggle for equal rights gradually …

The Seventh Ring of Beijing: Rubbish Dumps

Mounds of rubbish continue to grow at alarming rates along the perimeters of China’s capital city between the ring roads, hence the moniker; the Seventh Ring. As Beijing becomes more and more the th…

3 Year-Old Tight Rope Walks Over Tigers

We can all agree that acrobats, from the trapeze artists to the tight rope walkers, are pretty crazy, right? It's like NASCAR; you're not there for the act itself but to hopefully see an accident. Unl…

Is Bee Venom a Cure for Rheumatism?

While most people would avoid contact with bees, in Beijing, China, patients are lining up outside hospitals to receive bee sting therapy, a practice which dates back over three thousand years! The pr…