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 wrong. Sadly, these same thoughts didn’t pass through the scummy property developers who beat and then buried 70-year-old Wang Cuyun alive.
Wang was a quaint grandmother from Hubei Province, China. She lived a fairly peaceful life up until March 3, 2010, when a raucous band of prop…
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 migration or panicked stampede, both the quantity a…
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-teacher interaction makes headlines in Chin…
China
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 …
Hong Kong
Falling Pensioner Lands on Passing Pedestrian
In a truly bizarre turn of events, a Hong Kong-based widow from the Ma On Shan district ended up killing a passing pedestrian when she lost her footing and fell from outsid…
India
Bizarre Health Rituals in India Show Dangerous Side of Tradition
In what has got to be on of the most vile and disturbing things ever put to print, a man in eastern India was arrested for his unconventional and downright insane method of…
Japan
Flush Away Your Troubles Down Japan’s ‘Holy Toilet’
Toilets were originally built to dispose of pee and poop, but they’ve oftentimes been used to discard so much more, including toilet tissue (obviously!), clumps of tatter…
North Korea
Cell Phone Call Costs North Korean His Life
There are many dangers of urban life but, up until now, getting executed for cell phone use was not one of them. This tragic event took place in North Korea where authoriti…
Rest of Asia
One Sticky Point: Singapore Maintains Ban on Gum
In an effort to sustain the image of an island that is squeaky clean, Singapore has maintained its ban on chewing gum sales, which was first imposed in 1992. Known for its …
South Korea
For South Korean Couple, Virtual Baby Takes Precedence
Stories of video games taking precedence over one’s health are not entirely uncommon. As tragic as it is, however, you can’t deny the irony involved with a coup…
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