Japanese Company Wants to Buy Your Face and Sell It as a Hyper-Realistic Mask
Would you ever sell your face? If the answer is yes, there is a Japanese company that wants to hear from you. It’s in the business of buying the rights to people’s faces so it can sell them in the form of hyper-realistic 3D-printed masks. Ever since Kamenya Omoto, a Tokyo-based specialty mask maker and […]
Chả rươi – Vietnam’s Popular Worm Omelet
Chả rươi, or sand worm omelet, is a seasonal Vietnamese dish made with unsightly, two-inch-long sea worms that some say give the “delicacy” a caviar-like taste. Every year, in late fall, street food stalls in northern Vietnam, particularly in Hanoi, serve a very special dish that looks very ordinary at first glance, but that actually […]
19-Year-Old Undergoes Plastic Surgery After Breaking Up With Boyfriend, Has No Regrets
Vietnamese social media has been abuzz with the story of a girl who went under the knife at age 19, after breaking up with her boyfriend because of her looks. Nguyen Tuong Vy became an overnight hot topic in Vietnam after taking to social media to share photos of herself from a few years ago, […]
Woman Shocked to Find Part of Her Ear Missing After Nose Job Operation
A 31-year-old Chinese woman who had recently undergone a rhinoplasty procedure at a hospital in Chengdu, was shocked to see that a chunk of her ear cartilage had been removed, allegedly without her consent. The woman, identified only as Ms. Zhao, had her nose surgery at the Angel Wing Hospital in Chengdu on September 1st. […]
You Need a Reservation to See This Stunningly Beautiful Tree in Person
Every year, at the end of October, tens of thousands of people flock to a Buddhist temple in China to see a majestic gingko biloba tree shed its foliage and turn the temple compound from green to gold. The Gu Guanyin Buddhist temple in the Zhongnan Mountains of China’s Shaanxi Province is home to a […]
Microfishing – When the Tiniest Fish Becomes the Biggest Catch
Catching fish as small as a penny would be nothing short of embarrassing for the average fisherman, but in Japan it’s a source of pride, as in the old art of Tanago Fishing, the smaller the fish is, the bigger a catch it represents. Most fishermen believe that the bigger the fish they catch, the […]
Chinese Company Comes Under Fire for Installing Timers in Employee Toilets
Beijing-based technology company Kuaishou recently sparked outrage on Chinese social media after videos of digital timers over employee toilet stalls went viral online. The photos showed digital timers hanging over each cubicle and small sensors installed on the cubicle doors to trigger the timers. Chinese social media users slammed the company for monitoring and timing […]
Loyal Dog Walks 60 Km in 26 Days to Return Home After Being Forgotten on Highway
A loyal pooch reportedly managed to walk 60 km back to his home after being forgotten by his owners in a highway service area 26 days prior. According to local media, the 7-year-old dog, named Dou Dou, was forgotten in a by a Chinese family in a motorway service area when they stopped for a […]
Man Becomes Massive TikTok Star by Simply Staring Into Camera
A middle-aged Vietnamese man is being hailed as a TikTok phenomenon after achieving stardom on popular video app TikTok by doing nothing but staring into his smartphone camera. With streaming and video content being so popular these days, wannabe influencers really have to work hard and find new ways of attracting and entertaining audiences. Or […]
Man Fails at Claw Machine Game 200 Times in a Row, Calls Police
Claw machines are infamous for being deceptively easy, but actually excruciatingly difficult to master, and one Japanese man found out just how difficult after failing to win a single price after 200 consecutive tries. Twitter user Ogarun, who happens to be a big fan of claw machine games, or “UFO Cathers” as they are called […]
Company Gifts Employees 4,116 New Cars as Bonus for Surpassing Profit Targets
A Chinese steel production company recently made international news headlines for offering 4,116 of its employees brand new cars as bonus for surpassing profit targets for the fifth consecutive year. On October 1st, Jiangxi West Dajiu Iron & Steel Corporation organized an epic event to celebrate its success and reward employees for contributing to its […]
Botched Wrinkle Fillers Leave Woman With Half-Face Paralysis
A 29-year-old woman in China has suffered paralysis in the left side of her face after having wrinkle fillers injected at a cosmetic clinic. Doctors fear that the symptoms may be permanent. On September 12, Ms. Zhao, from Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. went to the local cosmetic hospital for a procedure she had undergone several […]
25-Year-Old’s Japanese Girl’s Plastic Surgery Transformation Stuns Internet
Mikishi, a 25-year-old girl from Japan, has been getting a lot of attention on Asian social media lately, because of her drastic plastic surgery transformation. Ever since taking to Twitter to confess that her appearance is the result of several bouts of plastic surgery, back in March of this year, 25-year-old Mikishi has become somewhat […]
Woman Shocked to Discover Two Long Needles Embedded in Her Brain
A Chinese woman who underwent a CT scan following a minor car accident learned that she had two metallic needles embedded deep in her brain. The 29-year-old woman from Zhengzhou had been involved in a car accident and was advised to get a CT scan to make sure that there was no damage to her […]
9-Year-Old Boy Drops Out of School, Spends Next 17 Years Chasing His Father’s Killer
Chinese media recently reported the fascinating story of a young boy who, after witnessing his father’s murder at the hands of a neighbor, when he was 9-years-old, spent the next 17 years trying to catch the culprit. Looking back on that fateful day of August 9th, 2000, Xiang Mingqian wishes he had never thrown that […]