Businessman Buys Football Club Just so He and His 126-Kilogram Son Could Play
A Chinese entrepreneur recently bought a second division football club just so he and his overweight son could play in official matches. It’s never too late to fulfill your dreams, and having lost of money helps a lot, as He Shihua, a 35-year-old entrepreneur with a passion for football, can tell you. His biggest regret […]
300-Meter Chinese Skyscraper Wobbles Ominously for No Apparent Reason
A 73-storey skyscraper in Shenzen, China, was recently evacuated after it reportedly started shaking for no apparent reason, sending inhabitants into a panic. On Tuesday afternoon, SEG Plaza, a 20-year-old skyscraper in Shenzen, started wobbling visibly, prompting both people inside and those on the streets below to flee for their lives. Videos shared on social […]
70-Year-Old Pensioner Has Completed Over 100 Marathons in the Last 20 Years
A 70-year-old Chinese woman has been dubbed “Super Grannie” after it was revealed that she is an avid runner, with over 100 marathons completed in the last two decades. Most people choose to take it easy after they retire, but Liaoning-based Wang Lang is definitely not one of them. She only started running at the […]
Ordering Loophole Allows Student to Eat for Free at KFC for Six Months
A 23-year-old university student was recently sentenced to two and a half years in prison for swindling KFC out of about $31,000 in fast food, by taking advantage of an ordering loophole. The student, surnamed Xu first discovered the glitch in 2018, and not only continued to use it to his benefit for the next […]
There Is Something Off About These Bridesmaids
Videos shot during a wedding in Pingdingshan, China’s Henan Province, have gone viral on social media, because of the three bridesmaids and their unusual gender. The role of bridesmaid is traditionally reserved for women, but what happens if the bride doesn’t have any female friends, or if none of her friends can make it to […]
Designer Creates Innovative Card-Like Lipstick
Designer Yuru Zhang recently won a design competition with a thin, card-like lipstick inspired by the way Chinese women applied lip makeup hundreds of years ago. The humble lipstick tube feels like it has been around forever, doesn’t it? It hasn’t obviously, but it has become some widely adopted that it is basically the only […]
Woman’s Pet Micro-Pig Grows Into 150-Kg Behemoth
A Chinese woman who thought she had bought a pet micro-pig three years ago ended up with a 150-kg regular pig usually bred for its meat. In 2018, Zhang Li, a young woman living in Shanghai, decided to get a pet animal for company. She wasn’t really a cat or dog person, so she started […]
Suck-On Gadget Promises to Give Women a Coveted V-Shaped Face
A small, oval-shaped face with a well-defined and pointy V-line chin is one of the most coveted female beauty features in many Asian countries, and they can apparently get it by simply sucking on a bottle-shaped gadget for 10 minutes a day. You can buy pretty much anything online these days, but every once in […]
Meet Mao Mao, a Feline Car Model That Earns More Than Most Humans
Mao Mao, a two-year-old British Shorthair from Chongqing, China, works as a professional cat model and earns between 5,000 yuan ($775) and 10,000 yuan (1,550) per appearance. Mao Mao’s rise to fame was somewhat of an accident. Her owner, a man surnamed Zheng, works in the automotive industry, and during an auto show he had […]
Woman Spends Over $150,000 on Two Footbridges to Make Sure Her Son Gets to School Safely
A loving mother in China’s Henan province spent more than a million yuan ($154,000) building two metal footbridges in front of her son’s school, to make sure he and the other kids cross the road safely. The woman, identified only by her surname, Meng, recently told Henan Television Station that the road outside her son’s […]
China’s Rich Paying Big Money on Learning How to Recognize Fake Luxury Goods
With counterfeit luxury goods getting harder and harder to spot, China’s rich are paying thousands of dollars for specialized courses on how to tell apart authentic luxury products from fakes. China’s domestic luxury market is currently valued at approximately 4 trillion yuan ($617.7 billion) and that’s not even taking into account the second-hand luxury goods […]
Russian Man “Trapped” on Chinese Reality Show Finally Gets Voted Out
A 27-year-old Russian man who has been imploring viewers to vote him out of a Chinese boy band reality show for months, has finally got his wish, but not before making it all the way to the final. Vladislav Ivanov, a translator and part-time model from Vladivostok, Russia, is finally free after two grueling months. […]
Romantic Scammer Dated 20 Women at the Same Time, 3 of Them Living in the Same Building
Chinese media recently reported the story of a scrupulous Lothario who dated dozens of women at the same time, scamming them out of millions of dollars over a period of two years. On March 20th, a woman arrived at a police precinct in Zhengzhou, China’s Henan Province, to file a rather unusual complaint. Apparently, she […]
China’s “Stone Village” Finds Success in Selling Ornamental River Stones
A small village located on the banks of the Yangtze River, in Sichuan Province, has become known as one of China’s premier suppliers of ornamental stones, generating millions of dollars in revenue every year. Positioned in an idyllic location, right next to China’s largest river and surrounded by green, forest-covered mountains, Hejiaba village gets a […]
Retired Couple Have Been Fighting the Desert for Almost Two Decades
A retired elderly couple has been fighting the desertification of their home in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for the last 19 years by planting hundreds of hectares of drought-resistant plants. Seventy-year-old Tububatu and his wife Taoshengchagan live in a village on the edge of Badain Jaran, China’s third-largest desert, and they’ve been spending […]