Meet Mr. Bags, China’s Influential “Bag Whisperer”
When it comes to buying a fashionable handbag, there’s one figure most young Chinese women turn to for advice – Mr. Bags. With millions on followers on China’s most popular social networks and many of the world’s biggest bag brands fighting to gain his favor, this 27-year-old really has the Chinese bag game on lock. […]
Pain in the Butt – Man Somehow Lives with Eight Metal Needles Stuck in His Behind
The mystery of a Chinese man’s decade long pain in the butt has finally been solved after doctors in Hunan extracted no less than 8 embroidery needles stuck in his right buttock. For the past 10 years, Chen, a 55-year old retired man from China’s Changsha Province, had frequently experienced a stinging, tingling sensation in […]
Man’s 30-Year Headache Allegedly Caused by Worm Stuck in His Brain
A 59-year-old Chinese man who had experienced frequent headaches and even seizures over the last 30 years is now able to lead a pain-free life after doctors extracted a 10-cm worm from his brain. The man, surnamed Zhang, first started experiencing excruciating headaches and seizures in 1989. He was playing cards with friends when his […]
Company Allegedly Makes Employees Eat Live Fish, Drink Chicken Blood for Failing to Meet Goals
A sales company in Guizhou, China, has come under fire for forcing employees to eat live mud fish and drink chicken blood for failing to meet their set goals. News of the extreme punishment employees of a Guizhou construction material store were recently subjected to broke out after a video of the ordeal was leaked […]
Man Suffers Collapsed Lung After Long Karaoke Session
A 65-year-old man from eastern China needed to be hospitalized after an unusually long karaoke session allegedly left him with a serious medical condition known as a collapsed lung. Identified solely by his surname, Wang, the elderly karaoke enthusiast realized something was wrong when he experienced shortness of breath and sharp pain on the left […]
Chinese Scientists Use Innovative Chip to Power Autonomous Bicycle
While tech giants like Tesla and Google are working hard to perfect autonomous cars, a team of scientists in China is developing a self-driving bicycle and their results are pretty impressive. Showcased in a short video presentation, the autonomous bicycle developed by scientists at Tsinghua University, in Beijing, can balance itself while also avoiding obstacles, […]
Boy Inserts Sewing Needle in His Urethra to Keep Himself Awake
When it comes to keeping your self awake while doing homework, I could think of much better techniques than inserting a 10cm metal needle through my urethra, but it seems that’s the best a 12-year-old boy in China could come up with. The unnamed by from Shanxi, China’s Xi’an province, was apparently so desperate to […]
Video Filter Glitch Reveals Popular Young Vlogger to Be 58-Year-Old Woman
A glamorous young Chinese streamer known as “Your Highness Qiao Biluo” has angered her hundreds of thousands of fans after a technical glitch revealed that she was actually a 58-year-old woman using a filter to make herself look young. It used to be that seeing things made you believe they were true; we even have […]
Doing 1,000 Squats Puts Competitive Girls in the Hospital
We’re always told that exercise is good for our health, but as two Chinese girls recently learned the hard way, overdoing it can have life-threatening consequences. On July 10, Tang, a 19-year-old girl from Chongqing, China, decided to challenge her best friend to a squatting competition to see which one of them had more stamina. […]
Chinese Startup Creates App That Finds Lost Dogs Using Photos of Their Nose
Chinese facial-recognition startup Megvii has been making news headlines for an app that allows people to track down their lost dogs using photos of their unique noses. The idea of using AI-powered facial recognition technology to identify pets isn’t new, but what makes Megvii’s solution special is that instead of analyzing several facial features, like […]
Chinese Man Makes a Living Posing as Real-Life “Laughing Buddha”
Unless you’ve been living under a rock your whole life, you’ve probably seen one of those souvenir statues of Maitreya, aka the Laughing Buddha. They’ve pretty popular even in non-Buddhist countries, and many people use them as good luck charms. But you know what’s better than a Laughing Buddha statue? A living, breathing Smiling Buddha. […]
Woman Praised as a Saint for Adopting 45 Children in the last 47 Years
Kong Zhenlan, a 71-year-old woman from China’s Shanxi Province, has dedicated the last four decades of her life to adopting and raising orphaned children, making sure that they had food on the table and got access to education. Even though she could barely afford to support herself on a modest income, Kong Zhenlan couldn’t bear […]
Man’s Occasional Headache Turns Out to Be Caused by Wood Splinters Stuck in His Brain for Five Years
A Chinese man who recently turned up at a hospital in Yunnan Province with a swollen eyelid and excruciating headache was shocked to learn that his condition was caused by several pieces of wood stuck in his brain. The 41-year-old man, surnamed Zhou, told doctors that he first realized something was wrong about two months […]
Man Runs Into Massive Debt After Adopting 300 Dogs in Two Years
A Chinese animal lover who took in hundreds of stray dogs over the last two years is struggling to make ends meet despite having a stable job and his own business. He has accumulated a debt of 600,000 yuan ($87,000), but he refuses to give up on his four-legged friends. Up until two years ago, […]
Man Gets So Drunk He Unknowingly Swallows His House Keys
Last week, a Chinese man went to the hospital after experiencing severe chest pain and was shocked to learn that his discomfort was caused by the house keys he thought he had lost the night before after getting drunk with his friends. On June 7th, a 26-year-old man, identified solely as Chang, from Guangdong, China, […]