Teen Pays Her Way Through College by Helping Chinese Parents Name Their Babies
Beau Jessup, a 19-year-old entrepreneur, has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars through her ingenious online service, Special Name, which helps Chinese parents choose an appropriate English name for their babies. Finding a suitable name for a baby is a big deal in China. When picking out their child’s Chinese name, parents usually select two […]
Chinese Police Mocked for Using Alleged Criminal’s Childhood Photo for Wanted Poster
Police in Zhenxiong, China’s Yunnan province recently apologized after being ridiculed online for using a 17-year-old suspected criminal’s childhood photo for a wanted poster, because they couldn’t find a more recent one. Look at those chubby cheeks! Does this look like the face of someone who could commit gang crimes and other violent offences? Well, technically, […]
Beauty Blogger Uses Her Incredible Makeup Skills to Transform Herself into Whoever She Wants
He Yuhong, a 27-year-old beauty blogger from China, has become an online sensation thanks to her amazing ability to transform herself into a doppelganger of celebrities and iconic characters, using makeup. He, who posts photos and videos of her work on various social networks under the pseudonym Yuyamika, shot to fame last year, when she used […]
Woman Injects Fruit Juice Directly into Her Bloodstream, Suffers Multiple Organ Damage
A Chinese woman obsessed with unconventional health treatments can consider herself lucky to be alive after she injected the juice of 20 types of fruit directly into her bloodstream. The 51-year-old woman, surnamed Zeng, had apparently become obsessed with leading a healthy lifestyle to the point where she didn’t shy away from trying things most people […]
University Professor Tasks Students with Getting 1,667 Friends on Social Media to Get an A+
A Chinese university professor has sparked a heated online debate after giving his students an unusual assignment that required them to add 1,667 friend on WeChat, China’s most popular social network, in order to get an A+. The controversial assignment required students taking the Online and New Media course at the Henan University of Economics and […]
Woman Fakes Own Kidnapping and Murder to Break Up with “Poor” Boyfriend
No one ever said that ending a romantic relationship was easy, but planning your own kidnapping and subsequent murder just to avoid telling someone “it’s over” sounds ridiculous. And yet, one Chinese woman did just that rather than tell her boyfriend she didn’t want to be with him anymore. A 37-year-old woman from Wuhan, in […]
College Course on Tobacco Allows Students to Smoke in Class to Better Understand the Subject
A series of photos showing students casually lighting up cigarettes in what looks like a college classroom have been doing the rounds online for several months, leaving everyone puzzled as to what is going on. As it turns out, it’s just a display of hands-on learning in a course on tobacco. The controversial photos originally […]
Mother Abandons 12-Year-Old Child in the Street for Not Performing According to Expectations on Exam
A strict mother in China reportedly abandoned her 12-year-old son in the middle of a busy street in Luoyang City after he only managed to score 81 percent on an exam, which apparently wasn’t good enough. Police officers in Luoyang’s Gucheng district found the boy wandering the streets close to where his mother dropped him off […]
China’s Amazing “Human Money Counting Machines”
Money counting machines have been a staple of banks all around the world for decades now, and China is no exception, but here bank tellers still practice their banknote counting skills every day, and some of them can really give those automated counters a run for their money. Videos of Chinese bank tellers showing off […]
Forget Face Recognition, Chinese Authorities Now Use “Gait Recognition” Technology That Identifies People By How They Walk
They say you can tell a lot about a person by the way they walk, but one Chinese startup has apparently developed technology that allows it to identify individuals by their gait, even if their face is covered or they have their back to the camera. Known as “gait recognition”, the technology invented by artificial […]
Man Cuts His Daily Commute from One Hour to 6 Minutes by Paddle-Boarding Across River
A 29-year-old insurance agent from Chongqing, China, has come up with an ingenious way to beat rush hour traffic. By paddle-boarding across the Yangtze River every morning he has cut his daily commute time from one hour to just six minutes. Liu Fucao sells insurance in Chongqing’s Wanzhou District, but lives on the other side […]
China Unveils World’s First AI Female News Anchor, And She Looks Eerily Realistic
China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua, yesterday unveiled its newest news anchor, Xin Xiaomeng. Why is this newsworthy? Well, because Xin isn’t a real person, but an ultra-realistic computer generated model powered by advanced AI technology. The perfectly coiffed Xin Xiaomeng introduced herself to Xinhua’s viewers in a short clip, announcing that she will make her professional […]
Girl Uses “Handwriting Robot” to Complete Homework Faster
The story of a young student who used a so-called “handwriting robot” to complete her Lunar New Year holiday homework in record time made news headlines in China last week, sparking a heated debate. The Qianjiang Evening News reported the case of a junior high-school student from Harbin who spent 800 yuan ($118) on a copying robot […]
Excited Dog Jumps from Second Floor to Greet Owner, Lands on Him and Breaks His Neck
A dog owner in China ended up in the hospital after his excited husky jumped all the way from the 2nd floor of his house to greet him, landing on his head and breaking his neck. The 67-year-old man, surnamed Liu, was returning to his house in Yongzhou City, China’s Hunan province, on Monday, after […]
Man Has Toothpick Removed From Inside His Heart After Swallowing It While Drinking
A 29-year-old Chinese man can consider himself lucky to be alive after doctors removed a wooden toothpick stuck in the right atrium of his heart. The man, known only by his surname, Zhou, underwent an open-heart operation on January 9, at a hospital in Nanning, southern China’s Guangxi Province, to have an excessive growth removed from […]