Resourceful Chinese Ingenious Use Perpetuum Mobile Device to Fool Their Pedometer Smartphone Apps
In China, health insurance companies apparently offer discounts to people who can prove they get enough exercise every day by using their mobile phones to monitor their movement. Only instead of actually going for walks, some people use ingenious perpetuum mobile devices to cheat the system. I first learned about China’s “mobile phone cradles” a […]
Woman Requires Surgery After Napping with Her Head on Her Arm Every Day
Ever felt so tired at work that you needed to rest your head on your arm for a little while? We’ve all done it at some point, but doing it every day for long periods of time can apparently have negative consequences, as one woman in China recently learned. Surnamed Zhang, 28-year-old office worker from […]
Chinese Doctor Spends Three Months in Jail for Saying Leopard Bone-Infused Medicinal Wine Doesn’t Cure Heart Disease
A young Chinese doctor was recently set free after spending three month in jail for claiming that a certain brand of medicinal wine was toxic and couldn’t cure heart disease and arthritis, as the manufacturer claimed. It all started last December, when Guangzhou-based physician Tan Qindong published a short article on Chinese social media platform Meipian, stating […]
Genius! Woman Puts Fake Parking Ticket in Her Own Car Window So Police Wouldn’t Give Her a Real One
A resourceful driver in Suzhou, China, found the perfect way of avoiding a parking ticket. When leaving her car in a no-parking zone, she would simply leave a fake parking ticket in her window so that policemen would think one of their colleagues had already fined her. It was the perfect crime! Most policemen would […]
Chinese Student Goes from Overweight to Bodybuilding Champion in Six Months
Zhang Shuai, a 22-year-old senior at the Heilongjiang Institute of Technology, in Harbin, recently made news headlines in China for his six month transformation from overweight and out of shape to regional bodybuilding champion. Shuai had been a star player on his college basketball team, but a couple of years ago, a serious injury forced […]
50-Year-Old Woman Looks So Young People Mistake Her for Her Son’s Girlfriend
Remember Puspa Dewi, the 50-year-old Indonesian woman who people often confused with her two sons’ girlfriends? Well, she’s apparently not the only one with this “problem”. 50-year-old Liu Yelin’s incredibly youthful looks have the same effect on people. 50-year-old Liu Yelin, who goes by @queenyelin on Instagram, has been mesmerizing her social media followers with her […]
The Unprecedented Case of a Baby Born 4 Years After His Parents’ Death
Tiantian was born late last year in China, to a surrogate mother, four years after both his parents died in a tragic car accident. His grandparents fought a long and complicated legal battle for the chance to bring their grandchild into this world. The child’s parents, Shen Jie and Liu Xi, were married for a […]
30-Year Vegetarian Diet Leaves Woman with Spinal Neuron Damage
A 50-year-old woman in Wuhan, China, was recently diagnosed with severe spinal neuron damage caused by a lack of vitamin B12. The woman had been on a strict vegetarian diet for over thirty years, and did not take any B12 supplements. The woman, surnamed Chen, reportedly turned to a vegetarian diet in her 20s, in […]
Luxury Village in China Remains Deserted as Villagers Fight Over Who Should Own One or Two Villas
They say “no good deed goes unpunished” and one Chinese billionaire learned that the hard way after spending tens of millions of dollars on hundreds of luxury villas for all the residents in his home village, only to see them remain deserted as greedy recipients continue to argue over who should own multiple houses. Five […]
Artist Faces Backlash After Killing Butterflies And Using Their Wings for a Painting Symbolizing Rebirth
A Chinese art student sparked a heated debate online after using the wings of over 500 butterflies to create a series of artworks symbolizing rebirth. While some consider her “sick” for using butterfly wings as an art medium, others think her creations qualify as original art. Li Zheng, a fourth-year art student at Quanzhou Normal University […]
Chinese Father Finds Missing Daughter After 24-Year Search
Wang Mingqing’s daughter went missing 24 years ago, but even if the chances of finding her became lower with each passing year, he never gave up hope. After decades of tireless searching, the nearly-impossible happened – Wang received confirmation that his daughter had been found thousands of miles away, on the other side of the country. […]
Farmer Moves Three-Storey House 40 Meters to Avoid Demolition
A farmer from Southern China’s Jianxi Province managed to move his entire house 40 meters away from the site of a road construction site, by using an impressive system of wooden sleepers and winches. Gao Yiping had completed work on his three-storey house in Zhouxi Town in 2014, and he and his family had only lived in it […]
68-Year-Old Grandpa Dubbed a ‘Vampire’ for His Youthful Looks and Spirit
Hu Hai, a 68-year-old man from Shanghai, China, has been praised for his incredibly youthful looks and spirit ever since he won the title of Shanghai’s Most Modern Grandpa, two years ago. You probably couldn’t guess just by looking at him, but Hu Hai was born in 1950, to a couple of communist Chinese revolutionaries. […]
Young Man Applies to Women’s College to Improve Chances of Finding a Girlfriend
An 18-year-old male teen in China recently became a social media sensation after applying to the Women’s University in Beijing and admitting that one of the main reasons for that was to improve his chances of finding a girlfriend. Due to a preference for boys during the time that the one-child population planning policy was […]
China’s Smallest Mountain Is Less Than 1 Meter High, Looks More Like a Big Rock
If you’re looking for the world’s easiest mountain to climb, head to Shouguang, in China’s Shandong Province, where you’ll find ‘Jingshan’, the smallest mountain in the country, and probably the world. It measures only 0.6 meters from ground level to its highest point, and can be conquered with a single step. Jingshan may not be the […]