Woman Who Didn’t Wash Her Pillow Case in Five Years Has Eyelashes Crawling with Mites
If you’ve ever wondered why washing your pillow case every once in a while is so important, this case may give you an idea. A Chinese woman who, for some reason, hand’t washed her pillow case in five years recently turned up at a hospital in Wuhan, where doctors discovered over 100 mites living on […]
No Loose Change? Chinese Beggars Are Now Accepting Mobile Payments
If you still have any doubts that mobile devices have taken over our lives, this should make you a firm believer: smartphones and QR codes have become tools of the trade for Chinese beggars. If you’re feeling generous, you can simply whip out your phone, scan a a printed QR code and transfer some money […]
Man Allegedly Becomes Paralyzed after Looking Down at His Phone for Two Days Straight
A 29-year-old man from Guangzhou, China experienced sudden paralysis of all four limbs after spending two consecutive days playing on his mobile phone. The man reportedly spent a lot of his time looking down at his handheld, but this latest gaming marathon was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Late last month, the yet […]
Miraculous Reunion – Chinese Girl Adopted by American Family Meets Her Birth Parents 20 Years Later
It’s the stuff fairy tales are made off: parents are parted from their child, years or decades pass, and then chance or fate reunites them. This, however, is no fairy tale but a very real one and involves a Chinese couple and the daughter they had to give up to ensure her survival. And as […]
Chinese App Allows Celebrities to Sell Their Time by the Second, Fans to Buy It and Investors to Trade It
A new Chinese app called Miao A or “Seconds” allows celebrities and socialites to sell their time to fans, by the second. The unusual service has recently come under scrutiny, however, as investors are also able to buy and trade celebrity time, causing the app to operate as an illegal stock exchange. The Beijing-based app […]
Chinese Video Game Streamer Reportedly Dies of Exhaustion After Months of Sleepless Nights
The untimely death of a 20-year-old video game streamer from China who used to play an insanely popular online game for 9 hours straight every night recently brought the addictive nature of video games into debate. “Lonely King” was one of the most successful streamers of “King of Glory”, an incredibly successful mobile game with 200 […]
Mysterious Condition Leaves 30-Year-Old Man Looking and Behaving Like a Toddler
A mysterious condition has left a 30-year-old man in rural eastern China looking and behaving like a small child. He cannot speak, can only stand for short periods of time and needs round-the-clock care that his loving mother is happy to provide. Looking at Wang Tianfang, you would swear that he couldn’t be a day […]
Man Proposes to Girlfriend with 25 Brand New iPhone Xs
Chen Ming, a young video-game designer from Shenzen, China, recently sparked the envy of iPhone fans all around the world, after buying 25 brand new iPhone X smartphones and arranging them in a heart shape to propose to his girlfriend. To pull of the over-the-top marriage proposal, Chen Ming pre-ordered 25 iPhone Xs, and, on […]
Chinese Students Spend 6 Months Creating Stunning Dress Out of 6,000 Plant Leaves
Four sophomore students at the University of Hefei, in eastern China, recently proved that you don’t have to spend a small fortune on a designer dress to look stunning. You can make it yourself, for free, using only plant leaves. Photos of the four students’ stunning leaf dress have been doing the rounds on Chinese […]
Cheese-Topped Ice Tea Is Apparently a Thing, And People Are Queuing for Hours for a Cup
Cheese and ice tea doesn’t sound like a particularly tasty combination, but just try telling that to the thousands of people all across China standing in line for up to five hours to get their hands on a cup of it. Cheese tea is a nationwide sensation, making it hard to believe that it was […]
Chinese University Requires Students to Lose Weight in Order to Receive Full Grades
In an attempt to tackle obesity on its campus, a university in Jiangsu, China, is offering overweight students the chance to enroll in a special weight-loss program, where they will receive their grades based on how much weight they shed and on how well they do in class. Zhou Quanfu, a lecturer at the Nanjing Agriculture University, […]
Chinese Man Builds Elevator That Only Goes Up to His 6th Floor Apartment
Sick of listening to his lazy son-in-law complaining about how hard it was to climb the stairs to his 6th floor apartment, a man in Chongqing, China, built a private elevator that only goes up to his apartment. The man, surnamed Xong, has been living in the Tongliang District apartment building for decades, but never complained […]
Plastic Surgery Tourists Stuck in Airport Because Their Passports Don’t Match Their Faces
Photos of three Chinese women allegedly stuck in a South Korean airport, because their passports no longer match their faces following plastic surgery, have been doing the rounds on Chinese social media. South Korean plastic surgery clinics are renowned as some of the best in the world, so it’s no surprise that women from other […]
Woman Goes Blind in One Eye After Playing Mobile Video Game Almost Non-Stop
A 21-year-old woman from Dongguan, China, was recently diagnosed with with retinal artery obstruction in her right eye, after playing a popular smartphone game almost non-stop. The woman, known only as Wu, apparently noticed that she couldn’t see anything with her right eye on October 1st, while playing her favorite mobile game, King of Glory. Thinking […]
Chinese Court Creates “Divorce Exam” That Couples Must Fail to End Their Marriage
Getting a divorce is never easy for anyone involved, but it is particularly difficult at the Yibin People’s Court, in China’s Sichuan Province, where one magistrate recently implemented a divorce exam that both the husband and the wife must fail in order for their divorce application to be approved. The divorce exam is the brainchild […]