Company Delays Employees’ Monthly Salary So They Wouldn’t Spend It on Junk on Chinese Black Friday
This year’s Singles Day, China’s version of Black Friday, is scheduled to break sales records, but the employees of one catering company in Chonqing will not be able to spend as much money on discounted items as they would have liked, because their employer decided to hold their paychecks until after the holiday, so they […]
Desperate Young Woman Sells Herself Online to Help Cancer-Stricken Mother
In a desperate attempt to raise money for her sick mother’s cancer treatment, a 19-year-old girl in China recently posted a message on the Asian country’s most popular social media platform, WeChat, saying that she was selling herself to the highest bidder. In her post, Cao Mengyuan says she was born and raised in a rural […]
Chinese Couple Raise 3.7-Meter-Long Python as Their Child
An elderly couple in Haikou, China’s Hainan Province, have been sharing their home with a 60 kilogram, 3.7-meter-long python for seven years, raising it as their child and even taking it for walks around their neighborhood. 68-year-old Shi Jimin, a retired meat processing worker, adopted the python in 2009, to save it from certain death. A fish […]
Chinese Mall Opens “Husband Nursery” Where Men Can Relax While Wives Shop
There are few things that men hate more than going on long shopping sprees with their wives or girlfriends, so one Chinese mall has come up with the “husband nursery”, a special place where guys can kick back and relax while their better halves shop till they drop. Just as mothers drop their young kids […]
Woman Awarded $35,000 Compensation by Restaurant after Waiter Pours Boiling Soup on Her
A Chinese court ordered a hot pot restaurant to pay 237,000 yuan ($35,000) to a female customer after an angry waiter poured scalding soup on her during heated argument. The incident occurred in August of last year, at a branch of ‘Mr Hot Pot’ restaurant, in Wenzhou, eastern China. The victim, referred to only as Ms. […]
Chinese Drivers Who Blind Others with Full-Beam Headlights Forced to Stare into the Light by Police
When driving at night, there’s nothing quite as annoying as being blinded by the full-beam headlights of another vehicle. Recognizing this problem, the police department recently started punishing offenders by making them stare at their own headlights for a full minute. Hopefully, this will make them see the error of their ways. On November 1st, Shenzen […]
8-Year-Old Boy Puts on 11 Kilos in 2 Months to Save Dying Father’s Life
Cao Yinpeng, an 8-year-old from Xuzhou, East China’s Jiangsu province, underwent a rigorous fattening up regiment, in order to qualify for a bone marrow transplant necessary to save his father’s life. Earlier this year, Cao’s father was diagnosed with leukemia and doctors told the family that he needed a hematopoietic stem cell transplant to survive. Unfortunately, […]
Chinese University Bans Public Display of Affection Between Sexes
Students at Qingdao Binhai University, a private vocational university in China’s Shandong province, have recently been warned to avoid public display of affection with the opposite sex, including basic physical interaction, like holding hands or sharing earphones. The learning institution founded in 1992 recently became a hot topic on Chinese social media, after adopting a set […]
Being a Bridesmaid in China Is So Dangerous That People Are Hiring Professionals
In the Western world, bridesmaids are also known as maids of honor, but in China, they are more like maids of dishonor. From drinking large quantities of alcohol on behalf of the bride to putting up with groping and other forms of harassment, bridesmaids often take part in traditional customs that most people would consider extremely […]
Canned Polluted Beijing Air Proves Big Hit
Many Beijing residents go to great lengths to avoid breathing the city’s smoggy air, especially when it reaches critical pollution levels, but one local entrepreneur decided that canning and selling this poor quality air as a souvenir would be a great idea. Believe it or not, he was right. After seeing a number of companies achieve commercial success […]
Chinese Companies Are Stealing Kickstarter Product Ideas and Launching Them Faster and Cheaper
An Israeli entrepreneur who has spent a year designing a product that would make him rich, saw his dreams collapse after putting his product on Kickstarer to raise some extra production funding. Just seven days after the start of the crowdfunding campaign, copycats were already available on Chinese online stores like Alibaba. With the popularity […]
IKEA Store Can’t Keep Elderly Freeloaders Out of Its Cafe
An IKEA store in Shanghai, China claims it has been forced to enforce special rules in order to keep elderly freeloaders from virtually taking over the place for hours at a time and engaging in blind dating sessions. IKEA is very popular in China. Some people love the furniture mega-stores so much that they spend whole […]
Chinese Woman Terminates Her Pregnancy to Save Brother’s Life
Having to decide between saving your unborn child or your brother is a choice no person should ever have to make, but it’s exactly what a young Chinese woman recently went through. Her touching story has been doing the rounds online, leaving millions of people wondering what they would have done in her place. 24-year-old […]
Chinese Restaurant Adopts “Pay What You Want” Policy, Loses $15,000 in a Week
A naive restaurant owner in Guiyang, China, who thought that appealing to people’s inherent goodness would be a good way to attract customers to his new karst cave-themed restaurant, managed to lose over 100,000 RMB in just seven days. Liu Xiaojun and his two business partners did the math, and decided that promoting their new restaurant […]
Rich Chinese Bachelors Are Touring Siberia in Search of Beautiful Brides
Faced with a shortage of eligible women back home, China’s successful businessmen are apparently turning their attention to Russia. They are apparently paying thousands of dollars to go on ‘wife tours’ in Siberia, hoping to find the brides of their dreams. Elena Suvorova, head of a marriage agency in Novosibirsk, Russia’s third largest city, organized the first […]