Chinese Groom Dragged Through Streets for Having Cold Feet
You’ve heard stories of grooms ditching out on their weddings never to be seen or heard from again. One guy wasn’t so lucky. According to online reports, a bride grabbed a coil of chains and went out looking for her runaway, would-be husband. This real Bridezilla then wrapped the chains around his wrists and dragged […]
Renovation Work in China Reveals 600 Year Old Buddha
What started as routine renovation work on a hydropower gate in a reservoir soon turned into unveiling a treasure: a 600 year-old Buddha. According to China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua, the statue’s head was first sighted a month ago in east China’s Jiangxi Province by a local villager when the water levels fell by more […]
Pokemon Go Gets the Red Light in China
Wanna catch ‘em all? Not in mainland China, you won’t. The ruling Communist Party’s top media watch dog has officially put Pikachu to sleep, saying the augmented reality game will never see the light of day there. The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) announced Pokémon Go and similar games won’t get […]
China Airs New South China Sea Propaganda Video in Times Square
Following China’s overwhelming loss in a recent international tribunal ruling on territorial claims to the South China Sea in which the Permanent Court of Arbitration rejected China’s historical claim to the region in favor of the Philippine’s sovereign rights, the Asian power-nation is spreading its propaganda wings. In a new stunt to “teach” the world […]
Anti-US Protests Outside KFCs in China, State Media ‘Calling for Rational Patriotism’
Chinese citizens are at it again: they’ve taken expressing their anger over the unfavorable decision at an international tribunal over territorial maritime disputes in the South China Sea to a new bizarre level. Last week it was smashing iPhones. This week it’s anti-US protests at KFC outlets. Yes, you read that correctly. KFC. As in […]
How Do Chinese Protest South China Sea Ruling? Boycott Filipino Mangoes, Smash iPhones
China is not happy about the international tribunal ruling on the South China Sea territorial disputes at the Hague on July 12 – that is, because the powerful nation overwhelmingly lost. Chinese citizens took it upon themselves to express their anger in, well, a nonconventional way. No, they didn’t riot down the streets, they didn’t […]
Chinese Schoolchildren Fall Ill Due to ‘Toxic’ Running Tracks
Young students all across China have been falling ill due to an unsuspecting, atypical, and quite surprising reason. The culprit? Toxic running tracks in the schools. State broadcaster CCTV released a rare undercover report Tuesday which revealed that industrial waste is being used in the manufacturing of running tracks. The incidents of children affected – […]
Chinese May Have Been Brewing Beer 5,000 Years Ago
Beer seems to always be at the center of a party. No, not a children’s birthday party; more the quintessential fraternity “whoo hoo!” party filled with drinking games and rowdy unruly teenagers, or the Irish pubs packed on St. Paddy’s Day (all year round, really). New research, however, suggests that Chinese drinkers may have been […]
“Hairy Nose” Film in China Tells You How Much Pollution Stinks
A group of people in China grow their nose hair to their chins in order to filter the smog that surrounds their community. That’s the premise for a bizarre new comedy by the campaign “WildAid.” “Hairy Nose” follows a group of young people and even a dog with unusually long nasal hair. But it’s just […]
The Face of Modern China
Plastered throughout the streets of Beijing is the face that captures the essence of China and its future. One pair of gentle eyes greets the city’s workers as they plunge into the day’s rat race and then welcomes them back home after a hard day’s work. Some even call him the face of modern China: […]
