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China
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Move Over Bioplus: Chinese Students Cram For Exams With IV Drips Attached [PICS]
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China is abuzz at the moment with pictures allegedly uploaded by a student at a high school in Hubei Province where learners are given amino acids on IV drips to help them study, while they study!. The photos were uploaded to one of China’s many Twitter-like micro-blogging sites, and we’ve got a full gallery, and the official explanation, after the jump!
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Australian Billionaire Commissions Second Titanic From China
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One of Australia’s richest men, mining magnate Clive Palmer, has commissioned a Chinese state-owned company to build a replica of the H.M.S. Titanic, and is planning to launch Titanic II at the end of 2016. Our report will go on, after the jump!
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Teenager Falls Into Sidewalk Sinkhole [VIDEO]
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This must be one of the most unnerving things I’ve seen in a long time! A Chinese teenager recently (and luckily) escaped with only minor injuries after falling into a sinkhole in Xi’an, northern China. The girl was walking on the sidewalk when the ground swallowed her up. She fell six metres! See the incident after the jump.
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How One Crazy Girl Hitchhiked Across China, And Then Got Her Dream Job [PICS]
20 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
During the first six months of 2011 Rachel Katz, a 23-year old American girl, needed to do some research on the trucking industry in China. She started at the most logical place, by hopping in a truck and taking a small journey. And then she did it again, with another truck, and then another until she had covered the better part of the third largest country in the world.
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Chinese Fashion Students Show Off Victoria’s Secret Knock-Offs [PICS]
14 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Fashion students at Chengdu University of Technology in China recently pumped all their creativity and innovation into a theatrical lingerie show displaying various wonderful designs, except…er, wait, scratch creativity and innovation off the list because each and every one was a Vicky’s Secret knock off! FAIL! Full gallery after the jump.
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Death Row TV Show Is A Hit In China
12 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What’s hot on TV in China’s Henan Province these days? Just a little show where death row inmates are interviewed moments before they are killed for their crimes. The show is called “Interview Before Execution” and it has China riveted to the tune of nearly 40 million viewers every week.
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Intense Footage Of Police Officer Thwarting Woman’s Suicide Attempt [VIDEO]
02 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A suicidal woman who was about to jump off a bridge in Beijing whilst clutching on to her baby, was pulled back at the last moment by a police officer. Passersby also rushed in and snatched the child from her arms. Footage of this harrowing scene captured by surveillance cameras has been released, and can be seen after the jump.
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First Look EVER Inside Apple’s Chinese Manufacture, Foxconn’s Factory [VIDEO]
23 Feb 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
No journalist has ever gained access to Foxconn, the secretive company that builds all the beautiful iPads and iPhone and Macbooks that Apple gets us to consume like sweeties. ABC’s show Nightline managed to gain access to this factory which employs 250 000 people and is the size of a city (they also make products […]
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Chinese Woman Gives Birth To 7 Kilo Baby
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
One Chinese family in Xinxiang City, Henan Province has gotten the Year of the Dragon off to a stellar start, producing the heaviest newborn ever recorded in China, weighing in at a whopping 15,52lb, or just over 7kg!
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Epic Timelapse Of An Entire Hotel Built In Just 15 Days, Only In China [VIDEO]
09 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China is at it again. When they’re not building war-machines, churning out electronics and manufacturing cars at the speed of light, they’re constructing 30-storey hotels in the time it usually takes to get your call answered by Telkom customer service.
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Executed Drug Mule’s Ashes Return To SA In Box
29 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The ashes of Janice Linden, the South African woman who was executed in China for drug smuggling, have finally been returned to local shores. Her family was devastated to receive a plain brown cardboard box containing the remains of their daughter from Chinese authorities. The South African powers-that-be have been criticised for not doing enough to stop the execution.
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China’s New Eye In The Sky, Bye Bye GPS
28 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday morning China launched its own satellite navigation service, The Beidou Navigation Satellite System, an alternative to the America Global Positioning System (GPS). The system could have serious implications both in terms of civilian and, more importantly, military application.
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Chinese Lose Their Minds Over Zoo Animals
08 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Love is in the air at Yunnan Wild Animal Park in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, as millions of Chinese internet users have flooded staff at the park with requests to keep a very odd couple together.
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COP17 Climate Talks In Danger Of Unravelling
29 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Key decision makers on the global climate change issue have been hesitant to make a conclusive call at the COP17 talks, which are currently being held in Durban. There are major concerns that the world’s only legally binding climate agreement could sink entirely.
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Google Earth Finds Chinese Military Test Range in Gobi Desert
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Massive unidentified structures have been spotted from space by Google Earth. The weird shapes, one of which contains three jets parked in what looks like a concentric circle, are raising all sorts of concerns. The reasons for this is that they come from the Gobi desert, which is a region that is well known for it’s use by China for testing it’s military, space and nuclear programmes.
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Mininum Wage Increase In China: Everything Is Going To Get More Expensive Next Year.
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Effective January 1, 2012, the minimum wage is going to increase by as much as 20% in Guangdong, the industrial province in China where most of the stuff you’ve bought in the past decade was produced. Which means you’ve got yourself a significant rise in consumer good prices worldwide incoming.
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Chinese Couples Race To The Altar On Lucky 11/11/11
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Today’s date – 11/11/11 – is an auspicious one. Particularly so for many Chinese couples, who have adopted ‘the day of six ones’ as an exceptionally lucky wedding date, ignoring the fact that 11 November is usually celebrated as an unoffical singles day in China. Once a century, those extra two ones make this an excellent day to leave the single life behind.
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Intelligence Report: China & Russia Hired Hackers To Steal US Secrets
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A report released by U.S. intelligence agencies claims that Chinese and Russian hackers, hired by their governments, have been stealing classified data from American government organizations. Assumptions like this have been made before, but this is the first time such a report to Congress has pointed the finger squarely at China and Russia.
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Scientists Glean Blood Protein From Rice
02 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As if it isn’t already enough that just about everything is made in China, now they’ve started making blood, from rice.
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China Further Tightens Its Strict Censorship Laws
28 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China is renowned for its seemingly ridiculous stance on freedom of speech and the proliferation of unauthorised news – a stance which has seen prominent members of society detained without legitimate explanation and popular social networks such as Facebook banned. Now, it seems, actions like that were only the beginning.
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Tenth Tibetan Monk In 12 Months Sets Fire To Himself In China
27 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yet another Tibetan Buddhist monk doused himself in fuel and set fire to himself in China yesterday. This brings to ten the total number of monks who’ve resorted to this extreme form of protest since March this year.
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China Space Shuttle Prepped For Launch For Tonight
29 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The unmanned spacecraft, Tiangong-1, which translates awesomely to Heavenly Palace, is set to blast off tonight from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gansu province, marking the start of China’s first rendezvous and docking mission. That guy is set to take off between 13h16 and 13h31 GMT.
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China’s Dog Population On The Increase As Nation’s Taste Changes
01 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In other meat-related news today, animal lovers may be pleased to know that China seems to be losing its taste for dog meat. Stats show that more people than ever before now keep dogs as domestic pets in China. While dog meat is certainly still on the menu there, the way dogs are viewed generally is undergoing a major shift across the country.
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Chinese Tycoon Offers To Buy 0.3% Of Iceland
30 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Huang Nubo, the sixteenth richest person in China, has offered $100 million to buy 300 square kilometres of Icelandic wilderness. He calls himself a “poet and adventurer,” so it would make sense that he’d want to buy the property to develop a golf course and tourist destination.
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China Not Gaga for Gaga, Bans Song Downloads
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Chinese government, in a not-unusual display of authoritarian petulance, has banned the download of over a hundred music titles from popular online music sites in China.
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Chinese Propaganda Video Accidentally Reveals Cyber Attack Against US.
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Screenshots from a Chinese military propaganda video uploaded to YouTube last month reveal a cyberwarfare app designed to make attacks look like they’re coming from any IP address. In the video, the Chinese government can be seen sending attacks from an IP address belonging to the University of Alabama.
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Dyeing Your Pets To Look Like Wild Animals Is Now A Thing In China [PICS]
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Chinese are being weird again. But since they gave us paper, the compass, and dominoes, perhaps we should let this one slide. The latest craze over there involves dyeing their pets to look like wild animals such as pandas and tigers. See pics inside.
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Chinese Zoo Does ‘Tiger Escape Drill’ Using A Tigger Costume
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chengdu Zoo in Sichuan ran a tiger-escape drill a couple of days ago, so that people would know what to do in case one broke out of its enclosure. For maximum realism, security guards were given real guns, and the ‘tiger’ was a dude in a Tigger costume. You know, From Winnie the Pooh.
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Chinese Hackers Used Fake Gmail Site To Steal Activist Data
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google announced on Tuesday that they’d been they target of a phishing scam originating in Jinan, China, aimed at the accounts of Chinese activists and senior officials in the U.S. Victims were sent fake emails with links to a fake Gmail site, which harvested the usernames and passwords of anyone trying to log in.
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Pothole In China Swallows Entire Lorry [PIC]
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Thanks to China, I am officially never complaining about the state of our roads in South Africa ever again. A lorry (pictured) has fallen down a massive fracture in the road which opened up as the truck drove over it. Scary. This comes just after four other lorry drivers in February were lucky enough to survive after a bridge collapsed as they drove over it.
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