Once again, South Africa is being ridiculous with its visa regulations, and this is once again interfering with having a great man visit our country for a celebration of other great people.
With non-stop talk about genetically modified food, how would you feel if your face was on the fruit you’re eating to slim down for summer?
The real world just gets a bit much sometimes and we all want an escape, but this is so unreal it is almost freaky… but in a truly awesome way. You could easily live here… forever!
Experience what it’s like to die and be cremated with China’s new 4D “Death Simulator”.
It is a pretty disturbing thing to wake up and discover the river you have been living beside all your life has turned blood-red overnight. It is difficult to say which would be a more disturbing hypothesis: that the river has been turned red due to massive bloodshed or due to massive chemical dumping…
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents began marching through the streets of the former British colony to push for greater democracy.
How do you fight a war? With leg-gun selfies, of course! Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has started a new trend to help raise awareness for crimes of terror in his home country.
A controversial video of a toddler smoking a cigarette in China has caused outrage online, with the internet community up-in-arms about the by-passers who just laugh at the situation.
Inspired by European Gothic Architecture, this school looks almost exactly like Hogwarts, the school from Harry Potter…
Two men who happened to be walking past a residential building were ‘wakker’ enough to notice a toddler who had somehow managed to climb over the railings of the balcony on the 2nd storey.
Sure, a hospital is a business- but is patient care really just customer service?
Well this is a way to make money: Make dogs that look like Pandas – and sell them in China.
Trust the Chinese to do something quicker, faster and more efficiently. Worker bees that they are. So what the industrious Orientals have managed to do this time, is literally build ten one-storey houses in a DAY by using 3D printing technology. The 3D printers in question are massive, being10 meters (33 feet) wide and 6.6 […]
Want to know how to blow hundreds of millions of dollars in a game of hide and seek? Take a commercial aeroplane loaded with civilians- and make it disappear. Without a trace. Permanently. In fact in the case of Malaysian Airlines missing Flight MH370 , it is becoming the most expensive search in the history of missing plane […]
Hostage situations don’t occur everyday, but only in a low budget action film would you see a man wielding a meat-cleaver as his weapon of choice. Check out the radical images of a crazy man in China holding a woman hostage with a meat-cleaver.
CCTV footage captured the horrific moment when a Chinese schoolboy jumped out of his classroom window, to his death.
Last year a Chinese zoo was busted for trying to pass one of these dogs off as an actual lion. But don’t expect to be able to afford one of these puppies. A golden-haired one-year-old Tibetan mastiff puppy was sold in China at a luxury pet fair for R21 million.
The concept of a baby hatch is actually not a uniquely Chinese idea, some European countries literally have a baby hatch where unwanted babies can be dropped off. In America they are called ‘safe surrender sites.’ The Chinese variety is a mixture of the two, basically a tollbooth with a crib in it.
Internet firms Alibaba and Tencent are among 10 other companies shortlisted to set up private banks in China.
The Internet Addiction Treatment Center in Daxing, China, is one of over 400 prison-like ‘rehabilitation centres’ that seek to ‘deprogram’ teens, and wean them off their crippling addiction to the world wide web.
A Chinese man, like so many others before him, thought death to be more favourable than shopping. Difference is – he actually killed himself.
Chinese Company Tencent is bigger than YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter combined, with a market capitalization of $57 billion. It is also the company that makes billions of rands each year for Naspers and Koos Bekker.
The 10-day Wonder of China Tour introduces visitors to some of China’s star attractions like the Great Wall of China and Hangzhou West Lake, as well as some its lesser known historic monuments, for an enthralling glimpse of China’s ancient and modern cultures.
We tend to forget the privilege that is Freedom of Speech. Countries like China, who are ruled by an oppressive one-party regime, face daily instances of censorship – especially on their social media sites.
A while ago we posted a story about the state of pollution in China. In particular, we focused on Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang province where 11 million people attempted to evacuate, as pollution levels stretched beyond 30 times the healthy limit. Just last week, the government shut down schools, major roads and businesses, as the city ground to a halt. The streets were empty as the thick smog dominated the horizon. But now, an innovation from dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde might be able to help out.
For some reason, we think it’s a good idea to give our pets ‘edible treats’ that they wouldn’t naturally find in the wild. That’s not to say that we should treat our pets like wild animals, but, you know, don’t give your dog a milkshake. In a new pet-treat controversy that has sparked outrage across the States, hundreds of pets have been dying after eating a ‘beef jerky treat’ that was made in china.
When it comes to air pollution, China is pretty much the worst. Chinese citizens are used to grey skies in summer, acid rain in winter and choking smog all year round, but nothing quite like this has ever happened. Harbin, the rough-and-tough capital city of Heilongjiang province is home to some 11 million people – all of whom tried to evacuate at the same time, when pollution reached critical levels just yesterday.
American wingsuit pilot, Jeb Corliss, performed a death defying stunt this weekend in China’s Zhejiang Province. He jumped out a helicopter and flew through a narrow crevasse in the Langshan Mountain. The stunt was dubbed ‘The Flying Dagger.’
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Arriving a little late for the space-race aren’t we China? While NASA is looking at photos of Mars taken by their Curiosity rover, the China National Space Administration has been sending lunar probes into orbit around the moon… And they’ve announced they’re ready to land an unmanned probe on the surface