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· King Malleta
Chinese Patient Plays With Her Phone During Operation to Help With Anxiety
Mobile phones are typically not allowed inside operating rooms, but a Chinese hospital made an exception for a 69-year-old patient to relieve her anxiety. A patient from China with a surname Zhu went to a hospital in Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province to address the varicose veins on…
· Ryan General
Father Begs Strangers to Beat Him To Raise Money For Son’s Eye Operation
A Chinese father, desperate for money, has a heart-rending plea to passersby on a street in Beijing: they may hit him on his buttocks in exchange for 10 yuan ($1.45), so he can accumulate enough money to pay for his son’s operation. Wearing only his boxers, the dad can be found…
· Ryan General
Bangladeshi ‘Tree Man’ Gets Hope After Multiple Operations
The ‘Tree man’ of Bangladesh may finally be cured of his mysterious condition after undergoing a massive operation involving a series of surgeries, doctors claim. Abul Bajandar developed huge bark-like warts on his hands, arms and other parts of the body due to the extremely…
· Carl Samson
68-Year-Old Man Undergoes 7 Operations After Getting Rare Flesh-Eating Disease in Taiwan
The beautiful memory of one vacation to Taiwan turned into a nightmare when a 68-year-old Singaporean man acquired a flesh-eating disease as a souvenir. The man, named Huang, spent 19 days at the hospital where he underwent seven operations that included blood transfusions and…
· Ryan General
Man Sings the Chinese Opera Version of an Adele Song — Breaks the Chinese Internet
Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” was a huge global hit back in 2011. Five years later, the song is making a comeback in China, but in a slightly more epic version. Mixing Chinese opera with the distinct twist of the dialect of Ningxiang County (northeastern part of Hunan), a…
· Editorial Staff
Uber Surrenders Operations in China to Didi Chuxing for $1 Billion
The two dominant ride-hailing app rivals in China have joined forces to create an even more formidable company. Didi Chuxing, a domestic ride-hailing service leader in China, is acquiring Uber’s operations in China. According to sources who told Bloomberg, the company’s…
· Ryan General
This 12-Year-Old Chinese Opera Genius Just Got Admitted into College
A talented Chinese student is about to skip several years of schooling ahead of her classmates after passing a college entrance exam while still enrolled in primary school. Fifth grader Huang Sihan took an independent entrance exam for Anhui Professional College of Art and aced…
· Carl Samson
Japan Now Has a Train-Themed Karaoke Rooms For People Obsessed With Trains
A new train-themed karaoke service that allows customers to become train “drivers” and carry out real-life transportation announcements has kicked off in Japan! The innovative twist to the art of karaoke comes thanks to Joysound, which is among Japan’s biggest karaoke companies,…
· Carl Samson
Chinese Bed-Sharing Company Suspends Services Over Hygiene and Safety Concerns
It was only recently when Chinese startup Xiangshui Space introduced bed-sharing as the newest business in the country’s booming sharing economy. In May, the Beijing-based company launched 15 capsule hotels — which had two to eight beds each — in offices and workspaces within…
· Ryan General
Surgeons Remove Over 200 Stones From Chinese Woman’s Body Because She ‘Skips Breakfast’
Over 200 stones were removed from a 45-year-old Chinese woman’s body after a successful operation, which lasted for six and a half hours. Surgeons performed the procedure on the patient, identified only as Ms. Chen, on July 15 at the Guangji Hospital in Hezhou, China, reports…
· Ryan General
Chinese Woman Finds Out Her Botched Boob Job Was Performed By a Dentist
Nowadays, pretty much any licensed physician can do plastic surgery, regardless of their lack of training in the field. The practice, which has become the norm for many parts of the world, may lead to botched procedures and other complications.
· Kyle Encina
Samsung Chairman’s Daughter Ordered By Court to Give Ex-Husband $7.64 Million
Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s eldest daughter, Lee Boo-jin, has been ordered by a court in Seoul to provide her ex-husband with millions of dollars worth of assets. Boo-jin, who is also the CEO of luxury hotel Shilla, holds a large amount of shares in South Korea’s tech giant…
· Khier Casino
15 Reasons Why We Want to Rub the New Aladdin’s Lamp and Ride His Magic Carpet
Disney has found its Aladdin, aka Prince Ali Ababwa, and we want to go on a magic carpet ride with him to show us the world! Mena Massoud is set to play the Disney hero in the live-action remake of the 1992 animated classic, which is now in pre-production after director Guy…
· Kyle Encina
Girlfriend-For-Hire Reveals How Hard it is For Men to Get Married in China
A girlfriend-for-hire shared her experience that highlights the hardships Chinese bachelors face in upholding marriage traditions. Avid blogger Zhao Yuqing was always fascinated with websites that hire instant partner services.
· Ryan General
Badass Taiwanese DJ Beats Up Thief in LA For Stealing Her Phone
A popular female DJ from Taiwan was almost robbed of her smartphone inside a club in Los Angeles but she refused to back down and ended up beating up the thief. Lin Chia-ling (林嘉凌), AKA DJ Maze, was enjoying a night out with friends at a local club in L.A. on July 9th when the…
· Khier Casino
Rare Photos Reveal Life Inside China’s Largest Bitcoin Mines
Editor’s Note: The Bitcoin industry exists in a legal gray zone in China, and the miners in this story, concerned about attention from the government, asked not to have their full names or the names of the villages where their mines are located mentioned in this story. Sichuan…
· Carl Samson
Chinese Mall Offers ‘Husband Storage’ Pods So Wives Won’t Drag Them Shopping
A mall in China has installed “husband storage” pods for men who would rather play video games than shop around with their wives. The Global Harbor mall, located in Shanghai, equipped each glass pod with a chair and a computer system that features games from the 90s.
· Carl Samson
Winnie the Pooh Is Now ILLEGAL in China
Winnie the Pooh, the tubby bear from A.A. Milne’s children’s books, has become the latest target of China’s Great Firewall. Censors started deleting online content mentioning Winnie the Pooh over the weekend. Attempts to post the character’s name in Chinese returned the message…
· Ryan General
Japanese Company Plans to Dump Fukushima Toxic Waste into the Pacific Ocean
To the disgust of local residents, the firm assigned to clean up the waste from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has decided that the radioactive waste it collected could be dumped into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) chairman Takashi Kawamura…
· Ryan General
Michelin Star Chef Slammed For Blaming Muslims For Restaurant’s Failure in Malaysia
A Hong Kong restaurateur has found himself at the center of a controversy after allegedly blaming the Muslim culture for the failure of his popular restaurant in Malaysia. Mak Gui Pui, who owns the Michelin-starred restaurant Tim Ho Wan, shut down the operations of the…
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