Weird China News

Five million missed opportunities in Yunnan

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The chance for unexpected wealth disappeared for one (un)lucky Kunming resident earlier this week. A press release issued by the Yunnan branch of the Chinese Sports Lottery reported the opportunity...

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scally

1 hour 32 min ago

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Capturing the Chinese Copy Town Trend

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In China, you can now visit the Eiffel Tower, grab fish and chips in an old English town, and even see the Manhattan skyline, all in replica form... Without even...

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Heiney

1 week 7 hours ago

we want to be like you

don't hate us

emulation

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Fake Purses, Fake Meat, and Now China Busts Fake Condom Factory

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Along with fake Gucci handbags and fake Apple iPhones, add to the list of counterfeit items produced in China: fake Durex condoms. As China Daily reported Wednesday, police in Fujian...

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1 week 10 hours ago

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Hong Kong Man Caught Smuggling 4kg Of Gold Bars In His Shoes

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A Hong Kong resident was caught trying to enter mainland China with four kilograms of gold bars in his shoes, reports Guangdong-based news portal Southern Metropolis Daily. The man wearing...

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EJThomas

1 week 3 days ago

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Podcast about China's new sexual revolution

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With a discussion that stretches from Daoist sex manuals and imperial sex customs to getting jiggy during the Cultural Revolution and even matters like homosexuality in contemporary China, this is...

Student Given a Statue and Parade for Having Top Marks in the Gaokao

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Be like Confucius and Laozi... by gettting your own bust put inside a school campus. That's what happened to a Hubei high school student who got top marks in the...

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terroir

2 weeks 5 days ago

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China Tests Bottled Drinking Water Using 'Soviet Standards'

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China still follows regulations adopted from the Soviet Union to test bottled drinking water, the Beijing News reported on Thursday. "When the World Health Organisation updated its detection methods, [we]...

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EJThomas

3 weeks 54 min ago

2 weeks 4 days ago

China

food safety

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Inside Dongguan, China's Sin City

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Some 10 per cent of Dongguan's population is said to be employed in the world's oldest profession.

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tomcarter

3 weeks 3 hours ago

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China joins rush for Mars

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More than 600 applications from China have been made to join a Dutch aerospace project that plans to send humans to Mars for permanent settlement.

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Submitted by:
beinginawe

3 weeks 3 days ago

China

mars

china space program

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Official: China Sends More Than 1,400 To Prison In Underground Lending Crackdown

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BEIJING — Chinese authorities have sentenced more than 1,400 people to prison terms of at least five years for involvement in underground lending in a crackdown on a financing practice...

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Submitted by:
EJThomas

3 weeks 5 days ago

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