This just had to happen during rush hour, didn't it? Recently in Shijian Town, Nan'an City, Fujian province, a cement truck's brakes failed just as it was approaching a red light. It plowed through eight vehicles -- three sedans, four motorbikes, and one wagon carrying seven people -- before coming to a stop. Very fortunately, everyone involved only sustained minor injures.
Shanghai Daily has scooped China Daily Show, as reality again proves its shit is inimitable. A “special-ability” class is under police investigation as angry parents who paid more than 100,000 yuan (US$15,720) in tuition found their children were taught not to read without their eyes but how to cheat. Whatever the Shanghai school’s pitch was,... Read more »
Innovation level: Asian. Earlier this month, Chinese media reported on a homemade submarine called “Sacred Dragon 2,” which creator Zhang Junlin, a retired police officer in Fuyang, Anhui province, said could dive 50 meters underwater and travel up to 15 kilometers per hour. One or both of those figures was probably hopeful thinking, but look... Read more »
In one of Yilan, Taiwan's night markets is a food stall that advertises "free picture with golden python" for those who purchase a meal. Sounds great, right? Two high school students thought so -- until, that is, the two-plus-meter-long snake bit down on one of their noses and slowly began wrapping its body around the boy's neck. The one who was not in mortal danger, meanwhile, giggles uncontrollably while his friend squeaks, "It hurts, it hurts."
Well, dude, at least you tried. You tried really hard, and you failed equally hard, and the lesson here is that the universe is capable of negating our very best efforts in the most spectacular fashion.
We have no idea why the girls were standing in the middle of the lane, or how the driver of the white Audi didn't see them, or why the black sedan next to the Audi was going so fast.
We'll just tell you all we do know: that this happened on Saturday in Haining, Zhejiang province, that one of the girls died, and that the male driver tried to flee. (It's unclear whether he got back in his car and drove away, because we don't see that in the video.) He has since turned himself in to police.
Earlier this month we wrote about a Bichon Frise that was tossed out of an 18th-story window in Beijing’s Xiandai SOHO because its owner was annoyed with it. Somehow, after landing on the windshield of a Honda, the dog survived. And now we’re happy to report — belatedly — that the little guy, named Lucky... Read more »
This is one of those stories that are a mark of contemporary China, or result of. Recently in Shanghai, an old man fainted and fell. Instead of helping him, people stood around and watched (for him to do what, exactly?), and one man, surnamed Liu, took out his phone and began filming. (Again, what for?)
Neil Bush isn’t nearly the public figure that two of his siblings, Jeb and George Walker, are, but as a businessman and philanthropist and son and brother of former U.S. presidents, he’s made the news cycle a few times in his days. (Possibly most notably — and unfortunately — for a high-profile divorce in which... Read more »
On the same day that a bus collided with a tanker in Yan'an, Shaanxi province, killing at least 36, 12 people, including three children, were killed when a van on an expressway in Sichuan province rear-ended a heavy-duty truck that was parked for tire repair. Xinhua is calling yesterday one of the "bloodiest day[s] in years," and, "In the meantime, lessons must be drawn from the accident so that such tragedies will not reoccur, said an official with the investigation team."
