Florentijn Hofman's rubber duck is the goldmine that will never be depleted. Deflated, maybe, but never depleted. This we know because his rubber duck arrived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Thursday ahead of Typhoon Usagi -- that storm that's killed 33 people in southern China and southeast Asia so far, i.e. around where Taiwan is located -- and attracted half a million spectators. Read more »
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province showed off 14 panda cubs on Monday. This BBC video calls the cubs "far more valuable than gold." They also happen to be very cute. Read more »
Probably not worried enough to not take the train, because the alternative -- flying -- is really much worse. Still, this is slightly concerning: Read more »
A 20-something year-old man reportedly disgruntled over the results of his "beard implant surgery" resorted to violence on Monday morning. Xinhua reports that the man armed himself with a knife and walked into the plastic surgery department of the Affiliated Hospital of Hunan Academy of Chinese Medicine and attacked three nurses, one of whom was pregnant. Read more »
A pair of sisters, ages 4 and 2, died inside their home's washing machine on Saturday around 1:30 pm in Nanchang, Jiangxi province. The details are grisly. Read more »
Sunday was World Car Free Day, striving to remind people of the earth that cars pollute and are actually less necessary than you think (unless you live in Suburbia, USA). More than 150 Chinese cities observed World Car Free Day, according to Xinhua, though it was apparent that some cities observed it much better than others. Read more »
From the annals of incredible stories, a woman in Changzhou, Jiangsu province has claimed that she was raped in her sleep on August 29, but would not have known it if not for her assailant's friend, who also tried to rape her.
That's when she woke up. Read more »
Xinhua reports that 11 Foxconn employees in a plant in Yantai, Shandong province were injured after a drunken brawl on Thursday as part of Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations. More than 300 people reportedly gathered to watch the fight. Read more »
