Breast Slapping – A Thai Beautician’s Alternative to Plastic Surgery
If you’re serious about making some changes to your appearance but are to afraid to go under the knife, you might want to book a flight to Thailand and give Khemmikka Na Songkhla’s government-approved slapping techniques a try. I know what you’re thinking – yet another breast-enlargement scam, I was inclined to think that as well, […]
Chinese Pharmaceutical Factory Looks More Like the Palace of Versailles
This is what you’d expect to see in the lavish Palace of Versailles built by Louis the XIVth, but it’s actually the inside of a pharmaceutical company in Harbin, northeast China. Citizens of Harbin were outraged to see what the state-controlled Harbin Pharmaceutical Group spent their funding on rather than solving more pressing issues, like […]
Chinese Mother Theresa Has Adopted 80 Children in 22 Years
In Yaopu village, Shanxi Province, Li Yanping is known as a one-person orphanages who has taken care of 80 abandoned children over a period of 22 years. 49-year-old Li Yanping lives in a modest 40-square-meter country house and barely survives on a meager income, but that hasn’t stopped her from taking care of dozens of […]
Chinese Couple Convert Cargo Truck into Mobile Home
Unable to buy a real house, a young couple in Kunming, China, have opted to convert a small cargo truck into a comfy mobile home. It’s hard to imagine someone living comfortably in the back of a truck, but the high housing prices in China have forced young people to be resourceful and find all […]
Chinese Inventor Takes Off in Home-Made Flying Saucer
Shu Mansheng, a Chinese farmer with no mechanics or electronics educations has managed to pilot a flying saucer he himself built. The simple fact that he only has a basic school education hasn’t stopped Shu Mansheng from fulfilling his dream of building his own flying machine. He taught himself everything he needed to know about […]
The Disappearing Tattooed Faces of Burma’s Chin Province
For generations, the village women of Burma’s Chin Province have tattooed their faces as a symbol of strength and beauty, but this tradition is dying out as a result of globalization. Luckily, photographers have traveled to Burma to capture the beauty of these tattooed-face women before there aren’t any left. According to Chin elders, the […]
Chinese Man Builds 600,000-Cigarette-Pack Fort
Wang Guanyi, a 46-year-old cigarette pack collector from Longnan, China, has recently built a fort model using 600,000 empty cigarette packs. Wang is a famous person in his home city because he usually greets everyone with “hello, do you smoke? do you have cigarette packs?” He says he has been fascinated with cigarette packs ever […]
Chinese Craftsman Builds Functional Bicycle from over 10,000 Popsicle Sticks
A craftsman from Kaiyuan, northeast China, has created a rideable bicycle using more than 10,000 wooden popsicle sticks. It took him four long months to finish it, but 35-year-old Sun Chao doesn’t regret one second of the time he put into the world’s first popsicle stick bicycle. At 1.5m long, 0.55m wide, 0.95m high and […]
Chinese Men Turn to Pole-Dancing to Tone Their Physique
After noticing the positive effects pole-dancing has on the bodies of female practitioners, a growing number of Chinese men decided to get past their inhibitions and started practicing pole dancing as a way to strengthen their muscles. China is the home country of popular martial arts like Kung Fu and Tai Chi, and engaging sports […]
Chinese School for Gold Diggers Proves Big Hit
Why bother building a successful career, when you can just marry yourself a rich guy that will pamper and take care of you, forever? A Chinese school, ironically named the Beijing Moral Education Center for Women, claims it can teach single ladies how to get their hands on a billionaire. I know, it sounds like new […]
Indonesia’s Laughing Cock Craze Is No Laughing Matter
Roosters being sold for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars might sound like a joke to you, but in many parts of Indonesia it’s very serious business. They look like ordinary cocks, but it’s only when they start crowing that people realize just how special they really are. Instead of the normal “cock-a-doodle-do”, these birds make […]
Japanese Clone Factory Makes Creepy Lookalike Dolls of Its Clients
If you’ve always wanted to have yourself cloned, you’re probably going to have to wait a few more years, but in the meantime you can get a creepy doll that looks just like you, from the Clone Factory, in Japan. Danny Choo, of Culture Japan visited the quirky Clone Factory, in Tokyo’s Akihabara district and […]
Sepak Takraw – A Combination of Football, Volleyball and Kung-Fu
Invented around 500 years ago, in Malaysia, Sepak Takraw remains one of the most spectacular sports in the world. It combines elements from football, volleyball and martial arts, and is real fun to watch. It is believed Sepak Trakaw is based on the Chinese game of “Cuju” (kick-ball), after it was introduced to Southeastern Asian […]
Dangerous Railway Therapy Practiced in Indonesia
While it might look like they are protesting against something or staging a gruesome mass suicide, the people of Rawa Buaya are actually looking to cure their illnesses by laying on the train tracks. In western countries, most people think high levels of electric energy cause cancer, but to the inhabitants of Rawa Buaya, in […]
Man Drinks Gasoline for 42 Years, as Medicine
For decades gasoline has been used to power vehicles and machinery, but 71-year-old Chen Dejun proves it works very well for humans, too. Chen Jejun lives alone in a thatched cottage on a hill in China’s Shuijiang municipality. He’s known by the locals as a stone cutter and master bamboo weaver, but also for his […]