A hotel in China was built in just six days! This is the Arc Hotel located in Changsha.
The 15-story sustainable hotel already had its foundation prepared. By using prefabricated columns and modules as well as modern construction techniques, construction workers took just 46 hours to finish the main structural components and another 90 hours to finish the building enclosure. While the workers didn’t work all through the night, they did work until 10pm each night.
Chinese gamers are really serious and seriously rich. Take this gamer for instance: unhappy that a competing guildmaster in the Chinese MMO Magic World Online 2 got to play in an IMAX theater, he came up with a way to play on a bigger screen. Not just a bigger screen, in fact, the World’s largest LED display. This display, measuring at 250-meter-long and 30-meter-wide, is so big that it is called the “skyscreen”. It is located in, The Place, a high-end mall in Beijing.
The most insane thing about the whole stunt is that the gamer paid RMB 100,000 (around USD 15,000) for just 10 minutes of game time. This may also earn him the title for the gamer who “wasted the most money in the least amount of time”.
Other rich Chinese gamers will have to wait until the LED screen in Dubai which will become the World’s largest when completed, before beating this record.
In a total shock to airport security across the globe, an Asian male in his twenties managed to board a flight from Hong Kong to Canada. In what would be described as “something only seen in movies”, the man disguised himself as an old Caucasian – “Mission Impossible” style.
Apparently he is seeking refugee status in Canada and he used the frequent flyer card of a “real” Caucasian to pass boarding checks.
Details on how he actually managed to bypass multiple layers of airport security checks and his real motives for going through so much trouble are unclear at the moment.
This is actually pretty old news, but I thought it was worth highlighting just for the video alone.
A Hong Kong girl is caught in the following video snorting the longest ketamine line ever. Apparently there was a K snorting contest in a club across the border in Mainland China.
This girl participated and well…watch the video:
Having watched the video, I think this is just insane. I think it’s crazy to snort anything that long.
The girl won the contest and became the “Queen of K”.
Not really sure how to explain such a story. It is definitely a WTF times two.
So in Henan province there is this cross-dressing 17 year old boy that came up with a plan, with two of his friends, to make some money. The plan was to get married to a mentally retarded man and then leave with the bride price. I guess this boy must really look like a girl to begin with. I couldn’t stop laughing, already, at this point in the story.
Now this is where the story gets really bizarre: at the night of the wedding, the uncle of the groom (presumably the person mainly responsible for taking care of him) intervenes. Turns out the uncle is one sick bastard and probably wanted this young “maiden” to himself, with the whole marriage as a foil for him to keep a sex pet. So he gets the retard to leave and then proceeds to rape the “bride”.
By now this cross-dresser realizes that he is not the only one with a twisted mind and flees. However, he gets caught by the villagers who rip his (I’m getting confused) clothes off to find that “she” is a he.
In the end, both sides sue each other. This I find incredibly hilarious cause you know what is going to happen – both go to jail. I can’t believe they actually went to court for this. What kind of justice were they expecting to be served?
After all this, I think it’s a shame they never became a family; those two are a match in heaven.
The guys over at Next Media are really trying hard to keep viewers “pleased”. If their funny and over-the-top animated news weren’t enough, they have now started to offer weather reports.
Staying true to their Taiwanese-media-style of attracting viewers as the number one priority, these weather reports are very attractive.
China’s hospitals are pretty damn scary. Whenever I go to China the number one thing I fear most is getting seriously ill, because I will then need to visit the hospital.
Apple news reports that a week ago in Shenzhen, a woman, who had a miscarriage, visited a clinic called Runzhen to have her womb cleaned out. After administering the anesthetic and, for some unspecified reason, tying her legs to the operation table, the doctors demanded an additional payment of RMB 2,100 which the woman was unable to pay.
In response, the doctors left her legs sprawled and tied to the operation table for three hours.
An English teacher in Kunming asks her student the meaning of “up to you” in Chinese. In an epic translations fail or probably the most genius intentional mistake ever, the student says “上你“. “上你” literally means “up yours” in English.
Normally, this would just be your funny afternoon in class but the teacher was not very pleased. The female teacher, who took the boy’s response too personally, became infuriated and decided to give the boy a good beating.
This may be a shock to most of those who still believe China to be a cruel and backwards country, but physical punishment for students was banned long ago.
The parents of this boy were equally infuriated; complained to to the school board who decided to suspend the teacher. Now other parents aren’t please and want the teacher back.
So those who think China is still old-fashioned, you are not entirely wrong – at least some parents are.
I personally despise teachers who resort to beating a child. If you can’t teach without physical punishment, you probably don’t have the skills to teach.