Published this month:
- The Leaning Towers Of Guangxi: Dramatic images show apartment buildings tilting dangerous backwards on verge of collapse
- Drinks with more than a kick: Herbal tonics used for erectile dysfunction found to be spiked with VIAGRA… so it’ll ‘work faster’
- Low-tech protection: Man wrapped his new car with a PLASTIC SKIRT to prevent dents and scratches while it’s parked
- Shocking moment when violent passenger attempt to strip a young girl naked in the middle of a full carriage because the two were fighting over an EMPTY SEAT
- Incredible footage shows the moment seven-year-old boy gets knocked flying by speeding car… and then sits right up again with only bruises
- Intricate millennium-old tomb discovered under a high school in China
- House of foam: Property buyers shocked to discover the new flats they paid a fortune for are built with flammable plastic
- Think your sex education is embarrassing? Chinese pupils learn about condoms, sexual relationships and masturbation in special summer camp… with their parents
- Would you eat a cheesecake made of POO? Japanese university launches new dessert baked with faecal bacteria from gorillas… and they say it has a ‘distinct flavour’
- Breath-taking footage captured by shepherd shows incredibly rare tornado creating a huge column of sand in arid landscape
- Heart-warming moment twin saved 19 years ago in China’s first successful operation to divide conjoined babies returns to thank the doctor who gave him gift of life
- Is this the world’s worst hotel? Dire guest house listed for demolition remains open despite lying amidst rubble (and amazingly there are people still checking in)
- Peppa Pig will be jealous! Piglets in China have their OWN luxury resort where hogs can dive, swim and get a massage in the jacuzzi
- Bye bye, summer! Hilarious images show Chinese kids chomp their way through whole watermelons in quirky tradition to mark the beginning of autumn
- Strongest storm of the year: Super typhoon ‘Soudelor’ to hit Taiwan and China with wind speeds of at least 100mph creating raging waves up to five stories high
- Shocking footage shows young girl at wheel of a speeding car and weaving through city traffic while her father tells her to ‘drive carefully’ from the back seat
- Female train attendant gets brutally beaten up by a family of 12 after she asked them to change seats for safety reasons
- Bizarre moment theatre performers are showered with cash carried by a bulldozer after audience tipped them generously
- Is the world’s most scenic highway? China unveils new seven mile road that’s built in the middle of a river valley
- Don’t doze off! Utterly adorable two year old Buddhist monk melts the heart of millions after pictures of him yawning and falling asleep during meditation emerge online
- Watch out, musicians! Chinese censors blacklist 120 ‘harmful’ songs on the internet – from ‘No sex no love’ to ‘Everybody dies’
- Fight at Chinese karaoke bar leaves singer with ten-inch ‘microphone’ shoved so far into his rear, doctors have to cut open his abdomen to remove it
- Better than Oktoberfest! Chinese carnival goers race to steal ‘Beer King’ title by drinking 2 litres of lager from washbasins
- Excuse me, may I squeeze through please? Mind-boggling images show what happens to a rafting park in China when everybody fancies a bit of adventure on their summer holiday
- Got a sensitive nose? Chinese city recruits ‘smell specialists’ to sniff out air pollution
- Will YOU date them? Traffic police on highway to fame after their BOSSES posted ads on social media to help them find love
- Shocking moment a bear cub is ripped to pieces by a dozen tigers in front of screaming tourists after wandering into their enclosure at Chinese zoo
- Now THAT’S delicate work! Artists carve intricate portraits onto egg shells in quirky new art trend
- Ten photos from Grand Hotel Portovenere
- Terrifying footage shows an enormous sinkhole swallow up entire street in China after collapse of underground tunnel
- ‘My parents are mafia’: Chinese boy who begged on the street to fund dad’s medical treatment is abandoned after father stole all his donations and ran off with a new wife
- Whose idea was this? Pedestrians in Chinese city jostle along hideously narrow zebra crossing that only has room for one
- Shocking moment Chinese passenger encourages her child to defecate by the kitchen in the rear of a plane because ‘the toilets were too small’
- A flyaway new trend: The quirky foam machine that lets you create your very own ‘clouds’ in the shape of hearts, stars and birds
- Tourist plunges 900 feet to death after his seat broke away from newly opened tightrope ride in China
- Silent romance: Heart-warming story of how a Chinese city is helping its deaf-mute community find love before Valentine’s Day
- Is this the world’s worst wax museum? China’s Madame Tussaud-style attraction becomes internet sensation because its statues are utterly unrecognisable
- This will keep room-service busy! Incredible moment 418 people have breakfast in bed at the same time in successful Guinness Record attempt
- How a 1,500-year-old dialect became the unlikely reason why an upcoming American drama turned into instant hit in China
- Woman sparks anger after saving her dog a seat on a packed bus during rush hour
- Would you use this for baby soft skin? Chinese mother makes soap from her BREAST MILK as gifts for friends
- Going platinum: Self-made property tycoon worth over $42.6 BILLION is named the wealthiest Chinese person in the world
- The game is on! Desperate Chinese bachelors pay £700 for week-long boot camp to learn how to date women
- An unexpected guest! One-month-old baby elephant wanders into villager’s home after losing her family in the forest
- One family, one pooch: Chinese city announces single dog policy in bid to resolve canine-related noise issues
- Amazing moment more than a hundred passers-by stopped to help save a little girl trapped underneath an 18 TONNE coach
- Who says love don’t cost a thing? Jewellery store unveils SOLID GOLD underwear for Chinese Valentine’s Day valued at £400,000
- The picture that moved China: Devoted son who lost both arms to electric shock spoon-feeds sick mother using his TEETH
- Budding fashionistas? Quirky floral ‘antenna hairpins’ are the new must-have accessory for trendy Chinese
- Ready, aim, fire: Chinese archery range uses images of Japanese soldiers as targets to celebrate upcoming V-Day anniversary
- Chinese fisherman finds metre-long ‘torpedo’ in controversy plagued South China Sea… which turns out to be an under-water spy device
- Shocking video shows hot pot restaurant waiter pouring BOILING WATER over female customer who complained about his service before body slamming her into the floor
- Athletic pensioner becomes new tourist attraction in China as hundreds watch him dive into the sea… over 200 times a day
- Hilarious photographs expose part of the Chinese-Russian border is guarded by a SCARECROW
- That’s NOT the way to pray! Giant turtles are plastered with money in Chinese zoo by visitors who hope to live longer
- It’s getting a bit breezy! Amazing footage shows massive 100 foot high ‘dust devil’ appearing in Chinese construction site
- Where are their planning permissions? Chinese media name and shame craziest illegal structures… from a colossal ‘pigeon castle’ to a mansion on top of 12 storey high rise
- Chinese villager who hacked wife and eight family members to death with a butcher’s cleaver because of her alleged affair is arrested following large-scale manhunt
- Leave your freedom at the door! Chinese foodies flock to PRISON themed restaurant where they enjoy meals in locked cages and get their food through a window
- That’s a quacking lot of birds! Chinese city is flooded with 100,000 DUCKS that will become traditional dinner during Ghost Festival
- Best dad in the world? Welder spends whole year building a 16 foot Bumblebee after his son watched Transformers and wanted a ‘bigger toy’
- Woman arrested after killing and burying neighbour’s grandson because she thought he was ‘smarter’ than her own
- Meet the 87-year-old woman who has a five inch HORN growing out of her head
- She’s got crabs! Four-year-old girl had over 20 pubic lice living in her EYELASHES… and she got it from her grandmother
- Inside China’s ultimate ‘kung fu village’: The secluded mountain community where all residents practise martial arts and everyone has a secret weapon
- Fool’s gold: Chinese residents stop traffic all day to pick up precious metal dumped on the road… only to discover it’s sulphur
On the blogs:
- August: Wine travel in Stuttgart
- Wine storage 101: The ten golden rules
- #HOTGV Episode Seven: On coffee with James Hoffmann