- Tragic moment Chinese pensioner drowns in ankle-deep flood water after falling off his scooter because passers-by refused to save him for THREE MINUTES
- Bee careful up there! China’s incredible vertical apiary where over 700 hives hang from 4,000 foot high cliff-face
- It’s too hard to say goodbye! Teary-eyed toddlers sob their way through day one of school as they learn to let their parents go for the very first time
- Riding the dragon: Chinese company builds ridiculously lavish car inspired by the mystical creature using 30,000 yak bones and 1,999 pieces of solid gold
Tag Archives: China
From the delicate chairs to the boiling hot pots, almost everything in this quirky Chinese restaurant is made of PAPER
Published on MailOnline on 4th September 2015:
A restaurant made almost entirely of paper has captured the imagination of China’s web users recently.
Every day items including tables, chairs and lamps were made of paper products at the restaurant in Shanghai, China.
Even more incredibly, hot pot ‘pans’, filled with bubbling broth, were also made of the material.
But don’t worry, the paper is said to be fire resistant and can withstand high temperatures.
The rain that WON’T get you wet: Amazing art installation lets visitors experience damp weather while staying dry
Published on MailOnline on 3rd September 2015:
In a darkened room lit by a single lamp, a torrent of ‘rain’ pours from the ceiling.
But as visitors walk through the water, it seems impossible for them to get wet.
This is part of Rain Room, a new weather themed art installation just debuted in Shanghai, China.
THAT’S what you call a sea of red! Tourists flock to see the stunning Chinese beach that turns CRIMSON every autumn
Published on MailOnline on 1st September 2015:
A beach in north-eastern China, has transformed to a crimson red with the arrival of autumn.
Panjin Red Beach, located in the province of Liaoning, is the largest and best preserved wetland in the world.
Every year in autumn, the seepweed, also known as seablite, that grows along its shores takes on a crimson hue as it matures.
The result is a sea of red as far as the eye can see.
Words – August 2015
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
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