1. France gives China 12m-high fire-breathing dragon robot to celebrate anniversary of diplomatic ties
Hoping for a repeat of their success with the Statue of Liberty, France gifted a giant fire-beathing dragon robot to the people of China this week to celebrate 50 years of ties between Paris and Beijing.
2. Why you get 1 RMB coins in Shanghai but bills in Beijing - explained!
One of the great mysteries of China explained: why coins dominate in some parts of the country while paper currency is all the rage in other parts...
3. Guangxi woman runs streets naked to earn iPhone 6 from 'friends'
Reports out of Guangxi this week claimed that a woman in the city of Chongzuo ran through the streets naked to win an iPhone 6 from "friends" who had dared her to, in the most grimly 21st-century reinvention of Lady Godiva imaginable.
4. WATCH: Hubei woman downs 2 bottles of baijiu and blacks out in Yangtze, wakes up in Jiangxi
Yet another incredulous story as a woman in Hubei claims to have blacked out in the middle of the Yangtze River after she threw back to bottle of firewater and then floated 75km through river bends and rapids all the way to Ruichang, Jiangxi before she came to. How didn't she drown? We don't know, either.
5. Shanghai Chachawan copycat shamelessly rips off Hong Kong original
A restaurant in Shanghai has plagiarized Hong Kong's trendy Thai eatery Chachawan down to a tee: the name, the decor, the murals... the only thing they forget to copy was the great food.
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