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Swimming? Chinese 'anti-drowning lessons' sees kids dunking heads in buckets of water

A primary school in Henan province has implemented seemingly CIA-approved 'anti-drowning lessons' in which children submerge themselves in basins and buckets filled with water to...'experience...

by Joe McGee, 11 June 2014

10,000 chickens roast alive in truck fire, locals eat them

Around 10,000 chickens burned alive in their cages after a truck transporting them to a market in Suizhou, Hubei province caught fire recently.

by Joe McGee, 11 June 2014

South Korean grandmothers turn to prostitution to support themselves

Many elderly South Koreans have found that after entering retirement following decades of hard work, they can no longer be assured their children will be there to take care of them....

by Joe McGee, 11 June 2014

Grandpa farmer takes his 14th gaokao

A 68-year-old farmer in Liaoning province sat the gaokao, China's notoriously difficult college entrance exam, for the 14th time over the weekend.

by Joe McGee, 11 June 2014

Man tries to fake own death by dressing dead dog in his clothes. Fails.

A man has been arrested in Rizhao, Shandong province after he attempted to fake his own death by staging a hit-and-run accident using a dead dog dressed in his clothes.

by Joe McGee, 11 June 2014

Man shot dead by police after taking 50 schoolkids hostage

Officers shot dead a man who took 50 elementary school students and a teacher hostage in Qianjiang, Hubei province on Tuesday, the Public Security Ministry said.

by Joe McGee, 11 June 2014

South Koreans divided over Spider-Man with erection

A shopping center in the South Korean city of Busan has been home to a very sexally aroused sculpture of Marvel superhero Spider-Man since 2013.

by Joe McGee, 10 June 2014

Man found living in stranger's attic undetected for three months

Police have arrested a man in Kunshan, Jiangsu province who had been living undetected in the attic of a man's apartment for three months, Global Times reports.

by Joe McGee, 10 June 2014