An 18-year-old boy from Taiwan has reportedly died after playing Diablo 3 for 40 hours straight. The boy, Chuang, was resting on a table in an Internet Cafe when an attendant came to wake him up. According to reports, Chuang stood up, took a few steps around, and then collapsed, having to be taken to a […]
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Olympic Flame Extinguished – While the Torch Was Being Carried on a White Water Rafting Boat
It’s quite remarkable, in hindsight, to think no one predicted the outcome of this stunt. As the Olympic torch splashed through the canoe slalom venue in Hertfordshire today on board a raft as part of its journey around the country, spraying water splashed out the famed Eternal Flame. Day 50 did not go smoothly for […]
Woman killed a man in a bizarre way
A parking dispute in China end with a bizarre death of a 42-year-old man. The argument started when an unidentified 41-year-old woman in China’s Haiku City in the Hainan Province tried to park her scooter, which she rode to town to pick up her child from school, in front of a local store. According to […]
Yuan Jiang, Chinese Wine Mogul: 10,000 Bottles a Day and Counting
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English.
Five Reasons to Visit Chengde
Before Disney, China’s first amusement park was Chengde in Hebei province.
China’s Manufacturing Jobs Moved Overseas
On May 25, U.S. businessman Charles Hubbs made the short trek to Hong Kong from his office just outside Guangzhou, a city in Guangdong province in southeastern China that is known for good reason as the manufacturing workshop of the world.
Essay: The Aged Mother
Another Mother’s Day down, the awkward ceremony survived. Loaded like a German fruitcake, you smiled wide as a freeway, wobbled under tulips, chocolates, a witty card, wished her all the happiness in the world and told all the old stories.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong loved to swim. In his youth, he advocated swimming as a way of strengthening the bodies of Chinese citizens, and one of his earliest poems celebrated the joys of beating a wake through the waves.
Love Don’t Cost a Thing: Can Educating Girls Alone Curb China’s Mistress Epidemic?
This fall, young girls in China’s southern Guangdong province will be learning a new subject in school: how to avoid becoming a mistress.
China Drought Impact Grows, Hits Shanghai
— China’s worst drought in a half-century is deepening, with the parched weather that has left millions in the Yangtze River region without enough drinking water pushing inflation higher and adding to widespread power shortages.