Weird Asia News

Chinese Man Auctions Girls’ Saliva as Tonic

MDeeDubroff — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:35:39 +0000

A Chinese auction site, which is the equivalent to eBay, has recently banned a potential online seller from profiting from the sale of the saliva of pretty teenage girls. If this brings to mind the idea of trying to sell lint, used band-aids, coffee grinds, or other useless items to anyone dumb enough to be the [...] Related posts:Chinese Marry Off Dead Girls as Ghost BridesCouple Auctions Invitation to Wedding in ChinaJail Bait Girl Auctions Off Breasts for Link Bait

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Chinese Gold Farming Hits Potential Drought

RMJ — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:34:42 +0000

As the world economy was spiraling downward, some creative Chinese gamers were making a living by selling Westerners their virtual gold for real money in online games like World of Warcraft. But the online gold rush may be over in China, as officials seek to ban the practice by releasing the first regulations on virtual [...] Related posts:Lavish Gold Taxi hits Japanese Streets with Style$1.71 Mil Block of Gold Stolen in Japan9,000 Year Old Chinese Beer Hits Stores

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Artist Uses Chopsticks to Demonstrate Waste

RMJ — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:19:19 +0000

Typical mediums for art include paint, clay, and perhaps film. But one artist has turned to dining utensils in her artwork. Donna Keiko Ozawa, a Japanese-American who lives in San Francisco, uses chopsticks in her Waribashi project to make a point about wastefulness and environmental responsibility. She fashions washed and dried chopsticks into primitive, abstract [...] Related posts:Chopsticks Bra Promotes ConservationLicense Plate Cost More Than New CarWeird Korean Commercials

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Entire High-Rise Building Tips Over

RMJ — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:43:09 +0000

A newly built and unoccupied 13-story apartment building in Shanghai fell over with no apparent provocation. Miraculously, only one person died in the near-catastrophe. The building fell over in one piece. Footage of the collapse on Hong Kong’s Cable Television showed the structure in a muddy construction site, pilings still visible at its base. Construction was [...] Related posts:China to build super building in shape of Walking ManThe Ultimate ‘Energy Saving’ BuildingNorth Korea’s Ryugyong Hotel: Ugliest Building on Earth?

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Ordinary Hen Lays World’s Biggest Egg

RMJ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:46:50 +0000

An ordinary hen laid an extraordinary egg in China this week, and her owner says that it’s one for the record books. According to owner Zhang Yinde, the egg is, at 201 grams, 25 grams heavier than the previous record holder. The egg is 6.3 centimeters wide and 9.2 centimeters long. Its shell is slightly misshapen [...] Related posts:Chinese Hen lays Giant EggOld Hen may set world recordBiggest and Longest Korean…

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