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China officials shown at Thai transvestite show

AFP 08/16/2009
Chinese officials visiting Thailand have triggered outrage after photographs of them at a transvestite show came out

BEIJING — Chinese officials on a "study visit" to Thailand have triggered outrage after photographs of them at a transvestite show were posted on the Internet.

China's first sex theme park closes before it opens

Tania Branigan The Guardian 05/19/2009
A sculpture of a giant pair of legs wearing a red thong is dismantled by workers at Love Land, China's first sexually explicit theme park, in Chongqing. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

China's first sex theme park has fallen to the wrecker's ball before it even opened, after officials deemed it an "evil" influence.

Woman going insane after missing her flight in Hong Kong

A woman missed her flight at the boarding gate HKIA

Man Writes Calligraphy Using His Own Tears!

Truly defying some natural laws, this Chinese man can write calligraphy with water he shoots from his own eyes.

Olympics Stadium… the ‘Village Version’

China’s Olympics stadium, or the “Bird’s Nest”, cost around $500 million and took 7 years to build. The stadium seats up to 91,000 people and will host both the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as all the athletic events for the 2008 Olympics.

Man Almost Loses Penis Humping Steel Bench

Last night in Hong Kong, the police received a disturbing call from a man in trouble.

'Olympic wedding' surge in China

Thousands of Chinese couples are applying to tie the knot on 8 August, to help celebrate the opening of the Beijing Olympics, state media say.

World’s Largest Working Cell Phone?

Weird Asia News 06/20/2008
The solid gold and gem-encrusted toilet, valued at 38,000,000 million Hong Kong dollars ($4.8 million). AFP/Getty Images

You can't put a price on a dream — at least not all of it. An entrepreneur in Hong Kong says he grew up obsessed with gold. He became an apprentice goldsmith, then a wholesale jeweler. He built a house full of gold.

World’s Largest Working Cell Phone?

Mr. Tan, an electronic lover in Jeling, China, recently made a massive 3-foot tall replica of his favorite cell phone.