
The latest piece of China quality infrastructure to provide international audiences some much needed distraction from America quality governance is a Jiangxi ferry bridge filmed in the instant of its demise, with a flag-waving crosser seemingly too ironic a load for the bridge to bear.
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China’s autumnal skies have been hailed as fit for an “SF dystopia,” with daytime visibility down to 10m and still no improvement evident from earlier in the year despite the government’s promises – amidst rising concern from Japan that pollution forecasts are to become a regular feature on their own weather reports as a result.
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The case of a 6-year-old boy who had both his eyes plucked out so thieves could steal his corneas is the latest to outrage and disgust China.
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A Chinese farm breeding cockroaches to make into medicines has released a million of its charges into the local neigbhbourhood after being attacked as part of a development land grab.
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Even the Chinese have been outraged by a zoo which passed off a dog as a lion, with the ruse only being exposed when a visitor questioned why their “lion” was barking.
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The lengths Chinese real estate developers will go to when mere property owners refuse to sell up are yet again causing a stir, with the latest example seeing tenants simply having their building torn down around them.
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China has closed an 88-million dollar museum and “patriotic education center” after the majority of its exhibits were found to be fakes, including such classic pieces as a Qing dynasty vase decorated with cartoon characters, despite the protests of curators who insist “at least half” the exhibits are genuine.
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Chinese have been starting to enjoy their nation’s beautiful green beaches yet again, with 2013 proving a bumper year for the pollution nourished algal blooms which have plagued Chinese coasts of late.
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SHN48, China’s answer to AKB48, have lately been making waves amongst the Japanese – although so far more thanks to the undeniable impact of their photographs than the media saturation and obsessive followers which have helped make AKB48 such a “national” institution.
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Far from abating with the onset of summer, China’s toxic skies are proving as choking as ever, with Beijing reporting record levels of PM2.5 pollution.
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A woman who discovered a rotting goldfish in the Pepsi bottle she had just started to drink has shaken the confidence of Chinese cola drinkers.
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China’s thought police have begun censoring all mentions of rubber duckies after an unpatriotic wag uploaded a Photoshop combining it and the famed Tiananmen Square incident of 1989 to sinified Twitter knock-off Sina Weibo.
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