
Grisly security camera footage of a woman being beheaded in a packed elevator has prompted yet more safety concerns about China’s rapidly rising cities.
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China watchers have been marvelling at a Guangzhou traffic crossing which gives pedestrians 5 seconds to dash across a 100m stretch of busy road…
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The all but indistinguishable contestants of a “Miss Korea” contest have been the subject of considerable attention online, in no small part thanks to Korea’s reputation as a powerhouse of plastic surgery.
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The tale of a girl who sustained horrific burns to almost all of her body trying to save her mother from their burning home has been attracting much sympathy in China of late.
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The disturbingly impressive results of South Korea’s notorious love of plastic surgery (most statistics have the nation as the most intensively enhanced on earth) have yet again surfaced, with the comparison imagery provided by various clinics proving especially controversial in Japan amongst those less than enamoured with the “Korean wave.”
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Hailstones “the size of chicken eggs” have fallen on southern China, killing 9 people and injuring a further 272 in unusually deadly weather even for China.
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CNN have been reporting that the “New South China Mall,” supposedly the or one of the world’s largest shopping malls, is now almost totally deserted.
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Shanghai has announced that thousands of diseased pig carcasses dumped in one of the city’s rivers will “have no impact” on water quality there – sadly an all too believable proclamation…
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The latest object to menace China with an unexpected propensity to explode is the humble automatic condom dispensary.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 8, 2013 12:26 JST
- Tags: AV, Censorship, Feminism, France, Germany, Italy, Politics, Sweden, UK

The European Union is now considering banning all pornography as it is an “infringement of the human rights” of women and “promotes gender stereotypes.”
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A schoolboy on his way to the first day of China’s spring term was anally skewered by his own bicycle when its saddle came off.
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A Chinese businessman disgusted by the state of local rivers has been attracting attention for the generous sum he is offering the head of the local environmental authority if he will take a dip in the pristine waters he is responsible for keeping clean.
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