
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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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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The latest object to menace China with an unexpected propensity to explode is the humble automatic condom dispensary.
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The harrowing news of a lone father who sacrificed himself to save his 9-year-old daughter after becoming lost in a blizzard has been harrowing Japan amidst one of the coldest winters in years.
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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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An exploding fireworks truck has caused an entire stretch of Chinese highway to collapse, with two of China’s most notorious and frequent accidents combining with spectacularly tragic severity.
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This time, and sadly not for the first time, it is China’s toilets which have been exploding, threatening users with an unpleasant variety of horrible injuries and an ungodly mess.
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Police are coming under fire for killing an anteater they captured by caging it outdoors in freezing temperatures, the intellectual strain of phoning the zoo which reported it missing apparently having proven too much for them.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2012 12:19 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Crime, Earthquakes, Fukushima, Litigation, Military, Politics, US Military, USA


US sailors who helped the quake-stricken Japanese as part of “Operation Tomodachi” are now suing them for exposing them to radiation.
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Shoppers in a Chinese department store have been injured by an exploding shark tank, which spewed water, glass and sharks onto hapless shoppers, injuring over a dozen onlookers and staff.
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The operators of a highway tunnel which collapsed catastrophically causing the deaths of 9 people have caused outrage with their excuse that the reason safety inspections were not carried out there was “because the inspectors couldn’t reach that high.”
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Japan’s former PM and current LDP leader Shinzo Abe has stunned many Japanese with talk of building even more nuclear power plants, even as parts of the nation remain radioactive wastelands – though he very reassuringly talks of building them using the “latest technology” in “extremely safe” locations.
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