


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 world-class high speed trains are again facing safety doubts after a pigeon shattered its “super strong bulletproof glass” windscreen, in what Chinese media points out as a “once in a century” freak accident.
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Chinese search giant Baidu’s efforts to guilt-trip Japanese users of its IME software into not uninstalling it by having a cute nekomimi maid beg them for forgiveness has been attracting much attention of late – most of it scathingly negative.
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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 quality of Chinese artists has been in the spotlight after some of the candidate Vocaloids for the 2nd “Vocaloid China” project were revealed – securing much approval even in Japan.
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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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Tokyo residents have been marvelling at “China quality” weather of their very own, with the annual toxic dust storms blowing in from China more spectacular than ever – although identifying it as such is apparently now too politically sensitive for the government.
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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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China’s great smog cloud is now poisoning Japan, causing pollution levels in parts of Japan to far exceed government limits and causing major health concerns.
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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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