Posts Tagged ‘China’

Chinese Flooded Restaurant Is Newest Trend

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 15:18 No Comments

The city of Xiangfan, China, has now a new trendy attraction, the flooded restaurant. After the heavy floods in the area the owner was thinking of closing it down, but he then noticed that diners started pouring in to enjoy eating in ankle deep waters. So if you are planning on visiting China do [...]

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Amnesty International For China & Olympic Games

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 16:18 2 Comments

Amnesty International released yesterday some viral animations (you can find them at the bottom of the post) highlighting the repression of peaceful protesters and the case of Huang Qi, a cyber-dissident who runs the www.64tianwang.com website. Huang Qi has been detained since 10 June when several men found him at a restaurant in Chengdu and [...]

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Condom Fashion Show

Monday, May 26, 2008 23:30 No Comments

What were they thinking when they came up with this idea?
During the 4th China Reproductive Health New Technologies & Products Expo (Beijing), models paraded wearing dresses made from condoms.
Guilin Latex, who is China’s largest condom manufacturer organised this event to promote the use of condoms to battle HIV/AIDS.
Not sure who on earth will wear such [...]

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Wedding During The Sichuan Earthquake

Monday, May 26, 2008 23:10 No Comments

I just came across a set of pictures of a wedding that took place during the 8 Richter Sichuan earthquake, China. The couple and their guests were extremely lucky to have survived this horrible event that has taken the life’s of 65,000 people and left many more injured and homeless.
The 100 year old Church of [...]

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China Keeps Soldiers In Attention With Pins And Crosses Ready For The Olympic Games

Thursday, May 8, 2008 22:00 No Comments

I am not sure if this falls under the torture category or its just another “discipline aid” conceived by some disturbed mind. China apparently takes perfection seriously when it comes for its international image. Hence for the Olympics they are training (?) their military personnel, to stand in perfect attention, and inline by using pins [...]

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A 22 Kilo Mobile Phone

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 22:46 No Comments

The trend in mobile phone design is “the smaller the better” but today if you want to be famous you need to do something different. Mr Tan from Songyuan, China, made a 22 Kilo cell phone!
This beast weighs 621 times more than the prototype he used and it is amount a meter tall. It does [...]

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