Watch the man on the bike... he's about to discover a pothole in China
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Friday, August 05, 2011
Thursday, August 04, 2011
US exports chopsticks to China - shortage helps Georgia company
A company in Georgia, USA, is exporting millions of chopsticks to China. The firm is operating around the clock to meet the demand caused by a shortage and they hope to be exporting 10 million a day by the end of the year.
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011
A colony for dwarves - haven for 'little people'
A man who is just 117cm tall wants to set up a colony for dwarves.
Alejandro Doron Jr, who works in a "dwarf bar" in Manila, in the Philippines, says he wants to set up the colony because of constant taunts and verbal abuse.
There have been dwarf towns in the past in Coney Island, New York and Kunming, China.
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Alejandro Doron Jr, who works in a "dwarf bar" in Manila, in the Philippines, says he wants to set up the colony because of constant taunts and verbal abuse.
There have been dwarf towns in the past in Coney Island, New York and Kunming, China.
GUARDIAN
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Boy with sword in his head - weapon removed after operation in China
A 15-year-old boy in China has had a 20-inch Japanese-type sword removed from his head. Zhang Bin was playing with friends when the weapon slipped and stabbed him between the eyes.
The local hospital said they couldn't remove the sword and he was sent to Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, where doctors performed a lengthy operation. Zhang is expected to make a full recovery.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
55ft 'sea monster' found washed up in China
A 55ft 'sea monster' that weighed about 4.5 tons has been found washed up on a Chinese beach.
But don't get too excited, it's unlikely to be some Loch Ness-type monster from the deep.
At the bottom of some reports is expert opinion that it is probably a dead whale. The carcass is so badly decomposed that it is difficult to tell.
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But don't get too excited, it's unlikely to be some Loch Ness-type monster from the deep.
At the bottom of some reports is expert opinion that it is probably a dead whale. The carcass is so badly decomposed that it is difficult to tell.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Man saved by grill as he falls from 10th floor apartment - amazing video
Amazing video of a man who fell two floors from his 10th floor apartment in Beijing, China, when he was trying to clean the windows. He was saved when his leg got caught in a grill. Rescuers managed to pull him to safety.
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Friday, June 03, 2011
Triplets with stripes - three tiger cubs born in China - video
Tiger triplets have been born at The Tiger Habitat, Anhui province, China.
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Teenager sells his kidney online to buy an iPad2
A teenager in China was so desperate to own an iPad2 that he sold one of his kidneys online - for only £2,000.
The 17-year-old from Guangdong, said: "I wanted to buy an iPad 2, but I didn't have the money."
Trading organs online is apparently very common in China, says the Sun newspaper, although the government has tried to stamp in out.
The incident has outraged thousands of people across China
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The 17-year-old from Guangdong, said: "I wanted to buy an iPad 2, but I didn't have the money."
Trading organs online is apparently very common in China, says the Sun newspaper, although the government has tried to stamp in out.
The incident has outraged thousands of people across China
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Lorry falls into huge pothole - disappears in 6 seconds - China
A lorry was swallowed up by a massive pothole in China and two men were injured. According to reports, it took just six seconds for the lorry to disappear in the city of Changchun.
And we think the potholes in England are bad!
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And we think the potholes in England are bad!
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Meet the liger - lion-tiger hybrid cubs born in China - video
While police confuse a soft toy for a real tiger (story), you'd be forgiven for wondering what this little creature is.
Four lion-tiger cubs were born to a manchurian tiger and an African lion in Xixiakou Wildlife and Natural Reserve in Rongcheng, east China's Shangdong Province this month.
Two of the ligers survived but, sadly, two others have died.
ITV VIDEO STORY
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Four lion-tiger cubs were born to a manchurian tiger and an African lion in Xixiakou Wildlife and Natural Reserve in Rongcheng, east China's Shangdong Province this month.
Two of the ligers survived but, sadly, two others have died.
ITV VIDEO STORY
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Google and Facebook together are bigger than the USA - mind-boggling statistics
Look at these amazing statistics. They really do put the internet and the world into perspective.
The stats show how big some internet companies have become, but also reveal how dwarfed their daily visitors are when compared with the extraordinary mass of people in China.
If, for example, the Google and Facebook dotcoms were countries, they would each have bigger populations than Brazil - and their combined population would, amazingly, outstrip the USA (by more than two countries the population size of the UK)!
But, put all the dotcoms mentioned here together and they would not come close to the population of China - falling short by a huge 581 million (more than the combined populations of the USA, Russia and Japan).
dv = daily visitors (some pop figures are 2009!)
Number of people who watched the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton according to the New York Times: (estimate give or take 500 million) 3,000 million (more than China, India, USA and the UK together!). Hard to believe as there are 7,000 million people on the planet.
And, finally, the estimated number of insects in the world: 10,000,000,000,000 million - that's a lot of bites!
The stats show how big some internet companies have become, but also reveal how dwarfed their daily visitors are when compared with the extraordinary mass of people in China.
If, for example, the Google and Facebook dotcoms were countries, they would each have bigger populations than Brazil - and their combined population would, amazingly, outstrip the USA (by more than two countries the population size of the UK)!
But, put all the dotcoms mentioned here together and they would not come close to the population of China - falling short by a huge 581 million (more than the combined populations of the USA, Russia and Japan).
dv = daily visitors (some pop figures are 2009!)
China: 1,331.5 million population
India: 1,155.3 million
United States: 310 million
Google: 236 million dv
Facebook.com: 200.5 million dv
Brazil: 194 million
Russia: 141.8 million
YouTube.com: 130.6 million dv
Japan: 127 million
Yahoo.com: 119.6 million dv
France: 62.6 million
United Kingdom: 62 million
Twitter.com: 50 million dv
Canada: 33.7 million
Australia: 22 million
BBC.co.uk: 10.7 million dv
Portugal: 10.5 million
Mexico City: 8.8 million
New York City: 8.1 million
London: 7.5 million
Norway: 4.9 million
New Zealand: 4.3 million
Brighton and Hove: 0.256Number of people who watched the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton according to the New York Times: (estimate give or take 500 million) 3,000 million (more than China, India, USA and the UK together!). Hard to believe as there are 7,000 million people on the planet.
And, finally, the estimated number of insects in the world: 10,000,000,000,000 million - that's a lot of bites!
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