Furniture shopping: Everyone’s done it… a sturdy new coffee table, a firm yet all encompassing easy chair for the TV room – or a full-size, extra cozy couch the whole family can...

A whale intended for research exploded on a Taiwanese street, soaking passersby in blood and guts. The sperm whale, which had died on the beach and was being transported through Tainan for...

As impressive as it is, the Great Wall of China never actually accomplished its goal of repelling invaders. The so-called Great Firewall of China is another story altogether. The government’s...

Wang Guiying is a 107-year-old Chinese woman who takes things very slowly… even love. Wang Guiying was born in southern Guizhou province, the child of a salt merchant. She grew up watching...

Was there communication between the ancient Chinese and the early Celts? The discovery of European corpses dating back to the Bronze Age in western China suggests that there might have...

If King Midas were (or ever had been) among the living, no doubt he would have yearned to own the Kirameki Pure Gold Keyboard to cherish among his many other gilded possessions. He might have been equally annoyed at the fact that pure gold is not...

Beijing’s burgeoning art district has a new symbol for its growing influence in the global art world -a giant farting bull. Created by sculptor Chen Wenling, the 20-foot statue depicts, well, a big fiberglass bull that rams a devil figure with its...

Understanding how the concept of play fosters emotional and social growth in children has been a subject of study for some of the world’s most astute scholars, but one professor in Japan believes he has unlocked an important door that leads to fresh...

Fancy paying $10,000 for a few odd grams of tea? That’s how much enterprising Chinese folks are willing to dish out for Puer (or Pu-Erh) tea, a coveted tea type that is renowned for its exotic taste and healing properties. Part of the allure of...

This video has been spreading like wildfire around the Chinese social network Kaixin001 in the past week. Some Chinese netizens think its hilarious, others think its fake and others still think it’s an invasion of privacy (the latter of which,  as...