Japanese commercial by Hikkoshizamurai moving company. You know it’s time to move to a new place when something like this happens (like it ever will)…
China highway construction fail
December 29, 2011 4 Comments
In Nanning, China, where engineers realised (way too late) that a block of flats are higher than the road ring’s bridge. Brilliant…
Kidnapped kids returned to BUYERS
June 16, 2011 Leave a Comment
Chinese Police have returned 29 children they rescued from Yunnan, Sichuan and Shandong provinces to the people who bought them, because the children’s real parents could not be found.
According to the police, some women in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces sell their children to make a living. The price of a baby ranges between 5,000 yuan (US$771) and 6,000 yuan. When brokers sell the babies to buyers, the price will jump to 40,000 yuan for a boy and 20,000 for a girl.
According to regulations from the Ministry of Public Security, before locating their biological parents, rescued children must be sent to local welfare agencies. However, in reality, most of these agencies lack funds and staff to care for the rescued children. To prevent them from being homeless, local police sent the children back to the buyers.
A police officer also said that buyers who treated the children well won’t face criminal punishment. Sadly, the report failed to suggest (beside the title) that many of these children might be kidnapped and not “sold” by their birth parents.
Malaysian Tweets 100 apologies in defamation settlement
June 3, 2011 3 Comments
A Malaysian social-political activist, Fahmi Fadzil, is apologising 100 times on internet social networking website Twitter in a settlement with magazine publisher Blu Inc Media in a defamation case.
Fadzil posted statements in January on his Twitter that a pregnant friend had been mistreated by her employer, Female Magazine, which is owned by Blue Inc. He apologised just a few hours after that, but couldn’t avoid a lawsuit, which he now settles with the 100 apologetic Tweets.
He has reached the half stage “milestone” at the time of writing.
Chinese student sells kidney for iPad
June 2, 2011 1 Comment
A 17-year-old Chinese student is having serious health problem after selling one of his kidneys to buy an iPad 2 and a laptop in late April.
The teenager sold his kidney for RMB22000 (~US$3400) at a hospital in Hunan after finding the deal from an online advertisement. His mother became suspicious after he brought home the gadgets, and reported to the police after knowing the truth.
Organ trading is illegal in most countries (China included), but not monitored strictly in some cases. The alleged hospital said that they merely rented out the room and have no idea what was happening, while the online contacts were unreachable after the surgery. And I guess the authority won’t have much interest to deal this any further.
It’s beyond my imagination that someone would sell their body parts of something that’s not a necessity. It’s just f**ked up.
Asian Funeral & Cemetery Industry Expo
May 20, 2011 4 Comments
The 2011 Asian Funeral & Cemetery Industry Exposition is currently held in Hong Kong with over 100 of exhibitors from 13 countries. Some “interesting” stuff here…
