Category: China

Beijing gets tough on dancing grannies

The women, usually retirees, meet at dusk and dawn in public squares, plazas or parks and perform synchronized dance routines to deafeningly-loud music -- often with costumes or props. Public dancing has exploded in popularity in China as these women -- and a few men -- look for low-cost ways to stay fit and socialize.

Fearless Kung Fu master lets huge wooden pole slam into his manhood…

The bizarre stunt also sees the Chinese master take strong kicks to his private parts, while also repeatedly hitting his crotch with a BRICK You'd need balls of steel to take on a stunt as dangerous as this - not to mention a bag of ice - and that's exactly what this Kung Fu master has. In a stunt that will leave any grown man wincing, Master Wei Yaobin takes several kicks, a brick, and even a huge wooden pole to his manhood.

Chinese officials punished for dozing in motivation meeting

Six officials in central China's Hubei province have been punished for dozing off in a meeting on how to motivate lazy bureaucrats, state media and the local government said. Pictures of the sleeping officials have received widespread coverage in Chinese media over the past two days, amid President Xi Jinping's sweeping crackdown on corruption, extravagance and dereliction of duty.

This selfie-taking panda certainly knows how to grin and bear it

A panda cub meets a wide-eyed tourist, shoots a selfie and leaves her with a stunning set of snaps. The pictures, which have been liked and shared tens of thousands of times on Chinese social media site Sina Weibo, were shared by one female tourist at the Dujiangyang panda base in Chengdu, capital of south-western Chin's Sichuan Province.

Chinese factory makes giant inflatable ‘Trump-like’ roosters

A Chinese factory has been doing a brisk business selling giant inflatable roosters, some as tall as 16 feet, based on a design widely perceived in China to resemble President-elect Donald Trump . Yifang Inflatables, a factory in the city of Jiaxing, near Shanghai, began selling the inflatables after images of a large sculpture of a similar design outside a shopping center in the northern city of Taiyuan went viral on social media last month.

China pledges further cuts in excess steel, coal production

In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, an excavator past by smoke spewing from the sprawling complex that is a part of the Jiujiang steel and rolling mills in Qianan in northern China's Hebei province. China's top economic planner pledged Tuesday, Jan 10, 2017 to continue cutting steel and coal production that have been a source of trade friction with many countries.

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

In this undated file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's aircraft carrier Liaoning berths in a port of China. China says it was routine combat drills, yet the deployment of the aircraft carrier Liaoning's battle group in the Western Pacific and into the South China Sea has made neighbors jittery about Beijing's flexing its muscles.

China gives Trump the bird

A Chinese shopping mall is ringing in the year of the rooster with a giant sculpture of a chicken that looks like U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. China has gone cuckoo for the cartoonish pastiche - complete with an orange pompadour - of the billionaire politician in Taiyuan, capital of the northern province of Shanxi.