Stareastasia Weird News » Weird China News http://weird.stareastasia.com Weird news and odd stuff from from China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Thu, 03 May 2012 11:46:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 China breaks human smiley face record http://weird.stareastasia.com/2012/05/china-breaks-human-smiley-face-record/ http://weird.stareastasia.com/2012/05/china-breaks-human-smiley-face-record/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 11:46:28 +0000 Webmaster http://weird.stareastasia.com/?p=578 3110 students from China’s Nanjing Agricultural University has set a new world record on April 27th for biggest human-made smiley face to celebrate the university 110th anniversary.

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]]> http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/03/eggs-cooked-in-urine-a-delicacy-in-china/feed/ 0 China man smashed his Lamborghini http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/03/china-man-smashed-his-lamborghini/ http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/03/china-man-smashed-his-lamborghini/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:15:36 +0000 Webmaster http://weird.stareastasia.com/?p=565 A Chinese man and his sidekicks smashed his million dollar sport car in front of public and media on March 15 because he is not happy that the car dealer sold him a faulty car and was slow in repairing the problems.

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]]> http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/03/china-man-smashed-his-lamborghini/feed/ 0 Mona Lisa bejeweled http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/03/mona-lisa-bejeweled/ http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/03/mona-lisa-bejeweled/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:02:50 +0000 Webmaster http://weird.stareastasia.com/?p=556 A Chinese jewelry collector has created a replica of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with 100,000 carats of jewelry. The replica is currently on display in a shopping mall in Shenyang, China.

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]]> http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/03/mona-lisa-bejeweled/feed/ 0 China stamps sell for $1.15 million http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/03/china-stamps-sell-for-1m/ http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/03/china-stamps-sell-for-1m/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:48:51 +0000 Webmaster http://weird.stareastasia.com/?p=554 Million dollar China stampsA set of four Chinese stamps from the Cultural Revolution era has sold at auction in Hong Kong for more than $1.15m.

The stamps, which were never issued for use, feature a design called Mao’s 1968 Inscription to Japanese Worker Friends. [Source]

The 600-lot auction, which featured both pre- and post-revolutionary Chinese stamps and also issues from Taiwan, raised more than $12m.

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The monster is 4.5m x 3.2m x 2.5m in size and weighed about five tonnes.

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Crocodiles in Chinese Walmarts

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]]> http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/01/16-items-they-only-sell-at-chinese-walmarts/feed/ 0 24K gold roses http://weird.stareastasia.com/2010/12/24k-gold-roses/ http://weird.stareastasia.com/2010/12/24k-gold-roses/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:41:55 +0000 Webmaster http://weird.stareastasia.com/?p=489 A department store in Nanjing, China, has made a bouquet of 1999 ‘rose’ which was made of 24K gold-paper. Each of the rose is sold for 299 yuan (US$45), and the whole bouquet is sold for 600,000 yuan (US$90,000).

24K gold roses in China

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2400-year-old soup found in China

The institute said its archaeologists discovered the bronze vessel on Nov 25 when cleaning a Warring States Period (475-221 BC) tomb for the Xi’an Xianyang International Airport’s second construction phase.

“It’s the first time Chinese archaeologists have unearthed such a container with bone soup still inside,” archaeologist and head of the tomb’s excavation team Liu Daiyun said.

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