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A 66-year-old woman in Shanghai who spent two million yuan (US$280,000) shopping online and even rented a flat to store her unopened packages has trended on social media. The behaviour of the woman, identified as Wang, has also triggered a heated discussion about the mental health of senior citizens. Wang lives alone in a flat in the Jiading district of Shanghai. Over the past few years, she has spent more than two million yuan buying items from online platforms, according to the news outlet Kan Kan News. (Wang gingerly opens the door of her packed-out flat. She says she shops so much online because it makes her feel “excited”. Photo: Douyin) Wang mostly hoards the...

Villagers lining the banks of the Fengle River in eastern China looked on in awe this week as a sleek black hull slid beneath the surface with a low mechanical rumble. This wasn’t a military test. It was the homemade invention of Zhang Shengwu, a 60-year-old farmer from Hanshan County in Anhui province, about 250 miles west of Shanghai, who has spent nearly a decade turning a dream into a five-ton, two-seater submarine he calls Big Black Fish. (Zhang’s boatbuilding has become a viral sensation in China. Photo: Handout) According to China Daily, Zhang grew up near the Yangtze River basin in Anhui, a rural province in eastern China known for its patchwork of rivers and...

A woman has urged couples never to go to bed angry after she banished her husband to the sofa after a row – and found him dead the next day. Mum-of-three Ashley Murray, 33, said she had a heated row with Mikey, 36, because of his long shifts at work. When the argument wasn’t resolved before bed, she told him to sleep on the sofa. She later discovered that her husband – who worked as a carpet cleaner – had been working extra hours so he could save for a trip to Prague together for their anniversary. Mrs Murray, from Wellington in Somerset, said: “He would work 16-hour shifts, seven days a week just so he could save up enough to take us all to Disney every...

Amidst the bustling streets of Delhi lies a place shrouded in darkness—a place where the veil between the realms of the living and the dead grows thin, and the whispers of the supernatural echo through the night. On Dwarka Sector 9 (द्वारका सेक्टर 9) you will find a temple close to the metro station that is found on the Blue Line of the Delhi Metro. Many will claim that it is the metro station itself that is haunted, but this is not completely true, as it is the surrounding area that are believed to be the haunted place. Outside the temple, Dada Bai Wala Mandir is a peepal tree that is said to be haunted by a ghost. One video, which has been amassing...

In a comprehensive ecological intervention, China has claimed to dismantle 300 dams and decommission more than 90 percent of small hydropower stations along the Chishui River, also known as the Red River, a key tributary of the upper Yangtze. The move is seen as one of the largest state-led efforts to restore aquatic biodiversity in Asia’s longest river, reversing decades of hydro-infrastructure development that critically endangered native fish species, including the Yangtze sturgeon, the South China Morning Post reported. 342 hydro plants, 300 dams removed The Chishui River, which flows over 400 kilometers through the provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, has long been...

A migrant worker in Singapore was filmed having his meal outdoors in the rain. In a video posted on TikTok on Jul. 4, the man could be seen squatting on the wet grass beside a drain. He'd spread out his meal — comprising a drink and food on brown paper — on the pavement in front of him. A yellow object, which appeared to be a hard hat, was on the ground as well.   The video sparked a flurry of sympathetic comments from TikTok users. "If his family sees [him in] this condition," one remarked.Another said: "It's a foreign worker's life in Singapore." But others questioned if there were not other places to eat in the vicinity, like a void deck or shelter. "[Aren't]...

A Bollywood director of B-grade films decided to go mainstream. He hired Sanjeev Kumar for his first A-grade film, and put his entire life's savings into it. But Sanjeev Kumar quit the project, sending the director spiralling into the poverty and alcoholism that would eventually take his life. In the 1960s and 1970s, former actor and stuntman Kamran Khan began directing B-grade action movies starring Dara Singh. These were films such as Beqasoor, Watan Se Door, Ilzam, and Panch Ratan. However, after welcoming his second child, he thought to go mainstream. He mortgaged everything he owned, pooled his entire life’s savings into the project, and signed Sanjeev Kumar to star in it....

A man in China has been dubbed “the food delivery worker with the highest education level” due to earning degrees from several prestigious global universities, including Oxford. The story of 39-year-old Ding Yuanzhao has reignited intense discussions surrounding the devaluation of academic qualifications against the backdrop of a challenging job market, as reported by the news portal 163.com. Ding, a native of southeastern Fujian province, sat for China’s national university entrance exam, known as gaokao, in 2004. He gained admission to the esteemed Tsinghua University with an impressive score of nearly 700 out of a total of 750. After graduating with a...

More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter-tall) pencil was sculpted out of a mammoth oak tree at the home of John and Amy Higgins. The beloved tree was damaged in a storm a few years ago when fierce winds twisted the crown off. Neighbors mourned. A couple even wept. But the Higginses saw it not so much as a loss, but as a chance to give the tree new life. The sharpening ceremony on their front lawn has evolved into a community spectacle that draws hundreds of people to the leafy neighborhood on Lake of the Isles, complete with music and pageantry. Some...

Man Discovers Toothbrush In His Intestines 52 Years After Swallowing It As A Kid   When 64-year-old Yang visited the doctor with an odd stomach sensation, the last thing he expected was to confront a half-century-old childhood mistake. Doctors in Anhui, China, discovered a toothbrush lodged in his small intestine. According to Yang, he accidentally swallowed the brush at age 12 but never told his parents. "I thought it would dissolve on its own," he said, according to South China Morning Post. (Image via South China Morning Post) For 52 years, he reportedly felt no symptoms. It wasn't until recently that something felt offHospital scans revealed a 17-centimetre-long toothbrush...