Health authorities in China have ordered an investigation into claims that a batch of powdered baby milk has caused children as young as four months old to grow breasts.
Tests were ordered on infant formula made by the NASDAQ-listed company Synutra after reports surfaced in China’s state media that three children fed on the formula had [...]
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Chinese Boy Born With Twelve Fingers and Twelve Toes
Posted: 27th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly EnoughTags: animal worlds, anomalies, baby boy, bad omen, China, chinese, chinese families, dactyls, deformed, eight legs, extra digits, fingers and toes, medical condition, medical explanations, odd twist, penis, piglet, southern china, stranger than fiction, twist of fate, weird coincidence, word derives from
Although not unheard of, the incidence of polydactylism, or being born with extra fingers and toes, doesn’t happen every day. The word derives from the ancient Greek (polus=many and daktulos=finger). Usually, the extra limbs are surgically removed. In the most unusual case of a baby boy born in China last year, a second penis was [...]
China Surpasses USA as World’s Top Energy Consumer
Posted: 20th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Economy | Finance, Politics, Science | TechnologyTags: chief economist, China, chinese families, climate change talks, consumer, consumption patterns, curbs, developed nations, energy, energy consumer, energy consumption, energy prices, energy source, energy sources, global markets, greenhouse gases, industrialization, international energy agency, record numbers, solar power, subsistence farmers, unavoidable consequence, USA
China has overtaken the United States as the world’s largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. China immediately questioned the report, claiming its calculations were “unreliable.”
The Paris-based agency said China’s 2009 consumption of energy sources ranging from oil and coal to wind and solar power was equal to 2.265 billion tons of oil, [...]
Massive UFO Scares Chinese Citizens, Government Refuses To Say What It Was
Posted: 16th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly EnoughTags: aliens, China, UFO, ufo sightings
A huge UFO terrified Chinese citizens last week and forced the closure of an airport and cancellation of flights.
The government says it knows what the UFO was — but won’t say.
Japanese history teacher has offered to have sex with Chinese students to apologize for her country’s invasion of China in 1937
Posted: 16th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly Enough, What the F*ck!Tags: China, Japan, Sex, student, teacher
Anri Suzuki, 24, from Tokyo – is said to have a doctorate in Sino-Japanese history, but said she had specialised in studying the Japanese invasion of China and was ashamed by what her countrymen had done.
She told the Chinese media: “We have to respect the lessons of history and although we [...]
Now hiring in China: Only whites need apply
Posted: 14th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Economy | Finance, Oddly EnoughTags: China, employment, job
Location: A luxury villa project in a Nanjing suburb. Wanted: Two reception assistants. Race: White.
Job advertisements in China can throw up a few surprises for those used to a non-discriminatory employment environment. Here, companies make no apologies about openly stating the race of the employees they seek.
Chinese Man has World’s Strongest Eye Lids
Posted: 14th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly Enough, What the F*ck!Tags: airplane, China, eyelids, phenom
In an unbelievably weird and phenomenal performance, a Chinese martial arts expert has defied the laws of gravity (not to mention the limits of human belief) and actually pulled an airplane for five meters (more than 17 feet) by a rope hooked onto his eyelids!
Chinese farmer declares war on property developers with homemade wheelbarrow cannon
Posted: 8th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly Enough, Science | TechnologyTags: cannon, China, chinese, homemade, war
A Chinese farmer is fighting off property developers who want his land, firing rockets from a homemade cannon made out of a wheelbarrow and pipes, state media said on Tuesday.
Yang Youde, who lives on the outskirts of the bustling city of Wuhan, in central Hubei province, said he had fended off two eviction attempts with [...]
‘Human Fish’ Discovered in China
Posted: 5th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Mother Nature, Oddly EnoughTags: alien, China, discovery, fish
A BIZARRE fish with a pair of fins that can grip like a hand and tiny feet has been discovered off the shores of China and hauled in by fishermen.
Experts believe that it’s hand-like fins and tiny feet are used for crawling on the ocean bed.
9 Yr. Old Chinese Girl Gives Birth
Posted: 3rd February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Lifestyle, Oddly EnoughTags: 9 year old, baby, birth, China, chinese, infant
A nine-year-old schoolgirl has become one of the world’s youngest mothers after giving birth to a 6lb baby by caesarian section.
The baby was delivered on January 27 at a hospital in Changchun, in the North Eastern Chinese province of Jilin, when the girl was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, according to a local newspaper.
Google Threatens to Exit China
Posted: 14th January 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Politics, Science | TechnologyTags: China, exits, google