Samat Hasan, a 24-year-old stuntman from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, walked on a tightrope in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province on April 25, 2009. Walking on a 2300 ft long rope with a 1.2 inch diameter and set at a 39-degree gradient, Hasan successfully broke the Guinness World Record for aerial tightrope walking. I must pay [...]
Last couple days, several news related to Michael Jackson came out. The most striking one was that 29-old Jordan Chandler admitted he lied about Jackson’s engagements in sexual acts. In 1993, then 13-year old Chandler told a psychiatrist and police that he and Michael Jackson had engaged in sexual acts that included oral sex. The [...]
On June 27, 2009, a 13-storey new apartment building in Shanghai fell in one piece. After falling, the building was laying on its back, mysteriously causing no significant damages to the structure other than being turned 90 degrees. The accident killed one, no injury has been reported. What has caused this brick structure building to fall remains [...]
A frightening moment was caught on tape yesterday in Shenzhen, China. A 4-year old girl was hit, killed and smashed by a heavy dirt truck when she was crossing street after breakfast. At the moment then the disaster happened, girl’s mother who was only 3 meters away passed out immediately. After the accident, truck driver, a young man in his 20′s, intended [...]
Most people in public or in media believe the king of pop, Michael Jackson, had never been in mainland China. That’s not true. He visited China 22 years ago, i.e., in 1987. In that trip, he only visited one city, Zhongshan of Guangdongprovinvce, hometown of ”father of the country” Sun Yat-sen. Jackson traveled to China through [...]
A new round of earthquake, measuring 5.6 in magnitude, took place in China’s Sichuan province, the same region suffered the catastrophic quake last May. The epicenter was in Mianzhu city, about fifty miles from Chengdu city, the capital of Sichuan province. No official death and injury reports are available at this time. At least 8,600 buildings, including those under [...]