The first unisex public bathroom in Shanghai, which aims to help reduce waiting times for such facilities, especially for women, has received mixed reactions. Male users approached by China Daily were generally agreeable with having to share the space, while...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma, a bald, thickset lawyer with a Churchillian air, is in the eye of a storm after Beijing's politically charged intervention in the city's legal system, and those close to him...
A woman in Taiwan recently coughed up 'menstrual blood' while she was on her period. The 28-year-old engineer had been suffering from chest pain for about a year and started to cough up blood-streaked phlegm, Apple Daily Taiwan reported. Worried that...
As the saying goes, "You are what you eat". And according to a manufacturer of mung bean cakes in Shanghai, if one eats its product labelled "dog poop cake", you are likely to be "blessed with the kind of luck...
A Chinese host famous for giving money to people in remote villages on a popular live-streaming website in China has been revealed to have been faking his acts of generosity, reported the South China Morning Post. The Chinese live-streaming site...
FUKUOKA - A large sinkhole opened on a road in front of Hakata Station in Hakata Ward, Fukuoka, at about 5:15 a.m. Tuesday. The hole gradually became bigger. It measures up to about 15 meters deep, about 27 meters wide...
A growing number of parents are eschewing tradition and attempting to ensure that their second child is female. Li Na and Shuang Rui report for China Features at Xinhua News Agency. Liu Min lay on the bed quietly, looking at...
MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the cancellation on Monday of Philippine's purchase of police rifles from the United States, after US senatorial aides said last month that Washington was halting the sale due to concerns about human rights...
A woman in southwestern China was run over twice by two different vehicles and was left lying semi-conscious in the middle of a busy road for two minutes as drivers and passers-by turned a blind eye on her plight. The...
SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors raided Samsung Electronics' offices on Tuesday (Nov 8), a prosecution official said, as part of a probe over a political scandal involving President Park Geun Hye and a friend who is alleged to have...
