Asia

A man who had always worn his protective armour made of dozens of blessed Buddha amulets killed by a truck the day he forgot to wear the armour.   Sanom Chantaraphirom, a 58-year-old man from Thailand who had become famous for wearing an eye-catching “Buddha armor” made up of dozens …

A bridegroom in Central China, who had come to collect his bride from her home on their wedding day, faced a double challenge when the family dog attempted to prevent the bride from leaving. Chinese wedding-day tradition requires the groom to collect the bride from her family home as friends …

A man in Northwest China spent 30,000 yuan ($4,470) and three days building a rock kiln to roast the entire carcass of a cow, which he then invited dozens of villagers to share with him. The man surnamed Ma in Lanzhou, Gansu Province first built a fire pit into the …

A Japanese company has taken breastfeeding to another level with a new device that allows men to participate. The device has two fake breasts which could trick any baby into thinking that the milk was coming from ‘original source’. The new Japanese product was designed by a company called Dentsu which allows …

A woman who discovered her boyfriend was not as rich as she had thought, took a bizarre option to break up with him. The 37-year-old woman from Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei Province, was recently arrested after it was revealed that she had faked her own kidnapping and murder at …

Fat police officers in Thailand are currently being bundled to a camp where they are expected to pass through a tedious slimming process. Police stations all around Thailand are sending their chubbiest officers to a weight-loss camp as part of a nation-wide program aptly called “Belly Destruction”, reports Oddity Central. …

A controversial course in a University in China provides opportunity for students to smoke cigarettes in order to have first hand understanding of the nature of tobacco. Series of photos showing students casually lighting up cigarettes in what looks like a University classroom have been doing the rounds online for …

A passenger plane reportedly had to turn around and go back to a Saudi airport after a mother left her baby at the terminal. The Saudi flight from Jeddah was said to be on its way to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when the woman realised she had left her infant behind …

Police in the Philippines were shell-shocked to find more 1,500 turtles alive in abandoned luggage at Manilla airport.   The 1,500 live turtles were wrapped in duct tape in unclaimed luggage found d at the airport. The 1,529 reptiles, with a street value of £66,000, were discovered in four checked-in …

It was bad news for a man who had fallen asleep while listening to music with earbuds on. He woke up to discover he could no longer hear with one ear. The deafness affected just one ear because one of the earbuds fell off while he was asleep.   The …