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More than 25,000 people have participated in mass “living funeral” services at Hyowon Healing Center since it opened in 2012, hoping to improve their lives by simulating their deaths. “Once you become conscious of death, and experience it, you undertake a new approach to life,” said 75-year-old Cho Jae-hee, who …

Football fan may have been ‘electrocuted by his phone’ as he watched a match on his handset in bed with the charger plugged in *Somchai Singkhorn, 40, was watching football on his handset in bed on Tuesday *Police in Samut Prakan, Thailand suspect that Somchai was then electrocuted *Laotian roommate …

A man who went to hospital with a blocked nose was shocked to discover it’d been caused by a tooth growing in his nostril. Zhang Binsheng, 30, decided to seek medical attention after struggling to breathe out of his nose for three months, Chinese media reports. He told medics he …

A visitor to a village outside the city of Kunming in south China captured a video of the creepy carp. The video was shared on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform and in the clip the fish can be seen swimming to the edge of the lake and poking its …

A 36-year-old mother got so worked up because her son couldn’t understand how to solve a math problem while doing homework that she suffered a heart attack. A 36-year-old mother, surnamed Wang, had to be rushed to the hospital on November 1st after suffering a heart-attack while doing homework with …

Two executives of a cosmetic company in China recently drew praise for an unusual way of thanking their staff for their loyalty and hard work – getting on their feet and washing the feet of their most hard-working employees. Chinese bosses are notorious for subjecting their employees to arduous and …

If you’ve not watched this video then you should do so immediately. You might want to consider having a dog too. A dog trainer has succeeded in getting his hound to help him with his workouts – by holding down his feet during sit-ups. Cun Chivas shared the clip of …

Chinese researchers have come under fire for using live, immature pigs as test dummies in high-speed crash simulations that killed seven of them immediately. Animal rights activists around the world accused the researchers of unnecessary cruelty, after it was reported that they had used fifteen live pigs as crash test …

A 42-year-old man in India’s Uttar Pradesh state lost his life trying to eat 50 boiled eggs in one go, as part of a stupid bet he made with a friend. On Monday, November 3rd, Subhash Yadav, 42, and a friend sat down to at get a bite to eat …

Having youthful looks is usually regarded as an enviable asset, but for a 34-year-old man in Central China, looking like a boy less than half his age is apparently a curse. He cannot get married, and everyone considers him a child. For Zhu Shengkai,a 44-year-old man from a rural area …