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Kitchen criminals
Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456)

A restaurant in Sichuan has nabbed a couple of repeat food burglars that have been enjoying 2am feasts by climbing in through the kitchen window. After making their own meals from stolen meat skewers and the restaurant’s spicy boiled soup, the ...

Travel money
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

A handful of China’s first-time flyers continues to cause problems for the country’s aviation bosses. As WiC has previously reported, these superstitious debutants decide to ‘bless’ their plane by throwing coins into the engines in a ...

No touching
May 31, 2019 (WiC 454)

A year ago one of Pablo Picasso’s self-portraits was withdrawn from an auction in New York after it was damaged in a preview viewing.There were fresh palpitations for Christie’s, the same auction house, at a pre-sale of paintings in Hong Kong ...

What’s in a name?
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

Dogs are supposed to be man’s best friends, although a friendly response is not what a dog breeder from Fuyang in Anhui province received when he chose the names for two of his animals. The man, who was trying to sell a couple of dogs on ...

Say it with flowers
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

A marriage proposal is often accompanied by roses, but an extravagant new record looks to have been set in Shanghai this week when 99,999 of them were on display when Mario Ho popped the big question. The 24 year-old son of casino mogul Stanley ...

Out of luck
May 10, 2019 (WiC 451)

A Porsche driver in China has lost his licence, but not for one of the more expected reasons like speeding. Rather it was because he was so superstitious that he was caught driving with the wrong licence plates on his new car. According to the ...

The crane position
May 3, 2019 (WiC 450)

Plenty of towns and cities in China are known for producing something well known (most famously Moutai, a prestigious baijiu alcohol of the same name). Liuzhou in Guangxi is celebrated for something rather different: growing the wood regarded ...

Slim down the students
Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449)

Nanjing Agricultural University has been running a course for a while that has been very popular, but not very academic. It’s called ‘fat reduction’, according to Changjiang Daily, and credits are allocated to students who manage to slim ...

No love lost
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

For many fathers one of the toughest days of their lives is when their daughter goes on a first date. But according to Pear Video that day could be deferred for a few more years for the dads in Henan’s Suiping county. That’s because the local ...

Juvenile Misdemeanour
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447)

‘Round up the usual suspects’ is a line made famous by the French police chief in the Hollywood classic Casablanca. Over in Zhenxiong county in Yunnan province a less effective method was similarly employed last month to track down local ...

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Week in China

Planet China

The strangest stories from the Middle Kingdom...

Kitchen criminals Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456) A restaurant in Sichuan has nabbed a couple of repeat food burglars that have been enjoying 2am feasts by climbing in through the kitchen window. After making their own meals from stolen meat skewers and the restaurant’s spicy boiled soup, the ...

Travel money Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455) A handful of China’s first-time flyers continues to cause problems for the country’s aviation bosses. As WiC has previously reported, these superstitious debutants decide to ‘bless’ their plane by throwing coins into the engines in a ...

No touching May 31, 2019 (WiC 454) A year ago one of Pablo Picasso’s self-portraits was withdrawn from an auction in New York after it was damaged in a preview viewing.There were fresh palpitations for Christie’s, the same auction house, at a pre-sale of paintings in Hong Kong ...

What’s in a name? May 24, 2019 (WiC 453) Dogs are supposed to be man’s best friends, although a friendly response is not what a dog breeder from Fuyang in Anhui province received when he chose the names for two of his animals. The man, who was trying to sell a couple of dogs on ...

Say it with flowers May 17, 2019 (WiC 452) A marriage proposal is often accompanied by roses, but an extravagant new record looks to have been set in Shanghai this week when 99,999 of them were on display when Mario Ho popped the big question. The 24 year-old son of casino mogul Stanley ...

Out of luck May 10, 2019 (WiC 451) A Porsche driver in China has lost his licence, but not for one of the more expected reasons like speeding. Rather it was because he was so superstitious that he was caught driving with the wrong licence plates on his new car. According to the ...

The crane position May 3, 2019 (WiC 450) Plenty of towns and cities in China are known for producing something well known (most famously Moutai, a prestigious baijiu alcohol of the same name). Liuzhou in Guangxi is celebrated for something rather different: growing the wood regarded ...

Slim down the students Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449) Nanjing Agricultural University has been running a course for a while that has been very popular, but not very academic. It’s called ‘fat reduction’, according to Changjiang Daily, and credits are allocated to students who manage to slim ...

No love lost Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448) For many fathers one of the toughest days of their lives is when their daughter goes on a first date. But according to Pear Video that day could be deferred for a few more years for the dads in Henan’s Suiping county. That’s because the local ...

Juvenile Misdemeanour Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447) ‘Round up the usual suspects’ is a line made famous by the French police chief in the Hollywood classic Casablanca. Over in Zhenxiong county in Yunnan province a less effective method was similarly employed last month to track down local ...