China Odd News

A snake with a single, clawed foot was recently discovered in China . The first thing I thought of when I saw this picture was a Chinese dragon. Unlike their European counterparts, which are typically depicted as giant, winged, fire-breathing...

Lui Hua suffers from a rare condition known as macrodactyly. When he was hospitalized in Shanghai on July 2007, his left thumb measured 10.2 inches and his index finger measured close to 12. On July 20 surgeons undertook a seven-hour...

A dog named Princess gave birth to 15 puppies recently in Hejiang County. The veterinarian who oversaw the birth said he had never seen such a large litter be born at once.

The world was aware till now of only one Pentagon – that which is located in Washington DC and which houses the US Department of Defence. Very few people know of a second Pentagon. It is the Shanghai Pentagonal Mart...

A man dubbed the human coral reef has been successfully treated for a rare condition that covered his whole body in shell-like growths.Lin Tianzhuan, 38, of Shuimen, southern China, first noticed the growths on his hands and feet when he...

This is the sort of thing that I think is completely awesome, because it’s something that would’ve never occurred to me. China has just opened their first haunted house. Sometimes I take for granted certain things in Western culture like...

senior vice president of Global Brand Management of Holiday Inn Brands, introduces to a reporter the keycard Holiday Inn hotel in downtown Manhattan of New York, the U.S., Sept. 17, 2009. The keycard hotel made up of 200,000 keycards, a...