Fushun county police in Sichuan province recently stopped a man on suspicion for drunk driving. The man claimed that he had not been drinking alcohol but had been eating betel nuts. The betel nut for those who aren’t aware is a controversial seed that is commonly chewed in south and east Asia for its burning…
At Weird World Wire, we try to avoid too much reporting too much on good old COVID-19, as well everyone else is doing the same, but we do like to keep our fingers firmly on the pulse when there is HUGE news, and that is what we have here. If you saw our story yesterday,…
Deep in the heart of the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, a 1.5-hour flight from Beijing is the city of Ordos. Located where the Mongolian grasslands steppe hits the Gobi Desert in northwest China, the area was where Genghis Khan spent his retirement surrounded by nature, or so the story goes. In the 1990s Ordos…
Last summer, some of the Weird World Wire team were hanging out with Young Pioneer Tours around Eastern Europe. YPT is a company specializing in off the beaten track budget adventures to ‘places your mother would rather you stayed away from’. We soon found ourselves in Moldova, otherwise known as Europe’s poorest and least visited…
In the Nicholas Cage movie Lord of War, one of his most memorable quotes from the main character Yuri Orlov was this: ”After the Cold War, the AK-47 became Russia’s biggest export. After that came vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists.” One of Russia’s lesser-known exports is the cinema. Like many aspects of life in the…
Three men are facing the prospect of 15 years in jail after allegedly buying sex dolls depicting children. The men were arrested over two days in Grafton, NSW, and Turramurra in Sydney after Australian Border Force allegedly intercepted sex dolls being imported into the country in March and April. A 62-year-old was arrested in the…
A six-year-old Chinese girl had no choice but to visit a hospital in the city of Xi’an after she started to sound like a dolphin. The doctors discovered a toy whistle that she had accidentally swallowed whilst playing. It turns out when the girl breathed out she now made a squeaking sound, similar to that…
Canadian sportswear brand Lululemon have responded quickly to distance itself from a “Bat Fried Rice” t-shirt design that had sparked online anger after being posted onto Instagram. The t-shirt features a Chinese styled take-out box with bat wings and a pair of chopsticks with bat wings along with the words “No Thank You.” The design…