One Chinese family's night out at a karaoke bar turned deadly after their four-year-old son refused to pass the mic to someone else.

A Chinese kid was forced to learn the very hard way what happens when you open a carbonated beverage can that's been sitting in the freezer for a few hours.

A Stevie Wonder fan in China thought he was being clever when he asked a friend to box him up and ship him via courier service to his girlfriend's office as a romantic joke.

Guys, Ryan Lochte's sister Megan isn't a racist monster. She was just saying all that "chink" stuff ironically.

Weibo, China's popular Twitter clone, has been in the midst of a summer political scandal that puts Weinergate to shame. Scores of photos of a six-person orgy went viral on Weibo last week, along with rumors that the participants are high-ranking Communist officials. Censors were quick to swoop in, unsurprisingly.

There are few things the Internet loves more than a good peeing-in-a-restaurant scandal. In the U.S. we just had that Fort Wayne, Indiana Taco Bell worker who tweeted a picture of himself pissing on an order of Nachos BellGrande. Across the Great Firewall, Chinese internet users have been freaking out over a video of a kid peeing in a paper cup in a restaurant, with his parents' encouragement.

A woman who arrived at China's Changsha Central Hospital with an itchy ear received the worst diagnosis imaginable: A small spider had apparently crawled into her ear canal while she slept, and had been dwelling inside her for the past five days.

A popular Chinese sitcom called iPartment has been on the receiving end of increasing flak from viewers who contend the show is little more than a compilation of jokes shamelessly stolen from American sitcoms.

A photo going viral on the Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo purports to show a woman tying a sex doll to a tree as a means of deterring passing drivers from speeding near her home.

The resident of a small village near the eastern Chinese city of Wenling claims he was asleep in bed when a posse of robbers broke into his home and stole his penis.

A tipster tells us (and Twitter confirms) that Bloomberg's website has been blocked in China thanks to their publication this morning of this lengthy investigative story detailing the wealth of various relatives of Xi Jinping (pictured, with Hank Paulson), the man likely to be China's next president.

Despite the life-threatening nature of the injuries he sustained after a piece of metal penetrated the windshield of the bus he was driving, Wu Bin, a 48-year-old bus operator from Hangzhou, China, still managed to find the strength to stop the vehicle, lift the parking brake, put on the hazards, and ask the two-dozen passengers on board to remain seated, before passing out.

You know that thing where you're really trying to avoid thinking of an ex but the universe mysteriously conspires to remind you of them at every moment? That happened to the Chinese government today, except with violent repression. The Chinese stock market fell 64.89 points today, the 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown on student protests in Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989. 6/4/89. Whoops.

Officials at Dalian University of Technology in northern China are reportedly fuming after photos of students celebrating their graduation against the backdrop of their burning school went viral on Chinese social networking sites.

Viewers of China Central Television's documentary on the Shanghai police force probably didn't expect to see Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. But there he is, along with now-wife Priscilla Chan.

The internet is enraptured by those knowledge suppositories known as TED talks. Mostly because the slick 18-minute YouTube lectures about Big Ideas let procrastinating office workers pretend they're doing something productive by watching them. But how are TED talks made? Here is a peek inside the searing forge fire mind of a TED presenter.

A three-year-old boy riding through a busy intersection in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was rescued by a policeman after a few close calls with oncoming cars.

Chinese flies looking to build a beautiful life for themselves in the public toilets of Beijing were dealt a crushing blow earlier this week, after government officials rolled out a new set of sanitation guidelines including a "two fly-maximum" rule for restrooms.

A Chinese writer is claiming that Rupert Murdoch was behind one of the Wall Street Journal's more embarrassing recent corrections—the paper wrongly claimed that the son of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, who preached Maoist austerity, once showed up for a date at former Amb. Jon Huntsman's residence in a cherry-red Ferrari—and that the Journal "badgered" and "threatened" a source that refused to back it up on the story. The Journal's China editor tells Gawker that the claims are "utter nonsense."

Looking to "cure disease and boost stamina" with that old standby, capsules of powdered human flesh? Don't go to South Korea, where officials have pledged to tighten its customs inspections after seizing some 17,500 such capsules over the last year: