Chinese website slammed for selling ‘infant sex dolls’
London: A Chinese website has been slammed for selling sex dolls aimed at paedophiles. The company is selling a ‘cheap beautiful young girl sex doll for men’ which campaign groups said looks like a child of about seven.
The mail order site was spotted by a Facebook group called Dining for Dignity, which is pressuring the company, one of China”s top international sales platforms, to remove the item or ban the seller. The sex toy which costs 140.91 pounds shows two recent transactions one by a customer in Canada and another in Germany, the Mirror reports. It is ‘Japanese style’ and makes ‘a sexy sound’.
According to the report, it has a diagram detailing the movable joints and promises that ‘all three holes can be used’. (ANI)
Mum gives birth to 3 premature babies in 28 months and all survive
London: A UK mother had delivered three premature babies in 28 months and all of them managed to survive.
Doctors told Cassana Rason that she is one in a million and that they know of no other UK family with three healthy premature babies, the Mirror reported.
She said that having three survive against such odds is like winning the lottery.
Rason, who suffers from PROM- Premature Rupture of Membranes, is a volunteer for premature baby charity BLISS and is releasing a single called Tiny Hands to raise cash to help other families. (ANI)
Chinese man presents USD 1.5 million to future bride
Beijing: A Chineses suitor has presented USD 1.5 million to his would-be in the eastern province of Zhejiang, where there is a tradition to offer engagement gifts.
Around 18 porters transported the 8.88 million yuan (USD 1.5 million) cash in bamboo baskets to the future bride, which together weighed 102 kg, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported.
Members of the man’s entourage showed up at the woman’s house in a fleet of luxury vehicles, led by a Maserati sports car, the report said, adding it has drawn ire on social media sites.
Photos showed bamboo baskets stacked with bundles of 100 yuan notes, which are red and depict Mao Zedong, communist China’s founding father. “It’s not so much marrying a wife, but buying one.
If they really loved each other, there would be no need for such extravagance,” a person wrote on a social media site wrote. “Marriage achieved by money, can it last?” another microblog writer wondered.
The couple, who belong to rich families surnamed Huang, chose the amount of money because the word for eight is linked with the meaning wealth in China. (PTI)
Care to don new jacket made from 400 condoms!
New York: A new jacket has been designed with medical grade silicone using the same air-drying process that is used to manufacture condoms.
Asher Levine, who has created the new ‘condom jacket’, said that it’s basically the same thing but it’s a coat, the New York Post reported.
The 25-year-old designer who has previously dressed Lady Gaga also said that he likes the slimy, wet look of the jacket and added that that the amount of silicone used to cover the coat could produce about 300 to 400 condoms.
He will be selling it at the ‘Housing Works Fashion for Action Benefit’ on November 20 and the proceeds from the sale will to provide supportive services for HIV-positive transgender clients. (ANI)
Man demands ex-girlfriend to pay 200,000 dollars after facing rejection
Washington: A man has demanded his former girlfriend to pay 200,000 dollars after she dumped him.
The 65-year-old Bruce Dusting has asked his former girlfriend, 42-year-old single mom Marie Lacombe to compensate him for all the expenses he had incurred during their alleged four-year courtship, the Huffington Post reported.
Dusting said that he won’t let her get away with it and has presented her with a bill, which includes money he spent for her Zumba classes, dental appointments, cash for her kid’s birthday party, a tummy tuck and breast implants.
However, Lacombe called him a “shark” and claimed that they were never romantically involved and explained that she was his dance teacher and they became friends.
She added that the money he gave her was his choice and the bill is an act of revenge. (ANI)
Man erects middle finger statue facing ex-wife’s house
London: A Michigan strip club owner has moved into a house which is next door to his ex-wife and erected a giant middle finger in its backyard.
Alan Markovitz has spent 7,000 dollars to erect the 12 foot tall bronze statue, which is facing the house owned by his ex-wife, Lea Tuohy, the Mirror reported.
However, he pointed out that the middle finger wasn’t directed towards his ex-wife, but at her partner with whom she had started an affair while she and Markovitz were still married.
He bought the house after an estate agent coincidentally showed him the house next door to Luohy and he said that Karma took over. (ANI)
US man trades football tickets for wedding ring
Washington: A US man swapped his football tickets for a wedding ring when a female football fan offered her wedding band in exchange for a Kansas City Chiefs’ game tickets.
Rusty Jones, 49, and his girlfriend planned to buy engagement rings after they saw a Kansas City Star article about a woman advertising her wedding ring from a previous marriage in exchange for tickets to the Chiefs-Denver Broncos game, ABC News reported.
Jones sealed the deal which stated that he would swap his four highly sought-after tickets for the woman’s brilliant-cut diamond and white gold ring worth 3,100 dollars. (ANI)
China becomes world’s largest gold consumer
Washington: China has bet India and become world’s top gold consumer. China has purchased 798 tonnes of the precious metal so far this year, compared to 715 tonnes that India bought, the latest World Gold Council report has revealed.
According to CNN, the group recently lowered its 2013 forecast for India”s gold consumption by 10 percent to 900 tonnes. It estimated that China will buy 1,000 tonnes by the end of the year. Albert Cheng, the World Gold Council”s Far East Managing Director, said that rising disposable incomes and a growing middle class in China is driving demand. Cheng added that consumers continue to invest in higher carat and heavier pieces of gold jewellery.
Demand in India, the world’s top gold user until recently, has been waning after the government restricted gold imports and raised taxes, the report said. It fell 32 percent in the most recent quarter, compared with a year earlier. Demand in China rose by 18 percent, it added. (ANI)