China

  • Robot Restaurant – Where Robots Cook, Serve and Sing

    Robot Restaurant – Where Robots Cook, Serve and Sing

    With the world being inundated with culinary choices, many are turning to more novel dining experiences to whet the appetite. Pitch-black restaurants with blind waiters, ice restaurants where patrons dine in frozen caves, and now a robot restaurant, where the cooking, ushering and in-house singing is performed by machines. Located in Harbin, in China’s Heilongjiang…

  • Success of Apple Leads to Another Senseless Death

    Success of Apple Leads to Another Senseless Death

    Colossal technology company, Foxconn, the principal manufacture of Apple products, has seen an 11th person commit suicide at their southern Chinese factory in the last year. The factory, which employs roughly 300,000 people, pushes its employees to capacity, where long hours, severe punishment for mistakes, and low pay are the norm, according to labour activists.…

  • Beijing Zoo Serves Animal Inhabitants to Public

    Beijing Zoo Serves Animal Inhabitants to Public

    In an ethically dubious bid to heighten the zoo experience, Beijing wildlife park organisers have created a restaurant serving their more exotic inhabitants to members of the public. In plethoric sensory style, zoo patrons devour dishes such as webbed hippopotamus’ toes, Deer’s penis, and ant soup, while watching the animals’ siblings prance about in glass…