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Qin Chen

Slingshot to stardom
Slingshot enthusiasts across the country have been enthralled by a Chinese man named Zhu Liang who can hit moving water droplets from a distance with a slingshot. 
What started out as a hobby has morphed into Zhu becoming a slingshot master and guru to the 70,000 people that follow him online. 

Zhu’s precision and techniques are something he now plans to teach to others across China. 
One of Zhu’s exercises is to toss a walnut into the air and then try to split it by hitting it with a steel ball projected from a slingshot.
Zhu began sharing his hobby on Kuaishou, a short video platform and now has a following that is growing daily as well as an 800-clip video archive and counting.
Nature’s gym gets a workout
A man who started using nature to work out on and in because he was too poor to buy gym equipment, has captured the attention of almost three million followers online.


The 34-year-old, from a rural area in the southeastern province of Fujian, turns everyday objects into workout equipment. He does push-ups on brick stacks, ab wheel rollouts on a lake using bamboo, climbs across a brick wall with bare hands, and parkour jumps over stacked tires. 
Huang Haimu says turning nature into his own gym was born out of necessity because he couldn’t afford gym equipment.
“I came up with a way to make use of the things I had. I started making training equipment out of normal objects with new workout ideas,” he said.
Huang began live-streaming his workouts in 2016, amassing millions of followers and transforming himself from an aimless youth wasting his life playing video games into a trainer who wants to entertain others while helping them to get in shape.
Cleaning chips censor staff 
Internet users have applauded hotels in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou for installing computer chips in their cleaning cloths and beddings to help monitor cleanliness.
Local health authorities in Hangzhou, in the Zhejiang province, have been installing chips in at least 12 hotels since December during the project’s trial run.

In one hotel, every bedding item has a chip installed. Cleaners can scan and get detailed information. In other hotels, cleaning cloths are equipped with chips to enforce the use of different cloths to clean different areas of the room by cleaners.
Some Chinese hotel cleaning staff were reported to have used the same cloth to clean both the bathroom and the bedroom.


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Quirky China: slingshot master splits a water drop, a hotel  that stays clean with computers, and a poor man made his own gym

Zhu Liang can hit almost anything from a drop of water to a walnut with his slingshot. Photo: Handout

Unable to pay for a gym or equipment this man decided he’d let nature become his gym. Photo: Huang Haimu

A cleaner displays a cleaning cloth installed with a computer chip that connects to a digital bracelet. Photo: Weibo/CCTV

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Hong Kong's Dorsett group enables guests isolating in its properties to rent workout equipment via the Dorsett Mart online platform.

Hong Kong's Dorsett group enables guests isolating in its properties to rent workout equipment via the Dorsett Mart online platform.[FEATURES] Photo / Handout

Happy SHN is an online platform in Singapore that rents out everything from coffee machines and air purifiers to sporting equipment.[FEATURES] Photo / Handout

Steven Sun rented an exercise bike for his recent quarantine at the Fairmont Singapore.[FEATURES] Photo / Handout

Essy used the bike on the balcony of her hotel (Swissotel Stamford).jpeg. Essy Prita Cinta rented an exercise bike from Happy SHN on the third day of her quarantine at Swisstel The Stamford.[FEATURES] Photo / Handout

Guests isolating at Hong Kong Dorsett Group hotels can rent workout equipment via the Dorsett Mart online platform. Hotels, gyms, and nimble entrepreneurs are renting out equipment to travellers in hotel quarantine who want to maintain a fitness regime.

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A man started using nature to work out because he was too poor to join a gym has attracted millions of fans
A hotel has started using computer chips to help it’s cleaners be more efficient



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Quirky China: slingshot master splits a water drop, a hotel that stays clean with computers, and a poor man made his own gym

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Slingshot to stardom

A man started using nature to work out because he was too poor to join a gym has attracted millions of fans

A hotel has started using computer chips to help it’s cleaners be more efficient