In China, a media company has been ordered by the court to cough up $30,000 to a real estate developer for accusing one of their buildings of having bad feng shui, CNN reports. 

In the post published by Zhuhai Shengun Internet Technology, a Chinese blogger warned of the building's inauspicious architecture, claiming that its "noxious energy" had led to the downfall of several of its tenants, many of which were initially promising tech start-ups.

The developers, SOHO China, sued the media company for the blog post's criticisms about Wangjing SOHO, an office complex designed by the late Iraqi-British architect, Zaha Hadid. In the suit, they claimed the post's "malicious insults" had damaged people's opinions of the building and smeared the company's reputation, seriously affecting their business. 

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"The roads around Wangjing SOHO form a great evil spirit, symbolizing conflicts," the post read. "All the feng shui taboos can be found at the same time in Wangjing SOHO."
"The roads around Wangjing SOHO form a great evil spirit, symbolizing conflicts," the post read. "All the feng shui taboos can be found at the same time in Wangjing SOHO." - SOHO China's Wangjing project -- which had an occupancy rate of 98% at the end of 2018, according to a report released by the Beijing-based developer -- has counted instant messaging app Momo, game streaming platform Panda TV and bike sharing company Bluegogo among its tenants. Panda TV officially shut its server last month, while Bluegogo went bankrupt in 2017. © CNN