A woman surnamed Zhao was ordered to pay her former employer more than110,000 yuan ($14,194) last Thursday after breaking her contract to join acompeting electronics firm in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.
Zhao was sued by her former employer after she joined a…
A restaurant where diners eat in complete darkness to experience blindnessrecently opened in Chengdu, Sichuan. Diners are led into the 700-square-meterrestaurant in Dongdajie by waiters wearing night vision equipment.
Eating in the dark, diners, most of whom are young people curious…
A resident of Zhengzhou surnamed Jiang has proof that the old saying “A dogwill never become the friend of a duck” is not true.
Jiang’s 2-year-old dog is the best friend of the duck she brought home at thebeginning of the…
A high-speed Shanghai taxi driver was able to save a woman’s eyesight lastWednesday.
The driver, surnamed Chen, was waiting at a red light when a coupleapproached his taxi. The man explained that he had mistakenly put glue into hisgirlfriend’s eye thinking…
A Western restaurant that only serves women, particularly women officeworkers, opened in Changchun, Jilin, last week.
Decorated to look like a living room, the restaurant is reaching its targetclientele.
“In my free time, I like to go there with friends for a…
A drunken man from Shenyang, Liaoning, drowned last Tuesday while giving hisdog a bath in a river.
When the dog slid into the river, the man immediately jumped into the waterto save the pet.
When some passersby asked if he needed help,…
A Taiwan burglar turned to the wrong expert to evaluate the jade objects hehad stolen.
The jade dealer, surnamed Liao, happened to be the victim of the crime -losing jade objects valued at several million Taiwan dollars from his home lastmonth.
When…
A beauty parlor’s advertising using bikini-clad models with body paintingupset local sensibilities in Changchun, Jilin, last week…
The beauty parlor dispatched two scantily clad models to a busy downtown arealast week, using body painting to advertise the business.
“The business should have…
A foul-mouthed young woman from Tianjin Municipality was removed from a localbus on Monday after other passengers could no longer tolerate her cursing.
Soon after getting aboard, she received a call on her mobile phone andlaunched into a long conversation filled…
Annoyed that the bus stop was too far from his home, a man in Wuhu, AnhuiProvince, recently moved the sign 200 meters closer to his home.
A bus driver said the sign was removed and fastened to a huge stone in…
Five seniors, with an average age of 60, returned to Hankou, Hubei Province,on Wednesday after biking to Tibet.
The one woman and four men covered more than 7,800 kilometers in 78 days. Aspart of their trip to the Tibet Autonomous Region,…
Shang Ailing, 50, a residentof Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province, is feeding a pregnant stray dog milk,though she has little money for herself.
Shang sells newspapers outside a park for a monthly income of 600 yuan ($77)only.
Three years ago, she…
On Wednesday a disappointed lover in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province courted hisformer girlfriend with a love-or-death threat.
The man had broken up with his girlfriend, surnamed Dong, several months ago.When he attempted to win her back, she rejected him.
The 20-year-old man carrying…
A man was taken into police custody on Tuesday after threatening to blow upan airplane flying from Yinchuan to Beijing.
No explosives were found when the plane was searched after landing inBeijing.
Later, police were told that the man had kept asking…
A woman took her ex-lover to court, accusing him of stealing her watches andjewelry. But the judge dismissed the case, finding her too “forgetful”.
The defendant, a married fireman surnamed Chan, was having an affair withSin, who operates a bar.
After they…
A 75-year-old woman surnamed Xiang is suing her 94-year-old husband fordivorce on the grounds that he treats her like a maid.
The Wuhan couple have become the oldest persons to file for divorce in HubeiProvince.
Xiang married Xu in 1997 after working…
Six-foot planks, an industrial cylinder, a 20-inch television set. These aresome of the items carried onto Hong Kong buses.
Although notices instruct travelers not to bring large items onto buses, thebus drivers do not have the legal authority to enforce the…
Thanks to intensive care at a hospital in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, apremature infant weighing 980 grams at birth is now in stable condition.
The girl was born on June 17 - 11 weeks early. The tiny, at-risk infant hadsuch a small…
A postgraduate student in Canada was so angered at a post on the Internetwhich appeared to show her running naked for a foreign charity that she droppedher studies to return to Beijing to protect her privacy.
After the picture was seen…
Believing that if she stayed at home her parents would not divorce, a studentat the University of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, deliberately stole to beexpelled from school.
The student, Luo Yan, an only child, left home for college last year. InOctober Luo’s…
