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A player rides a bike underwater in a recreational game at Dalian Sun Asia Ocean World in Dalian, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province August 5, 2007. [newsphoto]
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A player rides a bike underwater in a recreational game at Dalian Sun Asia Ocean World in Dalian, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province August 5, 2007. [newsphoto]
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A 58-year-old woman in Haikou, Hainan Province, looking for love on the Internet was swindled out of more than 4,000 yuan ($516).
The widow, surnamed Li, made a net friend at an Internet chat-room three months ago. She soon fell…
A young women attempted suicide for running up debts for a weight-loss program.
The woman, surnamed Yiu, 20, is said to be the ideal weight but insisted she was too fat. In April, she joined a HK$16,000 ($2,051) slimming program…
A lighter exploded in a car parked in the sun, as the temperature reached 35 C in Hong Kong.
The owner of the car, surnamed Wong, said he always keeps a lighter on the dashboard. The lighter exploded Wednesday around…
A man’s life was saved thanks to the Internet and efforts made by people separated by thousands of kilometers.
Early Monday morning, police in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province, received a report that a man named Xiao Chen sounded suicidal…
Zhengzhou Women’s Prison in the Henan provincial capital puts a rose on every bedside in its cells.
Located in a quiet setting in the city’s Liuji Township, the prison is the first in the central Chinese province to give a…
Instead of working as a massage professional as his parents did, Li Yang, a blind 20-year-old student at a university in Changchun, Jilin, has created a website with his friends’ help for studying English.
With almost no eyesight due to…
An ancient banyan tree in Guangzhou’s Haizhu District is the summer home for a traveling library.
Residents in a nearby housing estate were already using the banyan’s shade for conversation, mahjong, poker and chess.
With the arrival of the library…
Two thieves phoned 110 and turned themselves over to police after accidentally activating the alarm system in Xiangdai Housing Estate in Haikou of Hainan Province on Monday night.
The thieves, surnamed Zhao and Lan, hid on a balcony on the…
Some busy working couples in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang, are leaving their children in local bookstores then picking them up on their way home.
“We’re too busy to care for our son on workdays and had to leave him inside…
A 60-year-old man is being ignored by the seven women he supported after completing a 15-year sentence for bigamy in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Jiang Jiming, who used to be a labor contractor, was a well-known figure in the provincial capital…
Ingenious residents in Yantai, Shandong Province, tried their best over the years to deal with water seeping into the building basement every summer.
One clever resident surnamed Han raised fish in the basement water to feed on mosquito larvae. Other…
Some cereals produced some 2,000 years ago were found on Monday in an ancient tomb in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province.
According to Xi’an archaeologists with Xi’an Municipal Heritage Administration Bureau, the cereals were kept in good condition in a…
Wang Wenfu, a 52-year-old retired gym teacher from the Shunyi District of Beijing, has just completed a giant Chinese chess set carved from marble. The 32 pieces are 0.4 meter high and 1 meter wide.
Not easy to maneuver, each…
Hong’an County, sacred to the Chinese revolution, has become a hot tourist destination in Hubei Province.
The poor county is known as “a county of generals” for its contribution of 223 PLA generals in the past 80 years.
Two past…
SHANGHAI — A Chinese man was detained by Shanghai police in the early hours of Wednesday after he climbed the tallest building in China, just two months after a French “spiderman” pulled the same stunt.
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A Chinese man was detained by Shanghai police in the early hours of Wednesdayafter he climbed the tallest building in China, just two months after a French”spiderman” pulled the same stunt.
A 28-year-old man surnamed Zou, from Suining County in central…
More than 3,000 Changsha residents hit the streets of Changsha, the Hunan provincial capital, to say “I love you” to pedestrians on Sunday.
They included local senior citizens, university students, white collar workers and children.
They were also encouraged to…
A golden retriever that made Hong Kong headlines for attacking its owner maybe spared death thanks to an Internet campaign by dog lovers.
Ah Gam, an 11-year-old male golden retriever, bit his owner, surnamed Wong,on the arm Friday night when being…
The latest summer camp organized by the Shanghai local government is applyingMozart’s music to improving students’ math scores.
One group of student campers solved geometry problems with Mozart sonatasplaying in the background. The control group worked minus Mozart.
The average score of…