In a fight over the ownership of a calf, two cattle-raisers in Wuning, Jiangxi Province, decided to spend 6,000 yuan ($790) - six times the value of the calf - on a DNA test in Beijing.
Yuan Zhiyuan and Liu Hehui…
In a fight over the ownership of a calf, two cattle-raisers in Wuning, Jiangxi Province, decided to spend 6,000 yuan ($790) - six times the value of the calf - on a DNA test in Beijing.
Yuan Zhiyuan and Liu Hehui…
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A 13-month-old baby girl survived after falling from an open window out of a six-story building where she lived with her mother in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, on Monday.
After finding her lying on the ground below, her mother rushed her…
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A bull in a village of Jiangxi Province somehow survived after being trapped in piles of straw for two months.
The bull disappeared on July 11. The owner searched throughout the village but couldn’t find the bull. But when villagers…
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A businessman in Qingdao, Shandong Province, was almost driven mad after he paid more than 10,000 yuan ($1,316) for an “auspicious” phone number, which brought him endless troubles instead of luck and fortune as he had expected.
Last year, the…
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A bird park in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, has had a difficult time helping a mountain griffon vulture find a spouse.
The griffon vulture, named Biao Biao, is so fastidious that it has refused courtship from nine female candidates…
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Song Qi, headmaster of Zhengzhou No 39 High School, recently found a powerful weapon for his teachers to reduce pressure and vent their resentment in Zhengzhou, Henan provincial capital.
Song places his portrait in a special room at the school…
(Agencies) Updated: 2007-09-28 09:46 A parrot lifts weights at a zoo in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu province, September 27, 2007. [Reuters]
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A 7-year-old chimpanzee surprisingly woke up twice during its first physical examination, despite being drugged.
The chimpanzee, living in a wildlife zoo in Qingdao, Shandong Province, became unconscious after three anesthetic injections. However, about 10 minutes later, it suddenly stood…
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A heart-disease patient, caught attempting to take photos up a teenage girl’s skirt, suffered a heart attack when running away from his pursuers.
On Tuesday around 5 pm, the 20-year-old man who wears a pacemaker (surnamed Lam) tried to take…
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A man, surnamed Chen, recently sparked great controversy in his hometown when he mailed his mother 2,000 yuan ($266.67) for cosmetic purposes before bringing his girlfriend back home to the city of Dongguan, Guangdong Province.
Chen did not want his…
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“My five parrots helped protect my things from being stolen,” said a resident, surnamed Jia, in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The man said he was awoken at around 3 am by the sound of his five parrots,…
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A pair of Hong Kong brothers died within one hour of each other when the rich one crashed his Ferrari and the poor one committed suicide.
The tragedies occurred on Monday morning, when a 51-year-old factory owner, surnamed Chan, drove…
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A 100-year-old man, surnamed Ou, has become an attraction to diners in a restaurant in Humen Township of Dongguan, Guangdong Province.
Ou comes to the restaurant to have breakfast almost every morning. He attracts many local residents and diners, who…
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At least 5,000 earthworms on a lawn at South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou, Guangdong, were killed over the weekend by the hot daytime sun after they came out of earth for some fresh air.
“They came out of earth…
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A woman, surnamed Mo, was seriously wounded after a big duck, falling through the sky, crashed through the windscreen of her car in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Monday.
The incident took place in the morning when Mo’s car…
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A resident living in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, sued a land developer for 30,000 yuan ($3,993) in compensation after his house was kept out of the sunlight by a new building the developer had built in 2003.
Since then, the man,…
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Police in Jinshi, Central China’s Hunan Province, sparked a great controversy among locals when they fined a pair of lovers a total of 5,000 yuan ($663) because the pair embraced and kissed in the public.
The lovers, Chen and Yu,…
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Terrified by a strong earthquake in 1999, a 70-something Taiwanese man insisted on sleeping in a shabby tent for eight years.
The elder, surnamed Zhan, saw many people crushed to death when buildings collapsed during the 1999 earthquake. Terrified, he…
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A professional beekeeper stunned onlookers by performing an unusual “bee-man show”, letting thousands upon thousands of bees creep all over his body, on Monday in a village near Siping, Jilin Province in Northeast China.Hou Dongming, the “bee-man”, sits amid a…
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A man in Hong Kong who got drunk after quarreling with his wife called police and claimed he had killed someone.
Police rushed to the home of the 43-year-old, surnamed Fung, in Tsuen Wan, on Sunday night, but found nobody…