A 62-year-old woman in Chongqing went under the knife three months ago for cosmetic surgery that made her seem younger and more attractive.

But it almost cost the woman, surnamed Wu, her marriage of 40 years. A lover of ballroom dancing,…

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A university student in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, who failed his exams, lived in a forest cave for a dozen days as he was too ashamed to go home to face his parents.

A stranger saw the young man, surnamed Li,…

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A young man was arrested after he mimicked the sound of a smart card on a bus in Wuhan, Hubei Province, on Sunday.

The 20-something man got on the Wuchang to Hankou bus and sat down, but the bus driver…

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A man has defied colon cancer by traveling around China on a bicycle and has surprised doctors by the improvement in his health.

Bater, 60, a former judge at a court in Wuhai, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was diagnosed…

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A dog is doing the job of a pony for a disabled man who is a street vendor in Taiyuan, North China’s Shanxi Province.

“Bagou” pulls wheelchair-bound pensioner Wang Guangliang around town with the help of a harness, so that…

(newsphoto) Updated: 2007-10-30 10:32Photo taken on October 28, 2007 shows a transformer toy exhibited at Xiamen International Conference Exhibition Center, East China’s Fujian Province. This transformer toy looks like a shoe when it is folded. [newsphoto]

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A man surnamed Zheng is applying to Guinness World Records after he hopped barefooted to the top of Yuelu Mountain, a major scenic spot in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province.

Zheng, 38, took just 19 minutes, 28 seconds to scale…

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Chen Caihuan is not the oldest person in Zhanghua County, Taiwan, but she is a candidate for being the most energetic of 123 centenarians in the province.

The 106-year-old likes to watch TV and dance. Whenever relatives and government officials…

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Tan Zhizhou looks so much like Mr Bean that he is frequently mistaken for the international movie star and is often asked for his autograph and to appear in group photos.

Tan, 42, from Changsha, Hunan Province, said…

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A Hong Kong man called police when he heard his wife on the phone threaten to throw their children out of the window.

The 36-year-old woman, surnamed Li, reportedly lost her temper because her two children were not doing their…

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An extended 110-member family is living together in perfect harmony in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, Guangdong Province.

The five-generation family, surnamed Peng, includes teachers, doctors and civil servants. There are five pairs of twins, the oldest member is 98 and…

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A comatose university student named Li Peicheng woke up after hearing a recording of his classmates’ voices wishing him well in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province.

Li fell into a coma after being diagnosed with cerebrovascular disease 17 days ago.…

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Wild geese at Yanhu Park in Kunming, capital of Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, have been attracting a lot of attention.

Every morning local citizens do their morning exercises to the sound of music. Whenever they turn on the stereo, 28…

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As many as 70 Siberian tigers from the Breeding Center for Felines in Hengdaohezi, Heilongjiang, must earn their keep outside the center by putting on shows for tourists.

“They earn as much as 2 million yuan ($267,000) a year, which…

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Chai Qingfeng, 55, and his son Chai Tao are planning to organize a joint wedding ceremony to express their “double happiness” in the city of Pingdingshan, Henan Province. Chai Qingfeng and his son were both granted marriage certificates on…

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Finding a rich boyfriend or husband is more important than finding a job to many female university students in Dongguan, Guangdong Province.

Many local dating agencies have seen their business boom as more and more seniors enter the relationship market…

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A pair of newlyweds in Qingdao, Shandong Province, paraded through the city in a locksmith’s car on Monday, to commemorate the role lock-picking played in their relationship.

The groom, surnamed Zheng, works for a local lock-picking company. Last October Zheng…

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A Zhengzhou resident surnamed Li has come to regret writing an IOU for 100,000 yuan ($13,300) to his girlfriend to compensate her for breaking up in 2003.

The Zhengzhou Intermediate People’s Court ruled the promise was valid and ordered Li…

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A young woman secretly started dating a middle-aged businessman’s son to get revenge on the father for a romance-gone-wrong.

“I met the woman, who is 20 years younger than I am, several years after my wife died. I fell in…

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A centenarian in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, was recently granted a wedding certificate, making him the oldest newlywed in the province.

The 106-year-old man, surnamed Pan, lost his wife more than 20 years ago. He had lived a lonely life until…