(China Daily)
The Zhengzhou municipal bureau of civil affairs has issued a notice to ban words like “tycoon” and “beautiful girl” from lonely hearts advertisements next month.
The move is aimed preventing marriage swindles and standardizing the language used in personal ads.
Any…
(China Daily)
A 12-year-old girl stopped growing after her parents divorced four years ago in Shenyang, Liaoning Province.
Xiao Li, who stands a diminutive 120 cm tall, is much shorter than her peers, though her parents are of normal heights. Xiao Li…
(China Daily)
Observers were quite moved on Friday when an elderly woman suddenly regained her memory and recognized her family.
The woman, who was stricken by brain disease 10 years ago, recovered after her sister read her some ancient poems they had…
(China Daily)
Four townships had no electricity after a woman climbed a high-voltage pylon to commit suicide, in Guangzhou’s Huadu District last week.
The blackout affected at least 100,000 residents in the district’s Timian, Huashan, Huadong and Shiling townships.
The incident took place…
(China Daily)
To promote the lost-and-found corner in his store, a businessman in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, pays people for what they find but charges nothing if they retrieve something they’ve lost.
Jiang Aiguo, who owns an eyebrow-tattooing store, set up a lost-and-found…
(China Daily)
A blind man from the Luhan Community, Chongqing Municipality, is impressing neighbors with his culinary skills.
Although he has been blind for 33 years, Qin Xianming can make steamed buns and cook up a dish of pork and green pepper…
(China Daily)
Residents at the Dongting Housing Estate, Hubei Province’s Wuchang, have taken pity on a stray dog that gave birth to 10 puppies on Sunday.
The pregnant bitch arrived on the estate two weeks ago and residents made a kennel for…
(China Daily)
A young couple who married twice within a month surprised staff three times at a marriage registration office in Huangshi, Hubei Province.
The man, surnamed Zhong, 22, met his future wife, surnamed Su, 21, in a cyber cafe and they…
(Agencies)
A company that provides services for those wishing to divorce is actually in the business of reuniting couples, marriage expert and general manager of Xi’an Weiqing Company, Chen Sihan said.
“Every time a couple comes to our company intending to divorce…
(China Daily)
A rich young man from Shanghai is spending 1.1 million yuan ($146,000) on hiring a team of “professionals” to find a spouse in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
The man, born in 1981, is said to be worth 50 million yuan. He…
(China Daily)
A group of Shaolin monks pushed their bus down an expressway after it broke down on Monday in Nanchang, Southeastern China’s Jiangxi Province. They were trying to avoid being overcharged by a breakdown crew.
Traffic police spotted the monks pushing…
(Agencies)
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong man who knocked back two vials of blood after a drinking binge has been jailed for two months, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Li Man-yiu, 29, told a court Monday he was “extremely thirsty” when he…
(China Daily)
A young couple who went halves to pay their 9-yuan marriage registration fee, in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, have started their life together as they mean to go on.
They said they had split the cost of dates and would set…
(China Daily)
Two men stole nearly 15,000 coins from a restaurant last Wednesday but were easily caught by police because they were so weighed down.
Police in Qingdao, Shandong Province, spotted the pair carrying a heavy bag and gave chase. By…
(China Daily)
A businesswoman built three luxury houses for 10 stray cats found in a Beijing residential area, costing 4,000 yuan ($530) each.
To keep the stray cats warm during winter all the houses were built with high quality building materials, including…
(China Daily)
Seven teenagers in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province, have been sentenced to a total of 303 years in prison for robbing 21 convenience stores, drawing strong objections from the offenders’ families.
The total value of the items they stole was less than…
(China Daily)
Dozens of police eventually managed to stop a speeding motorcyclist in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, last Wednesday. The man was riding a high-powered BMW at 160 kph and had outrun several police cars.
Finally, police set up a roadblock and forced…
(China Daily)
As the old Chinese saying goes, “Kindness often meets with good recompense.”
And a Shenzhen resident surnamed Wang has been deeply convinced of that.
Wang, who adopted a homeless cat two months ago, bought a lottery ticket that won him a…
(China Daily)
While getting license plates for their new cars, people on the outskirts of Beijing were put off by a series of plates containing the letters “WC”, which were issued to users at a branch of vehicle management in southern…
(China Daily)
With the help of police, a drunken South Korean man, who scattered his belongings across a metro line station in Shanghai last month, returned home safely.All of the items he was carrying, including 160,000 yuan ($21,052) in cash, several…
