(China Daily)
A cow in Pingluo County in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region gave birth to four calves on Sunday.
The feat is said to equal the world record set by a cow in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, which gave birth…
(China Daily)
A cow in Pingluo County in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region gave birth to four calves on Sunday.
The feat is said to equal the world record set by a cow in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, which gave birth…
(CRI)
Longchao Lake, a mysterious lake located in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, swells and shrinks three times a day!Mysterious Longchao Lake located in Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. [CRI]
With no ditch or other lakes nearby, how does the lake come up…
(China Daily)
A 16-year-old high school student from Shenyang, Liaoning Province, was unable to move his neck after playing a whole night of computer games at an Internet cafe on Saturday.
“I felt dizzy the next morning and had to see a…
(China Daily)
A certain Yu family in Luoning County, Henan Province, was recently held up as a model after it was discovered that all three generations in it have been supporting their 108-year-old housemaid in her old age.
The family head, his…
(Xinhua)
HARBIN — A pair of penguins in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province became withdrawn and anxious after the egg they were hatching was smashed in a fight with other jealous penguins, according to sources with the Polar Museum of Harbin on…
(China Daily)
Stock players in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, are looking to a 97-year-old man named Lu Fumin to help tap the market money pot.
Lu, a fixture at the local stock market site in the city’s Wuyi Road, is usually…
(China Daily)
A duck with a talent for dance and a taste for spicy food caught the affections of a man in Pengze County, Jiangxi Province.
The duck, about one kg in weight, has been living with its owner surnamed Zhang for…
(China Daily)
More than 63 percent of about 8,000 netizens in a recent poll objected to a ban on dating between teachers and students in a university.
The survey on the Wuhan University of Science and Technology move drew 7,848 Internet votes…
(China Daily)
How many people are needed to pull a 45-ton plane? An airline company in Taiwan found out recently: 50.
The company carried out the test on Saturday, selecting 45 participants from curious onlookers to tow the aircraft.
It moved forward for…
(China Daily)
A villager in Zhejiang Province has been getting his home warmed by two wall tiles for the past decade.
The heat given out by the tiles is enough to bake pancakes. The man, surnamed Qi, chanced upon the heating slabs…
(China Daily)
A hog weighing more than 1,040 kg was crowned the “king of pigs” in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, over the weekend.
It is believed to be the heaviest pig so far in the country. Xiao Shaohong, the owner of the…
(China Daily)
Wine made some 2,400 years ago was found last Thursday in an ancient tomb in Baishui County, Shaanxi Province.
Local archaeologists said they unearthed a sealed bronze pot containing 2 kg of red liquid during an excavation of an ancient…
(China Daily)
Police in Hanyang, Hubei Province, had to turn to the fire department to break into an apartment locked by burglars.
The apartment owner, surnamed Zheng, found his home locked last Thursday when he got back at about 7 pm. The…
(China Daily)
A drunk foreigner decided to make do with a conveyor belt at the Beijing Capital International Airport on Wednesday, sleeping on the unmoving belt like a log.
“He smelled like a distillery when we called for help,” said a police…
(China Daily)
It was not just a speeding ticket for another city, it was also for another time.
Yan, a driver in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, got the ticket on Wednesday for a speeding offense committed in Mianyang, another city in the province.
It…
(China Daily)
A feisty, 18-year-old girl from Tianjin Municipality fought off three men who tried to steal her bag at a restaurant.
The student spotted their attempt to nick her bag on the table. She proceeded to slap one of the rogues…
(China Daily)
A primary school has sparked controversy over a new regulation that stipulates pupils from grades one to three must be led by the hand themselves when going to toilet.
The move at the school in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, is meant…
(China Daily)
A young man in Changsha, Hunan Province, has been raising 11 different types of the arachnids at home for the past five years.
You Siyuan,born in the 1980s, plans to beef up his breeding habit soon.
The university graduate believes spiders…
(China Daily)
A man in Qingdao, Shandong Province, put out an apology for his wife through a huge outdoor display screen.
The husband, surnamed Zheng, asked for forgiveness over a misunderstanding in a letter put on the screen - and it worked.
He…
(China Daily)
Computer-linked cameras have been installed in kitchens of seven restaurants in Haidian District, Beijing, last week, as part of efforts to monitor and improve sanitation in the food industry.
Footage from these cameras will be kept for a month by…