(Agencies)
A Chinese hospital has been ordered to pay 500,000 yuan (US$68,000) to two families 21 years after they took home the wrong newborn babies, media reported on Thursday.
A woman surnamed Pan, who gave birth to twin boys at a hospital…
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A Chinese hospital has been ordered to pay 500,000 yuan (US$68,000) to two families 21 years after they took home the wrong newborn babies, media reported on Thursday.
A woman surnamed Pan, who gave birth to twin boys at a hospital…
(China Daily)
A thief hoping to evade capture jumped onto the roof of a house in Hefei, Anhui Province, broke through the tile and landed on a bed in which a couple was sound asleep on Sunday.
The couple, who thought a…
(China Daily)
A five-year-old boy in Yushan County, Jiangxi province, can do 100 push-ups in just two minutes.
Zheng Junxiong became fond of doing push-ups three years ago when he saw an adult working out in a courtyard. The boy did 24…
(China Daily)
After years of ill treatment at the hands of his wealthy businesswoman wife, a henpecked husband from Longjin, Jilin Province, reached the end of his patience and attempted to sue for divorce.
However, at a hearing last week, Song, the…
(China Daily)
A middle-aged woman in Chongqing Municipality is seeking advice from the public on how to ward off the thieves who frequently break into her home.
Deng, 44, has lived alone since her divorce in 1993. A pensioner, Deng often leaves…
(China Daily)
Many adults in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, have been playing with toys to ease their job-related stress and experience the joy they had in childhood.
A 25-year-old woman picked up some toys for herself over the weekend at a…
(China Daily)
Many curious pedestrians were attracted by the sight of two young women clad in only underwear and bras asleep in a bed in front of a department store in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, on Sunday morning.
The stunt was…
(China Daily)
A company in Laixi, Shandong Province, is planning to hold an unpopularity contest to identify the three least-liked people in the office. They will be fired next year.
One employee told reporters that he would nominate people he disliked, not…
(China Daily)
Buses in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, have been playing anti-theft songs in the hope of deterring robberies.
A policeman in Changchun, Jilin Province, wrote the main song, “Don’t Give Thieves a Chance”, as well as two…
(China Daily)
A woman in Tonghua, Jilin Province, brought her husband out of a three-year coma with loving care and attention.
The woman, surnamed Zhang, had been collecting garbage to raise money to support her family ever since an accident left Li…
(China Daily)
Liu Jun, a young man from Henan Province, recently pedaled his bike backwards into Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, to show his support for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Surprised locals gave him a warm welcome, though some people said it is not…
Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly Buffington, arrive for the Texas Film Hall of Fame awards in Austin, Texas in this March 11, 2005 file photo.
and his wife sued the makers of heparin Tuesday after their newborn twins…
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Actress Felicity Huffman has been named an ambassador for a new breast cancer awareness campaign.
The Desperate Housewives star will appear in a U.S. TV advertisement called If You Were My Sister, which aims to increase awareness among breast cancer…
(CRI)
BEIJING - A two-year-old Chow Chow pulling a vehicle with its little master on board has become a peculiar view on Chenchang Street in the Hongqiao district of Tianjin municipality, according to a report on the news website eastday.com on…
A non-profit family-planning group founded by Thailand,s Condom King has won the $US1 million ($NZ1.39 million) Gates Award for Global Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said.
The Population and Community Development Association of Thailand (PDA) won the 2007 award…
Overweight and obese people get less out of resistance training than leaner people do, researchers have said in a study that suggests the overweight may have to try harder to get results.
But it does not mean they should give up,…
The Sydney Morning Herald spent two months charting a social phenomenon that is poisoning couples and destroying families. Adele Horin reports.
The internet has brought an explosion of pornography into the home and workplace of virtually every Australian. Just a mouse-click…
The Scissor Sisters are among the many top stars who have lent their name to a new cancer awareness campaign. Dirty Pretty Things and Kings of Leon are joining the funky band to support the Everyman Male Cancer Awareness Month.They…
Carbohydrate-rich diets are associated with slightly higher blood pressure than diets rich in monounsaturated fats, according to the findings published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
However, the difference is not enough to justify making recommendations to change the carbohydrate…
It is a person,s attitude that determines how much exercise is too much for a person, say mental health experts at The Menninger Clinic. The researchers say that people who exercise frequently because they enjoy it, and like the health…