A yellow Lamborghini LP640 was severely damaged after crashing into a roadside flower bed in Changsha, capital of Central China’s Hunan Province early Wednesday. The sports car, priced at about 4.6 million yuan (more than US$655,000), is reportedly the only…
Zhang Ge, a 24-year-old resident of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, suffers from autism, but that has not stopped her from finding work as a librarian at a community library.
Zhang can remember the telephone numbers of an unbelievable number of people and…
A man surnamed Qian had to call the fire department to help remove the gold ring he had been wearing for more than 23 years in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, on Tuesday.
Qian, 56, called the fire brigade after local…
By all means, I feel grateful to the western media for their distorted coverage of the recent riots in Lhasa and a few other places. Thanks to their distortion, a new force has risen in the international communication for China,…
Police and forestry staff had to subdue a wild ape after it went on a six-hour rampage in Jiaozuo, Henan province.
The rhesus monkey was first spotted in a tree in the city’s Xifengfeng village at about 9 am. It then…
Police are investigating a burglary in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Wednesday in which a couple were tied up by the thieves and then rescued by their 5-year-old daughter.
Wang Jinghua and Zhang Yanfei run a tire store in Qingling township. Six…
A group of 2,008 young people from Guangdong province and Hong Kong special administrative region have made a 155.2 kg almond cake in Zhongshan, Guangdong.
The cake has a diameter of 106.8 cm and stands 23.8 cm high.
The confection is thought…
A Motueka man who claimed to have been left speaking Australian after being raped by a wombat has been sentenced to 75 hours’ community work for his trouble.
Arthur Ross Cradock, a 48-year-old orchard worker, admitted in the Nelson District Court…
A 61-year-old man surnamed Tu was recently invited to serve as a dancing coach for senior citizens after he had posted a video of himself of dancing on the Internet in Wuhan, Hubei province.
After watching Tu’s hilarious performance of “Swan…
A Beijing court has rejected the claim of a Chinese man and his grandson for reputation damage in consuming a KFC “teadog set meal”, the local media reported on Thursday.
Tongzhou District court ruled on Tuesday that the two plaintiffs surnamed…
A pregnant wild deer is so hungry that it regularly sneaks into the backyard of a restaurant in Dalian, Liaoning province, to eat the food the chefs lay out for their watchdog.
“The deer has been eating all the dog food…
A young man surnamed Zhang from Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, was so enamored of a woman he had met in cyberspace that he physically assaulted a person who asked her out in real life.
Zhang met Li, the woman, a year ago…
Fu Chunmei has been attracting curious onlookers to her home in Danzhou, Hainan province, ever since she unveiled a cassava that weighs more than 30 kg.
The cassava is 50 cm high and 30 cm wide and appears to be the…
An ailing 81-year-old from Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, is on a mission to find his wife and child.
Sun Yiwen has been separated from the two for 47 years. He was sent to Qinghai province in 1957, where he met Yuan Zhirong.…
Security guards refused to let a boy carry a toy boa constrictor onto a plane in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport on Thursday.
The incident took place at about 9 am, when a female security guard discovered the fake snake in a…
Wu Shuzai, a 66-year-old farmer in Qianshan county, Jiangxi province, recently made a helicopter out of wood. He has yet to take it out for its maiden flight.
Wu has made two helicopters in the past five years. Last year, the…
Wu Jieqin, an 81-year-old professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, fell in love with a 57-year-old woman in Chengdu, Sichuan province, he met through the Internet.
The two will be marrying soon.
He found the woman, surnamed Jiang,…
A press junket nearly ended in disaster when a vehicle taking 10 journalists on a tiger safari tour caught fire at the Jiufeng Forestry Wildlife Park in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, on Wednesday.
The journalists were trapped on the vehicle…
A couple of wild foxes have killed and eaten most of the 100 hens a farmer had been raising on a slope near Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, to feed a pregnant female fox.
Li, the farmer, was angry, but could…
One in three primary school pupils believe that Sir Winston Churchill was the first man to walk on the moon, according to a survey.
The children, aged between four and ten-years-old, confused the war time Prime Minister with the American astronaut…
