For one type of orchid in China, procreating is a lonely affair.
A 14-year-old boy surnamed Chen who suffered from sleepwalking seriously fractured a bone after he fell off the roof of his three-storey house in Guangzhou's Baiyun District.
A 96-year-old woman surnamed Yu has recently become the oldest bride in the city of Jiangmen in Guangdong Province.
Teachers wearing mini skirts are no longer allowed to enter classrooms at Shanghai Normal University, a rule that has triggered a heated debate.
Children's EMBA, an early business administration program designed for kids aged three to six, recently appeared in Shanghai with the fees up to 10,000 yuan (USD$2,500), sparking a public debate.
All employees of a chain supermarket in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, have to draw chess pieces at the exit for staffs before they leave, only to prove they are innocent or have to be body-searched.
Recently, some private websites have openly posted advertisements seeking young women, especially college students, to become surrogate mothers. They offer payment of up to100, 000 Yuan (US$12,450).
A Shanghai Jiaotong University junior student, Wang Chun (a pseudonym), has posted an advertisement on the campus Bulletin Board System (BBS), seeking a husband on behalf of his mother.
Bats, whales and dolphins use it to communicate. Baby rodents call their mothers with it and now a rare Chinese frog has shown it can hear and respond to ultrasounds, scientists said on Wednesday.
The bone marrow of a 62-year-old woman was successfully transplanted into her 57-year-old brother in Guangzhou, setting a record in the age of both marrow donor and recipient in China.
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