China / center

Waste turns craftworks

[2006-11-28 15:46]

One of the neighbours of Mrs. Wang admires her creation of craftworks depicting the Suzhou folk scenes in her home in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province November 28. Wang, a retired teacher, made the fifteen craftworks in a month with waste materials such as milk box and rags. [Xinhua]

Woman marries prison inmate boyfriend

[2006-11-09 09:35]

A wedding ceremony in a prison in the city of Qiongzhou, Hainan Province, attracted many prison officials and inmates.

Elderly women vie for men at dating centre

[2006-11-09 09:34]

Women are going nuts for the Guangdong Making Friends Centre for Senior Citizens, officially established in Guangzhou a month ago.

Class organized to learn local dialect

[2006-11-09 09:29]

University students in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, have organized a class to learn a local dialect to help them find jobs.

Shopaholics seek therapy to beat habit

[2006-11-09 09:27]

White-collar women in Shanghai are taking psychotherapy to help them get over their addiction to shopping.

Drunkard looks for love in the wrong place

[2006-11-09 09:26]

A drunkard in Jining, Shandong Province, who knocked on what he thought was the door of a waitress he had fallen in love with at first sight was thrown into the sea as punishment.

Violent Guangzhou fish dines on flesh

[2006-11-08 10:46]

A 30-centimetre snakehead fish that likes biting people is drawing crowds to a pet fish store in Guangzhou's Liwan District.

Can't we all just get along?

[2006-11-08 10:46]

Tigers are usually the natural enemy of rabbits in the wild.

Shanghai boys take to plastic surgery

[2006-11-08 10:46]

To look more like pop stars, A growing number of young men in Shanghai are undergoing plastic surgery to make their faces smaller and lengthen their jaws.

Bourgeois Nanjing urbanites chill out

[2006-11-08 10:46]

Cooking at home, walking to work, no taxis, no shopping - these are the basic life principles a new group of white-collar employees in Nanjing are now following.

Man solicits love through telephone post ads

[2006-11-08 10:46]

A lonely Hangzhou migrant worker on Saturday posted ads on telephone poles near his residence in a bid to find a future spouse.

Man makes 10-hour trek across cities

[2006-11-08 10:46]

A Nanjing citizen surnamed Huang walked for a consecutive 10 hours on Sunday on a hike between Nanjing and Zhenjiang Provinces, a 55-kilometre journey.

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