Wan Xingming, a farmer in Pengzhou city, Sichuan province, was excited on Wednesday not only because he could feast on his favorite rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival.
An 18-month-old Chinese girl who repeatedly excreted nails maybe suffering from pica, an eating disorder characterized by persistent cravings to eat nonfood items such as dirt or cigarette butts, doctors said Saturday.
Doctors in a Northwest China city are closely monitoring an 18-month-old girl who is repeatedly expelling nails even though, the hospital claimed, there is no evidence that she had previously swallowed them.
A Chinese farmer has resorted to the use of shock tactics to defend his right to land ownership by using improvised rockets to expel demolition corps that have threatened to evict him for the construction of commercial buildings.
Wearing school uniforms, three masked girls dance on Metro Line 2 in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, June 6, 2010. Labeling themselves “ugly ducklings,” the trio performed folk music with instruments like guitar, erhu (Chinese violin) and Chinese zither in a subway car. Their self-choreographed dances captured lots of attention from passengers.
The Yangtze River in China has done a good job of hiding its real age - it is nearly 40 million years older than previously thought, a new study suggests.
Arguably the most popular dog meat restaurant in the capital of South China's Guangdong province is seeing fewer and fewer youngsters walking through its doors.
Two men who were caught transporting more than 100 illegally caught live marmots in mountains in Gansu Province have been put under forced medical observation out of plague fears.
A couple in east coastal Ningbo City allegedly set a Guinness record in terms of divorce frequency last year, according to a Youth Times report.
About 400 snakes have been caught or killed in Guantang village in Guangzhou of Guangdong province as they turned up in droves and caused a public panic on fears of an upcoming earthquake.
Unhappy with your name? Then spare a thought for those rare Chinese families who surnames mean "zero", "ghost" or even "death".
Police have detained an 18-year-old man suspected of defrauding his Internet girlfriend of more than 2 million yuan ($307,064) in Qianan city of Northeast China's Hebei province on April 2, 2010, YanZhao Metropolis Daily reported.
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