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(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-02-11 10:08

A tourist in Sanya is arrested for going au naturel, a villager keeps 1,000 bottles in his wine cellar, and a tall girl's boyfriend becomes Mr Right when his family installs a bigger door for her.

Looking for lost son

An 89-year-old woman from Shandong province, who has been looking for her son since he got lost in September 2012, died of colon cancer on Saturday.

The woman had walked thousands of miles in search of her son and lost 15 kilograms.

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Nude sunbather detained

A 58-year-old tourist from Harbin, Heilongjiang province, was detained in Sanya, Hainan province, on Sunday, as he insisted on sunbathing naked after being asked not to.

Sanya's urban management officers have been asking people not to swim or sunbathe naked near the beach since Thursday. However, the tourist, surnamed Sun, violated the rules twice.

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Tall girlfriend

A 1.97-meter-tall woman from Hubei province spent the Spring Festival holiday at her boyfriend's home in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, this year, but her head kept hitting the door frame because of her height.

Her boyfriend's parents replaced the door with a bigger one.

Questions about snow photo

Netizens raised questions over a photo showing two officials and three soldiers sweeping snow together in Ningxia Hui autonomous region on Saturday.

In the photo, the five people are standing in a line, shoveling snow together. But netizens noticed that the soldiers' shovels were behind those of the officials, indicating that the soldiers shoveled snow, while the officials just posed for the photos.

In order to clarify the matter, Ningxia TV released a video in which the two officials are shoveling snow on their own.

New weapons shown on TV

Xu Qiliang, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited a test base of the Chinese PLA General Armament Department in Horqin Grassland, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, a military program on China Central Television reported on Jan 29.

New domestic weapons were also shown on the program, including new rocket artilleries and antiaircraft guns.

Wine cellar

A villager in Changsha, Hunan province, spent five years building a wine cellar under his villa.

The cellar, which is five meters underground, is 1,200 square meters, and more than 1,000 barrels of wine are stored there.

China slams Japan's UN application

A Japanese museum applied to UNESCO to include 333 items left behind by WWII kamikaze soldiers in the UN's Memory of the World Register, which was slammed by China on Monday.

Hua Chunying, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said during a regular press conference that Japan is trying to distort the invasion history of Japanese militarism and challenge the achievements of the world's anti-Fascism war and post-war international order.

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