A Chinese mother has gone on trial accused of killing a man by squeezing his testicles so hard that he died of shock.
The woman was picking up her son from school when she got into a row with a shopkeeper after parking her electric bike in front of his store in the Meilan District of Haikou City, Hainan.
The 42-year-old man came out of the shop and told her she could not...
Yahoo’s China arm will shut down its email service later this year, state media reported Friday, in a move illustrating the brand’s diminishing profile in the country.
Yahoo China announced it will close its email service by August 19, a move the China Daily said will leave it with just its web portal business in the country.
Users of the service were informed...
A temple in easternChinawas the scene of a bizarre ding dong when a tourist was left trapped under a giant bronze bell after it came crashing to the floor.
Lin Wang was standing underneath the huge bell – used to summon Buddhist monks to prayer – when his friends began ringing it furiously at the temple inLinzi,Shandongprovince.
The screws securing the bell...
These schoolchildren in southern China are so keen to get to school that they make the perilous journey on narrow wooden ladders every day, with no safety precautions.
Their village in the remote Badagong mountains in Sangzhi county is surrounded by sheer drops on every side, making the school run a daily struggle.
The only way out of Zhang Jiawan village, unless the children...
Having already cleaned up thousands of dead pigs from a river outsideShanghai, Chinese officials are now assuring folks that the hundreds of rotting ducks fished out of a river poses no health danger.
Officials inSichuanprovince in southwestChinawere notified the more than 1,000 dead ducks on Tuesday, county spokesman Liang Weidong told state radio. The duck carcasses...
A giant fish got its own back on an angler when it dragged him to his death after he hooked it in southern China.
The fish, believed to be a giant sturgeon, pulled Huang Wu, 58, into the water when he tried to retrieve his fishing rod, say witnesses.
‘One minute he was chatting to us about what a big fish he had, the next it was the fish that had him,’ said...
A container ship has sunk off the east coast of China, killing at least 11 crew members and leaving two missing. One man has been rescued by helicopter.
Rescue officials in the city of Yantai in Shangdong province say the ship, named Guangyangxingang, capsized Monday evening amid strong winds, northeast of Longkou in Shandong. They say two rescue vessels and a helicopter...
Fourteen people have died and eight are injured after a double-decker bus plunged at least 30ft from a bridge in China last night.
The sleeper coach, travelling from the provincial capital Wuhan to Enshi, was carrying 22 passengers, most of whom were migrants, when it fell from the road crossing the Yangtze River.
An investigation has been launched, but initial reports...
Four men have been jailed for digging up female corpses in China and selling them as brides in ‘ghost marriages’.
The grave robbers snatched the bodies of ten women and sold them in the traditional practice where dead women are united with bachelors to stop them wandering the afterlife alone.
It is not clear whether the bodies of the women were recovered.
Local...
As the old saying goes, the grass is always greener on the other side.
But in the south-western city of Chengdu, China, there is an element of truth, because city officials have been painting the grassy verges a rich shade of green.
Some residents have found the dye – described as completely ‘non toxic’ – has turned their shoes green as they walk...
Decades of reckless pollution have spawned a string of toxic ‘cancer villages’, the Chinese government admitted for the first time yesterday.
In a rare admission, the Environment Ministry accepted the country’s 30-year breakneck industrial boom and lax laws had caused ‘many’ environmental disasters and led to a spike in cancer-related deaths.
Factories in rural...
A Chinese police chief has been sacked after reports he owned hundreds of houses and a false identity card, state media said Wednesday in the latest scandal to fuel public outrage over corruption.
Zhao Haibin was stripped of his public offices for “engaging in business deals using a fake identity card”, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing the...
The official mouthpiece of China’s ruling Communist Party roundly rejected claims of hacking attacks from China of American media outlets, hinting instead at ulterior motives by the US.
The People’s Daily article echoed vehement government rejections last week after The New York Times and Wall Street Journal linked Beijing to cyberattacks.
In a fresh development,...
A truck carrying thousands of fireworks bound for Chinese New Year parties across China exploded today, destroying a motorway flyover and leaving up to 26 people dead.
The explosion was so powerful that it shattered the windows of a truck shop more than 50 metres away.
Emergency crews closed the 80-metre stretch of highway as they grappled with the twisted mound of wrecked...
This the gaping hole left in a Chinese street after three shops collapsed in on themselves yesterday afternoon.
The buildings disappeared into the ground at a road junction in downtown Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province.
One after another, each structure crumbled in a heap of rubble, leaving a hole 30ft deep in the shopping area.
Incredibly, no...
Stretching as far as the eye can see in rows upon rows of arrow-straight uniformity, this development conjures images of a concrete slum or a prison block rather than a plush new housing estate.
They are among more than 1,000 grey houses, each spaced just a few feet apart, that have been built in Lingshui County in the Hainan Province of China.
But their monochrome appearance...
Air quality in Beijing was the ‘worst on record’ over the weekend, according to environmentalists, as pollution in the city rose to 30 to 45 times above recommended safety levels.
Nearly 1,000 babies and toddlers have been treated for breathing difficulties as Beijing’s pollution crisis entered a fourth day today, Chinese officials have confirmed.
The...
The shape bears all the hallmarks of a traditional lemon, but the orange hue offers a clue as to what this fruit tastes like.
For the normally bitter flavour is absent from the Meyer lemon (pictured) – a naturally occurring cross between a lemon and a mandarin.
The first sweet lemon to be sold commercially in this country can be eaten much like an orange, but it is best...
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