DAD TAKES SCHOOL TO COURT OVER STUDENT BRIBE
A father surnamed Han from Jiangxi Province recently filed a lawsuit against a
middle school president that failed to put his son into he right class.
Han paid 7,000 Yuan (US$863) for his boy to attend Shangrao Middle School after the president promised he would put the
pupil in the class with the most excellent students.
The father asked the court to make to school cough up the cash he had invested in his son's schooling, but the case was thrown out.
Source - Shangrao Daily.
CANADIAN VET FLIES IN TO TREAT PANDAS
Animals in a zoo in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, have been enjoying the privilege of being treated by a foreign vet - the first such arrangement in China.
A doctoral level vet from Canada arrived in Chengdu last month, attracted by the prospect of caring for rare animals such as Giant Panda and Golden Monkeys.
With six years of veterinarian experience in his native country, the international vet is considered qualified for the job by the administrator of the zoo.
The Canadian vet has brought his wife and four children over to live with him in Chengdu.
Source - Chengdu Evening News.
STATUES' BEARDS GROW IN TEMPLES
The beards of nine josses worshipped in a temple in Miaoli, Taiwan Province, have mysteriously grown longer.
The beard on one statue has lengthened by 40cm. Locals said the josses were placed in the temple at the end of last year.
Experts have analyzed the beard, made of horse
hair, to determine whether it could have grown because of nutrients in the wooden statues and the humid climate.
Source - www.chinanews.com.cn
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ANIMAL LOVERS OFFERED SPECIAL PETS
For 50,000 Yuan (US$6,175) you can be the proud owner of a National Treasure
level Giant Panda for a year.
There are also opportunities to hire Golden Monkeys, Manchurian Tigers and American Leopards in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province.
Owners cannot
take their new pets home - they continue to live at the zoo - but they will enjoy regular visits to their adopted animals.
Source - Changjiang Daily
DOCTOR CLAIMS SHORTEST MAN FOR THE RECORD
A man is applying to the Guinness Book of
Records to see if he is the shortest grown-up.
Fan Sisheng, 54, measures 1.05 metres, posing a real challenge to the current record 1.26 metres.
The man from Wuyuan County of Inner Mongolia
has five brothers and sisters of average height.
A doctor, Fan is clever and healthy.
Source - Inner Mongolia Morning Post
UPSET WITH YOUR HUSBAND? BEAT HIM MERCILESSLY
Please feel free to engage in fits of fury to relieve stress and depression, say staff at a women and
children's centre in Shenyang of Lioaning Province.
The centre recently opened a fighting room full of human sized rubber figures, inviting women to
take out their anger by beating them mercilessly.
Counselors are also on hand at the centre.
Many visitors say they feel much better after smacking and yelling at the inanimate figures.
Source - Chinese Business Morning View
MAN MAKES MORE THAN HALF WORLD'S SNOOPIES
Ma leshan, a 77-year old Guangdong native known as the Chinese father of Snoopy, put on a display of more than 2,000 cartoon models in Guangzhou last week.
Over the past 50 years, Ma has made models of many popular cartoon characters for a Hong Kong based company, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Garfield, the Lion King and Batman.
In 1964, Ma began making Snoopy models, later becoming the only approved producer designated by Charles Schultz, the creator of the world's most famous cartoon dog.
So far Ma claims to have made more than 30,000 plastic Snoopies, accounting for more than half of the world's total.
Source - Guangzhou Daily |
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