Firefighter saves woman before she can take her life

The moments which were filmed by a passer-by in Shanghai - shows the young woman dangling off the ledge having apparently threatened to jump,

Police had failed to convince the woman - who was depressed after being dumped by her boyfriend - to climb back into a nearby apartment while firefighters on the street below prepared a ladder to try to reach her. 

Man in China sentenced to 6 years in prison for growing a beard

A man in China has been sentenced to six years in prison for 'provoking trouble' because he grew a beard.

The 38-year-old from the Uighur minority received several warnings before attending court in Kashgar, local newspapers reported.

His wife was also given a two-year sentence for wearing a veil that hid her face.

In China authorities widely discourage growing a beard because they say it is linked to extremist ideals. The Uighurs vehemently dispute this claim.

Chinese Teacher Sacked After This Photo Hit The Internet

 A Chinese teacher has been sacked after a photo of him using two children as footstools went viral.

People's online daily reports that, Mr Xie told the male pupils from Nanguang High School in Fujian to stay behind after class on Thursday because they were being too loud.

He made the students crouch on the floor while he played on his phone and put his bare feet on their backs.

Boyfriend forced to choose whether to save girlfriend or ex

A man was faced with a difficult choice when his current and ex girlfriends both jumped in a river to see who he would save.

Wu Hsia, 21, broke up with Jun Tang, 20, after meeting new girlfriend Rong Tsao, 22.

But Jun could not accept that it was over and continued to harass him.

Eventually he agreed to meet with her to make it clear where his loyalties lie.

Photo: Woman rips apart ATM with her bare hands after it wouldn't let her withdraw any cash

A woman seemed to experience a brain snap after she couldn't get any cash out of the ATM prompting her to tear apart the machine with her own hands.

The lady created quite a scene in a shopping mall in Dongguan in the Chinese province of Guangdong when she astoundingly dismantled the machine within a matter of minutes.

Smartphone Addicts Now Have Their Own Walking Lane In China

The cellphone lane pictured above was spotted in a place called Foreigner Street in Chongqing city, one of the five major cities in China.

23-Year-Old Dies Of Heart Attack While Donating Sperm For The 4th Time in a Week

A Chinese medical student died of a heart attack while looking at a 'sexy magazine' in a sperm bank - on his fourth visit to the centre in just over a week.

Zheng Gang, 23, was found dead in a private booth of a fertility clinic at Wuhan University after nurses noticed he was spending longer than usual producing his sample.

Two hours after he first entered the cubicle, medics broke in to find him lying unconscious on the floor.

Photo: Police van left suspended three-storeys high over town

A policeman had some explaining to do after the van he was driving ended up wedged between two buildings suspended three-storeys high.

Park He, 35, was heading back to the police station in Shandong Province, East China, when suddenly he spotted a car on the wrong side of the road.

Alcoholic boy, 2, prefers beer to milk

Just weeks after a shocking video emerged of a toddler smoking cigarettes in China, comes another disturbing story of a two-year-old boy reportedly addicted to alcohol.

Cheng Cheng prefers wine and bottles of beer to milk, according to the Shanghaiist, and is known as ‘Little Winebibber’ by local media.

Bomb Blasts Kill 31 In China's Xinjiang Region

Explosives hurled from two vehicles which ploughed into an open market in China's troubled Xinjiang killed 31 people on Thursday, state media reported, the deadliest act of violence in the region in years.

China's Ministry of Public Security called the attack in the regional capital of Urumqi a "serious violent terrorist incident" and domestic security chief Meng Jianzhu vowed to strengthen a crackdown on the "arrogance of terrorists".

Photo: Doctors remove unborn baby who grew on twin sister's back

 

They were supposed to be born as twins, but instead, one twin grew inside her sister’s body with one arm coming out from the back.

This gruesome case left the medical world stunned. An 11 year old, was admitted to a hospital in China, with a third arm growing from her back.

Woman sells her 12-year-old daughter for $500 to be wife of deranged man

 

A mother is accused of selling her minor daughter for $500 to be the wife of a deranged man, according to police reports.

The 12-year-old girl from Guizhou, a southwestern Chinese province, was sold by her mother for 3,500 yuan or about $551 to a family that needed a wife for a mentally deranged son.

Amazing Photos: World’s longest sea bridge opens in China

                                
China has opened the world’s longest cross-sea bridge – which stretches five miles further than the distance between Dover and Calais.
The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26.4 miles (42.487 km) long and links China’s eastern port city of Qingdao to the offshore island Huangdao.
The road bridge, which is 110ft wide and is the longest of its kind, cost nearly £1billion to build.

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Woman cuts off lover’s penis with scissors, flushes it down toilet

                                      

A woman chopped off her former boyfriend’s penis with scissors and then killed him with a hammer after he raped her, beat their young daughter and tried to blackmail her into giving him $28,000 for a new car.

The Hong Kong High Court heard Chinese national Yeung Ki attacked Zhou Hui, her now-married former longtime lover, and flushed his penis down the toilet after feeding him with drug-laced soup, the South China Morning Post reported.

Devoted Chinese father carries his disabled son 18 miles (29km) to school every day

       

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A devoted Chinese father who carries his disabled son 18 miles to school every day will be provided with government-funded accommodation nearby.

Yu Xukang walks the huge distance with his son, Xiao Qiang, strapped to his back in a specially constructed basket.