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  • Woman speaks in man's voice to dupe friend

    2009-12-31 10:32

    Police in Luoyang, Henan province, detained a woman who spoke in a man's voice for months to dupe a friend, desperate for a boyfriend, of 70,000 yuan.

  • Man unwilling to sign pre-nup ends affair

    2009-12-31 10:27

    A man ended relations with his bride-to-be after she asked him to sign a pre-nuptial agreement at the marriage registration office in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, last week.

  • Victim's wife flees after trying to extort thief

    2009-12-31 10:26

    Police in Fuqing, Fujian province, detained a man who stole 200 yuan ($29) from a private residence and are searching for the victim's wife, who, after catching the thief red-handed, tried to extort money from him last Monday.

  • Woman faints while getting a perm at salon

    2009-12-31 10:25

    A woman had to be hospitalized after she fainted while getting a perm at a hair salon in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, last Thursday.

  • Woman beats the daylights out of robbers

    2009-12-31 10:17

    A woman stood up to two male robbers and beat them up so badly that they fled in Chongqing municipality last Thursday.

  • 'She was sitting in a car and walking her dog'

    2009-12-30 08:51

    A wealthy woman was spotted sitting in the back of her chauffer-driven sedan while walking her dog on a street in Sanya, Hainan province, last Wednesday.

  • Girl, 14, steals bike 'to embarrass parents'

    2009-12-30 08:49

    Police in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, detained a 14-year-old girl who stole a bike just so that she could embarrass her parents last Wednesday.

  • Man bangs head on street till lover quits fighting

    2009-12-30 08:49

    A man banged his head on a frozen street in Dalian, Liaoning province, till his girlfriend agreed to give up her idea of parting ways with him, at least for the time being.

  • Pigs bring traffic to screeching halt on highway

    2009-12-30 08:48

    It took police nearly five hours to catch more than 100 pigs that had blocked traffic on an expressway in Zhejiang province last Tuesday.

  • Man granted divorce after learning son not his own

    2009-12-30 08:47

    A man was granted divorce after he provided evidence that he was not the biological father of his wife's son in Yuzhou, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, last week.

  • Grandson's birth date proves lucky, finally

    2009-12-29 09:58

    A man who had been using his grandson's birth date to purchase lottery tickets for the past five years recently hit a 5-million-yuan ($732,064) jackpot in Dongguan, Guangdong province.

  • Fugitive surrenders after 5 years, pays victim's family

    2009-12-29 09:55

    A fugitive for five years finally surrendered to the police in Changge, Henan province, and paid her hit-and-run victim's family more than 100,000 yuan in compensation last week.

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