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German flies giant shoes to world's tallest woman

Updated: 2006-08-29 09:12

The tallest woman in Asia, Chinese Yao Defen stands at the entrance of her home in Shu Cha in eastern China's Anhui province March 15, 2006. Yao is 34 years old and 2.36 metres tall, some 10 centimeters taller than the Houston Rockets star Yao Ming. [Reuters]