A 2.65-meter grouper weighing 341 kilogram was caught and sold to a restaurant in Dongyuan, East China's Guangdong province, Nanfang Daily reported Monday. The species generally weighs 0.75-1.5 kg, and China's record of the species is 281 kg.

Detainees at a jail of East China's Zhejiang province complained that they have to eat vegetables every day after an Olympic champion was taken into custody a week ago. Sun Yang, an Olympic swimming champion, was sent to the jail for a week on Nov 4 for driving without a license. To prevent the Olympic champion from gaining weight, prison managers took meat off the menu, making other detainees unhappy, one inmate told Wuhan Morning Post.

A 2.65-meter grouper weighing 341 kilogram was caught and sold to a restaurant in Dongyuan, East China's Guangdong province, Nanfang Daily reported Monday. The species generally weighs 0.75-1.5 kg, and China's record of the species is 281 kg, the owner of the giant fish said.

A landscape photo taken by Jiang Qing, wife of the late Chairman Mao Zedong, is scheduled to be auctioned on Saturday in Beijing. The photo of Lushan Mountain in East China’s Jiangxi province was taken in 1961. The appraised value of the photo is about 20,000 yuan, according to a report by China News Service.

E-commerce provider Alibaba might have made a math mistake while celebrating Monday's Singles Day shopping spree. The company said it sold 2 million pairs of underwear in one hour, which would make about a 3,000-km link. A Sina Weibo post subsequently said that means a single pair of underwear was 1.5 meters long, and that cannot be right. The post written in a humorous tone was forwarded 75,416 times.

A government-supported foundation plans to finance the research and development of milk powder for Chinese people. The Beijing Natural Science Foundation will provide 1 million yuan by the end of this year for the program. China's milk powder market is dominated by expensive foreign brands, and the foundation hopes the program can help develop a cheaper domestic brand of milk powder, China National Radio reported on Tuesday.

A man from Yiwu city brings more than 8.9 million yuan ($1.5 million) in cash as part of his betrothal gifts for his bride's family to their home in Pujiang, East China's Zhejiang province, Nov 12. The money weighs 102 kilograms, and his gifts also included wine, according to Yiwu's tradition, icpress.cn reported.

About 200,000 new-energy vehicles will be licensed in Beijing by 2015, in a move to protect the capital's environment, a municipal official said on Tuesday. Yan Aoshuang, director of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, said the government will propose measures making it easier to get car plates, to encourage the purchase of new-energy cars, Beijing News reported.