The Maternity and Children's Health Hospital in Hunan province is using colorful surgical caps to ease patients' tension, rednet.cn reported Tuesday. The move was based on color psychology, which suggests colors can create feelings of coziness.

The Maternity and Children's Health Hospital in Hunan province is using colorful surgical caps to ease patients' tension, rednet.cn reported Tuesday. The move was based on color psychology, which suggests colors can create feelings of coziness, the report said.

Dalian Evening News found a local woman whose picture was taken and published by Xinhua News Agency in 1991. She was wearing a miniskirt in the picture, which was seen as a sign of Chinese people embracing fashion after the reform and opening-up policy.

A man who threatened to blow up Beijing Capital International Airport was prosecuted on charges of concocting fake terrorism information. The suspect, surnamed Gao, 24, called the police on May 16 and claimed to be a member of the Taliban and that there were bombs at the airport. Gao was caught by police, and he admitted that he was drunk when he made the phone call and that he did it for fun, Beijing Morning Post reported.

Special police forces have been deployed near highway toll gates in Northwest China's Qinghai province to prevent vehicles from dodging tolls. Wang Haidong, director of the Daotanghe toll gate, said that more than 800 trucks dodged tolls during one day in the summer, and in September, a toll worker died after being run over by a truck that was rushing to dodge the toll, China News Service reported.

The 35 billion yuan in online sales during Singles Day is not a big deal compared with the sale of houses, a leading real estate developer said. Ren Zhiqiang, chairman of Huayuan Group, made the remarks on his micro blog on Wednesday when he was challenged by Ma Yun, board chairman of Alibaba Group, China's biggest e-commerce company. Ma said the Singles Day online buying spree would shock real estate developers.

Four urban management officers in Tongchuan were suspended for taking a peddler, who they claimed was conducting business illegally on a street, and abandoning him in a forest as punishment, South China Metropolis Daily reported on Wednesday. The peddler, surnamed Cheng, waited five hours in the forest for urban management staff to take up him back to Tongchuan before making a phone call to the local TV station, which exposed the case.

The World Wildlife Fund on Wednesday released photos of a wild female giant panda and her cub walking past an infrared camera at Anzihe Nature Reserve in Chongzhou city, Southwest China's Sichuan province, on Oct 24, 2013.