A Chinese woman was fined for applying makeup and dancing while driving, blaming driver-assistance technology. A man in China had a thermometer swallowed as a child remain in his body for 20 years. A seven-year-old is now a professional rally car driver in China. An 82-year-old man traveled daily for 105 days to visit his wife in an ICU.
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A woman in eastern China has been fined for applying make-up and dancing behind the wheel, then claiming her car’s driver-assistance system drove better than she could.
According to CCTV News, the driver, surnamed Lin, is from Wenzhou in Zhejiang province and had repeatedly posted videos online flaunting her vehicle’s assisted driving.
In the widely shared clips, Lin is seen travelling through a tunnel with the system activated, both hands off the steering wheel, while applying foundation and...
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27d ago
A 32-year-old Chinese man who went to hospital suffering from stomach pain was shocked to discover that a Mercury thermometer he had swallowed 20 years ago was still inside him.
The man, surnamed Wang, from Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, southeastern China, had sought treatment at the Longgang branch of The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University.
A scan revealed a foreign object in his duodenum, which doctors highly suspected to be a Mercury thermometer.
As the tip of the...
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46d ago
A seven-year-old boy has become China’s youngest professional rally car driver after being certified at the age of five.
Shao Ziyan, from Wenzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, has amazed mainland social media with his professionalism and passion for the sport despite his young age.
According to his father, the boy became obsessed with car racing when he was a toddler.
He began using a racing simulator at home when he was one.
Noticing that his son had a “particularly great sense” for...
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48d ago
In a heart-wrenching display of devotion, an elderly man from eastern China spent 12 hours every day for 105 days travelling to visit his wife in hospital.
Chen Achong, 82, a farmer from Zhoushan in Zhejiang province, and his wife, Xue, have been married for more than 50 years, according to the mainland media outlet Xinwenfang.
A year ago, Xue suffered a stroke and soon after developed severe pneumonia, leading to her hospitalisation in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Li Huili Hospital in...