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Scalped: a US$10 haircut at Chinese hair salon escalates into row over US$7,600 in charges

A member of staff at the salon (right) explains the huge bill to the client. Photo: Shanghai Morning Post

18 Mar 2016 - 3:20PM

Man in southern China recruits stand-in to impersonate dead son to elderly grandmother

Huang Xiaoyong, left, with son Huang Ke, who died from muscular dystrophy in 2009. Huang with Wang Feng. Photo: SCMP Pictures

18 Mar 2016 - 11:27PM

Chinese man and mistress ‘planned wife’s murder for a year’, court hears in case over woman’s death in road collision

The scene after the car crashed into the woman, who was on an electric bicycle with her seven-year-old daughter. Photo: Qq.com

17 Mar 2016 - 11:00PM

Express delivery firm in dispute with customer over ‘missing 300,000-yuan diamond jewellery’

A Chinese customer claims she lost a diamond ring and pendant together worth 300,000 yuan after the contents of an express delivery parcel went missing. File photo: AP

17 Mar 2016 - 4:35PM

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Huge python, almost 4 metres long, found by building workers in China

The python found by building workers in Fujian province. Photo: SCMP Pictures

17 Mar 2016 - 1:55PM

Chinese man arrested over bogus emergency call to firefighters about drowning child; trapped dog rescued instead

Firemen in Guangdong province that responded to an emergency call to rescue a drowning child found only a dog that had become trapped. Photo: Thepaper.cn

17 Mar 2016 - 2:00PM

New | Chinese man pours petrol over nurse in hospital lift, tries to set her on fire after mother’s death

Da struggles to get free from the men after they drag him out of the lift, but is eventually subdued. Photo: Qq.com

17 Mar 2016 - 1:51PM

‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’: Chinese man returns home to find his house burgled, liquor gone and someone sleeping in his bed

A generic photo of a person standing over his bed at home. Chen found the man who had burgled his home sleeping in his bed. Photo: Reuters

16 Mar 2016 - 5:13PM

Chinese robber ‘targeted only men because he was worried women might scream’

A photograph taken from CCTV footage, which reportedly shows the suspect in the case robbing a man in Guizhou province on February 29. Photo: Guizhou Business Daily

16 Mar 2016 - 1:32PM

Disney box-office smash ‘Zootopia’ sparks sale of foxes as pets in China, says report

A still from the movie “Zootopia”, which broke a one-day record for box-office takings for an animated film in China. Photo: AP

16 Mar 2016 - 12:27PM

Chinese woman uses truck to deposit big pile of small change at bank

The coins delivered to the bank in Zhejiang province. Photo: SCMP Pictures

16 Mar 2016 - 2:40PM

Chinese woman offers primary school friend 10,000 yuan as apology for stealing 10 cents 40 years ago, but classmate says ‘Don’t worry about it’

A former primary school student who stole 10 Chinese cents from her classmate more than 40 years ago tried to hand 10,000 yuan to her when they met again on Sunday. Photo: EPA

15 Mar 2016 - 6:09PM

Chinese woman, 67, accused of acting as drugs mule, travelling over 30 times across China with narcotics strapped on her

Drug gang suspects escorted by the police. Photo:Qq.com

15 Mar 2016 - 5:40PM

Doctor forced to kneel, burn offerings after baby's death at Shenzhen hospital

A doctor burns joss paper on Monday alongside the family and relatives of a dead child in the foyer of Shenzhen’s Pinghu People’s Hospital. Photo: SCMP Pictures

15 Mar 2016 - 2:20PM

Trust us: utterly unqualified man and woman arrested for performing illegal cosmetic surgery in Shanghai

A woman has her eyebrows tattooed at a beauty, hairdressing and cosmetics expo in Beijing. Photo: EPA

15 Mar 2016 - 1:12PM

Another child in China gets his head stuck in the hole of a massage bed

The latest victim of a massage bed child trap in the mainland. Photo: Hangzhou Metropolis Express

14 Mar 2016 - 3:16PM

Huge whale found dead on Chinese beach may have choked on fishing net

One of the two whales found dead in Jiangsu province last month. Photo: SCMP Pictures

A 41-tonne sperm whale that washed up dead on the eastern cost of China was found to have a black net more than eight metres long inside its stomach.

14 Mar 2016 - 1:35PM

Backyard transformation: handyman in western China builds two-tonne Bumblebee in home courtyard

The finished 6.8 metre model towers over the courtyard where it was built. Photo: China News Service

11 Mar 2016 - 4:31PM

Pain in the neck: doctors find Chinese man’s aches and numbness caused by needles inside his body

The two needles found inside a Chinese man's body (left), which were spotted after a scan carried out in hospital. Photos: Chutian Metropolis Daily

12 Mar 2016 - 4:42PM

That’s rich: wife throws ‘diamond’ dowry rings into river to prevent hubby knowing they’re fake

Qianqian’s fake rings claiming to include a two-carat yellow diamond, a pair of three-carat pink diamonds and a 10-carat white diamond. Photo: Shanghai Television

11 Mar 2016 - 2:59PM

Chinese boy’s sight saved after he receives transplant from part of a pig’s eye

A surgeon with the cornea used in the transplant. Photo: Sina.com

11 Mar 2016 - 1:13PM

Chinese police arrest suspect four days after knife-attack killing of city official

A CCTV photograph taken in the city of Chifeng, in Inner Mongolia, reportedly showing Li Xiaopeng, who is a suspect in the case. Photo: Inner Mongolia Morning News

11 Mar 2016 - 2:12PM

Parts of Beijing Zoo may relocate from city centre to improve animals’ living conditions and ease traffic jams

A giant panda relaxes in the Olympic Games Panda Bear enclosure at Beijing Zoo. Photo: AFP

10 Mar 2016 - 7:35PM

Chinese cyclist ‘carries out revenge attack on Japanese car’

An electric bicycle is parked in front of a Toyota car in Zhangshan following the alleged revenge attack. Photo: Zhongshan Daily

10 Mar 2016 - 5:02PM

Chinese bride-to-be delays wedding after severe allergic reaction to make-up on pre-ceremony photo shoot

The Chinese bride-to-be (left) before she suffered the allergic reaction to make-up she wore on a photoshoot and (right) as she looks now. Photo: Shenyang Evening News

10 Mar 2016 - 3:03PM

On the move: historic Chinese building saved from bulldozer by sliding 90m on rails to new home

The historic building in the city of Wuhan has been lifte 1.4 metres off the ground onto a new base so it can be moved 90 metres on six concrete rails to make way for redevelopment of the site. Photo: Qq.com

10 Mar 2016 - 1:45PM

Watch terrifying moment Chinese toddler falls from 5th-floor balcony ... onto quilt held up by neighbours below

Chinese toddler Xiaojing is pictured falling from a fifth-floor balcony in Dongguan on Tuesday. Photo: Sina

10 Mar 2016 - 12:50PM

Chinese police baffled by angry man who flees after trying to pay thousands for short bus trip

Surveillance footage of the row on the bus in Chongqing. Photo: SCMP Pictures

9 Mar 2016 - 6:18PM

Man killed in China after being run over by truck while taking shortcut across busy road

The man’s electric bike lies in the foreground at the scene of the accident. Photo: Yangtze Evening News

9 Mar 2016 - 4:14PM

‘Four-legged chicken’ found on farm in eastern China: it’s still edible, claims official

The four-legged chicken discovered in Shandong province. Photo: SCMP Pictures

9 Mar 2016 - 1:53PM

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