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Historical buildings linked to China’s revolutionary past illegally demolished

One of the buildings destroyed in Harbin. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese man poisons over 400 wild birds after luring them with worms and recorded bird sounds

Police count the poisoned birds. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Stray dog pierced with arrow found wandering through university in central China

The injured dog spotted at the university. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese restaurant owner arrested for lacing chilli oil with poppy

A customer reported the restaurant to food safety authorities. Photo: SCMP Pictures
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‘I would be letting down my art if I didn’t steal it’: phone thief in China

Police arrest a man for the theft. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Tibetan ‘Living Buddha’ with movie-star looks exposed as a sham

It turns out that ‘Kyabje Ling Rinpoche’ was a convincing actor himself. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Three men arrested in southern China ‘made millions’ selling second-hand iPhones as new

The fake iPhones seized by police in Dongguan, Guangdong province. Photo: 163.com

Chinese vocational school graduate arrested for printing 10m yuan of fake banknotes

A police officer displays sheets of forged banknotes. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Group that advocates drinking urine still active despite being ruled illegal

A member of the China Urine Therapy Association speaks about the benefits of drinking urine. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese girl, 7, dies after head is caught in electric rolling shutters

Villagers managed to free the girls, but one died on the way to hospital. Photo: Thepaper.cn

Crocodile caught in residential tower block in China

The animal pictured on the building’s staircase. Photo: Qq.com

Chinese girl, 5, has surgery to remove hairballs from her stomach

Balls of hair were removed from a child’s stomach. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Man in China takes chained bicycle by felling healthy camphor tree

This camphor tree was felled to remove a bicycle attached to it. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Girl, 2, in year-long coma after mother’s lover severely abuses her for crying

Liu Xinyi with her father. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese boy, 18, gets life in jail after fake guns he buys online turn out to be real

Liu Dawei bought the weapons online from a Taiwanese seller. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Teacher stripped naked and publicly shamed after ‘illicit affair’ with pupil

The high school teacher was said to have been beaten and stripped naked by the family of one of his female pupils. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Shopping mall displays 100,000 butterflies to mark Chinese Valentine’s Day in eastern China

A visitor handles a butterfly at the mall. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Taken as trash: sick elderly woman abandoned by son beside rubbish bin

The woman’s youngest son left her beside a rubbish bin. Photo: SCMP Pictures

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Shanghai sanitation workers search through tonnes of garbage after woman loses her mobile phone

A sanitation worker proudly holds the missing phone. Photo: Thepaper.cn

Chinese students claim they were told to strip, and later beaten, after requesting refund from vocational school

The Shandong Lan Xiang Senior Technical School. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Bank teller steals cash to play lottery, replaces it with hell money

A bank clerk replaced cash he stole with “spirit money”, at front. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Police seize uninsured, modified minivan transporting 2 cows, 4 people

The van’s rear windows had been removed before the cows were loaded. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Vendors wash waterlogged food and drink for resale after floods in central China

Piles of food items that soaked in polluted floodwater for more than two weeks. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese bureaucratic mix-up means motorist jailed for killing pedestrian has yet to start sentence

Zhanqian District People’s Court, in Yingkou, which jailed motorist Pang Jing for two years after she knocked down and killed pedestrian Ren Yanhua in January 2015. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Russians funding low-budget trip round China ... one snap at a time

Two of the Russian travellers. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Boy, 2, dies of heatstroke in central China mountains while looking for his grandmother

A notice was distributed in the town giving details of the missing boy. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese shop owner forced to eat cockroach ‘found in food’ or pay

The shop owner suspected the customer was trying to scam her. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese journalist jailed for 12 years claims charges were retaliation for exposing irrigation scam

Former journalist Gao Qinrong claims he was jailed for trumped up charges. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Tons of fish fry at southwestern China aquatic farm in ongoing heatwave

Scalding waters in a fishpond caused the death of tons of fish. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese farmer grows watermelons that bounce, have yellow flesh and taste like cucumber

The unusual watermelons bounce when dropped, rather than shattering. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Man injures spine leaping from river embankment to retrieve dropped glasses

An injured man lies on the edge of the Qiantang River as the water rapidly rises. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Unattended baby badly burned after hairdryer left running beside him short-circuits

A baby suffered burns to 50 per cent of his body after a hairdryer short circuited. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Company tries to block media coverage of involuntary transfer of heavily pregnant employee

A pregnant woman was told she was being transferred without consultation. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Woman turns herself in to police after ‘buying’ boy, 3, in central China

The boy at the centre of the case in Hunan province. Photo: Quda100.com

Few passengers pay triple for Shenzhen’s business class subway cars

Riders on Shenzhen’s new Line 11 can pay extra to ride in peace in business class. SCMP Pictures

Chinese burglary suspect ‘confesses’ after woman victim massages his injured ankle

The handcuffed Chinese burglary suspect has his injured ankle massaged by the woman living in the flat he reportedly broke into in Chongqing. Photo: ifeng

‘Patriotic’ Chinese company warns staff they face sack if they buy yet-to-be released iPhone 7

Staff at a Hangzhou company have been warned not to buy a new iPhone 7 and are being offered money to trade in their existing iPhones for mainland-brand phones. Photo: Alamy

Snatch and grab: former representative wrestler arrested for handbag robbery

The robbery suspect is arrested by police. SCMP Pictures

Woman dies after falling from motorcycle onto broken umbrella handle

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Chinese fugitive hands himself in to police after watching ‘emotional’ TV drama

The former fugitive pictured after giving himself up to the police. Photo: Mytaizhou.net

Reluctant rescue: police save uncooperative man from bottom of well

A policeman is lowered headfirst into a well to rescue an old man. SCMP Pictures
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