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Exotic dancers attend 70-year-old's funeral
A family in Fujian Province invited a troupe of exotic dancers to take part in a funeral ceremony for their grandmother, reports Qianlong.com.
The family, in the village of Linying, lost their 70-year-old grandma, and hired a dance troupe for more than 1,000 yuan (US$120) to make the ceremony more colorful.
Five female members of the troupe danced in bra-tops and attracted some 20 onlookers.
Size doesn't matter in medical world
Diminutive Feng Tianqi's academic success proves conclusively that size doesn't matter. Pint-sized Feng, from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has braved discrimination for almost 20 years and completed her internship recently, reports Xinjiang Metropolis News.
A senior student majoring in medicine at a college, Feng stands less than 1 metre in height. She said she found herself different from other children when she was six years old and from then on had been battling discrimination until she entered university in 2000 with excellent academic results.
Now she has completed her eight months of internship at a small hospital and her next goal is to find a job and raise funds to open her own clinic in the future.
Bonus reduced for weight gained
Xiao Qin, a saleswoman at the Dazhong Electricity Appliance Shopping Center in Beijing, is trying to shed kilos since her bonuses will be reduced if she weighs more than the standard weight set by the company, Beijing Times reports.
According to the company's rule to take effect on May 1, those who weigh more than 25 percent of the standard weight - height in centimeters minus 100 - will have their bonuses reduced.
The regulation has triggered protests from the staff since some of them described the regulation as "unreasonable."
But the head of the company insists the regulation helps improve workers' health and efficiency.
The rule constitutes discrimination against overweight workers and violates the Labour Law, and the company's employees have the right to file a complaint with the local labour department, said a lawyer.
Folk recipe no cure for disease
A woman in Shandong drank medicine made from a folk recipe to cure a swelling of her left index finger but her body swelled up like a balloon as a result, reports Bandao Dushi News.
The woman, surnamed Cui, found that taking the folk prescription - white spirit with a mixture of ground hornet's nest and powdered black sesame - did not cure her but harmed her instead.
Cui has spent more than 5,000 yuan (US$600) on healing the allergic reaction caused by the folk prescription.
The doctor who diagnosed Cui warned that people should not credulously believe in folk magic cures and should seek professional advice.
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