Hen in Chinese village flies to tree to lay eggs daily!

September 30th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A Chinese community of dwarves was so frustrated with people making fun of their height that they turned their remote village into a theme park. Initially the tiny group in Kunming, southern China, was established by dwarves who came together after complaining about being discriminated by 'big people".

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese man was hospitalised after he was stung by more than a hundred bees while chopping a tree last week. The incident took place in Changjiang, Hainan province, reports the China Daily.

September 12th, 2009 HONG KONG - Hong Kong firemen rescued a pet parrot and its owner who were perched precariously in a tree, 10 meters above ground, a news report said Sunday. Twelve firemen and an ambulance crew were called in after the 36-year-old owner got stuck high in a tree while trying to retrieve his parrot, called Birdie, Saturday.

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 12-year-old Chinese boy has found himself three very unusual friends - wild birds. Wu Rongtao brought them to his house in Lianyuan, Hunan province, after he found them injured and lying under a tree three months ago, reports the China Daily.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The sight of a cow cooled off a raging bull that had created a ruckus and destroyed four vehicles in Changsha, capital of Hunan province. The bull was roped to a tree near the road, when it suddenly got furious and broke loose, reports The China Daily.

August 13th, 2009 LONDON - A pilot who survived when his plane crashed into a tree on a Dundee golf course said he had the Biggles adventure stories to thank for his miraculous escape. The 56-year-old Hagedorn, a pilot and a business consultant, said his childhood love for Biggles books "saved his life" when his plane rammed into a tree on the 15th hole after he ran out of fuel.

August 13th, 2009 SYDNEY - Punjab Place, a street in the Australian city of Brisbane, would continue to keep its name after a petition to change it led to criticism. Residents in the Logan city suburb of Boronia Heights had signed a petition to change a street name from "Punjab Place" to "Oak Tree Place", The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.

August 13th, 2009 BRISBANE - An Indian Australian developer has accused Queensland authorities of indulging in "clear cut racism" with regard to a move to change the name of a street from "Punjab Place" to "Oak Tree Place" Developer Manjit Bopirai said he was responsible for the sub-division at Boronia Heights, in Logan south of Brisbane in 2005, and the street was named at his request. Bopirai told The Courier-Mail he would fight to retain the name Punjab Place.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two homeless Chinese men are reported to have been living on a tree for several months, after they were kicked out from their previous resting place. Urban management officers had kicked the two men in the Baoan district of Shenzhen, Guangdong province, out of a train tunnel, where they had been sleeping, reports the China Daily.

August 2nd, 2009 DHAKA - Concerned at the rising price of eggs, an everyday item in a Bangladeshi home, the government is considering large-scale imports, possibly from India. There is resistance from the poultry product makers and an earlier proposal by GE Enterprises, a private trading firm, to import a billion eggs from India was shot down.

August 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Five generations of a Chinese family, having 81 members, are living under one roof. The oldest member of the family is 95 years of age.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese village headman has been living in a cave for two years in an effort to get a road linking the village to the outside world constructed. Yang Baolin, 49, deputy director of villagers' committee of Shuping village, an area in Zhen'an County, Shaanxi province, surrounded by hills, decided to build a 15-km road connecting the village with the main highway, reports the China Daily.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - For those who lack the most basic culinary skills, or are simply too lazy to boil an egg, you have your prayers answered, for ready-to-eat free-range eggs are just around the corner. The Happy Egg Company has struck deals with supermarkets, and is offering eggs "cooked to perfection" in packs of two or four.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 29-year-old Chinese woman miraculously escaped death after she jumped off the 27th floor. Chen, a hypochondria, tried to commit suicide by jumping off the 27th floor of a building and landed on the car roof, reports China Daily.

May 20th, 2009 LONDON - A yew tree, whose canopy is said to be as big as the size of London's Royal Albert Hall, has entered the record books as the widest tree in the UK. The tree, which was discovered in the grounds of Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, and which has engulfed a National Trust garden, is 50 metres wider than its nearest rival, and has a crown circumference of 175.5 metres.