Guizhou

Ordinary citizens in China do not have ready access to firearms. So it was considered front-page news recently when police announced that they had broken up an underground gun manufacturing and sales ring, impounding 15,000 guns and 120,000 knives.

Drivers passing through a so-called “time tunnel” in Guizhou often find their mobiles have lost an hour in time when they come out the other side.

A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and paraded through the street after accidentally spilling water onto an official car in China.

The Chinese Ministry of Health on Monday reported that there were two new human cases of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu in southwestern China, state-run media reported this weekend.