A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52 pound (7.04 kilogram) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country's founding in 1949.
The state-run Tianjin Post said Tuesday that the 29-year-old mother in Henan province gave birth to the boy Saturday by cesarean section.
It said delivery took just 20 minutes and both mother and the baby, named Chun Chun, are doing fine. The paper said Chun Chun's parents are average size and there was nothing unusual about his mother's pregnancy or diet.
The paper said it wasn't immediately clear whether Chun Chun made China's record books. Guinness World Records says the heaviest newborn ever recorded was born to an Ohio woman in 1879 and weighed 23.7 pounds (10.77 kilograms).
If you ever doubted real X-Men were among us, check out the neat super-power of Nong Youhui, a young Chinese boy who can see in total darkness.
Riddick, the cool antihero played by Vin Diesel in Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi movie characters, but I never dreamed of someday reading about somebody who could actually see in the dark. The first news about a little Chinese child with cat-like eyes who could see in the dark as well as normal people see in clear daylight, first broke out in 2009. Doctors who examined little Nong Youhui said he was born with a rare condition known as luekodermia, which leaves his eyes exposed to sunlight damage, but also allow him to see clearly in the dark.
An eye-specialist recently visited the boy, in his home village, in China’s Guanxi province, to examine his unusual eyes. the first thing he noticed when he arrived was that Nong’s eyes were light blue just like Westerners, but very unusual for Asians. He became even more intrigued when he noticed that when shined upon with a flashlight, the boy’s eyes would emit a kind of blue-green light, just like a cat’s. As it turned out, his eyes not only looked liked a feline’s they also allowed him to see and even read perfectly in total darkness.
Nong Shihua, the boy’s father, says two months after he was born, he was told there was something strange about Youhui’s eyes, but when they went to a hospital, the doctor told them not to worry, and that his eyes would be fine when he grew up. His eyes remained the same, but since they didn’t seem to bother the boy, his family began to care less and less about this abnormality. He would go to school, play outside with other kids, and pretty much everything else young boys his age do, but one day, a teacher noticed something peculiar – Youhui squinted his eyes in bright light and complained about blurry vision. Then one of the boy’s playmates told him his eyes were like a cat’s and that really got him intrigued.
The teacher shinned a flashlight and Nong Youhui’s eyes flashed back, just like a feline’s. He asked him if he could see in the dark, and the boy said yes. Then one night he invited him to catch crickets at night, and the Nong told him he didn’t need a flashlight to see the bugs. When rumors about his unusual gift spread, many reporters came and performed all kinds of tests to see if he was for real. They blocked out all light and had him answer some questions in the dark, while others showed him a series of playing cards, to see if he could recognize them. He past all tests, and his reputation of Cat-boy, Starchild, or real-life mutant kept growing.
You can watch the video here.
News Source: odditycentral.com
An armed robber who held up a babysitter was shamed into leaving empty-handed when two young children offered him their pocket money.
The man had rung the doorbell of a house in the German town of Schwanewede, near Bremen, and then forced his way in, reports The Local.
Armed with a gun and wearing a balaclava, the man had the terrified babysitter at gunpoint when the children she was looking after, came downstairs.
When they offered him their savings, he was apparently overcome with shame and left the house without a word - or a penny.
"The children had heard what was going on from upstairs and came down with their money, all their savings," a police spokesman said.
He said he was not releasing the ages of the children in order to protect them from being identified, but that they were both younger than seven.
"The robber must have realised what he was doing was awful, and simply put his gun away and left," added the spokesman.
At least the robber has some conscience not to rob and harm children. Isn't that bad after all, eh?
News Source: Orange.co.uk
Take a quick guess, how many children can be accomodated in a minivan meant for 8 people?
Well, the answer is a whopping 64 children! A minivan was stopped by police in China, who discover the driver is hauling 64 children in a minivan built for eight.
Police in Qianan, a city in north China's Hebei Province, say they pulled over the van on suspicion of being overloaded when they discovered the Crayola-packed 4- and 5-year-olds, along with the driver and a teacher. The rear of the minivan had been stripped and wood benches installed to haul children to school with FedEx-like spacial efficiency.
The driver was apparently given only a stiff fine. The police needed 12 vans to ferry all the kids home safely.
Probably the driver has broken the Guiness Book of Records. Hey, we never know! Do watch the video here.
A farmer whose child was severely burned in a fire had surgery to donate his skin without general anesthesia, as he could not afford the medical fees.
Du Jinhui, 31, volunteered to endure the pain after learning his 5-year-old daughter had suffered burns to 60 percent of her body in a blaze on Aug 16.
"He broke out in a sweat and screamed when I removed the skin," said Shi Longjie, the doctor who operated on Du at Hebei Friendship Hospital in Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital.
"Though he was in great pain when his skin was removed, he still asked me to take away more skin if it was good for his daughter," Shi added.
Shi said removing skin under local anesthesia is risky and painful, but Du a migrant worker from Lingshou county in Hebei province, said his decision was "natural" and that any father would do the same for their child.
Du said after the operation that he could not afford to have general anesthesia so he opted to take more than 100 shots of local anesthetic, which cost about 700 yuan ($110) less.
He said another reason for him to choose local anesthesia was that he would not be able to see his daughter in the operating room if he took the general anesthesia.
"The doctor told me I wouldn't be able to move for about six hours if I took the general anesthesia," said Du. "I didn't want to miss my daughter's operation."
News of his bravery has touched many Chinese people and prompted questions about the healthcare available in China for rural residents.
"Where are the social security system and the medical care system when they are supposed to take effect?" said a netizen posting under the name Chenxiaolongv from East China's Shandong province on Sina Weibo, China's largest micro-blogging platform.
"Even if the medical care system has waived part of the fees, some patients still can't afford the rest," said Ding Jianding, director of the Social Security Institute under Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Ding said that under the rural cooperative medical care system a farmer will be reimbursed about 60 percent of any medical costs, which should range between 1,000 yuan and 40,000, depending on local economic conditions.
But even though his daughter was covered by the rural cooperative medical care system, and the hospital exempted part of the cost of treatment, Du was still worried the family would end up with a debt of more than 100,000 yuan because of the medical bills.
Du earns about 10,000 yuan a year. Besides taking care of his two daughters and jobless wife, who was also injured in the fire, he still needs to support his parents, who live with him.
Shi, the doctor who operated on Du, said his patients living in rural areas frequently choose to give up treatment if their conditions are serious, as they cannot afford the treatment.
Ding said the medical care system for serious illnesses in rural areas should be improved to reduce the financial burden of farmers.
"We hope that the current reimbursement percentage of the medical bill, which cannot meet people's needs, will be increased in the future," said Ding.
Thanks to wide media coverage, people have donated at least 30,000 yuan to Du's daughter for her treatment.
But netizens called for more to be done for many other poor rural families who might be in a similar plight.
This man's love for his daughter is so great that I believe he would even die for her. I pray that when his daughter grows up, she will love and treasure him and take care of him when he grows old. That'll be the very least she can do to show her appreciation.
News source: chinadaily.com
I must share this heartwarming story on how a Chinese woman with a big heart adopts 80 children even though she is trying hard to make ends meet. I believe her selfless act will definitely touch you.
In Yaopu village, Shanxi Province, Li Yanping is known as a one-person orphanages who has taken care of 80 abandoned children over a period of 22 years.
This 12-year-old Chinese boy has been chained up by his uncle for the past two years. It’s claimed that this is for his own safety because he’s mentally handicapped – but most people will find these images truly shocking.
Cai Changqing, from Erlongshan village in Harbin, north-east China’s Heilongjiang Province, is shackled each day to a shabby shelter outside his uncle’s home.
The uncle, Cai Quan comments: ‘The kid can’t speak at all. Originally his parents thought he would speak late, but later they found he is mentally handicapped.’
According to Quan he has to chain his nephew up because, otherwise, he runs away.
In 2009 Changqing ran out into the road in the city and was severely injured after being run over by a van.
Quan was left to care for Changqing after the boy’s mother died and his father was left paralysed from an accident.
Following the van accident Changqing started to chain his nephew up each day, using a 16ft-long length of iron chain wrapped around the youngster’s waist.
His treatment brings to mind other instances of cruelty to children in China.
Last December pictures emerged of 12-year-old twins Li Luqin and Li Shuangqin tied up by their father Li Wancheng in Yunnan Province.
He began binding them ten years ago for fear they would hurt themselves.
The family currently lives along the roadside in China’s Yunnan Province. The father is trying to save enough money to get medical treatment for the girls.
He is adamant his daughters are not safe to be allowed to roam and the pair have to make do with a life that involves being tied to a fence or a tree – or to each other – every day.
Passers-by often react angrily as they watch the young girls trapped in their confines, with the ropes cutting into their wrists as they try to wriggle free.
‘When they were two they were found to be not normal,’ says Wancheng. He hopes they can be “cured” once he pays for them to be seen by a doctor, but says: ‘We only have 1000 Yuan (£100) of savings. We don’t have extra.’
Another shocking case that came to light last year was that of a two-year-old boy, Cheng Jingdan, who was pictured chained to a lamp post to stop him getting away while his father worked as a rickshaw driver and his handicapped mother scavenged through rubbish.
Jingdan has since become a pupil at a nursery in the Chinese capital Beijing thanks to the generosity of those who read about his plight.
News source: dailymail
