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A 2-year-old girl was left with serious injuries after a woman stabbed her in the back in an underground shopping mall on Friday morning, police said.

Chen Yan (R), a 51-year-old woman, waves to crowds while impersonating China's late Chairman Mao Zedong, during a photocall in Mianyang, Sichuan province May 26, 2007. Chen, who stands at 1.55 meters (5 feet 1 inch) has to wear a pair of specially designed shoes to increase her height to 1.80 meters (5 feet 11 inches) to imitate Mao. She was discovered by a beautician while impersonating Mao on a local TV show. [Reuters]

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The long arms of the world's tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs, state media and an aquarium official said Thursday.

After losing the title to Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk in 2006, Bao Xishun has been renamed the world's tallest man according to Guinness World Records. The roll-back to Bao was because Stadnyk refused to be officially measured, claiming he didn't want the fame and attention that has been showed on Bao.

For those of you who have missed the story (hard not to miss given it has received no press),a United Airlines flight was apparently held in Beijing for two days because of rats

A fantastic article about Hu Jie, a Chinese documentary filmmaker, and his quest to bring to light the story of Lin Zhao - a defiant woman who was arrested and eventually executed during Mao's Anti-Rightest Campaign of the late 50s, and who used her own blood to continue writing her critical analysis of the times from prison. In Hu's own words - the story shows how far China has come.

Vancouver-based Network Entertainment is producing the movie and two-part miniseries to air on CBC-TV next year. Iron Road is a love story set against the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad through the Rocky Mountains by Chinese labourers, who were treated little better than slaves.

It's a slow news day - besides that whole one-year-to-go thing - and while we were tempted to run with this story from the Shanghai Daily, the better angels of our nature prevailed and instead, we decided to republish an excerpt from our popular “Common mistakes and misperceptions when investing in China - and how to avoid them” China Briefing issue from July of last year.