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SUPERMARKET FIRES CHUBBY CASHIER
A female cashier has been sacked for being too fat at a supermarket in Wenzhou. Teh girl was dismissed after her second day of work because her supervisor thought she was overweight. THe supermarket has agreed to pay the girl for the two days of work.

WHATEVER NEXT? HENS MIGHT FLY
A hen amazed Nanjing residents on Monday by taking flight. THe hen was seen flying between buildings and wires, all dozens of metres above the ground. The hen's owner said she bought it in Anhui days ago and kept it on the balcony of her family's fifth floor apartment until it disappeared. Experts specualte that the hen might have developed the ability to fly because it was raised in the wilderness.

CROOKED HIGHWAY HAS BETTER FENGSHUI
Officials from Shanglin County's communications bureau in the Guangxi Zhunag Autonomous Region have been puzzling over how and why a straight highway built to link the county's Lujing Village to the Mingliang Town-ship has been reconstructed into a crooked one. Local villagers raised a large sum of money to reconstruct the straight highway into a zigzag because they were told last month by a fortune teller that the road was too straight and was affecting the village's fengshui.

LONG_HAIRED STUDENTS TURNED AWAY FROM CLASS
THe local education department in Guangzhou's Baiyan District is investigating complaints from the parents of more than 30 female students who were refused entry to their school on Tuesday because of the length of their hair. The grade 3 students who attend the junior department of the Guangzhou No.115 High School, had to wait outside the school for a whole day because their hair falls below their shoulders.

76-YEAR-OLD SAYS HIS SEX LIFE'S NO GOOD
A court has rejected a 76-year-old's case for divorce in Chongqing Municipality recently. The man wanted to divorce his wife because he was dissatisfied with their sex life. Ma and his wife have been married for 50 years, but he recently decided to file for divorce to seek a better sex life. Ma said he and his wife have not had sex for years. Ma is said to have a girlfriend in her 40's with whom he wants to live. The court rejected Ma's case ruling "Fifty years of marriage prove that the couple have a stable love basis."