China Daily

The China Daily (or as I like to call it, "Everything's Terrific!") is the English-language newspaper here. The paper features a particularly amusing section called "News from Around China." Typical stories include comically bungled robberies, peasants who get rich somehow and, recently, a woman who crashed her car while teaching her dog how to drive.

I'll try to post some of the more hilarious stories here. Starting with this one involving "massive bees."

Bees cause truck to crash, damaging road
(China Daily)Updated: 2006-09-13 10:00

An expressway from Mianyang to Guangyuan of Sichuan Province had to be closed for about 2 hours last week due to an accident caused by massive bees flying over the section.

The road was seriously damaged after a truck, fully loaded with 27 tons of goods, crashed by the roadside and fell 30 metres, though no one was seriously injured.

The accident occurred when the truck's driver tried to wave some bees away from his cab while driving.

West China's Metropolis News