An attractive female robot used as a tour guide for a Chinese art expo has been taken out of action after being groped by over-zealous tourists.

The robot was introduced to offer tour guides for visitors to the Jinzhou world garden art expo in Jinzhou, Liaoning province, northeast China.

But it proved too fascinating for many visitors who wanted to take a closer look at the robot which has bright red lips and wears a blue silk blue ballgown.

Expo spokesman Feng Kung said: ‘The event is a big occasion and we get lots of visitors, and it is a lot of stress for the guides, so we came up with the idea of using a robot.
‘But we designed it as an attractive female robot, and it seems more people are interested in grabbing the robot to have a snap made, or even fondling the dress to see what is underneath.

‘As a result of the interference the robot keeps breaking down, and we have to put the human guides back into place.

‘It is broken again  now for example, we think next year we will use a man or a more robot looking robot.

Introduced in the summer the robot was designed to last until the event ends in October.

A Chinese airline has launched a recruitment drive for married women with children to become ‘flight aunties’.

Spring Air, China’s biggest budget carrier, wants to recruit college-educated women aged between  25 and 45 to become its latest flight attendants.

The airline, which is calling the role ‘flight aunties’ says applicants who are married with children will be given top consideration.

As reported by China Real Time Report, the new approach is a unique shift from the normal recruitment by China’s state-owned carriers.

Spring Air’s previous age cap for new staff was 35.

But it said it was raising this to 45 following the results of a recent survey which concluded that 72 per cent of people preferred to be served by an experience flight attendant.

The airline says having a wider age profile among flight attendants will be beneficial. It said air hostesses who are younger are more enthusiastic while older ones can be more reliable and mature.

New wording in the law requiring people to visit or keep in touch with their elderly parents or risk being sued came into force Monday, as China faces increasing difficulty in caring for its aging population.

The amended law does little to change the status quo, however, because elderly parents in China already have been suing their adult children for emotional support and the new wording does not specify how often people must visit or clarify penalties for those who do not.

It is primarily aimed at raising awareness of the issue, said one of the drafters, Xiao Jinming, a law professor at Shandong University. “It is mainly to stress the right of elderly people to ask for emotional support … we want to emphasize there is such a need,” he said.

China’s legislature amended the law in December following frequent reports of elderly parents neglected by their children. It says offspring of parents older than 60 should see that their daily, financial and spiritual needs are met.

The number of Chinese seniors is expected to skyrocket from the current 185 million to 487 million, or 35 percent of the population, by 2053, according to figures from the China National Committee On Aging.

The expanding ratio is due both an increase in life expectancy — from 41 to 73 over five decades — and by family planning policies that limit most urban families to a single child.

A couple fell to their deaths after a window they were having sex against gave way in China.

The pair are said to have fallen from the window of an apartment block in the Chinese city of Wuhan when the window they were leaning against shattered.

Shocking pictures emerged on a local website showing the couple being covered in sheets by police.

Blood is spattered on the pavement nearby and detectives are seen examining the scene.

The couple’s bodies were pictured close to a bicycle which was laying on the ground, but there were no reports that anyone on the ground was injured in the incident.

Reports suggest that the windows in the apartment block were of poor quality.

It is thought that the man and woman may have been trying to keep cool by the window when the incident happened.

It is unclear how high up the pair were when they fell.

Wuhan is the most populous city in central China.

With a 3,500 year history it is one of the most ancient and civilised cities in China.

Chinese students have been forced to sleep in a university gym to escape a searing 38C heatwave.

The sports hall at the Central China Normal University in Wuhan is one of the only air-conditioned buildings on campus and has been converted into a temporary dorm.

Hundreds of students have been sleeping on woven rush mats on the floor since the heatwave began on Thursday. Some have brought home comforts with them, including duvets, blankets and soft toys.

For entertainment in the evenings the students have been playing cards together or using their mobile phones. Boys and girls have been separated by a barrier down the middle of the hall.

Wuhan, in Hubei Province in central China, is known as one of the country’s ‘four stoves’ because of its hot, humid summers.

Although temperatures average around 27C to 30C in July, its hottest month, the city heats up to over 35C (95F) on at least 20 days a year.

A Chinese man who went to the doctors with a swollen stomach was told that he is actually a woman.

The 66-year-old, who even has a beard, had lived his entire life as a man but was told by doctors in Hong Kong that his enlarged abdomen was caused by an ovarian cyst.

Tests revealed the patient suffered two rare genetic disorders that had gone undiagnosed.

They showed the patient had Turner Syndrome, a genetic condition that affects about one in 2,000 baby girls, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which increases male hormones.

The Hong Kong Medical Journal, which published the information yesterday, said only six cases of people with both disorders had ever been reported in medical literature.

The patient had grown up an orphan and stopped growing after puberty at the age of 10 and was just 4.5ft tall.

Girls with the disorder have normal female reproductive organs but can suffer with fertility problems.