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Published on March 07, 2012
CHINESE KEPT THEIR SON IN CAGE FOR SECURITY MEASURES
- Way Yun, 23, has spent all his life in a wooden cage, The Huffington Post reports and publishes photos of the young man.
As the step-mother of the man tells, the parents had left him alone long ago and when they returned their son had got boiling water on him and was injured. After that his father decided to solve the security issue once and for all by locking him in a cage.
The young man has never communicated with other young people, has not gone to school. Moreover, he has not even learned to walk and crawls like a child and makes weird noises.
His mother sometimes takes him out of the cage to bathe him.
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Headlines for March 07, 2012ARMENIAN DAILY'S CHIEF EDITOR INTENDS TO RUN FOR PARLIAMENTARY SEAT - NEWSPAPER
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YEREVAN. - A magnitude-2.4 earthquake was registered in Armenia, on Tuesday at 11:52 p.m. local time, 8 km east of Ashotsk village,
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PARIS. - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will receive, on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. Paris time, a group of representatives from the Armenian community of France, the Élysée Palace informed, ...DUTCH MP MEETS WITH LOCAL ARMENIAN COMMUNITY
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The Armenian Public Television officially informed the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) of their withdrawal ...AZERBAIJAN FAILS TO LEAD OSCE MISSION TO ITS FRONT-LINES
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