China court orders wedding party to pay US$34,000 after brutal bridesmaid prank

A 20-year-old woman from central China who served as a bridesmaid had one of her vertebrae fractured and became seriously disabled after a prank activity at a wedding. A court in Ruyang county, in Henan province, released its verdict on the case to the public in early July, aiming to raise awareness of the controversial wedding revelry, news portal gmw.cn reported. As part of nuptial ceremonies, wedding hazing, called hun nao in Chinese, dates back thousands of years, originally being intende...

By Alice Yan