From the widely read Chinese media
(China Daily)Updated: 2007-01-08 07:58
East
Xiamen man, 22, blames parents for his crimes
A
22-year-old man in Xiamen, Fujian, was arrested one night last month while
vandalizing expensive cars and stealing items from them, police said.
They
were stunned when the man, surnamed Wang, claimed he committed the crime and
others like it -- to vent his hatred against his millionaire parents.
The
relationship between Wang and his parents turned sour last September. Wang
apparently has been addicted to online games. Whenever he quarreled with his
parents, he said he would go out, smash open windows of luxury sedans on the
road and steal valuable things from them.
He said he once stole two sets of
golf equipment worth about 150,000 yuan ($19,200) from a car.
Southeast
Express
Upset by the low demand for their services, more than 20 licensed nutritionists in Jinan, capital of Shandong, recently worked out an alliance to introduce their profession to the public.
Liang, a member of the alliance, said he earned a certificate as a professional nutritionist last year in the belief the occupation had great potential. However, Liang was disappointed to find that few Chinese are aware they can turn to nutritionists for help even though they knew the importance of a balanced diet.
It was said that in Japan one of every 300 people hires a professional nutritionist, but across China, the number of certified nutritionists is fewer than 4,000.
Qilu Evening News
Wenzhou man donates 30,000 yuan for surgery
For the
father of a 5-year-old leukemia patient in Jilin Province, the biggest New
Year's wish is to be able to personally thank a businessman in Wenzhou,
Zhejiang, who gave the family 30,000 yuan ($3,842) in response to a message for
help from the father even though they have never met.
The father, surnamed
Wu, was informed that his son needed a bone marrow transplant, which would cost
the family 400,000 yuan ($51,200). Trying all the ways available, the family was
still short by 30,000 yuan. The desperate father then sent hundreds of short
messages to randomly selected phone numbers for help.
A businessman in
Wenzhou surnamed Zhen was the only person to call back. With Zhen's money, the
boy had the surgery a week later and was recovering now.
Today Morning
Post
North
New Year's housemaids free up parents' time
Instead of
giving household goods to their parents as gifts as is traditional, many dutiful
young people in Anshan, Liaoning, hired housemaids for their hardworking parents
during this New Year's holiday.
"I had a very easy day this New Year's
holiday with the help of a housemaid my son booked for me," a mother surnamed
Wang said. Without doing much housework, another mother said she had more time
to spend the holiday with her family members.
Booking temporary housemaids as
special gifts to their parents are likely to be popular again at Spring
Festival, the time for traditional family-reunions for Chinese, which starts on
February 18.
North Morning News
Fast-thinking cabbie lies, tells robber she has VD
A
woman taxi driver scared off a robber who she said wanted to rape her by
threatening him with a fabricated venereal disease.
The robber forced her to
drive to a remote grove in Huadian, Jilin, where he robbed her of her money and
tried to rape her last week. To get herself out of the trouble, she falsely
claimed that she had been infected with a venereal disease.
To her surprise,
the robber fell down in gratitude for telling him before he got out of the taxi
and ran.
The suspect was caught a few days later and put behind bars on
charges of robbery and attempted rape.
East Asia Economy and Trade
News
Busy signal on pick-up results in thief's
arrest
Police in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning, arrested a man who
admitted he tapped into other people's phone lines for his own purposes.
A
man surnamed Zhang caught the thief red-handed at the connector box near his
house last week. He became suspicious when he picked up his phone and heard a
busy signal.
When he found the caller outside, he called police. The thief
admitted that he had used Zhang's and many other users' phone lines for his own
benefit over the past few months.
Shenyang Today
South
Hong Kong gets tougher on animal protection
The Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Hong Kong (SPCA) has signed a
cooperation pact with the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department to
enforce the animal protection law.
SPCA inspectors will receive training on
how to collect and process evidence against animal abuse, and both will step up
patrols at locations about which there have been complaints.
The Legislative
Council passed an amendment to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance
last month, raising the maximum fine to HK$200,000 (US$25,600) and imprisonment
up to three years. A man was jailed for eating dog meat under the amended
law.
Ta Kung Pao
No joke: Four yolks in Guangdong egg
A chicken egg with
four yolks surprised not only the owner, surnamed Deng, but also many of her
neighbors in Maoming, Guangdong, this week.
Deng, a 40-year-old housewife,
said she broke the egg to cook at home.
Many of her curious neighbors,
relatives and friends immediately rushed in to see the special egg, which was
larger than an average chicken egg, when they learned about it.
Maoming
Evening News
Grandma's message:Study hard, contribute
Study hard
and contribute to society: That's the message of encouragement that a
70-year-old woman in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, wants to leave to her
grandchildren.
The woman, surnamed Xu, wrote her 30,000-character
reminiscences in three months and finished it last week. She said she has
nothing to offer her grandchildren except the reminiscences.
She teaches
young generations how to face adversity and overcome difficulties by relating
her own personal experiences, including the hard life she faced when she was
young.
Information Times
Central
Scales master sees sales going aweigh
Changsha resident
Wen Jinhui has become the last person to be producing scales that can weigh
items of less than 0.1 gram in Hunan's capital.
Wen, 54, said special skills
and patience are needed to produce such a sensitive scale that can weigh even a
hair.
He started learning to make steelyards at age 14 and once had eight
students, but none of them wants to learn how to produce such a sensitive scale,
which has been used by the Chinese for more than 2,000 years.
In his peak
years, Wen opened eight outlets to produce and sell scales in
Changsha.
Sanxiang Metropolis News
Farmer claims hen extraordinarily old
Farmer Chen
Yubin says he'll apply for a new Guinness world record for his hen, which is
more than 20 years old, in Zhengzhou, Henan's capital.
Chen, 32, said his
mother began raising the hen in his family's courtyard since he was just 12. The
average life span of a chicken is usually 7 to 8 years.
The brown-and-black
hen is 20 centimeters long, and 10 centimeters in height, and weighs 0.9
kilograms. And she is still healthy.
The oldest hen in the Guinness Book of
World Records records was 14 years old from the United States.
Dongfang
Jinbao
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