Society

Armless student teethes his way into college

(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-09-08 08:36

China Scene: East

Armless student teethes his way into college

Dai Junsong, a 22-year-old resident of Anhui province's Mengcheng county, could not control his emotions when he set foot inside a college in Rizhao, Shandong province, for his orientation on Friday.

Dai lost both his arms to a powerful electric shock 11 years ago.

He took the National College Entrance Exam this June, holding the pen between his teeth.

Impressed with his determination to graduate, the college has offered Dai a free apartment on campus for the entire duration of his course.

(Qilu Evening News)

Cop saves 37 lives as bus driver faints at wheel

A bus passenger used his presence of mind to save 37 lives onboard when he took control of the steering wheel after the driver suddenly lost consciousness on an expressway in Taishun, Zhejiang province, recently.

The bus was traveling at a speed of about 100 km/h when passengers realized that the driver had fainted at the wheel.

Li Shihui, a policeman sitting right behind the driver, immediately took control of the wheel and steered the bus seconds before it was going to crash into another truck.

A week later, the bus company presented a silk banner to Li's office.

(metro express)

Boyfriend bent on lighting up blind lover's life

A resident of Qingdao, Shandong province, has taken care of his blind girlfriend for two years and never intends to give up.

Zhao Jie, 36, lost her eyesight following a rare infection in 2008. Despite Zhao's insistence, her 42-year-old boyfriend refuses to leave her.

He plans to open a spa to arrange the money required for Zhao's treatment.

(Peninsula City News)

Man purchases extremely rare animal on street

A resident of Jingjiang, Jiangsu province, recently bought an odd-looking animal from a roadside vendor only to find out it was a strictly protected species.

Xia bought the fluffy animal, which seemed like a combination of a raccoon and a monkey, for 1,000 yuan ($147).

Days later, Xia figured his new pet ate nothing but fruits and insects. Experts arrived at his house and told Xia that his pet was a pigmy loris, a rare animal that only became known to man in 1986.

Experts are still clueless as to how the animal, which is only found in a few forests of Southeast Asia, showed up in East China.

(Yangtze Evening News)

North

Biker cheats death after bus and van crash into him

A biker miraculously escaped death after a bus and a minivan crashed into him one after another in Shenyang, Liaoning province, on Thursday.

The man, who was on an electric bike, was at a zebra crossing when a speeding bus knocked him down. Seconds later, as the man was trying to get up, a minivan ran into him.

The man, in his 40s, was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors could not detect any injuries but a few minor bruises.

(Shenyang Evening News)

Accused says jailed lover asked her to peddle drugs

Police in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, recently arrested a woman who allegedly trafficked drugs on the insistence of her imprisoned boyfriend.

Zhuang Hongxia, a 43-year-old divorcee, came in contact with the 45-year-old prisoner when the latter phoned her by mistake in March. The wrong number subsequently led to several phone calls and the two fell in love.

Zhuang told the police it was her boyfriend who convinced her to peddle drugs.

The police recovered kilograms of drugs hidden under Zhuang's mattress following a tip-off in July.

(Heilongjiang Morning post)

'Owner' clueless of phone numbers under her name

A resident of Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, had no clue she had 20 fixed-line telephone numbers under her name until China Unicom came knocking on her door with unpaid bills last week.

The woman's husband, surnamed Nie, was told someone probably acquired the numbers using his wife's ID.

After much deliberation, China Unicom agreed to cancel the phone numbers without charging the couple a penny.

(Shanxi Evening News)

West

Search for China's best campus singer kicks off

A grand ceremony was held in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Tuesday to mark the beginning of a competition to select the best singers in Southwest China's campuses.

Winners of the competition will compete with the best campus singers from all over the mainland, Taiwan, Macao and Hong Kong to win the title of the "best campus singer in China".

All high school and college students above the age of 16 are eligible to participate in the competition.

The grand finale of the nationwide contest will be held in Hong Kong in December, said Bai Meng, president of the competition's organizing committee.

"Compared with the 1980s and 1990s - the peak of the campus songs in China - there are very few songs that can explain the emotions of a student," Bai said. "We are also encouraging competitors to sing self-written songs."

(China Daily)

Jobless graduate, brother held for trading drugs

Police in Chongqing recently arrested two brothers, one of whom is a fresh graduate, on charges of drug trafficking.

The idea to trade drugs was the brainwave of the elder brother, who dreamt of turning rich quickly.

He sold his house for 300,000 yuan ($44,100) to purchase drugs from a foreign country, before convincing his younger brother, who was sitting jobless after graduating this year, to join him in the trade.

While the elder brother was in charge of developing potential buyers in Chongqing, the younger one transported the drugs from Yunnan, the police said.

Both of them were arrested from Yunnan province last week.

(Chongqing Evening News)

South

'Multi-faced' thief baffles police, public help sought

Newspapers in Haikou, Hainan province, on Monday published photographs of a wanted man who is accused of withdrawing 4,100 yuan ($604) from another person's account.

The photographs show the man first tried to cover his face with a wallet and then kept making strange faces in an effort to avoid being clearly captured by the surveillance camera in an ATM.

The police have released the photographs in hope of getting clues from the public about the suspect.

(Nanguo Metropolis Daily)

Two arrested for spreading bridge collapse rumor

Two men accused of spreading a rumor of a bridge collapse in Nanning, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, were recently arrested on charges of disturbing social order.

On Sept 1, a resident, surnamed Tang, posted online that the Yonghe Bridge had collapsed and three buses had plunged into the water.

Another netizen, Zhang, then passed the message around, saying he was on his way to the scene of the accident.

(The Beijing News)

Central

Suspect on the run for years gets homesick, held

A suspect who had been at large for eight years was finally arrested last Sunday when he returned to his hometown Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province.

Hai Si, who is accused of severely injuring a man in 2002, first fled to Yunnan province from where he illegally entered Myanmar.

Following his arrest, Hai said he returned to Zhengzhou because he was "terribly homesick".

Though Hai had chopped off his hair so that he would not be identified, an acquaintance recognized him at a wedding banquet and informed the police.

(Henan Business Daily)

Duo sentenced for stealing gold while cleaning jewelry

A court in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, last week convicted two men who stole gold while cleaning jewelry free of cost.

Wang Nan and Wang Hong were arrested when a customer realized her gold necklace was 3.5 grams lighter after the duo had finished cleaning it.

The two confessed to have stolen gold worth 3,127 yuan ($459) from three customers by dipping the pieces into nitrohydrochloric acid.

Wang Nan was sentenced to six months in jail with a one-year reprieve and a fine of 3,000 yuan while Wang Hong was handed down term of five months with a six-month reprieve and a fine of 2,000 yuan.

(Dahe Daily)

Notary office rejects man's demand to legalize break-up

A resident of Henan province's Fangcheng county went to the local notary office hoping to legalize an agreement to break off an extramarital relationship on Saturday.

Since the country deems extramarital relationships illegal and immoral, the man was kicked out of the office.

According to the agreement, the man would pay his mistress 150,000 yuan ($22,000) if she agreed to end their relationship and take full responsibility for the baby they had out of wedlock.

(China News Service)

Woman, lover get life terms for killing adopted son

A court in Yuzhou, Henan province, disregarded 300 villagers' plea for leniency toward a woman who killed her adopted son.

The woman and her lover were convicted on Saturday of axing the 20-year-old to death on Dec 13, 2009, and sentenced to life in prison.

According to the villagers, the woman's adopted son often beat her up when she refused to give him money for alcohol and drugs.

(Henan Business Daily)