Deadly courier

Shanghai YTO Express (Logistics) Co Ltd apologized Saturday on it's Weibo for the death of a client poisoned by the company's express parcel.

Liu Xingliang, from Guangrao county of East China's Shandong province, died on Nov 29 after receiving a poisonous parcel containing a pair of children's shoes. The hospital's diagnosis showed that Liu was poisoned by a liquid called Methyl fluoroacetate.

Related: China's express delivery volume surges

Long-haul commuters

Hundreds of thousands of people working in Beijing but living in Yanjiao township, from the capital's neighboring Hebei province, commute every day between the two places, Beijing News reported.

These people chose to purchase apartments in the town, about 30 kilometers from the capital's downtown areas, because of Beijing's skyrocketing housing prices and limitations on house purchases.

Related: Home prices continue to rise in November

Expensive lost-and-found

A man from Liuzhou city of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region confessed to police that six bankbooks with a value of 170 million yuan ($28 million) were fabricated. A chef had handed in a men's purse he found on the roadside with the six bankbooks to the police.

Birth certification taken back

The worker at the family planning office said the real reason for the taking back is the couple are not qualified for the certification. The couple will probably have to conduct abortion and they will prosecute the family planning office for compensation if it is necessary.

Related: New 'two-child' rules to start from early 2014

Official's mother is a rag picker

Qing Lidong, the party committee secretary of Wenchuan county which was hit by the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, leads a busy life for handling his work. He seldom has time to keep his old mother company and she goes out to collect scraps to kill time.

Qing's old mother shares with him the thoughts of people from the grassroots level that she meets when she picks scraps on the streets.

Fake migrant labourers

More than one hundred students of Zhongyuan University of Technology were told to attend a social practice activity on December 19. It turns out to be that they were sent to a construction site to pretend to be migrant workers for the inspection of the company's leaders.

The person in charge of the activity from the university said that the school did not do this for money. It was a favor to the company,which has sponsored some activities of the school.

Antique digging fever

Rumor has it that numerous people in the near villages become rich by digging and selling antiques. Therefore many villagers quit their job to dig for antiques.

Ancient painting survives

His father folded the painting, wrapped it into a raincoat and buried it in the soil of a flowerpot. By doing this, the paining survived the Cultural Revolution.