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(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-04-01 13:30

A girl is beaten on a Shenyang bus after she complains about giving her seat to an elderly man, more than 180 arrested in major drug bust in Guangdong province and a man tries - and fails - to build his own private cellar in an underground parking garage.

Illegal GM crops destroyed

Authorities destroyed genetically modified corn and cotton crops used in illegal trials in 2013.

The provincial agricultural department confirmed on Monday that it conducted surveys in Sanya, Lingshui and Ledong from Dec 23 to 27 and examined 107 crop samples, from which it identified and destroyed nine corn and cotton genetically modified crop trials. There were also six suspected samples waiting on further inspection and verification.

Woman dies after marathon

A woman fainted during a half marathon and died later in the hospital on Sunday, chinanews.com reported.

The woman, 25, collapsed after she had run 18 kilometers. She was revived with CPR but later died in a nearby hospital, where she was taken for treatment. During the marathon held in East China's Suzhou city, 13 people were sent to hospitals for treatment. More than 20,000 competitors from 30 countries and regions took part in the race.

Underground cellar banned

A man who built walls for many parking spaces he bought at an underground parking garage to transform the area into a private cellar was ordered to demolish the work by the city's management department, Wenzhou Metropolis Daily reported Monday.

The man from Wenzhou city, East China's Zhejiang province, was using the parking space right under his first-story house, both of which occupy 300-square-meters. He had already built a staircase to the underground lot.

Driver donates blood to woman

The driver of a blood donation vehicle in Chenzhou donated blood 19 times to a woman to allow her to give birth to healthy twins, Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.

Liu Jianbo, who works for the city's central blood station, learned in November 2011 that a woman suffered a rare autoimmune disease that caused her to have repeated miscarriages. Doctors said the only cure is immune cells from a healthy adult through blood transfusions on a monthly basis. Liu started to donate in December 2011 and donated 19 times in the following 19 months.

Officials punished in nepotism case

Twenty-two officials have been punished in a nepotism case, central authorities said on Monday.

Seven officials in Jiangyong were dismissed or given serious warnings for illegally transferring their children or relatives into government agencies, according to the Organization Department of the Party's Central Committee. Another 15 officials, including a municipal official in Yongzhou, which administers the county, were given warnings or dismissed. The children and relatives of the officials have been dismissed.

Drug village busted

182 suspects allegedly involved in drug production and trafficking were seized, and 77 drug factories were busted in a recent raid in Boshe village, Lufeng city of South China's Guangdong province, Cntv.cn reported Monday.

2,900 kilograms of ice, a kind of drug, were seized in the raid that involved more than 3,000 police officers. Preliminary investigation shows that one-fifth of the residents in the village are involved in drug production and trafficking.

Girl beaten on the bus

A girl surnamed Zhu was beaten on the bus as she complained when giving up her seat to a senior citizen in Shenyang, North China's Liaoning province.

When an old man in his 70s got on the bus, his daughter-in-law demanded that Zhu should give her seat to the man, who suffered from heart disease. Zhu did so but complained as there were many other passengers sitting on the bus.

Then the old man, his son and daughter-in-law beat Zhu. Zhu's mother then called the police to resolve the dispute.

South China's Guangdong province published a list of commodities with defects found in the province on Monday, Southeast Express reported.

The list, published by the administrative department for industry and commerce in Guangdong, includes 53 commodities that could endanger the safety of people and their properties.

More than half of all the listed items were bedding. Three other types of commodities listed are clothes, air conditioners and toys.

HK Feng shui master dies in landslide

Hong Kong feng shui master Cheng Kwok-keun – who counted many Hong Kong celebrities among his clients - has been killed in a landslide as he was providing services to a client at a cemetery in Zhaoqing, Guangdong province.

Cheng was with six other people at the time of the accident - and five others died and one was injured. They were trying to identify an appropriate allocation for a grave when the landslide happened due to the rainstorms in recent days.

Cheng often came to the Chinese mainland to offer feng shui consultations, Sing Tao Daily reported.

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Navy hero remembered

People's Daily Tuesday called for strengthening defense and protecting territorial seas with a micro blog entry in memory of the late fighter pilot Wang Wei.

The post on Sina Weibo reads:

Thirteen years ago on Tuesday, a Chinese fighter plane collided with a US spy plane over the South China Sea.

After a 14-day sea search, pilot Wang Wei, 33, was not found. He was honored as a "Guardian of Territorial Airspace and Waters".

The Chinese Navy held a sea funeral and as the Qingming Tomb Sweeping Festival approaches, "guardian" Wang is commemorated.

The incident always remindes us that we must strengthen national defense and protect territorial seas.

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