Around the nation: Man hauled out of hospital after overstaying his welcome...by three years
Also, girlfriend's loyalty test ends in tears and mother turns burglar to keep son at home
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 11 February, 2015, 9:23pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 11 February, 2015, 9:23pm
Police officers carry a man out of a Beijing hospital where he has been staying for more than three years. The man claimed doctors had injured his left leg during an operation in 2011 and refused to leave. Photo: Reuters
BEIJING
Industrial fatalities
More than 500 people were killed in industrial safety incidents in the capital between 2010 and last year, with the construction and manufacturing industries seeing the most fatalities, the Beijing Evening News reports, citing a study by the Beijing Administration of Work Safety. About 280 of the fatalities were related to non-compliance with safety procedures, and about 60 were tied to inadequate safety equipment, it said.
Faces of Winter Olympics
Basketball star Yao Ming has been named the ambassador in Beijing's bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, alongside five others, China News Service reports. Paralympic star Hou Bin, former figure skating world champions Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, and Olympic champion speed skater Zhang Hong are also among the ambassadors. Beijing is competing against Almaty, Kazakhstan, to host the event, and the International Olympic Committee will announce their decision in July.
CHONGQING
The cost of snacking
A Yubei district resident has complained of being forced to pay 300 yuan (HK$378) to retrieve six packages of snacks she had bought online, the Chongqing Evening News reports. The woman had received a text message saying that her packages of chocolates, biscuits, almonds and butter had been delivered to the wrong person, and was asked to pay 300 yuan - on top of the 1,000 yuan she had already paid for the goods - for the packages. She refused to do so, but when she finally received the packages, she found them empty.
Drug-lab gang busted
Chongqing police have arrested a group of people on suspicion of producing the illegal drug ephedrine and seized 7kg of the drug as well as 123 tonnes of ephedra grass, China News Service reports. The group had allegedly bought the grass in Inner Mongolia and set up underground laboratories to produce the drug. Investigations are ongoing.
FUJIAN
Bird flu cases on the rise
The Fujian provincial health bureau saw 30 human cases of the H7N9 bird flu virus last month, of which, eight people died, China News Service reports. The number was a significant increase from December, when six cases were recorded. Provincial authorities have closed down wet markets selling live poultry in cities including Fuzhou , Xiamen , Quanzhou and Zhangzhou .
Quack doctor jailed
A 78-year-old man in Sanming city has been sentenced to three years' jail, suspended for three years, for illegally practising medicine, the Strait City Daily reports. He had treated a 41-year-old man who later died of haemorrhagic shock. He had been trying to set a broken bone in the victim's left foot using a traditional Chinese medicine method, although he did not have a licence to practise medicine. The victim started bleeding and died in the man's home the following day.
HENAN
Bribes for books
The Zhengzhou Intermediate People's Court has sentenced an education official to 12 years' jail for corruption, the Dahe Daily reports. The official, who was in charge of buying exercise books for primary and middle school pupils, received a 10-fen commission for each book he bought from a printing plant. He took a total of 670,000 yuan between 2010 and 2013.
No water after dispute
The tap water supply for residents in Kaifeng city's Qi county has been suspended, after a dispute between the local water plant and the county government, the Dahe Daily reports. The water plant claimed that the county government had given it a plot of land for expansion, but the residents disputed the ownership of the land and besieged the plant, making it impossible to process the water.
HUBEI
Raising soccer stars
The Hubei provincial education bureau plans to raise 50 million yuan this year and build 700 soccer schools within three years, the Changjiang Times reports. The bureau said this was because President Xi Jinping wanted to improve China's performance in soccer and Hubei had an advantage as many members of the national soccer team were from the province.
'Suicidal' student appeals
A university student has appealed a Wuhan court's ruling that her institute was not responsible for her injury after she fell six floors to the ground in October, 2013, Chutian Metropolis Daily reports. The woman demanded 520,000 yuan in compensation from the university, arguing its dormitories were not equipped with guard rails. The court, citing police records, ruled that the woman had been trying to commit suicide when she leapt from the dormitory building.
JIANGSU
'Hit-and-hide' pair nabbed
Yancheng city police have arrested two people suspected of fatally injuring a man and leaving him for dead on a river bank, China News Service reports. The 58-year-old man's body had been found in a river last week, with injuries to his head. Police investigations showed that the two suspects, aged 26 and 38, were on a motorbike and had knocked down the victim. Afraid, they hid him in a hole in the river bank although he was still alive.
Molester-teacher jailed
A Xuzhou court has sentenced a 59-year-old teacher to five years' jail for repeatedly molesting two schoolgirls, Xinhua reports. The primary school teacher had harassed the two six-year-old girls several times since November.
SHAANXI
Mother turns 'burglar'
A man from Tongchuan city made a police report over a missing bag containing 10,000 yuan in cash, only to find out that the "burglar" was his mother, the Huashang Daily reports. The man had been planning to travel to Guangdong to seek employment but found his bag of cash and train tickets missing from his home. Investigators found his mother behaving nervously and she later admitted she had hidden the bag as she wanted her son to spend the Lunar New Year at home. The man said he would delay his trip.
Violent wife jailed
A Tongchuan city court has sentenced a woman to three years' jail, suspended for five years, for trying to kill her husband who suffers from mental disorders, Huashang Daily reports. The woman had quarrelled with her husband and tried to strangle him with a rope. When he passed out, she turned herself in to police.
SICHUAN
'Loyalty test' ends in tears
A Chengdu woman was left heartbroken after her boyfriend failed a "loyalty test" that she had bought for 28 yuan on Taobao, the West China City Daily reports. She had paid for a girl to see if her boyfriend would be easily seduced. But the man soon agreed to meet her in a hotel. The woman broke up with the man after the test.
Taking the long way home
A man from Deyang city has decided to travel home from Shanghai, where he works, via five train trips this Lunar New Year, the West China City Daily reports. He will spend 300 yuan more and seven hours longer compared with taking a direct train from Shanghai to Chengdu. But the train lover said he would enjoy spending time at each stop, sampling the local cuisines.
