Around the nation: shoppers cheat hawker with fake money
PUBLISHED : Monday, 12 January, 2015, 7:42pm
UPDATED : Monday, 12 January, 2015, 7:42pm
A hawker in Luoyang, Henan, shows the seven 100 yuan bank notes, with identical serial numbers, that were passed to him in a morning's trade. Photo: SCMP Pictures
HENAN
Street hawker cheated
A hawker selling walnuts in Luoyang was delighted to earn nearly 1,000 yuan in two hours on Sunday until he discovered that 800 yuan of it was counterfeit, the Dahe Daily reports. The street seller, who was making his first sales trip to the city, said one customer had returned to buy more. He later noticed the serial numbers of seven 100 yuan notes he received were the same and he reported it to the police. Another 100 yuan note was also fake. Police suspect he had had fallen victim to a group that preys on street hawkers.
Pop concert cancelled
A concert to be held in Zhengzhou on Saturday by the Singaporean singer JJ Lin has been cancelled because of safety concerns over the venue, the news website Dahe.com reports. The event was not granted a safety permit by the authorities who highlighted problems including a faulty lighting system by an emergency exit at the Zhengzhou International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
GANSU
Exam resit 37 years on
A woman from Lanzhou has decided to try for a second time to pass the national university entrance exam 37 years after she first failed it, the Lanzhou Morning News reports. The woman, who is 58 and a retired engineer, first took the gaokao in 1978. After flunking the exam, she went on to vocational school. She now has time to devote to her own studies after her child recently graduated from university.
‘Red Guard’ restaurant
A hotpot restaurant that opened on Saturday in Pingliang features waitresses wearing Red Guard-style uniforms from the Cultural Revolution era, the news website Chinanews.com reports. Photographs posted online show the waitresses wearing green military clothing, red armbands and Communist Party badges.
GUANGXI
Schoolgirls brawl
Photographs of a hair-pulling catfight among schoolgirls in Binyang county near Nanning went viral over the weekend, the news website Thepaper.cn reports. The pictures, posted by a bystander on Friday, show teenage girls pulling hair and kicking each other after school. The local education bureau confirmed that an altercation between two girls at Silong High School triggered a full-blown brawl among them and their friends.
Body flushed down loo
A 69-year-old man from Beihai has been arrested for allegedly killing his lover, chopping her up body and flushing some of her remains down the toilet, the news website Gx.chinanews.com reports. Police discovered the crime after they received a complaint about a blocked pipe. The man is alleged to have killed his girlfriend, aged 70, after they had an argument. He allegedly dismembered the body and threw some body parts down the toilet and disposed of others in the sea. The woman had been reported missing by her family since Saturday.
HAINAN
Marathon disruption
The authorities in Haikou have been criticised for blocking major roads in the city for nine hours during Sunday’s marathon, the news website Chinanews.com reports. At least three major roads had all their lanes closed for the event. Police said roads were closed longer than planned due to the large number of amateur runners taking part in the race.
Compensation row
A group in Jiyang township have lodged an appeal after a court ruled that five women married to residents from outside the village were entitled to a share of land compensation, the news website Hainan.net reports. Villagers in charge of the area gave each resident 84,600 yuan (HK$107,000) for their collectively-owned farmland. But five women who married outsiders were excluded from the compensation deal because they were no longer regarded as village residents. The women sued and won their case. The appeal will be heard tomorrow.
HEBEI
Anger over girl’s death
Grieving relatives of a schoolgirl protested outside No12 High School in Shijiazhuang after she jumped to her death from a dormitory on Saturday, China Network InfoNews Television reports. Witnesses said the dormitory was not fitted with security windows. Police are investigating.
Tap water turns red
About 20 households in a village near Tangshan have been getting red water through their taps for a week, the Yanzhao Metropolis News reports. The polluted supplies have given residents headaches and diarrhoea. It is not clear what is contaminating the water as there are no factories nearby or obvious sources of pollution.
JIANGSU
Drowned saving fisherman
A middle-aged man drowned in Haian county near Nantong while saving a 74-year-old fisherman in a river, the news website People.com.cn reports. Chen Qun, 52, jumped into the cold water after the man’s fishing boat capsized. Witnesses said Chen dived under the surging waters several times before he grabbed the man and held him for more than 15 minutes while trying to swim back to the bank. Others pulled the older man from the river, but Chen drowned before villagers came back to help him.
Support for street cleaners
A 28-year-old man from Zhenjiang has pledged to pick up three pieces of rubbish every day after he was moved by the hard work of street cleaners and the poor way they were treated by some members of the public, the Modern Express reports. The man posts pictures of the rubbish he picks up each day on his social media account. He said he made his pledge last year after he saw a cleaner abused by a driver in a BMW because she was picking up litter in front of the car and had got in its way.
LIAONING
Burglar ‘snack addict’
A 34-year-old man was so addicted to the duck’s neck, tongue and other snacks from a store in the Jinzhou district of Dalian that he broke in and stole from it seven times before he was caught, the Dalian Evening News reports. He took 230kg of duck snacks in total, worth more than 3,000 yuan.
Grandson abandoned in shop
A shop owner in Dandong reported that a customer had abandoned a baby at her business, but later found out it was her own grandson, the Liaoshen Evening News reports. The woman had never seen the baby before and did not recognise him. The child’s mother left the child with his grandmother because her son had left her and the child.
SICHUAN
‘Silent abuse’ by wife
A court in Nanchong has rejected a man’s attempt to divorce his wife over her “silent abuse”, including her alleged refusal to do housework or to speak to him, the news website Newssc.org reports. The judge dismissed the case on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
Girl leaps to death
A 14-year-old girl jumped to her death from a sixth-floor flat in Chengdu after she was scolded by her parents on Saturday, the news website Youth.cn reports. The teenager left a four-page suicide note expressing her frustration at always letting her parents down. She died at the scene after attempts to revive her failed.
