Around the nation: Chinese worker disguises himself as woman, sells sanitary pads in street to help leukemia-stricken wife
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 16 May, 2015, 11:57am
UPDATED : Saturday, 16 May, 2015, 11:57am
The victim before she was attacked by a spurned boy.
Payout for girl burned by son of officials
ANHUI - A girl who was set on fire and disfigured by a jilted schoolboy has won 1.72 million yuan (HK$2.2 million) in compensation, Anhuinews.com reports.
The parents of the boy, both senior provincial government officials, would have to pay the cash, Anhuinews.com said. Zhou Yan, who is now 20, was attacked four years ago by the boy.
They both studied at a school in Hefei and she had spurned the advances of the then 17-year-old boy, the report said.
He poured kerosene over her and set her alight. Her face was badly disfigured, according to the report. The boy was later jailed for 12 years.
The case caused a public outcry after it was revealed that the boy's parents threatened not to pay for the girl's medical treatment unless she signed a petition calling for their son's release.
The boy's father was the director of the audit bureau in the municipal administration office, according to other media reports.
Son surprises donors who helped father
BEIJING - Three years ago, a college student at Beijing University of Chemical Technology put a post online asking the public for help to pay for his father's treatment for leukaemia.
Xu Tao, who was 23 at the time, promised he would repay any donations after he graduated and had a job. Contributions poured in and soon reached more than 570,000 yuan.
Despite medical treatment, Xu's father died two years later, and many donors forgot about the incident, until Wednesday, when one put a posting online saying he was surprised to have received money from Xu.
According to the report, Xu started working in Beijing last year, earning about 5,000 yuan monthly and had repaid more than 10,000 yuan to donors.
Man learns ex-wife sapped bank account
SICHUAN - A woman in Dazhou has been sentenced to one year and nine months in prison by a local court for stealing about 50,000 yuan from her ex-husband's bank account, news website Newssc.org reports.
When the couple divorced in 2012, the man left with his debit card but forgot to take his deposit book.
He is a migrant worker and was depositing all that he earned into the bank account. But he had no idea that his ex-wife had used the deposit book to make withdrawals every time he deposited money.
He discovered what happened when he returned to the city and tried to withdraw some cash.
Man jailed for cutting up friend's corpse
CHONGQING - A man had been sentenced to four years in prison by the people's court of Qishan county for dismembering and trying to burn the body of his friend, news website Hsw.cn reports.
The friend died on December 1, 2013 after taking drugs at a local guest house that he had booked with the convicted man's ID card.
The man tried to cover up the incident and bought an axe to dismember the body. He was caught by police in a remote village where he tried to hide some of the corpse.
Private museums to drop entry charge
SHANGHAI - A total of 102 private museums will offer free admission on Monday to mark International Museum Day, news website Jfdaily.com reports.
Most of the museums will offer free access to exhibitions, others have prepared special programmes and some will extend their opening hours to 9pm.
Building plans have been cut down to size in Shenzhen.
Developer forced to halve building height
GUANGDONG - A property developer in Shenzhen has cut the height of a skyscraper it is building in the city's Qianhai free-trade zone by more than half to meet aviation safety requirements, news website Caixin.com reports.
The skyscraper was designed to be 320 metres high but will now reach just 153 metres.
The Qianhai Administration Bureau said the change was in response to orders issued by aviation authorities.
The expansion of urban areas on the mainland continues to pose problems for airspace management. The zone is about 15km from the busy Shenzhen Baoan International Airport.
Family blackmail plot reduced to ashes
ZHEJIANG - Two men were arrested by police in Wenzhou for stealing the ashes of a dead woman and blackmailing her family, news website Zjol.com.cn reports.
The men saw the family holding a funeral for the elderly woman at home on April 1 when they passed by.
They followed the family to the tomb where the woman's remains were placed.
A few days later, they pried it open and took away the ashes. They left a note for the family demanding 30,000 yuan. The police were notified and made the arrest.
'Woman hawker' turns out to be loving husband
XINJIANG - A migrant worker from Shaanxi province has raised money for his 25-year-old wife with leukaemia by pretending to be a woman selling women's sanitary pads on the street in Urumqi , news website Iyaxin.com reports.
The man, Yang Lin, said the family had spent all their savings since his wife, Zhao Hua, was diagnosed with the disease in February. He said he once saw a posting online that a father used the same method to raise money for his daughter who was ill.
Yang spent 60 yuan to buy a wig, 100 yuan for a dress and 80 yuan for 40 pads on Thursday morning.
After dressing up, he knelt on a footpath, and put a cardboard sign around his neck saying "Please help my wife with leukaemia".
He sold all 40 pads within four hours and raised more than 4,200 yuan in contributions.
The traffic warden is taken away by authorities after the attack.
Traffic warden hits jaywalker with hammer
SHANDONG - A traffic warden in Qingdao has been arrested after she hit a woman with a hammer for crossing a road when the light was red, a news website has reported.
People in the area said the warden had previously had several arguments with the woman, who often crossed the road during rush hour, ignoring traffic lights, the Thepaper.cn reported.
The attack happened at about 6pm on Tuesday.
The traffic warden shouted at the woman to stop crossing the street but was ignored. The warden then ran into the road and struck the woman on the head with a hammer, the report said.
After the attack, the woman shouted repeatedly at other passers-by: "I won't let you run the red light."
The victim survived the attack, according to the report.
