Around the nation: Funeral hall blocks road
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 27 December, 2014, 1:39am
UPDATED : Saturday, 27 December, 2014, 1:39am
It will be more difficult to buy a car in Beijing from next year when a quota on new petrol-fuelled vehicles is cut from 130,000 cars to 120,000. Photo: Xinhua
Beijing
Car quota cut
It will be more difficult to buy a car in the capital from next year when a quota on new petrol-fuelled vehicles is cut from 130,000 cars to 120,000, the Beijing Times reports. But the quota for new-energy cars will be increased next year.
Bittersweet IOU victory
An angry woman threw paper money at her boyfriend inside a Beijing court after he was ordered to pay 200,000 yuan (HK$252,000) to settle a lawsuit - rather than 3.5 million yuan he had promised in a written IOU, the Beijing Times reports. The man, who refused to divorce his wife for his former university classmate, promised the girlfriend the money if she had an abortion, then told her husband about their affair. She sued him for full payment of the IOU, according to the report.
Hunan
Jail for bus menace
A man who almost caused a bus to overturn when he tried to sit on the steering wheel during a row with the driver as the vehicle was moving, has been jailed for four years by a Longhui county court, Xinhua reports. The man, who was found guilty of endangering public safety, started to argue with the driver and conductor in July after he started smoking on a trip from Shenzhen.
Funeral hall blocks road
Villagers holding a funeral in Wanbao township halted traffic yesterday on the provincial highway after blocking the road with a temporary memorial hall made of bamboo, Xinhua reports. Loudi traffic police ordered villagers to clear the road after drivers were asked to make a detour.
Guangdong
Pool death liability
Guangzhou's Huadu district court ordered a property management company to pay compensation of 370,000 yuan to the parents of a boy, aged five, who drowned in a swimming pool at a residential development in 2012, the Southern Metropolis News reports. The parents sued the firm, which had no business licence or on-site medical staff. The court ruled the firm was half to blame for the boy's death after his uncle left him playing by the pool when he went to the toilet, the report said.
Warning on beggars
Huizhou's social welfare department has warned the public not to give money to beggars after discovering a man claiming to be a cripple earned 200 yuan each morning, the Southern Metropolis News reports. He admitted deception when welfare staff took him to its centre, where he walked into the canteen to have lunch.
Jiangsu
Last-minute jackpot
A delivery driver who won a 110 million yuan jackpot in a national sports lottery said he had no idea what to buy with the money, Xinhua Daily reports. The man, who pocketed 9.35 million yuan, after paying tax on his winnings, said he bought one ticket - using his usual numbers - six minutes before sales ended.
Dream price 'a mistake'
A man in Nanjing who bought a 1.7 million yuan BMW from a dealership online for 170,000 yuan, after spotting the internet offer, was told the next day the deal had been cancelled, the Jiangnan Times reports. He was sent a text next day saying it was only a down payment. The company said a staff member had made a mistake and would refund the money. But the Nanjing Consumers' Rights Association said the deal could not be cancelled.
Shaanxi
Refund on exam fines
A high school in Dali county was ordered to return a 362 yuan fine imposed on students who did badly in an exam on Monday, the Beijing News reports. The class committee had decided that students who got less than a set number of marks in each exam should be fined two yuan for every lost mark, with the money going to the top-scoring students.
Official denies corruption
Xu Jianlong, a former chief of the Hancheng Land and Natural Resources Bureau, has denied embezzling 500,000 yuan in 2011 and accepting 100,000 yuan in bribes in 2012, the Huashang Daily reports. At his corruption trial in Weinan , Xu said he confessed only because of the tough treatment he received during the investigation. The court is yet to hand down a verdict.
Shanghai
Two hurt in escalator fall
Two women in their 50s were injured when an escalator on a bridge in Huaihaizhong Road suddenly sped up - then stopped - on Christmas Eve, the Shanghai Morning Post reports. The women suffered injuries to their arms, legs and torsos. All escalators serving the bridge have been shut while an examination is carried out.
Vocational grads 'best'
The more than 95 per cent of university and vocational school graduates are in work - with those leaving vocational school having the better success in finding employment, the Shanghai Morning Post reports. Of nearly 170,000 new graduates up to August, those that studied manufacturing-related subjects found it easiest to find a job. Law and social sciences graduates found it most difficult to secure work.
Sichuan
Long arm of the real law
A couple who took bribes from construction sites and motels while pretending to be senior uniformed police officers, were caught in Nanchong - by an eagle-eyed real policeman, the West China City Daily reports. The policeman became suspicious when he saw they were not dressed in winter uniforms.
Early Christmas delivery
A 17-year-old woman, unaware she was pregnant, gave birth to a healthy boy one month premature yesterday morning as she walked to hospital to see doctors about her "severe stomach pains", Newssc.org reports. Street cleaners found her lying in the street in pain and offered her a blanket.
Zhejiang
Small revenge
A man repaid a 420,000 yuan bank loan in small change when the bank pressured him to repay the money despite earlier agreeing to a delay, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. The man was due to pay the loan 10 days ago, but the bank agreed for him to first pay 300,000 yuan, and the rest, plus interest, by January 15. After the bank kept pressuring him, he changed the money into coins and notes no larger than 5 yuan. It took 16 tellers at the bank more than six hours to count all the money on Christmas Eve, the report said.
Lucky river crash escape
Six people, including two children, escaped uninjured after a woman in Jiashan county drove her car into a river after using the accelerator instead of the brake on Wednesday, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. Passers-by helped an elderly woman and a girl swim the shore, while the others stood on the submerged car until they were rescued, the report said.
