AnhuiDefaulter brought to bookA bookstore owner from Wuhu who owed more than 10 million yuan (HK$ 12.迷你倉57 million) to 20 people was caught in Chaohu on Tuesday, the Xinan Evening News reports. He had promised his lenders high interest rates last year, but his once prosperous bookstore went bankrupt in January. He fled Wuhu disguised with the help of sunglasses and fake moustaches.Three boys drownThree boys in Tongcheng drowned on Wednesday in a 10-metre-deep pond near a forest where they often played, people.com.cn reports. It is believed one boy slipped in first, and his two friends fell in when they went to his aid.ChongqingAlcohol used in robberyA man and two accomplices have been detained by Fengdu county police for stealing 3,400 yuan from his grandfather, chinanews.com reports. The jobless man recently learned the elderly man had sold a cow for thousands of yuan. The trio plied the grandfather with alcohol before taking his money.Poker hand proves fatalA 78-year-old man playing poker at a teahouse in Jiangbei district became so excited by a lucky hand he was dealt he keeled over and died, the Chongqing Evening News reports. Doctors reminded the elderly not to get too excited in summer, to lessen the risk of stroke or heart attack.HenanMan held for online threatA man in Shangcheng county, Xinyang , has been detained for posting online he felt like bombing the city’s airport, the Dahe Daily reports. The man had bought an airline ticket for more than 300 yuan, only to find the next day it was 100 yuan cheaper online. He wrote he felt so angry he wanted to plant a bomb at the airport.Five executed over drugsFive men were executed in Luohe on Thursday for making and trafficking more than 130kg of Ice and 530kg of ketamine from 2006 to 2009, the China News Service reports. Seventeen accomplices received punishment ranging from two years’ jail to suspended death sentences.FujianPush for family doctorsThirty counties in the province are conducting pilot programmes that allow rural residents to receive basic medical services from family doctors by signing contracts with them, the Fujian Daily reports. Thirty per cent of residents in those counties will be required to sign contracts this year with family doctors who work at grass-roots clinics. By the end of 2015, half of Fujian’s rural residents must have their own contracted family doctors.Woman stabs family of 4A woman, 48, turned herself in to police in Jianyang for stabbing a 28-year-old man, his sister, wife and four-month-old daughter to death in their home on Wednesday, the Strait City Daily reports. The four victims were her relatives. She told police she had grown to hate the victims, thinking they had treated her badly.Inner MongoliaOnline rumours rife: pollAbout 70 per cent of internet users say online rumours have affected their lives, according to a survey by the news portal nmgnews.com.cn. Half of those canvassed said they frequently received online rumours or false information; 39 per cent sa文件倉d they occasionally received it.Wider access to tap waterAbout 220,000 farmers and 5,600 rural students have been given access to tap water this year under a “safe drinking water” project launched by the autonomous water resources department, nmgnews.com.cn reports. The autonomous region plans to connect 810,000 people to running water this year, at a cost of 740 million yuan.JiangsuSuicide ‘rescuer’ quitsA 45-year-old man in Nanjing who has talked down 256 suicidal people from the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge over the past decade is giving up the cause due to ill health, the Workers’ Daily reports. Chen Si said he had poor eyesight and extremely high blood pressure. He thanked a tycoon in Shantou , Guangdong, who has sent him 5,000 yuan a month for the past six years.Restaurant quota outcryA regulation aimed at reducing waste at restaurants continues to cause controversy since it was issued by Changzhou Cuisine Industry Association a fortnight ago, the Xinhua Daily reports. Restaurants must remind customers to be frugal, and are fined if leftover meals are not sufficiently packed to be taken away by customers.JiangxiMore exercise for pupilsPrimary and middle school pupils in Nanchang will be required to exercise for at least an hour in a initiative by local authorities to reduce chronic illnesses, the New Legal News reports.Effort to boost backwaterThe province has received 530 million yuan from the central government to fund public welfare projects in the south of the province, which has remained a backwater region despite serving as the Communist Party military base against the Kuomingtang forces in the 1920s and ’30s, the Jiangnan City Daily reports. The Ministry of Finance announced last year it would allocate one billion yuan over three years for development in southern Jiangxi .ShanghaiElderly man tied to attackPolice in Pudong district have caught an elderly man suspected of killing his six-year-old grandson, eastday.com reports. He told police he chopped the boy with a kitchen cleaver because the boy quarrelled with him over “trivial things”.Public smoker defiantA man was arrested for smoking in a carriage on Subway Line 9 on Wednesday morning, eastday.com reports. The man allegedly told other passengers to call police if they wished. A passenger uploaded a video of the man smoking and alerted railway police.ZhejiangArrest over murderA 28-year-old man has been arrested in Laiwu , Shandong on suspicion of killing two of his relatives in Dongyang Zhejiang on August 6, chinanews.com reports. Earlier this month police found the bodies of two women stuffed in to two suitcases in a basement. The two victims, both in their 50s, were carrying 280,000 yuan in cash to buy a flat when they were killed.Arsonist sentencedA 21-year-old man has been jailed for three years for arson in Qingyuan county, chinanews.com reports. The man told the court he set fire to a pile of waste timber in a warehouse at the factory where he worked because of a dispute over pay.存倉
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