Hornets kill three, Ferrari driver in hit-and-run, apology for ‘dogs’ jibe, free entry for poets
A service has been set up so motorists from the capital can put their car on a train to Hangzhou and visit the West Lake and other tourist attractions in the area without making the long drive down the country
BEIJING
Car train service
A service has been set up so motorists from the capital can put their car on a train to Hangzhou and visit the West Lake and other tourist attractions in the area without making the long drive down the country, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. The first service carrying about 60 cars arrived on Tuesday.
Written in ancient stone
More than 100 pieces of ancient calligraphy, including 53 examples from the Tang dynasty (618-907), are on exhibition at the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace in the centre of the capital, The Beijing News reports. The pieces, many on show for the first time, were rubbed from stone inscriptions once owned by a collector in the early part of the last century who donated them to the museum. The exhibition runs until November 15.
CHONGQING
Three people were killed and two injured when they got too close to a giant hornets nest in the municipality, the news website Chinanews.com reports. A survivor told police the insects poured out of the nest and attacked them when they put a ladder against a tree in Qianjing district on Wednesday. The species, Vespa mandarinia, is the biggest hornet in the world and kills scores of people on the mainland each year, according to the report.