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GUANGDONG
Kidnapped girl rescued 
A 17-year-old girl was rescued by Sihui police 24 hours after allegedly being kidnapped by three young men who had demanded a 2 million yuan (about HK$2.5 million) ransom, Chinanews.com reports. Police detained the suspects, who reportedly work in hair salons and allegedly kidnapped the girl to obtain money for Lunar New Year.
Rise in corrupt officials
Prosecutors in Guangdong have charged 2,587 government officials with corruption in the past 11 months – up 14 per cent on the number charged over the same period last year, Chinanews.com reports. Those charged included 28 senior government officials, while funds of 390 million yuan were recovered by investigators.
HEILONGJIANG
Mastiff warning
A woman in Harbin’s Nangang district has warned the public that her pet Tibetan mastiff is still at large and likely to be hungry after running off three days ago, the Modern Evening Times reports. The woman has offered a 10,000 yuan reward for help in finding the dog, which went missing while she was taking it to a veterinary clinic.
‘Father-in-law poisoned’
A man in Muling, a city administered by Mudanjiang, has been arrested on suspicion of killing his father-in-law, who died after drinking wine containing poison, Chinanews.com reports. The suspect, who married the victim’s daughter eight years ago, allegedly told police he took revenge on her family after she left him to work far away and refused to come back.
LIAONING
Bus dispute couple held
A man and woman who argued with the driver of a bus in Shenyang city last week allegedly slapped and scratched him and threw a used sanitary napkin in his face, the Yunnan Information Daily reports. The driver, who suffered injuries to his eyes and nose, said the row began after he told the couple to leave the bus using the back door, rather than the front. Police detained the couple.
Family help centres hailed
The provincial government built 108 centres for mothers and children in rural areas at a cost of 18.4 million yuan in the past two years, provincial news portal Nen.com.cn reports. The centres help families where the fathers are living and working in big cities. Officials said 100,000 women and children in Liaoning used the centres, which offered reading books and music and handicraft classes to children, and farming classes and advice on education rights to the mothers.
QINGHAI
Woman jailed for bigamy
A woman bigamist, 38, who collected 60,000 yuan for marrying a second man, was jailed for 19 months and fined 11,000 yuan at a Huangzhong county court, the news portal Clouthead.net reports. The Sichuan woman, 38, was still married to a Hebei man when she wed again last summer. She shared the money with a friend, who has not been caught.
Four pupils die in crash
Four junior middle school pupils died and two others were injured when a car in which they were travelling overturned on a motorway in Haiyan county, Haibei prefecture, on Saturday, the China News Service reports. Police, who are still investigating the crash, said the car was owned by local government officials.
SHAANXI
‘Failed robber’ detained
A man wearing a mask and a wig, who allegedly tried to rob a Xian convenience store with a replica gun, knife and a stun baton, has been detained by police, Cnwest.com reports. He fled empty-handed after the store manager ran outside and called for help, but was caught by police six days later.
Affair policeman sacked
A senior traffic police officer in Yulin has been sacked after he was found to have been having an extramarital affair with a young woman for six years, Cnwest.com reports. Yan Jun, a Communist Party member, also received a “serious warning” from the party’s disciplinary authority.
SHANDONG
Spring not so eternal
Waters at the Spouting Spring, a famous tourist resort in Jinan, may not flow for the next six months because of extremely low underground water levels, China National Radio reports. Water at the spring has fallen to a depth of 28 metres – its lowest level for a decade. Experts fear the spring’s water level will continue to drop because of expected low rainfall in winter and spring, and high agricultural demand for the underground water supplies.
High-speed rail link opens
The province’s first high-speed railway line went into service on Sunday, Sdnews.com.cn reports. The 300km-long line, which links three Shandong cities of Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai, is part of the province’s plans to create a “one-hour living circle”, similar to modern road and rail links in the Pearl River and Yangtze River Delta regions.
SHANGHAI
Largest exhibition centre
Construction work on the world’s largest exhibition complex – the National Exhibition and Convention Centre (Shanghai) – will be finished this week and it will open soon, the Oriental Morning Post reports. The 860,000 square metre centre, funded by the Ministry of Commerce and the Shanghai government, with four halls in the shape of a four-leaf clover, includes 500,000 square metres of indoor and outdoor exhibition space.
Abortion pill warning
A 23-year-old woman is in stable condition in a military hospital in the city after suffering severe stomach pains after using drugs bought online to end her pregnancy, the Oriental Morning Post reports. Doctors said there have been many similar cases, with some women left seriously ill and requiring surgery. Mainland law states only over-the-counter medicines can be sold online.
ZHEJIANG
Naked drug suspects
A married man allegedly caught taking drugs by police while naked with another man in a hotel room in Ningbo, begged officials not to tell his wife, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. The woman was unaware of her husband’s sexual orientation, it said. The men fell in love in an online chat room, and met at the hotel when the husband, from Jiangsu province, was on a business trip. 
Bank loan ‘fraudster’
Hangzhou police have detained a man for allegedly obtaining a bank loan of 180,000 yuan by using someone else’s personal details, the Today Morning Post reports. The suspect allegedly took out the loan using the details of a Ningbo businessman, who contacted police when he was asked to start repaying the loan. The suspect had allegedly gambled away all but 10,000 yuan by the time he was arrested.


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Around the nation: world's largest exhibition centre in Shanghai near completion

Construction work on the world’s largest exhibition complex, China's 860,000 square-metre National Exhibition and Convention Centre (Shanghai) - which has four halls in the shape of a four-leaf clover - will finish this week. Photo: SCMP Pictures

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A 17-year-old girl was rescued by Sihui police 24 hours after allegedly being kidnapped by three young men who had demanded a 2 million yuan (about HK$2.5 million) ransom, Chinanews.com reports.
