GUANGXI

Missing girl found dead

The body of a missing six-year-old girl has been found in Rongan county near Liuzhou, the Nanguo Morning Post reports. Police told the family they found the body on Sunday, but declined to give more details because they were still investigating. The girl went missing on Tuesday on her way to school after lunch. One of her shoes was found floating in a river. Her family believes she may have drowned, but a witness said she saw the girl get into a van with two strangers.

Row over sick puppy

A man from Nanning  is in a dispute with a pet shop after he bought a puppy for his wife’s birthday and it turned out to be ill, the Nanguo Morning Post reports. The man took the puppy back to the shop, but they refused to give him his 900 yuan back. A local government official said he was only entitled to his cash if he could prove the dog was ill when he bought it.

HAINAN

Serial shop thief held

A teenager suspected of breaking into 21 shops in Haikou  since the end of last month has been arrested, the Nanguo Dushi Bao reports. The 17-year-old allegedly took more than 200,000 yuan worth of goods in the break-ins. Police caught the suspect after  studying surveillance videos. The report said the teenager had admitted the offences.

Stink over public toilet

Residents in Sanya have complained about the smell from a public toilet that was built two years ago, but is still not officially open to the public, the Nanguo Dushi Bao reports.  It is the only public toilet in that part of the Hedong district so  people secretly use it, but the building is not cleaned regularly by the city authorities.

HENAN

Holiday clean-up

Nearly 20,000 employees from 56 government agencies and bureaus in Zhengzhou took to the streets to help clean the city ahead of the National Day holidays next month, Zhengzhou Daily reports. Government employees picked up rubbish, cleaned graffiti off walls and told people not to park illegally.

Deer flees restaurant

Police have seized a deer after it fled from the garden of a Zhengzhou restaurant over the weekend, Dahe Daily reports. The animal had been kept at the restaurant for two years to attract customers. It ran off on Friday evening and was spotted the next day running in traffic. Staff from a wild animal rescue centre caught the animal after shooting it with tranquiliser darts. It is legal to keep sika  deer, but the restaurant did not have a licence for the animal.

HEILONGJIANG

Girl, 2, attacked by dog

A two-year-old girl was badly injured when she was attacked by the family’s dog at their farm in Hulan district, Harbin, the Xin Wan Bao reports. The girl was bitten on the face and chin while playing in the yard. Bones could be seen through the wounds. The dog has lived at the house for more than a decade and  not displayed similar behaviour before. 

Childcare dilemma

SHANDONG

Guard refuses reward

A security guard working at a car dealership in Dezhou  found a plastic bag with hundreds of thousands of yuan in notes in it and an identity card, Shandong TV reports. The security guard, 66, immediately returned the bag to the firm’s finance department, who contacted the owner. The cash belonged to a truck driver who offered the security guard a reward, but he refused to take it. He said he did what he should have done.

Poorest air quality

Jinan came last on a list of 74 cities on the mainland in a monthly survey of air quality compiled by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Shandong TV reports. The city’s environmental protection office claimed air quality had improved in the first seven months of the year, but results in August were affected by the lack of rain.

SHANGHAI

Treatment for rare illness

A 14-year-old girl has arrived in the city for treatment to try to cure her rare disease, the Xinmin Evening News reports. The girl from Yibin  has a condition that turns muscle to bone. It has already affected muscles in areas including her neck and back and she is unable to sit down. The report said only about 600 people around the world have the condition, which is mainly caused by a genetic mutation. She will receive treatment at the city’s Tongji Hospital.

Cabby jailed for rape

An illegal taxi driver in the city has been jailed for three years for raping a passenger, Labour Daily reports. The victim took the illegal cab at about 2am and passed out on the back seat. After they arrived at her destination she passed out again. The driver then attacked her. 

SICHUAN

Liquor puts boy in coma

A boy of three is in a coma after drinking his grandfather’s shochu, a distilled spirit, Western China City Daily reports. The boy drank the alcohol at his grandfather’s house in Yibin after he was left home alone with his four-year-old sister. The boy is in intensive care and has been in a coma for 10 days. Doctors said the alcohol had damaged nerve cells in the brain, reduced his lungs’ efficiency and caused bleeding in his intestines.

Lunch for high-flier

A property developer from Chengdu has spent 4 million yuan buying a helicopter he mainly uses to fly to a farmhouse restaurant to have lunch, Western China City Daily reports. The man said it cost him 5,000 yuan an hour to run the aircraft. He also owns a camper van worth about 2 million yuan and a yacht he bought in Sanya on Hainan Island for about 10 million yuan, according to the report.