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He Huifeng

SHANGHAI
Skate scooters banned
Shanghai police will crack down on people who use electric skate scooters on the roads, Eastday.com reports. The move comes after a 51-year-old man who was riding one such skate scooter on the road on Monday, died after he was hit by a taxi.
Killing for shelter
Police have arrested a 35-year-old tramp for stabbing a 46-year-old homeless man to death with a pocket knife, Jfdaily.com reports. It had been raining hard at about 1.30am on Tuesday, and the two men were fighting for the right to sleep at the entrance of a subway station.
 
GANSU
Smelly-water inquiry
Experts from the environmental protection ministry and Tsinghua University have arrived in Lanzhou to investigate the smelly tap water that sent residents into a bottled-water-buying frenzy, People.com.cn reports. The authorities promised to keep the public updated and to rid the water of the odour soon.
Old noodles
Lanzhou archaeologists say the history of the city's popular hand-pulled noodles may date as far back as 4,000 years, the Lanzhou Daily reports. Experts at the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River found evidence of the noodles that were about 4,000 years old. Lanzhou's hand-pulled noodles are one of China's most ubiquitous wheat products.
 
GUANGDONG
Gendered race
More than 35,000 women will take part in China's first women-only marathon on International Women's Day on Sunday, the Shenzhen Economic Daily reports. The volunteers for the China (Shenzhen) Women's Marathon's race events are all male, however. Runners who complete the course within the specified time will receive a unique silver necklace each. There are three categories - the full 42km marathon, a 21km stretch, and a 5.5km race.
Grants for cars
The Shenzhen government will subsidise buyers of private electric cars up to 60,000 yuan (HK$75,500) each, The Southern Metropolis News reports. The money will come from a 5-billion-yuan fund aimed at boosting the sales and use of new-energy vehicles. Additionally, taxi firms will get a 55,800-yuan subsidy for each regular vehicle that they replace with an electric taxi. They will also be granted more business licences for electric taxis.
 
JIANGSU
Forgetful phone thief
A man has been sentenced to six months' jail for stealing an iPhone 4S at an internet café in Nanjing , Dsqq.cn reports. He had taken the phone from its owner after he fell asleep while playing an online game. When the owner woke and found his phone missing, he left the internet café and tried to borrow someone else's phone to make a police report. He came across the thief who, not recognising his victim, lent him the phone he had just stolen. Upon realising that it was his missing phone, the owner apprehended the thief and turned him in to police.
Medical 'miracle'
Suzhou doctors recently found two stones the size of chicken's eggs in the stomach of a woman in her 40s, Dsqq.com reports. They suspected that the stones were formed from her habit of eating large amounts of hawthorn, dates, persimmons and crab on an empty stomach. As the woman did not want to extract the stones via an operation, she was advised to drink cola to dissolve them. After three days of doing so, she was surprised when a check-up showed the stones were gone.
 
SHANDONG
Official quits over tigers
A Qingdao People's Congress deputy resigned and publicly apologised on Thursday for illegally breeding three Siberian tigers, Iqilu.com reports. He had kept the tigers in cages on the top floor of a building in Pingdu, but one escaped and fell to its death after being startled by Lunar New Year fireworks. The man was fined the maximum penalty of 3,000 yuan for raising wildlife without a permit.
Island rights for sale
The province is seeking buyers for rights to use its 557 desert islands, Nbd.com.cn reports. At a cost of up to 100 million yuan, buyers can use the islands for tourism and fishery among other uses for up to 50 years.
 
SICHUAN
Flights to Osaka
A direct flight linking Chengdu and Osaka in Japan will be launched on March 30, Scol.com.cn reports. The move comes amid an increasing wave of Chinese tourists flocking to the Japanese city as the Japanese government relaxes its visa policy and the yen falls against the renminbi. The 180-seat Airbus A320 will fly every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with its maiden flight priced at just 399 yuan.
Data-miner jailed
A man in Dazhou has been sentenced to a year's jail for illegally selling personal information, Scol.com.cn reports. The man had teamed up with a policeman from Guizhou province to sell data, such as people's addresses, phone numbers and car licence plate numbers, to others online from April 2013 to August last year. The personal information had been extracted by the officer from the police system. The crooked pair made 150,000 yuan from their illicit business, charging up to hundreds of yuan for each transaction.
 
TIBET
Temple restoration
Tibetan authorities will spend 10 million yuan to restore frescoes at Labrang Monastery, one of the six great temples of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, Xinhua reports. The restoration work on the temple that was founded in 1709 will take two years, beginning next month. Natural erosion over the past 300 years has left the frescoes in dire need of repair.
Mountain of waste
Tibet's mountain climbing management centre will charge Mount Everest climbers between US$100 (HK$776) and US$200 as an environmental protection fee, China News Service reports. Garbage and human waste has been piling up on the world's highest peak in recent years as more people attempt to conquer the mountain. More than 4,000 people have done so since 1953. Last year, 180 attempted the climb, with 120 reaching the top.
 
ZHEJIANG
Drunk driver held
Wenzhou police have arrested a drunk driver for running over a couple who had lain down in the middle of the road after a quarrel, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. The married couple, aged 19 and 35, had had a tiff on a busy road in Yongjia county. The woman laid down on the ground and the man soon followed suit. Other vehicles on the road swerved to avoid them, but the drunk driver, who was in a black BMW, ran over the pair. Police found later that his blood-alcohol level was four times the permitted limit. The couple were seriously injured in the accident.
Cattle crash
A semi-trailer carrying 28 cows overturned on a highway in Hangzhou on Thursday evening, causing the animals to run amok on the road and damage two nearby cars, Zjol.com.cn reports. The vehicle had lost control and crashed into the highway's guardrails before flipping over in the centre of the road. Two cars could not stop in time and ran into the cows who had escaped.


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Also, cola dissolves stones found in woman's stomach, and forgetful thief caught after lending stolen phone to victim


Also, cola dissolves stones found in woman's stomach, and forgetful thief caught after lending stolen phone to victim 


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New | Around the nation: Skate scooters banned on Shanghai roads after man killed in accident

Also, cola dissolves stones found in woman's stomach, and forgetful thief caught after lending stolen phone to victim