https://www.scmp.com/rss/326908/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com An unemployed man has been arrested along with his father in southeast China for allegedly producing and selling counterfeit banknotes to raise cash for his daughter’s medical bills. Police raided their home in Lixin county, Anhui province in May – confiscating 2.5 million yuan (US$365,000) of fake cash – and the men have been detained since then, Bozhou Evening News reported on Saturday. Police arrest three men and seize HK$1.37 million in fake cash during raid on Kowloon flat The 26-year-old... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159355/son-and-father-accused-printing-fake-banknotes-pay-daughters?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159355/son-and-father-accused-printing-fake-banknotes-pay-daughters?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 12 Aug 2018 10:39:30 +0000 A county police department in southern China has confirmed on social media that one of its officers was indeed on duty in a pair of swimming trunks on Tuesday. The unusual statement came after a plain-clothes policeman, wearing only a pair of tight swimming trunks, stopped a motorcyclist in his 20s for riding without a helmet that day. He had been travelling with a woman along a quiet road by a river in the county of Xishui, Guizhou province – but they were unconvinced that the man in trunks was... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156353/chinese-motorcyclist-refuses-believe-man-swimming-trunks-police?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156353/chinese-motorcyclist-refuses-believe-man-swimming-trunks-police?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:48:17 +0000 A Chinese woman who sued a rail company for allowing smoking on a train despite it being prohibited has won her case, according to local media. Beijing Railway Transport Court ruled on Monday in favour of the plaintiff, Li Ying, who had sued the train operator, Harbin Railway Bureau, for breaking its own smoking ban in her carriage, reported Huaxi City Daily, a local newspaper in Chengdu in southwest China’s Sichuan province. Li was travelling from Beijing to Tianjin, in northeast China, last... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2152519/chinese-student-wins-case-after-suing-rail-operator-over-smoking?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2152519/chinese-student-wins-case-after-suing-rail-operator-over-smoking?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Jun 2018 07:15:15 +0000 China can keep children from smoking by raising tobacco taxes continuously to maintain a minimum per-packet retail price of 20 yuan (HK$24.62, US$3.15), according to a survey by the University of International Business and Economics.  “More than 78 per cent of interviewees said tobacco prices should be raised between 20 and 29 yuan to prevent children from smoking,” said Zheng Rong, director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Tobacco and Economics at the Beijing-based... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2135360/are-cigarettes-too-affordable-chinas-young-people?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2135360/are-cigarettes-too-affordable-chinas-young-people?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:32:23 +0000 Authorities in rural southern China have issued a “serious warning” to an elderly couple after photos of their four-year-old “left-behind” grandson smoking cigarettes were shared widely online, the Beijing Youth Daily reports. The footage has again focused attention on the plight of impoverished children left behind in the care of relatives while their parents seek work elsewhere. Kindly policeman tutors ‘left-behind’ girl in China A neighbour last week uploaded footage of the boy smoking and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2130321/he-cant-quit-four-year-old-smoker-highlights-plight-chinas-left?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2130321/he-cant-quit-four-year-old-smoker-highlights-plight-chinas-left?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jan 2018 05:15:15 +0000 A six-year-old boy from southwest China has become an internet sensation after images of him drinking beer and walking on tightropes went viral. Wang Wang, as the youngster is known, first rose to fame in January when pictures of him walking along the top wire of a cable fence over a levee in his village were uploaded to the internet, Chengdu Economic Daily reported on Wednesday. Tightropes over Lion Rock and other balancing acts – slacklining is growing in popularity in Hong Kong The boy’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2098660/viral-images-beer-swigging-tightrope-walking-chinese-boy-6-invite?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2098660/viral-images-beer-swigging-tightrope-walking-chinese-boy-6-invite?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Jun 2017 08:07:34 +0000 Most smokers in China, the world’s largest tobacco consumer, have no intention of kicking the habit and remain unaware of some of its most damaging health effects, Chinese health officials and outside researchers said on Wednesday. An estimated 316 million people smoke in China, almost a quarter of the population, and concerns are growing about the long-term effects on public health and the economy. The vast majority of smokers are men, of whom 59 per cent told the survey they have no plans to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2096446/most-smokers-china-have-no-plans-quit-study-finds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2096446/most-smokers-china-have-no-plans-quit-study-finds?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Jun 2017 02:37:15 +0000 A TV station in central China has released a video showing a group of workers in a warehouse putting beer into used and recycled Budweiser cans. The report shown on Hunan Economic Television shows women clearing old Budweiser cans from a cardboard box and then dumping them into a plastic container to refill them with beer. The cans are then shown being resealed with a canning machine. Police are later shown inside the warehouse, with crates of beer stacked in the background. Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2096300/chinese-gang-refill-empty-cans-budweiser-beer-plastic-tub?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2096300/chinese-gang-refill-empty-cans-budweiser-beer-plastic-tub?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 May 2017 04:13:43 +0000