https://www.scmp.com/rss/327780/feed Windy Li is an intern reporter at the South China Morning Post. She is currently studying International Journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her interests include China's cultural and social issues. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com One day after April Fools’ Day 2018, China’s first space station hurtled through the atmosphere. Most parts were burnt up during the process, but parts of it fell into the ocean. It marked the end of China’s most significant space project, but Tiangong-1 was just the start of its space ambitions coming to fruition. Since the 1970s, China has had big ambitions for space exploration but lagged behind Russia and the US until President Jiang Zemin gave the green light for a manned space programme in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2161321/chinas-first-space-station-tiangong-1-story-its-life-and-death?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2161321/chinas-first-space-station-tiangong-1-story-its-life-and-death?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Aug 2018 04:43:19 +0000 Windy Li Windy Li A flat owner was shocked after his “well-groomed” millennial tenants left his newly furnished flat in north China in a shambolic condition, filled with broken furniture and rotten food, and then disappeared without paying all their bills, according to local media. Photos and video shared by the owner showed the condition that flat in Dalian in Liaoning province had been left in after less than a year – including piles of rubbish, a cracked granite table and walls stained with soup and sauces –... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160783/chinese-landlord-shocked-well-groomed-millennial-renters-leave?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160783/chinese-landlord-shocked-well-groomed-millennial-renters-leave?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Aug 2018 04:00:45 +0000 A seven-year-old girl has become her mother’s travelling work companion, delivering goods around eastern China by van since she was four, according to a mainland media report. Miaomiao is spending much of her childhood around freight yards and warehouses, but her mother, a delivery van driver, considers this a better option than letting her become a “left-behind child”, Qianjiang Evening News reported on Monday. ‘Come back to scold me, Mum’: China’s ‘Ice Boy’ Wang Fuman’s Lunar New Year wish  “I... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160698/chinese-girl-7-spends-days-mums-delivery-van-rather-be-left?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160698/chinese-girl-7-spends-days-mums-delivery-van-rather-be-left?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:54:33 +0000 Mining activity in a mountain in eastern China has been suspended after a Chinese media report that radioactive ore from the area had been used to build nearby homes. The local government in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, announced on Sunday that it had suspended two companies and set up a task force to investigate the claims. Samples of the ore, mined at Yifeng Mountain, have also been sent to the environment authorities for testing. The Beijing Youth Daily report said mining company Dongfa had... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160540/mining-halted-over-radioactive-building-material-fears-eastern?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160540/mining-halted-over-radioactive-building-material-fears-eastern?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:48:19 +0000 Whether it is bouncing between various departments to accomplish simple requests, enduring long application processes or trying to keep up with new rules that arrive without warning, bureaucracy is a reality of life for most people – regardless of where they live. In China, however, the problem has caught the government’s attention, resulting in the launch of its “one stop, one trip, one paper” movement. That means that, ideally, citizens should be able to achieve their goals by paying just one... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159729/heartaches-headaches-and-hukou-how-chinas-bureaucracy-tangled?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159729/heartaches-headaches-and-hukou-how-chinas-bureaucracy-tangled?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Aug 2018 13:00:46 +0000 A Chinese woman who challenged her “cowardly” boyfriend to overcome his fear of heights and walk across a glass-bottomed bridge in return for her hand in marriage has been rebuffed, local media reported. The woman set up her unconventional proposals by dressing up in a wedding dress and standing next to a car and briefcase containing 100,000 yuan (US$14,500) in cash as a dowry on the bridge 350 metres (1,150ft) above the ground in Zhengzhou, Henan province, said Henan Daily. Footage published by... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160184/chinese-womans-glass-bridge-proposal-cowardly-boyfriend-backfires?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160184/chinese-womans-glass-bridge-proposal-cowardly-boyfriend-backfires?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:33:47 +0000 The moment a man tried to snatch a young girl from her mother outside a coffee shop in Taiwan’s capital has been captured on camera. The man was chased off after passers-by came to the mother’s aid in Taipei after she screamed for help while she wrestled with the man. A 33-year-old suspect, whose surname was Chou, was arrested soon afterwards and a file lodged with prosecutors, but local residents were angered when officers released him on the grounds he had not been caught in the act of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160142/man-tries-snatch-girl-mother-broad-daylight-they-walked-down?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160142/man-tries-snatch-girl-mother-broad-daylight-they-walked-down?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Aug 2018 05:12:42 +0000 A man who spent two weeks in the wilderness of eastern China caught in a trap for wild boars told police that the hunter had abandoned him to his fate on the mountainside, local media reported. The 28-year-old, surnamed Gao, survived by drinking spring water and eating insects and had been trying to crawl to safety after the man who set the illicit trap had released him but refused to offer any further help, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Wednesday. Gao was found on Sunday after a villager from... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160010/hunter-left-man-caught-boar-trap-dead-chinese-mountainside?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2160010/hunter-left-man-caught-boar-trap-dead-chinese-mountainside?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:09:42 +0000 Motorists in Taiwan got a surprise over the weekend when they spotted two men sunbathing on a city street, a local television station reported. Photographs and video footage shared online showed the two Westerners, dressed only in shorts, arranging a towel on a hatched area of the road in Changhua and sitting down. While the stunt appeared to be a prank, some social media users failed to see the funny side and issued sombre warnings to road users. “People riding and driving on the road should be... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159855/taiwanese-motorists-baffled-sight-foreign-men-sunbathing-city?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159855/taiwanese-motorists-baffled-sight-foreign-men-sunbathing-city?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:37:24 +0000 A Chinese man who masqueraded as a member of the special forces to cheat his online “girlfriend” out of 1.5 million yuan (US$218,000) over almost a decade has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison, a Chinese newspaper reported. The con man, identified only as Li, stood trial in July, about four months after being tracked down by police in central China’s Hubei province, Modern Express reported on Tuesday. Li and his victim, a woman surnamed Wang from Suzhou in east China’s Jiangsu... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159815/chinese-special-forces-soldier-cons-online-girlfriend-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159815/chinese-special-forces-soldier-cons-online-girlfriend-out?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Aug 2018 06:15:15 +0000 A couple from central China who shared a video of their six-year-old daughter driving the family car on a public road ended up being given a dressing down by the police, local media reported. In the footage, the child can be seen sitting on her mother’s lap steering the vehicle through a village in Xianning, Hubei province, with other cars on the road, The Beijing News reported. Son and father accused of printing fake banknotes ‘to pay for daughter’s medical bills’ The girl is only just able to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159626/chinese-girl-6-drives-her-parents-straight-police-station?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159626/chinese-girl-6-drives-her-parents-straight-police-station?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +0000 Staff at a hospital in northeast China took the unusual step of allowing a pet dog to sit outside a treatment room while doctors attended to its owner who had fainted in the street, Chinese media reported. The woman, who was not named, passed out while walking her golden retriever on a road in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, Thepaper.cn reported on Sunday. She was quoted as saying that she had been drinking the night before. Members of the public went to the woman’s aid while her faithful pet... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159429/golden-retriever-refuses-leave-chinese-owner-after-she-collapses?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159429/golden-retriever-refuses-leave-chinese-owner-after-she-collapses?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:12:50 +0000 A love potion company in China has apologised for letting Japanese former porn star Sora Aoi don the red scarf, a symbol of the Communist Party's Young Pioneers, at a “charity event”, according to media reports. The apology came after the youth group issued a statement on Thursday, condemning the firm for using the red scarf as a publicity stunt and accusing it of breaking the law. Shanghai-based firm Baizhentang issued a statement through its Weibo account on Thursday evening, apologising for... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159090/chinese-firm-apologies-letting-japanese-porn-star-sora-aoi-wear?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2159090/chinese-firm-apologies-letting-japanese-porn-star-sora-aoi-wear?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:00:00 +0000 A four-year-old boy died over the weekend after being hit by a car while riding his scooter on a public road in southern China, local media reported. The incident happened on Sunday as the child was playing with his mother on the road in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Kankanews.com reported on Thursday. The woman had apparently been feeding her son, as he rode his scooter back and forth across the road, the report said. Tragedy struck, however, when the boy emerged... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158997/chinese-boy-4-dies-after-being-knocked-his-scooter-car?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158997/chinese-boy-4-dies-after-being-knocked-his-scooter-car?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:44:59 +0000 A video of a Chinese woman introducing the Great Wall in fluent Tamil for a state-owned broadcaster has been praised in India after it captured the imagination of a leading tycoon. Anand Mahindra, executive chairman of Mumbai-based conglomerate Mahindra Group, shared the video with his 6.7 million Twitter followers saying: “Not easy to learn the accent & cadence of the language but this Chinese lady seems to have conquered the Great Wall of Tamil.” The two-minute video shared shows the woman... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158966/chinese-woman-who-conquered-great-wall-tamil-uses-it-build?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158966/chinese-woman-who-conquered-great-wall-tamil-uses-it-build?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Aug 2018 07:00:06 +0000 A 67-year-old Chinese woman who became pregnant with twins has insisted she will defy doctors’ advice to have an abortion despite their fears for her health, according to a local newspaper. The woman, surnamed Zhang, said she was adamant she would go ahead with the pregnancy because she lost her only son in a car accident four years ago, The Beijing News reported on Wednesday. Zhang, who would be one of the oldest women ever to give birth, was warned that her high blood pressure and age would... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158828/chinese-woman-pregnant-twins-age-67-defies-doctors-advice-have?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158828/chinese-woman-pregnant-twins-age-67-defies-doctors-advice-have?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:15:30 +0000 A warm-hearted bakery owner in eastern China says she wants a man who broke into her shop last week to get in contact – so that she can give him a free cake. The woman, identified by her surname Wang, told Jiangsu Television on Friday that she had initially reported the case to police after she turned up at work to find someone had forced their way in. But after reviewing the security footage and realising nothing had been taken, she decided to drop the report. Chinese lottery thief caught after... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158615/kindly-bakery-owner-offers-man-who-broke-shop-free-birthday-cake?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158615/kindly-bakery-owner-offers-man-who-broke-shop-free-birthday-cake?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Aug 2018 07:23:02 +0000 Five members of the same family, including four children, drowned in the Yangtze River as a day out turned to tragedy in central China on Friday, a local newspaper reports. Mother Ding Jinfang had taken her daughter, nine, son, seven, and two nephews, aged 13 and 16, swimming and fishing along a section of the river in Huangshi, Hubei province, Chutian Metropolis Daily reported on Sunday. They had returned to their hometown to celebrate the news that Ding’s eldest daughter, 18-year-old Yao... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158448/mother-and-4-children-drown-yangtze-river-day-out-turns-tragedy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158448/mother-and-4-children-drown-yangtze-river-day-out-turns-tragedy?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Aug 2018 07:45:00 +0000 A village in northern China is trying to take the financial pressure off bachelors who cannot afford to get married by capping betrothal gifts at 20,000 yuan (US$2,900), a local newspaper reports. Initially the new policy stated that anyone who spent more than that amount on wedding gifts in the village in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, could face consequences on a par with fraud or even human trafficking charges, Hebei Youth Daily reported on Wednesday. But after an outcry online, county party... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158153/chinese-village-caps-betrothal-gifts-us2900-so-leftover-men-can?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158153/chinese-village-caps-betrothal-gifts-us2900-so-leftover-men-can?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Aug 2018 07:55:05 +0000 An electric scooter exploded and caught fire in a flat in China’s capital, after it had been charging for seven hours, a local newspaper reported on Monday. The scooter’s owner, identified only by her surname Zhao, had complained to a consumer watchdog and intended to take legal action, Beijing Morning Post reported. The incident was filmed on Sunday afternoon by a security camera system Zhao had installed in her Beijing flat. A 22-second clip from the footage shows the scooter being charged in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157938/electric-scooter-explodes-and-catches-fire-living-room-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157938/electric-scooter-explodes-and-catches-fire-living-room-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Aug 2018 06:45:15 +0000 Two local government officials in eastern China have been fired after they harassed a resident into dropping a complaint that they blocked her mother’s disability application. The Communist Party committee of Zhifu district in Yantai, Shandong province, said in a statement on Monday that it had upheld the woman’s complaint about the officials’ behaviour when she tried to register her mother as disabled, qualifying her for a government allowance and other benefits. The woman, only identified by... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157791/obstructive-chinese-officials-sacked-after-disability-red-tape?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157791/obstructive-chinese-officials-sacked-after-disability-red-tape?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Aug 2018 07:15:30 +0000 Two brothers from a rural village in northern China got stuck and died in a cesspit after they tried to retrieve a lost mobile phone, according to a local police report. Police said one of the two men went down to the latrine pit in Huyan village in Shanxi province at noon last Tuesday, to pick up a phone dropped by his son the day before. When he failed to emerge from the 2-metre pit, his brother went down to save him but also became trapped and died. China’s public bathroom blitz goes... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157593/two-chinese-brothers-die-trying-retrieve-dropped-phone-latrine?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157593/two-chinese-brothers-die-trying-retrieve-dropped-phone-latrine?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 31 Jul 2018 05:37:46 +0000 A popular tourist attraction in northwest China has a new policy requiring all visitors wanting to do a cliff-side mountain climb to register, after a man fell to his death from the trail last week. It came after police appealed for information about the man, whose fall in Huashan National Park in Shaanxi province was captured on video, The Beijing News reported on Sunday. Police have been unable to track down the man’s family to claim his body, which was found on Friday, because they could not... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157477/visitors-must-register-worlds-most-dangerous-hike-china-after?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157477/visitors-must-register-worlds-most-dangerous-hike-china-after?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:45:45 +0000 A drunk driver’s ham-fisted attempt to evade traffic police in northern China landed him in hot water after he ran into a restaurant and pretended to be a chef. Police in Handan, Hebei province, said the motorist was driving a red car and failed to stop at a breath-test roadblock at about 1am on Friday, prompting officers to give chase, according to a report from the Handan traffic police department’s official WeChat account on Sunday. The police soon found the car parked at a nearby food... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157419/how-creative-chinese-drunk-driver-tried-evade-arrest-and-failed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157419/how-creative-chinese-drunk-driver-tried-evade-arrest-and-failed?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Jul 2018 04:56:43 +0000 A Chinese passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing after it was damaged while flying through a hailstorm, according to news reports. The Tianjin Airlines Airbus A320 was flying from Tianjin to Haikou on the southern island of Hainan when it was hit by the storm 9,800 metres (32,000 feet) above central China on Thursday morning, news portal Thecover.cn reported. The windscreen was left badly cracked, the nose was damaged and a weather radar stopped working after the incident, which... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157185/chinese-passenger-plane-forced-make-emergency-landing-after?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157185/chinese-passenger-plane-forced-make-emergency-landing-after?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:11:54 +0000 China’s top health authority has begun an investigation into how a two-year-old boy admitted to hospital to have a piece of apple removed from his throat contracted HIV after spending six weeks in intensive care. The incident began late last year when the boy was taken to the Guiyang Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Guiyang, capital of the southern province of Guizhou, media portal Thecover.cn reported on Thursday. “When we took our son to the hospital, the [initial] treatment lasted for... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157165/chinese-boy-2-found-infected-hiv-after-hospital-stay?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157165/chinese-boy-2-found-infected-hiv-after-hospital-stay?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Jul 2018 08:15:15 +0000 A dog owner in eastern China has agreed to pay a Lamborghini owner 45,000 yuan (US$6,600) in compensation after her dog ran out in front of the car and caused minor damage to the vehicle, a local broadcaster reported on Tuesday. The golden retriever escaped with minor injuries when it ran into the road and was hit by the sports car in Suzhou, Jiangsu Television reported. The animal ran off after it slipped its leash while it was being walked by the owner’s 13-year-old daughter on July 17. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156994/dog-owner-must-pay-us6660-compensation-lamborghini-driver-who?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156994/dog-owner-must-pay-us6660-compensation-lamborghini-driver-who?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Jul 2018 08:36:48 +0000 A video of workers from a tea company in southeast China apparently eating rice balls from a urinal and having their lunch in a bathroom became a big hit online last week. The footage shows about 25 employees of Tenfu Group taking part in the event, which the company said via social media was an annual event designed to show how seriously it took the issue of hygiene. “Our company has had the ‘bathroom training’ tradition for supervisors for 25 years,” a senior manager is heard to say in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156982/chinese-tea-company-workers-eat-rice-balls-urinal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156982/chinese-tea-company-workers-eat-rice-balls-urinal?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Jul 2018 08:00:34 +0000 A panda research centre in southwestern China started a “global” contest to name four of its cubs – the only snag is that the advertising and entry forms were only available in Chinese. The competition was launched by China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Sichuan province, in conjunction with the Dujiangyan city government on Tuesday. Those who successfully pick the names of the four unrelated cubs will be offered a chance to visit the panda centre and explore other local... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156764/panda-centre-launches-global-naming-contest-cubs-just-long-you?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156764/panda-centre-launches-global-naming-contest-cubs-just-long-you?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:47:55 +0000 A husband has been filmed carrying his wife, who suffers from motor neurone disease, on his back up one of China’s most famous mountains. “The world is so big and I want to take her to see it so that she will not leave with any regrets,” he said in a clip published on Pear Video on Monday. The footage filmed on Sunday showed Wang Xiaomin, 57, descending the stairway from the summit of Huangshan with his wife strapped to his back in a harness. Chinese man with Lou Gehrig’s disease climbs 1,600m... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156636/husband-carries-wife-motor-neuron-disease-one-chinas-most-famous?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156636/husband-carries-wife-motor-neuron-disease-one-chinas-most-famous?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:45:45 +0000 A Chinese man who suffers from a motor neurone disease found the perfect way to celebrate his 29th birthday: climbing 1,600 metres (5,250 feet) to the top of one of the Five Great Mountains of China, according to a local media report. Zhang Wei, who was diagnosed with the degenerative condition amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, when he was just 12, set off for the summit of Mount Hua in northwest China’s Shaanxi province at 8am on July 15, Beijing Youth... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156461/chinese-man-lou-gehrigs-disease-climbs-1600m-summit-his-second?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156461/chinese-man-lou-gehrigs-disease-climbs-1600m-summit-his-second?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:18:18 +0000 A Chinese man who spent almost eight years in prison for a crime he did not commit has been awarded 880,000 yuan (US$130,000) in compensation, according to a local newspaper report. Zhang Jun was sentenced to 20 years behind bars in 2008 for what the court ruled at the time was his role in two robberies in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, The Beijing News reported on Thursday. Despite arguing at his initial trial that he had never even been to the north China city, Zhang was identified as a member... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156188/chinese-man-gets-us130000-compensation-after-spending-eight-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156188/chinese-man-gets-us130000-compensation-after-spending-eight-years?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Jul 2018 04:32:09 +0000 The police had to intervene in a marital dispute on Wednesday after an altercation caused a commotion on the streets in eastern China, mainland media reported. Video footage circulating online shows a woman, identified as the wife, perched on the bonnet of a black Audi moving along a stretch of road in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, Yangtse Evening News reported on Wednesday. The woman repeatedly hit the windscreen of the car with a hard object as it crawled along the road. A man identified as her... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156208/chinese-woman-attacks-husbands-audi-he-drives-mistress?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2156208/chinese-woman-attacks-husbands-audi-he-drives-mistress?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:02:56 +0000 A woman in southwest China caused a subway train to be evacuated after she started biting a fellow passenger, local media reported on Thursday. Police and railway staff in Chongqing were forced to intervene and remove the woman, who they said had been suffering “relationship problems with her husband”. The 56-year-old man was left bleeding and needed hospital treatment for his injuries. He was not thought to be known to the woman. Drunk man attacks children because ‘he didn’t dare fight an... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155928/subway-train-evacuated-after-chinese-woman-bites-man-over?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155928/subway-train-evacuated-after-chinese-woman-bites-man-over?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:09:03 +0000 A man has been detained on suspicion of getting drunk and attacking three children in southern China, a local newspaper reported. The suspect, surnamed Wei, told police he had drunk three bottles of a Chinese spirit on Monday and was feeling violent but was too frightened to attack an adult, Guangxi Daily reported. Wei is accused of snatching a toddler in the street in Donglan, a town in Guangxi, and throwing the boy to the ground. Two children stabbed to death outside Shanghai primary school He... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155805/chinese-man-accused-drunken-attack-children-told-police-he-didnt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155805/chinese-man-accused-drunken-attack-children-told-police-he-didnt?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Jul 2018 07:28:11 +0000 A goodwill visit to the home of a poor family may have helped police in eastern China solve a long-running criminal case, according to a local media report. Officers in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, visited the home of a man surnamed Lu earlier this month with gifts and cash, Jiangsu Television reported on Sunday. Lu had been bedridden for years because of severe liver disease and as a result his family had fallen on hard times, the report said. Chinese lottery thief caught after he tried to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155439/mercy-mission-leads-chinese-police-theft-suspect?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155439/mercy-mission-leads-chinese-police-theft-suspect?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Jul 2018 06:48:20 +0000 Two young brothers who may have been scavenging in a landfill have been found dead after a pile of rubbish collapsed and buried them in a rural area of southwest China, according to local media reports. Police and villagers in a mountainous remote village in Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province had been searching for the missing 10-year-old and 12-year-old boys since Tuesday, according to the report in the Legal Evening News. After failing to find the brothers in the nearby mountains, rescuers and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155274/scavenging-chinese-boys-buried-rubbish-after-waste-heap-collapses?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155274/scavenging-chinese-boys-buried-rubbish-after-waste-heap-collapses?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Jul 2018 08:54:51 +0000 Construction work to expand the subway system in the southern city of Shenzhen was disrupted over the past week after workers accidentally cut seven power cables in the space of three days, and then a water main, cutting off services to buildings nearby. Three electrical cables were cut near the new Bagualing station on Line 6 on July 5, and two days later four more cables were severed near Gangxia North on Line 2, according to Thepaper.cn. Officials from Shenzhen Metro initially blamed both... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155217/shenzhen-metro-expansion-derailed-workers-cut-power-lines-water?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2155217/shenzhen-metro-expansion-derailed-workers-cut-power-lines-water?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:25:19 +0000 Agricultural university students in southern China have had their research disrupted after villagers allegedly stole their valuable experimental crops, a local newspaper reported on Monday. The students, from Hunan Agricultural University in Liuyang, were told that several people had been seen taking corn from one of their research fields on Saturday morning, so they went to investigate, a teacher was quoted as saying in a report by Xiao Xiang Chen Bao yesterday. “We were first alerted by our... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2154466/chinese-university-students-work-ruined-villagers-steal-research?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2154466/chinese-university-students-work-ruined-villagers-steal-research?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Jul 2018 09:33:52 +0000 A brand of exam cheating machine allegedly masterminded by a man arrested by Chinese police in May has been linked to more than 100,000 of the devices seized across China as investigations continue, local media reported. The 47-year-old suspect, surnamed Li, had been arrested at his office in Shenzhen in southern China’s Guangdong province on May 24, when 100,000 parts were seized, Hubei Daily reported on Tuesday. His arrest came after police seized more than 1,000 devices and detained seven... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2154162/exam-cheating-machine-brand-linked-100000-devices-across-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2154162/exam-cheating-machine-brand-linked-100000-devices-across-china?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:55:07 +0000 The world’s two largest bike-sharing companies have recovered more than 3,000 bicycles from rivers during clean-up operations in southern China, according to newspaper reports. Mobike collected more than 1,000 abandoned bicycles in two weeks from rivers in the central part of the city of Guangzhou, in Guangdong province, and found that 61 per cent of them were theirs, according to the Yangcheng Evening News report on Wednesday. Its salvage operation followed a similar exercise started in April... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2153968/chinese-bike-sharing-firms-pull-3000-bikes-out-rivers-vow-help?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2153968/chinese-bike-sharing-firms-pull-3000-bikes-out-rivers-vow-help?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:05:26 +0000 Police in east China have arrested 35 people for their roles in the trade of macaques, a species that has protected status in the country, according to a state media report. An investigation was started in July last year after police in Jiangsu province were alerted to a video shared online of people playing with an infant monkey. In the footage, the owner recommends the services of two agents: a woman named Ma and her boyfriend, who was not identified, CCTV reported on Wednesday. Man arrested... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2153780/chinese-police-arrest-35-people-over-sale-us50000-worth-protected?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2153780/chinese-police-arrest-35-people-over-sale-us50000-worth-protected?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Jul 2018 11:23:30 +0000 There have been calls for China’s age of criminal responsibility to be lowered from 14 to 12 after police said the case of a 13-year-old boy accused of attacking a 14-year-old girl was thrown out because he was too young to be prosecuted, a newspaper reported on Monday. The girl’s mother said her daughter was found naked in the building where she lived in Xiaogan, Hubei province, with several wounds to her neck, arms and legs, according to China Youth Daily. Police detained a boy on the night of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2153464/china-should-prosecute-juveniles-age-12-after-boy-13-accused?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2153464/china-should-prosecute-juveniles-age-12-after-boy-13-accused?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:34:56 +0000 Authorities have called a halt to a highway building project in far west China after photos of rosy starlings – a protected bird species – nesting at the site were posted on social media. Pictures showing the birds feeding their young among the gravel of a road construction site in Yili prefecture, Xinjiang province, were posted on the Weibo account of an environmental protection group on Monday morning. Bird fans asked to be quiet around nesting site of owl family in Hong Kong Guard the Wilds... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2152927/nesting-birds-bring-chinese-road-building-project-screeching-halt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2152927/nesting-birds-bring-chinese-road-building-project-screeching-halt?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:50:56 +0000 Specialist disaster relief volunteers in eastern China needed ropes and a reinforced stretcher to rescue a 200kg (440 pound) man after he fell over in the shower and injured himself, local media reported. Paramedics and police were the first to arrive at the man’s third-floor flat in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, according to a report by local television station Jiangsu Broadcasting Corp. They decided that the man, who was not named, needed hospital treatment for his injuries, but because of his... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2152741/chinese-disaster-relief-team-called-rescue-200kg-man-who-slipped?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2152741/chinese-disaster-relief-team-called-rescue-200kg-man-who-slipped?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Jun 2018 08:30:15 +0000