Guangdong

Addict mother 'killed her son'

A drug addict whose mother said she was under the influence of narcotics when she allegedly killed her 5-year-old son was detained in Kaiping, Guangdong province, on Sunday morning, Guangzhou Daily reported. The woman's mother told police her daughter tied up the boy in the kitchen, covered his face in plastic and locked the door. The grandmother told police her daughter, surnamed Huang, 22, had taken drugs beforehand. Police said they found implements for drug use in the home.

Lychee output to plummet

Due to prolonged rains in Guangdong province, the harvest of lychees from Zengcheng, a county-level city in Guangzhou, is expected to drop 40 percent this year, according to Yao Wenhao, deputy director of Zengcheng agricultural bureau. Yao said just 7,900 metric tons will be harvested because of persistent heavy rains over the last two months. Zengcheng is a major production base of the subtropical fruit. Its lychee plantations take up 11,470 hectares of land.

Hebei

Student kills self after money spent

A university student jumped to her death in Baoding, Hebei province, after she squandered her tuition fees, China Youth Daily reported on Monday. Chang Ya'nan, 20, a junior at the China University of Geosciences Great Wall College, died after jumping from a dorm's 13th floor on June 18. Chang, from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, left a message she was afraid to face her family and friends after she spent all her money, including tuition fees, on online shopping.

Shanghai

Girls dead from apartment fall

Two young girls died after falling from their apartment when their parents were away on Sunday evening, eastday.com, a Shanghai news portal, reported. Neighbors heard a loud noise at around 7 pm and found the girls lying on a second-floor terrace of a building on Fangxin Road in Shanghai's Pudong New Area. Medical practitioners confirmed the girls were dead. The parents of the girls, who were aged 5 and 7, were working at a restaurant nearby when the accident occurred.

7 million yuan jackpot unclaimed

The winner of a 7.05 million yuan ($1.15 million) jackpot failed to show up Sunday night, the deadline to claim the money, and the money will be given to the city's social welfare fund. The Shanghai Welfare Lottery Center said the winning ticket was sold on May 2 at an outlet in the Yangpu district. The center opened a 24-hour hotline and asked the winner via local media to call in to claim the winnings. This is the second-biggest prize to go unclaimed in Shanghai. A 10 million yuan lottery winner did not show up in June 2011.

Man catches boy who fell 4 stories

A man caught a 5-year-old as the boy fell from the fourth floor of a residential building on Monday morning in Baoshan district of Shanghai, Jiefang Daily reported. Wang Jianzhong, 58, saw the boy about to fall when passing by the building and rushed to catch him. The boy was sent to Changhai Hospital for treatment. He was alone while his parents worked at a nearby vegetable market. Wang was also treated at Baogang Hospital for injuries to his arms from catching the boy.

Shandong

Six die, three hurt in road accident

Six people were killed and three others injured in a car accident in Shandong province on Monday, local police said. The accident occurred around 6 am on a section of highway in the provincial capital of Jinan when an SUV crashed into a guardrail and overturned. The highway links Beijing with the city of Fuzhou in Fujian province. The injured people were taken to a local hospital for treatment. The cause of the accident is under investigation.

Beijing

Crackdown nabs 25 foreigners

A police crackdown on illegal activities in the capital has resulted in 25 foreigners being detained and another 212 warned or fined, police said on Sunday. The allegations ranged from pornography, gambling, stealing and drug-related crimes since May, Beijing Times reported. The arrests were part of a investigation involving 4,100 people in more than 410 drug cases and 750 porn and gambling dens.

Teachers asked to avoid banquets

Many teachers in Beijing this year will not attend banquets held by high school graduates. The Beijing National Day School recently posted an open letter on its website to graduating students saying that it asked teachers not to attend such banquets, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Monday. Other schools in the capital also said that they do not encourage teachers attending the "thank you banquet". Banquet at which students thank their teachers have become common after high school students finished gaokao, or the national college entrance exams.

Dean accused of embezzlement

A former dean of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics has been sentenced to 10 years for corruption and embezzlement, the Beijing News reported on Monday. Meng Jiangtao was jailed for fraudulently embezzling 2.37 million yuan ($385,000) and falsely taking 270,000 yuan for a research fund. According to the court verdict, Meng embezzled the money by forging signatures, meeting expenditures or other items between December 2010 and September 2011. Meng also falsely claimed for a research fund of 270,000 yuan.

Lesbians celebrate end of donation ban

Lesbians in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenyang and Wuhan are celebrating the one-year anniversary of the end of a ban on lesbians donating blood. On July 1, 2012, the Ministry of Health changed its policy to permit lesbians to donate blood, though sexually active gay men remain banned. The ministry had put the ban into effect in 1998 out of fear that gays were spreading HIV/AIDS.

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(China Daily USA 07/02/2013 page3)