Beijing

Market move to Langfang denied

The authorities in Xicheng district denied media reports that the Beijing Zoo Wholesale Market will be relocated to Langfang, Hebei province, Beijing Times reported on Thursday. An article in China Business Journal said on Wednesday that the market would be moved. It also said that the governments of Langfang and Beijing's Xicheng district would sign a contract on Thursday morning dealing with the move. Xicheng district said that only a framework agreement would be signed, and the market will not be included.

Father faces trial in daughter's stabbing

A father allegedly stabbed his 13-year-old daughter to death during an argument over her use of the Internet, Beijing Times reported on Thursday. The man was reportedly angry about the girl's Internet surfing and the money she spent to follow entertainment stars. Prosecutors charged the father, surnamed Li, with intentional homicide on Wednesday. Beijing No 2 Intermediate People's Court has taken up the case, the newspaper said.

Henan

Farmers abandon crops they couldn't sell

Farmers abandoned a trove of fresh vegetables, including spinach and celery, alongside roads and in fields in Zhengzhou because they were unable to sell them, Dahe Daily reported on Thursday. Vegetable growers have complained that selling 20 kg of vegetables fetches only about 8 yuan ($1.25), which they say is hardly enough to buy a bowl of stewed noodles.

Hong Kong

Govt suggests 65 as retirement age

Hong Kong's government proposed on Thursday that the retirement age of new civil servants be extended by five years to 65. Public hearings on the question will be held over the next four months. The region faces demographic challenges arising from an aging population and a shrinking labor force. The government is the largest employer in the region.

Macao

Live poultry imports resume after ban lifted

Live chickens will be back on sale in markets in Macao on Friday after a 21-day suspension of imports was lifted on Thursday. The three-week ban began on March 13 after the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau announced that an H7-type of avian flu virus had been found in sample tests of 1,000 live chickens imported from a farm in Zhuhai's Doumen district.

Jiangsu

Crocodile eggs seized at airport

Four crocodile eggs were confiscated from a man at Nanjing airport when he returned from Thailand. He said he bought the eggs at the roadside and wanted to share them with relatives who had never tasted them. The eggs had been boiled, but only eggs that have been boiled, shelled and vacuum-packed are allowed to be brought into China.

Man gets 15 months for bomb rumor

A man in Changzhou was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment on Tuesday for fabricating a rumor that a bomb had been placed in the city's railway station, Yangtze Evening News reported. Chen Zhicheng spread the rumor to take revenge on police who once detained him for theft. Police evacuated more than 300 people at the railway station and closed the waiting room.

Surgeons place baby's heart into body

A 2-month-old baby underwent surgery in Nanjing, to place her heart, which was partially outside of her body, fully into her thoracic cavity, Yangtze Evening News reported.

The baby, whose home is in neighboring Anhui province, was born with part of her heart exposed. Doctors said any stimulation or touch could have injured the heart and caused death.

Suzhou pays subsidies for autistic children

Suzhou has paid subsidies to families with autistic children under 6 years old to cover rehabilitation expenses, Modern Express reported. Families with autistic children between the ages of 7 and 17 will also receive subsidies to cover half of the rehabilitation expenses. Experts said children with autism can recover better if they receive treatment before the age of 6.

Zhejiang

Rent request spurs divorce petition

A woman in Ningbo, who lives with her husband and mother-in-law, filed a lawsuit for divorce 10 months after her marriage because her mother-in-law asked her for rent, Qianjiang Evening News reported on Thursday. The woman married in May 2013. After mediation efforts by a local court, she withdrew the divorce petition.

Boy shuns school after losing election

A student stayed away from school for a year after he failed to be reelected as monitor of his class, zjol.com.cn reported. The student, a fourth-grader at a primary school in Yuyao, had been president for three years. But when he ran for the position a fourth time last year, his classmates chose somebody else. The next day, he locked himself in his room and would not go to school. After his father beat him, according to the report, he went on a hunger strike and was allowed to remain at home.

Liaoning

City gets tough on garbage throwing

Shenyang introduced a new measure on Thursday to punish people who throw garbage, such as cigarette ends, from vehicle windows, Shenyang Evening News reported. The city has installed 100 video cameras on the streets and offenders found to have thrown garbage from vehicles will be fined 20 yuan ($3.20).

Sichuan

Seven punished for mahjong at work

Seven officials in Youjun, a township in Xichang, have been removed from their positions for playing mahjong at work, Sichuan Daily reported on Thursday. Those punished include the township Party chief and township director.

School fight results in stabbing death

A middle-school student in Gaoxian county was fatally stabbed in a fight on campus, Western China Metropolis Daily reported. Eating bread in front of a classmate's desk last week, a student surnamed Rao dropped some crumbs onto the desk. A brawl ensued with the desk's occupant, surnamed Yan. The two arranged another fight to settle the matter. In that fight, Yan was stabbed in the chest and died later.

2 students drown in rescue attempt

Two students drowned while trying to save a fellow student from Qionglai Lake in Xichang, Chengdu Economic Daily reported. On Wednesday afternoon, students from Xichang College were playing soccer on the lakeside. After the ball slipped into water, one student who tried to retrieve it fell into the water. Three others tried to save him but two of them drowned.

Mother of dead baby helps police

Police in Nanchong are investigating the mother of a baby found dead on a third-floor terrace in the city's Jialing district. Residents thought the newborn girl had been thrown from her home. A policeman is also being investigated over allegations that he did not want to touch the dead baby and used his leg to move her body, Tianfu Morning Post reported on Thursday.

Hubei

Headache solution goes to man's head

A man in Wuhan who injected kerosene into his scalp to cure a headache was left with a swollen head, Changjiang Daily reported. The man, 54, had experienced severe headaches despite medical treatment and believed the kerosene injection would act as a miracle cure. After the injection, his head became swollen, his skin turned red and he had to be treated by a surgeon.

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Temple joy Monks gesture to ask questions at the ceremony of defending dissertations for the Gexe Lharampa, the highest academic degree in Tibetan Buddhism studies, at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, on Thursday. Photo by Li Zhou / for China Daily

(China Daily USA 04/04/2014 page3)