Kindness of strangers good news after bad luck

Wang Bohua, a 55-year-old woman from Liemian Town in Wusheng, Sichuan Province, says she is blessed because of the kindness of strangers.

Unfortunately her parents have died and she has been paralyzed for 36 years because of arthritis.

Fortunately her neighbors are kind enough to take turns sending her meals every day. They also help her wash and do her laundry.

(West China Metropolitan News)

Broken-hearted husband seeks his errant wife

A young man from Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, is in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, on a mission to bring back his wife, who walked out on him.

Every day he walks the streets showing passers-by his wedding photo in case someone has seen his wife, Duan Qin.

The couple met four years ago and married last year, but often quarreled. Earlier this year, Duan found a job at a hotel in Chengdu and did not tell her husband.

Song has visited many of the city's hotels and intends to apologize if he finds Duan and persuade her to return home.

(Chengdu Economic Daily)

Finding a spouse on the turn of a card

A set of playing cards bearing details of 52 handicapped people has been introduced in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, with the intention of finding spouses for them.

Zhang Tao, chief of the Chengdu Playing Card Association, made 10,000 sets of the cards and has distributed them around the area.

(West China Metropolitan News )

Mutton business can be a song and dance

Every evening a man named Ali, from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, promotes his business by encouraging his twin sons to sing and dance, in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province.

"I brought my family here four years ago to sell our Uygur specialty, mutton. Last year some guests asked my 10-year-old twins to perform an Uygur-style dance, which my son had been performing near my stall. To my surprise, the dance brought in a lot of business," Ali said.

"We like to perform our dance and only do it after we finish our studies," one of the twins was quoted as saying.

(www.jinbw.com.cn)

(China Daily 10/16/2007 page4)