It pays to be paranoid if you're a thief

A man and woman were caught stealing a HK$5,000 ($650) bag from a fashion boutique because they were acting "suspiciously".

Detectives noticed the couple in Tsim Sha Tsui on Sunday afternoon because they kept looking over their shoulders, as if they were being followed.

They were.

They pair went into an Ermenegildo Zegna outlet and with the woman's help the man took out a bag without setting off the detectors. Detectives caught them in the act.

(Wen Wei Po)

Porkers run around on highway after accident

Traffic came to a standstill when more than 50 pigs escaped from a lorry on the Guangzhou-Huizhou Expressway in Guangdong Province, after it overturned on Sunday.

The incident took place mid-morning when the speeding truck veered into the expressway barriers. More than 10 traffic police were dispatched to direct traffic and catch the runaway pigs, some weighing more than 150 kg each.

Traffic returned to normal more than three hours later when the pigs were captured and loaded onto another truck. No deaths or injuries, human or porcine, were reported.

(Southern Metropolitan News)

Cancer the beginning of new life for one man

A wedding ceremony at a traditional Chinese medicine clinic on Sunday also celebrated the recovery of a man from cancer, in Huazhou, Guangdong Province.

The bridegroom, surnamed He, 52, met and fell in love with his future wife at the clinic where he was receiving treatment for cancer.

He was previously married with a daughter, but they left him in 2003 when it was found he had cancer.

The pair decided to hold the wedding ceremony at the clinic after He, a businessman from Zhongshan, in the Pearl River Delta, had completely recovered. Many of the doctors who oversaw his recovery attended the event.

(www.chinanews.com.cn)

(China Daily 10/18/2007 page4)