Heroic husband saves wife from knife gang

An heroic husband suffered 13 stab wounds while saving his wife from four knife-wielding robbers in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, on Tuesday night.

When the gang accosted the couple on their way home, Li Wei withstood the brunt of the attack to let his wife escape and call police. By the time his wife, Chen, returned with police, her brave spouse had suffered serious stab wounds all over his body. Fortunately he was stabilized at a local hospital.

"I am proud of having such a brave husband and will love him all my life," a grateful Chen said the next day. Police are now hunting the four bullies

(Liaoshen Evening News)

Man's best friend jumps to death over lost master

A robust breed of dog known as mastiff committed suicide last Sunday by throwing itself from a 10-story balcony of a residential building in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, the home of its new keeper.

"My neighbor locked the dog at his home that morning and went out. But the dog jumped down and killed itself soon after he left home," Liu, a woman who witnessed the tragedy, said.

"A dog like the mastiff is usually so loyal that it always tried to go back to its former owner even though it was sold to a new keeper," Yang, a man familiar with raising the breed, said. "It would take months for such a dog to get used to its new keeper."

(Shanxi Evening News)

Elephants prove distance makes heart grow fonder

A 14-year-old Asian elephant, the only one to carry on the ancestral line of its species for the Harbin Northern Forest Zoo in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, has been blessed with a lady wife from a zoo in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.

The whopping bride-to-be endured a 72-hour journey by truck from Shenzhen to Harbin, a distance of more than 3,000 km.

Fortunately, the two got along like a house on fire after she arrived and was placed in an adjacent enclosure at the Harbin zoo for a "trial marriage".

"We will check their health this week so that they can fall in love with one another and start mating for our zoo," inside sources said.

(Harbin Daily)

Lightning survivor to be known as zap henceforth

A migrant worker was lucky to survive when lightning struck the umbrella he was holding aloft in his left hand during a thunder storm on Wednesday.

The 39-year-old surnamed Zhang, from Anshan, Liaoning province, withstood the high-voltage jolt that scorched through his body and left a coin-sized hole in his right foot.

After reviving Zhang at a local hospital, doctors said the bolt from the blue struck his right hand and shot directly through his right foot.

"It was really a miracle that Zhang could survived such a lightning strike," a doctor surnamed Ding said. "If the lightning hit his left hand and then passed through his heart, he would be killed immediately."

(Liaoshen Evening News)

Dad blows fuse to bash sense into drunken son

A 67-year-old man from the Daxing district of Beijing was so sick of fighting with his drunken adult son at home that he almost killed him.

After watching the 32-year-old once again get roaring drunk at home last Friday, Ying, the distressed father, took his beloved son by the throat and got so angry he beat his head with the back of a knife blade until he fell down.

Fortunately, the son was only injured and came back to life soon after he was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment.

(Beijing Times)

(China Daily 05/12/2008 page5)