 China Scene: Central
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-23 07:27
Rookie angler catches monster fish from pit An inexperienced fisherman in Hunan province recently caught a 1.38-m-long bighead carp weighing 32.5 kg from a 60-m-deep water pit. Li Hui and his friends were fishing at a pond one evening earlier this month when he heard there was a huge fish in a deep water pit nearby and decided to try catching it. He set a net in the pit, but it was more than an hour before the fish finally took the bait. Li spent another 40 minutes landing his weighty catch. (Xiaoxiang Morning News) Ex-con swindles prison guards out of millions A woman ex-convict from Henan province, who swindled prison guards out of more than 1 million yuan shortly after being released, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The woman, Cheng Xianjiao, arrested on a racketeering charge, was sentenced in 2002 to a three-year prison term in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan. Upon her release, she resumed her old "job" and defrauded her three former prison guards of a total 1.464 million yuan ($210,000). "She told me she was in the treasury investment business, and that if I lent her 200,000 yuan she would pay 10,000 yuan interest a month," a victim surnamed Li said. Cheng defrauded Li out of more than 1.12 million, and two other people out of several hundred thousand yuan. Police arrested Cheng in 2006. In view of having re-offended within five years of her release, she received a life sentence. (Dongfang Jinbao News) Matron cycles across nine provinces to Nepal Tian Shuzhen, a woman aged 53 from Jiaozuo city, Henan province, spent four months recently on a round trip cycling journey from her Henan hometown to Nepal. Tian joined a bicycling club a few years ago, and has regularly trained for long-distance cycling trips ever since. "My intention a few years ago was to cycle to Tibet, but when I realized that Nepal is only 1,000 km from there, I thought cycling to Nepal would have greater significance in my life." After setting off on March 12, Tian traversed nine provinces, cycling about 100 km a day. She reached Katmandu, capital city of Nepal, on May 26. After a two-week stay in the Himalayan kingdom she headed back to her hometown. She received a hero's welcome on July 10 upon her return to Jiaozuo. (www.xinhuanet.com) (China Daily 07/23/2008 page5) |
