 China Scene: West
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-24 07:30 Netizen help requested to trace bogus judge cheat A 30-year-old resident of Chongqing municipality, who goes by the pseudonym Liu Daiyan, posted a notice online recently asking for netizens' help in finding the man whom Liu claims pretended to be a judge and cheated him out of a sizable amount of cash. Liu brought a lawsuit against the local railway bureau in June, 2006, but had no result after several rounds of hearings. A friend of Liu's introduced him to a man surnamed Tang claiming to be a judge at the local court, who said he could help Liu with his case. Liu handed the case documents and 20,000 yuan ($2,900) over to Tang expecting a quick result, but lost contact with him soon after. Upon making enquiries at the court he was told no judge named Tang Jian existed. "I cannot find him and his mobile phone is permanently switched off, so I hope fellow netizens will help me track him down," Liu said. (Chongqing Evening News) Trans-Pacific obstetrics deliver happy result Li Yong and Zou Xiaoying, farmers in Yuechi county, Sichuan province, gave Jiang Liping, a professor and doctor at a local hospital in Chongqing municipality, a particularly warm welcome last Monday upon his return from the United States. The couple's two children died of congenital diseases at ages 5 and 2. When Zou Xiaoying became pregnant again in March last year, the couple called Jiang, who had been their doctor before going to the US to study, for advice. Jiang first told them to communicate with him online to avoid the high cost of phone calls. He later gave them detailed instructions about medical examinations and treatment. As a result of Jiang's online help, Zou Xiaoying gave birth on Jan 28 to a healthy baby girl. (Chongqing Morning Post)
Ma refuses to sell any of her 5 prized parrots Ma Jinlian, a resident of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, has five parrots that all call her mummy. Ma has had the parrots for eight years, and has become completely absorbed in her birds since retiring; they are her surrogate children. Although she has received at least one offer of 5,000 yuan ($725) each for the parrots, Ma would not consider selling any of her brood. (West China Metropolis Daily) Domestic violence victim convicted of murder Local Hechuan, Chongqing municipality, police recently arrested Huang Guiqiong, 46, for the murder of her husband in March. Huang, a farmer whose husband, Wang Jihui, had subjected her to domestic violence for years, reached her limit of endurance on March 2. After the last occasion on which her husband brutally beat her, she put poison in Wang's drinking water. Huang told her fellow villagers that her husband had died a sudden death and gave him a hasty burial. Local police received an anonymous phone call on May 8 implying that Huang had killed her husband, and arrested Huang on June 4. After an investigation that included exhuming Wang's corpse, Huang's late husband was found to have died from poisoning, and Huang confessed to the murder. (Chongqing Commercial Daily) First sexual harassment case gets 5 months' jail Liu Lun, 29, personnel manager of a company in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, was recently sentenced to five months imprisonment for sexual harassment. This gives him the dubious distinction of being the first person to be penalized under the Chinese Women's Rights Protection Law that came into force on Dec 1, 2005. Liu called Chen Dan on March 11, shortly after she began working at the company, saying that he wanted to talk to her about her job after work hours. When Chen arrived at Liu's office at about 5 pm, Liu lunged, forcibly trying to hug and kiss her. Upon hearing Chen's cries a co-worker next-door called the police, and Liu was caught red-handed and detained. The local court considered Liu's behavior constituted sexual harassment as defined in the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests, but circumstances dictated that he be sentenced for the crime of indecent assaulting or insulting a woman according to the Criminal Law. (Chengdu Commercial Daily) Graduates flock to village head recruitment exams Examinations were held recently in Chongqing municipality to select college graduates for village head posts in rural areas. A total 16,130 graduates took the exam. One Tsinghua University postgraduate student said her motivation for taking the exam was that of controlling pollution in rural areas. "At present, there is widespread awareness of the need for environmental protection and pollution control in urban areas, but scant attention is paid to pollution in the countryside. As a village head I could help to solve this problem," she said. (Chongqing Morning Post) (China Daily 07/24/2008 page5) |
