 China Scene: South
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-25 07:28 Boyfriend wanted: Must be kind, protective thief A woman in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, who has been robbed more times than she can remember, wants a thief for a boyfriend. The woman, a college student, has been robbed of money, cell phones, ID cards, credit and debit cards; also the only picture she had of her late grandfather . The woman says she wants to date a thief because he can show her how to avoid being robbed. She has posted wanted advertisements for a petty criminal boyfriend in several public places. (China News Service) Scroll confirmed as penned by Empress Cixi The piece of calligraphy a man from Sanya, Hainan province, bought for a low price seven years ago was recently appraised by experts as having been written by Qing Dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908). The man surnamed Li bought the scroll couplet in 2001 from a friend in Shandong province. As he and his friend thought the work was just a few decades old, he paid a low price for it. When a cyber pal told Li last year that Dowager Empress Cixi also used the name Dayazai, Li remembered that the couplet bore this signature, and sent it to the Cultural Relic Appraisal Committee of China. The vice director of the committee wrote back to tell him that the couplet indeed had been written by Cixi, and that it was worth 100,000 yuan. (Hainan Special Zone Daily) Over-the-top parking fees OK by city bureau Parking spots in a residential building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, cost 750,000 yuan ($108,000) each, seven times the normal price. The Guangzhou Golden Bay residential building, one of the most expensive in the city, owns all the 40-sq-m parking lot. The building's sales department says that dozens of these exorbitant parking spots have been sold. Most tenants in the building, however, think that the parking spots are far too expensive, and that the government should control the price. But the city's price bureau says that as the price is decided by the market, it will not interfere. (Southern Metropolis Daily) (China Daily 07/25/2008 page5) |
