Memorial built to honor scholar

CHICAGO - A small memorial garden will be built near the spot where missing Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying was last seen in the Midwestern US state of Illinois.

Zhang, who was attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was kidnapped at a bus stop near the campus and missing on June 9 last year.

The garden, to be created out of a 180-square-meter section of grass, is near the bus stop where Zhang waited before getting into a car driven by her suspected kidnapper.