Resumes in the digital age

College students in Liaoning Province are making digital video resumes to help in their job hunting.

Li, a fourth-year student of Liaoning University, shows a five-minute film on his laptop to prospective employers at advertising agencies. Li said the film was expensive and took him a year to make.

To make it perfect, he used a professional photographer to record his campus activities, such as public speaking and playing football, the Shenyang Daily reports.

Robber unwittingly gives himself up

A robber ran straight into the hands of the law after being chased by police officers in Huludao of Liaoning Province, reports the Business Times.

The mugger snatched a handbag from a woman on the street and, hearing her cries, passers-by and police gave chase.

Seeking an escape, the robber failed to notice he was running right into a procuratorate office building and was immediately seized by police.

Girl going for a song at 500 yuan a day

A student has taken to posting ads online to drum up some money renting herself out as a girlfriend in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin Province.

The ad can be seen on the university's website. It reads, "elegant female for rent at a cost of 500 yuan (US$60) per day during Spring Festival," reports the New Cultural News.

The girl said she wanted to raise money for her tuition.

Three day marriage ends up in court

A marriage which lasted just three days ended in Pinggu County Court in Beijing.

At the conclusion of a hearing to determine division of common property, the husband was left not only footing the cost of the nuptials, he even failed to get back the expensive wedding ring he had given.

The court ruled that the bride did not have to share the 18,000 yuan (US$2,200) cost of the wedding as she did not take possession of it, and she was entitled to keep the ring as it was given as a gift, reports the Beijing Youth Daily.

Endless quarrels from the very outset provoked the divorce.

Tinfoil-wearing aliens abduct Beijing man

A young Beijing man who claimed to have been abducted by aliens five years ago is trying to seek vindication by underdoing hypnosis and a lie detector test.

The man surnamed Cao says he woke up at midnight to find two figures wearing tinfoil clothes standing over him.

The cosmic beings took him to their UFO where he saw a pale-looking Chinese girl, Cao claims.

The visitors from outer space then asked Cao to place his hand on the back of the girl's neck, whereupon a strong electric current flew from his body to the girl's. His job done, the aliens sent Cao home.

Cao did go through hypnosis from a local doctor and a lie detector test from an agency, according to the Yangcheng Evening News.

(China Daily 01/06/2005 page6)