Summer's scantily-clad sexies turn men scarlet

A notice has appeared in Shanghai's subway to ask women to wear more clothes.

"Dear women customers, please pay attention to your clothes. Do not wear suspenders. From the embarrassed male customers," the sign says.

The hot weather encourages women to wear scanty, revealing clothes. Faced with these sexy sights, many men are afraid of being accused of sexual harassment on crowded subway trains.

Qi Guangrong, director of the Shanghai Sexually Transmitted Disease Centre, said women in "explosive" clothes are more likely to be targets of sexual harrassment.

Professor of Sociology from Fu Dan University Yu Hai has a different view. He said Shanghai women were not so spicy as simply unbearable.

Source: Dong Fang Morning Post

Online students miss discipline of the classroom

Shanghai residents are learning English on the Internet.

They practise their oral English by talking online with native speaker teachers via MSN, saving both time and money on off-line training of the same quality.

But they say they have problems sticking to online courses because it's too easy to avoid doing the homework as there is no teacher ready to rap them over the knuckles.

Source: Shanghai Youth Daily

Tarnished reputation ruins students' will to volunteer

Students at a high school in Hangzhou cannot graduate without working as volunteers for 60 hours.

The school outlined the regulation to give students a sense of responsibility for society.

But some students find the work difficult because a lot of people think the teen-volunteers are troublemakers rather than efficient workers.

Source: www.zjol.com.cn

Dead rescuers get no thanks for saving a child

Two people died rescuing a child from a lake in Shanghai.

But the child - who survived - and his parents have disappeared since the rescue without so much as a thank you.

Two died out of the three who jumped into the water to save the child's life.

Source: News Evening Post

Farmer's home for the elderly short of funds

A farmer in Zhejiang has met with some difficulty in maintaining his non-profit-making senior residents' home, which he founded eight years ago.

Ma Fujian has about 20 elderly men and women living in his three-storey house and provides them with free food and medical care, while he and his family live in a room of 14 square metres.

But the expenses, especially the medical bills, are getting so large that Ma is finding it hard to make ends meet.

Source: Public Welfare Times

Men queue up to marry millionaire spinster

A single millionaire woman in Nanjing had more than 10,000 suitors when she advertised in a local newspaper for a future husband last week.

She has made a shortlist of 100 men and is meeting them one by one each day.

She set as a criterion that her future husband must have a loving heart and a sense of responsibility.

Source: Nanjing Morning Post

(China Daily 08/20/2005 page3)