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Trending: Graduation rings is new trends

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-05-28 11:49

Titanium and steel graduation rings are popular at a university in East China. Death threats against a TV host end with one man's arrest. And a lost gun leads to the loss of his job for a policeman in Sichuan province.

Graduation rings is new trends

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The University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, East China's Anhui province, has issued 5,980 graduation rings with unique numbers and university abbreviations for 2014 graduates. The rings are souvenirs of students' college life, xinhuanet.com reported on Tuesday.

The idea is inspired by the United States Military Academy, aka West Point, where there is a long history of tradition issuing graduation rings. The rings distributed by the university are made with an alloy of titanium and steel, valued at dozens of yuan.

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Trending: Graduation rings is new trends<BR>Man threatening to kill TV host arrested

A harasser has been arrested after his death threats against a TV host were exposed on Sina Weibo, according to Beijing Times on Tuesday. Liu Hongyue, the woman he threated works in the host of a health program on Beijing TV. Liu posted the man's threats.

Two death threats included phrases such as "Tonight is your time of death" and "Either you or me will live today". According to the report, Liu had several times before told police of harassment from the man. The police talked to him and at the time he passed the psychological test. The investigation is underway.

 

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Police officer dismissed due to lost gun

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A police officer was dismissed for violating gun use regulations, in Hejiang county, Sichuan province, hexun.com reported on Wednesday.

Xu Jiang, deputy head of the traffic police brigade of Hejiang County, received the punishment for carrying a gun when living at a hotel. The gun was found under his pillow by a steward when cleaning up the room.

An online post on May 23 also said that Xu was having an affair with a policewoman, who came to the room he was using on April 26.

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Trending: Graduation rings is new trends<BR>Man stabs three people in Fuzhou

A man stabbed three people on a street in Fuzhou, Fujian province on Tuesday, leaving two men dead, including a policeman from the local Public Security Bureau, Chinanews.com reported. One woman was injured

"The knife wielding suspect stabbed the three victims like [he was]crazy," chinanews.com cited a witness as saying.

The cause of the incident is still under investigation.

 

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A little extra money yields lottery payoff

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A man who planned to spend 24 yuan on lottery tickets and then rounded it off to 30 yuan hit the jackpot, Shanxi Evening News reported on Tuesday.

One of the six extra tickets he bought on May 17 won, yielding a 20.98 million yuan ($3.36 million) payout. The man collected his winnings on May 19 and donated 500,000 yuan to support poor students.

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Thermometer left in child's anus

An 11-centimeter thermometer was left in a child's anus for a day at Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Southern Metropolis Daily reported on Tuesday.

On Thursday, a nurse inserted the thermometer at about 10 am to take the temperature of the 18-month-old inpatient boy and then forgot to remove it. The mistake was discovered at 2:40 am on Friday, and the thermometer was removed.

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Trending: Graduation rings is new trends<BR>Since '78, over 1.4m students back home

Over the past 35 years, more than 1.4 million Chinese overseas students have returned to China after graduating from school, according to the Ministry of Education on Tuesday.

The ministry said over 3.05 million people pursued degrees in foreign countries from 1978, the beginning of China's opening-up policy, to the end of 2013.

Among the more than 1.6 million people who have not returned, 1.07 million are studying or doing research abroad.

 

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Unpaid food bills draw jail sentence

A former village leader who ate dinners at restaurants without paying was sentenced to one year in jail, with two years' probation for corruption, people.com reported on Tuesday.

The former director of the Gaotu village committee in Lingshui Li autonomous county, named Fu, was said to have caused two restaurants to close by failing to pay for six months. It was also found that Fu embezzled 10,770 yuan ($1,726) of public funds from 2011 to August, 2012.

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