The China Side

A mother in Longyou, Zhejiang Province was over the moon when she heard her son had been arrested for fraud.

Yu’s only son, Tong, left home in 2001 to travel to Wenzhou as a migrant worker.

Yu had not had any contact from Tong since he left; she assumed he was dead.

Tong has actually spent all his money he earned gambling and was too ashamed to contact his mother.

But on November 8th he was arrested for fraud. Yu received a letter from police informing her of the arrest — cause for celebration.

Wenzhou Metropolis News

A profoundly deaf woman in Jimo, Shandong Province has found her married life to be good therapy for impaired hearing and speech.

Liu became profoundly deaf after a high fever at the age of five. She met her husband last June and they married in September. Three days into the marriage she magically spoke her husband’s name.

Now liu is able to speak many words clearly and has regained partial hearing. She’s currently in hospital for further treatment in the hope that her speech and hearing may fully recover.

Bandao Metropolis News.

A man surnamed Wang who refused to pay his father’s living expenses has been jailed for 15 days in the city of Shaoguan, Guangdong Province.

He was also ordered to fulfill his obligations to look after his father after his release.

When Wang’s father took him to court earlier this year, the court ruled in favor of his father, but Wang ignored the ruling. The next step was jail.

Wang has the dubious distinction of being Shaoguan’s first person to be jailed for refusing to look after his father.

GuangZhou Daily

Fearing that his wife would poison him, a suspicious farmer in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province has eaten instant noodles for more than a year.

The farmer surnamed Liu, said he could not get along with his wife ,who has been having an affair with his neighbor. In irritation, Liu revealed the affair to all the villagers last May. Liu’s wife, surnamed Xu, said she had never thought of poisoning him, although she had applied for a divorce some dozen years ago.

Last Wednesday the couple finally reached an agreement on divorce.

Nanjing Morning Post

To cover for a drunken friend, a man claimed he was the driver at an accident. Unfortunately, he was also drunk.

At about 1 am on Wednesday, a taxi was hit from behind by a BMW on Tuen Mun Road in Hong Kong. The car was driven by a 33 year old man surnamed Ma.

Before the police arrived, his friend surnamed Wang arrived in his Mercedes Benz. When a police officer came to investigate, Wang claimed he was the driver even though the witnesses said otherwise.

The officer warned Wang, reeking of alcohol, of the seriousness of covering up a crime. Still, Wang insisted on taking the breathalyzer test. The result indicated his blood alcohol content (BAC) was triple the legal level.

Both Wang and Ma were arrested fro a drunk driving and perverting the course of justice.

Ming Pao

An inebriated Swiss tourist was arrested in Hong Kong after he forced his way into a mahjong club and smashed the furniture.

The 36-year-old man saw the mahjong club sign in Tsim Sha Tsui in the early morning hours of last Wednesday and mistook it for a nightclub. Despite the staff’s explanation, he refused to leave. He charged into the club, pulled an iron bar of the bathroom wall and started using it to smash furniture and windows.

He was arrested on vandalism charges.

Singtao Daily

Liu Songyun, 22, seemed unreasonably happy after being arrested for robbing 8 yuan($US 1.07 from a friend in Sanmenxia, Henan Province, last Wednesday.

Liu said he waned to go to prison to quit his internet addiction.

In many attempts over the past moths, Liu couldn’t stop his internet addiction played out in local cyber cafes.

To serve a jail term to break his internet addiction, he lured a net friend to the city outskirts then robbed him. Liu quickly surrendered to the police.

Henan Daily.

A group of 16 high school students and three teachers from the United States recently tried farming in Pangliu Village, Xian, Capital Shaanxi Provence.

The group of teachers and students, ages 14 to 17, arrived the Sunday before last for three days of living with rural families, working with them, and teaching them a little English.

Sanqin Daily