The China Side

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

College students and even high school students are crowding into Biejing school hospitals for facelifts during summer vacation.

“By last week, all of our hospital’s 20 sickbeds were occupied by young people who want attractive face with double eyelids or the like,” said Huang Dayong, director of a hospital in Beijing’s Haidian District. “More than half the girls want the oval faces.” Similar situations were also reported in other hospitals.

Students are being cautioned by doctors against unnecessary plastic surgery, especially since unsuccessful surgery could be difficult to correct.

Beijing Evening News

An unmarried young man from Shenyang, Liaoning, sued a local company for a record 2.46 million yuan ($US 315,384) after being run down by one of the company trucks a year ago, resulting of impotence.

Of the compensation, Zhao sued for 1.5 million yuan for emotional damage, the highest such claim ever made in the province.

Last week a local court awarded Zhao only 500, 000 yuan for his injuries, with one-tenth of the settlement earmarked for emotional damage. Zhao is appealing the decision as “too small for the lifelong damage.”

Liaoshen Evening News

A Taiwan surgeon was repeated videotaped stealing in a bookstore starting last March.

When he recently appeared at the store he was taken to the manager’s office. After watching the videotapes the man admitted that he had stole - not for the books but strictly for the excitement.

United Daily News