The China Side

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

Bipolar disorder is characterized by episodes of mania and depression.

The former phase becomes dominant in May and June in subtropical Taiwan, a psychiatrist at the department of health hospital in Taichung said yesterday.

Dr. Chen Chao-Cheng cited an example.

A public functionary, treated for bi-polar disorder for seven years, started speaking English when she made midnight phone calls, Dr. Chen said.

Her mania phase became dominant at the end of last month.

She couldn’t fall asleep, her husband complained. At midnight, she would pick up the telephone and call people at random.

The first words she said were always: “Hello - Nice to meet you.” Then she would continue to say “Well, I’m fine. Don’t worry about me” and wouldn’t let the man or woman at the end of the line talk. She hung up.

The China Post, Taiwan

Even many English-speaking travelers are puzzled when they read “Go Ahead 30M” on an sign in GuangZhou Baiyun International Airport.

The Chinese sign reads “30 meters ahead”. It is just one of the many incorrect English translations at the airport in the Guangdong provincial capital. The airport administration is planning to clean up its English translations.

GuangZhou Daily

A young man from a village near Changchun, capital of Jilin Province, says he lost all of his girlfriends he had over the years because of his effeminate voice.

Neighbors, he said, also discriminated against him because of his sissy voice. He was so depressed that he had to work outside his hometown and dared not to go home to visit his parents during the day in the past three months.

A doctor he consulted told him last week that his vocal cords can be changed a little surgically, but it would not help much. The doctor suggested he have a thorough hormonal checkup.

New Culture News

A man in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, had surgery to reduce his breast size at the No.1 People’s hospital late last week.

Wang, 32, a manager of a local company, said he never dared to swim or wear light-weight shirts because of his big breasts.

Doctors said no medicines could help him, so the operation was scheduled. He apparently took excessive tonic or medicine or ate too much when he was a child, the doctors said.

Yangcheng Evening News

A woman had the fright of her life when a “spiderman” appeared on her balcony in a 26 storey apartment block in Chingqing Municipality, causing her to faint.

When she came around, the man was standing beside apologizing profusely.

The man and his girlfriend share an apartment with the woman. The man pulled the stunt to scare his girlfriend after an argument.

Chongqing Business News