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AnhuiBaby found in plastic bagXiao county police in Suzhou are investigating an incident in which a one-month-old baby boy was stuffed inside a plastic bag and suffered severe brain damage while his father was away for half an hour, the Market Star reports.迷利倉 The father said his son was asleep in bed when he went out to mediate in a quarrel between his older brother and sister-in-law. When he returned he found his son upside down in the plastic bag. The baby is in intensive care in a local hospital.Thief nabbed at weddingHuaibei police have detained a thief who sneaked into a rural wedding reception and bumped into the owner of an electric bicycle he had stolen from a market, Anhuinews.com reports. The thief was spotted on a police surveillance camera stealing the bike but had been at large before he met the owner at the reception. The owner alerted police who came to the wedding to take the thief away.BeijingRealtor sentencedA real estate developer from Miyun district has been handed a suspended three-year jail sentence after his company bought a flat for the head of a district government agency overseeing land issues, the Beijing Times reports. The developer, Chen Boyu, intended to buy the government official an 860 sq ft flat worth 2.8 million yuan (HK$3.54 million) in return for cheaper land. However, the official demanded a flat twice the size worth 4.1 million yuan.Unclaimed rewardsNearly 70 per cent of whistle-blowers alerting law enforcement authorities over work safety breaches have not claimed rewards for fear of reprisal, the Beijing Youth Daily reports, citing statistics from a municipal government overseeing work safety. The public can claim at least 200 yuan for exposing work safety violations. However, as much as 138,000 yuan in rewards have not been claimed in the past three years .ChongqingCar wash deathA middle-aged woman has drowned while washing her family van with her husband along the Jiangbei section of the Yangtze River, China Central Television reports. The couple were about to drive away when their van's brakes failed and the vehicle went into the river.More for injured workersMunicipal social security authorities will raise allowances for injured workers by 241 yuan a month, the Chongqing Daily reports. The revised allowances will be between 1,362 yuan and 2,043 yuan in accordance with six categories of injuries. The allowances for the next of kin of workers killed at work have also risen by 100 yuan a month.FujianRats fly business classXiamen quarantine officials have found a rat with a litter of 10 babies she gave birth to in an aircraft that had flown from Hong Kong where it underwent maintenance, the Southeast Morning Post reports. The officials spotted the litter under a seat in the business class section and a search led to the mother being found.Ex-lover hires hit menTaizhou district police are investigating an incident in which a 21-year-old man was beaten up by hit men hired by his former gay lover, the Southeast Express reports. The 21-year-old was on his way to collect some 30,000 yuan from the ex-lover as a precondition for ending their relationship. The pair had stayed together for more than half a year and his former lover, 56, decided to call off their relationship due to pressure from his family.GuangxiLate lover's assets soughtThe Jiangnan District People's Court has opened a hearing into a suit in which a 39-year-old woman is in a dispute with two daughters of her late lover over a portion of his assets, including a 560 sq ft property, the Nanguo Morning Post reports. The woman had maintained an extramarital relationship with the married man, who died last year at 83. The woman insists tha自存倉 the daughters honour the part of the will in her favour.Ants fell treeA fallen eucalyptus tree has crushed five houses in a slum area in Liuzhou , although no one was hurt as most residents were at work, Gxnews.com.cn reports. Large numbers of white ants had been spotted near the tree and locals appealed to the pest control department to deal with the infestation so as to avoid further such accidents.JiangsuOpium next to crab pondA crab farmer from Changshu has been sentenced to a suspended 2 ? year prison term for planting some 2,000 opium poppies along her pond the Yangtze Evening News reports. She had been told that the opium plants could help prevent crabs getting sick. Police were alerted by an amateur photographer who identified the plants in photos he took of the pond.Wrong job for datesA Nanjing management officer has vented his frustration online with a comment documenting how he had been rejected in 14 blind dates after he revealed he was an officer with a city law enforcement unit overseeing street order, the Modern Express reports. The officer said that after meeting the girls online he was about to ask them for a date but they all refused to see him when they heard about his job.ShaanxiAmbulance trip to bankA critically ill patient from Xian's Baqiao district was obliged to take an ambulance to a branch of the Industrial and Commerce Bank of China for a fingerprint check so he could reset his bank card password in order to gain access to his pension, the Huashang Daily reports. In response to the public outcry against the bank that followed, an spokesperson for the bank explained that it was policy for card owners to go to a branch in person to reset passwords.Attacked over back-payTwo truck drivers were stabbed to death and two others were seriously injured when they tried to collect their back-pay at a mining company in Tongguan county in Weinan , Cnwest.com reports. Families of the drivers said the four men had tried in vain to recover their back-pay, which amounted to more than 100,000 yuan, for a year before their employers finally summoned them to come and collect their overdue wages.SichuanWrong car pedalA Nanchong woman drove her Mercedes car into a roadside power pole before slamming into five passengers at a bus stop, killing one instantly, newssc.org reports. The driver said that she had intended to brake as her car neared the bus stop but stepped on the accelerator by mistake.Pupil wins payoutA primary school teacher has been ordered to pay one of her pupils 13,000 yuan in an out-of-court settlement for slapping the boy five times, the Chengdu Commercial Daily reports. The pupil was first struck with a ruler by the teacher when he arrived late for class and began talking to a classmate. He lost his temper, swore at her and tried to strike her with a stool. When he went to her office to apologise, she then lost her temper and slapped him five times.ZhejiangPolice mediator hitA village chief from Qingtian county in Lishui is in custody for attacking a police officer who tried to break up a scuffle between the village official, his nephew and several villagers over a disputed mining operation on their land, the Modern Golden News reports. The officer suffered a fractured skull before the village chief was subdued by another officer.Arsonist on trialA Hangzhou worker with a grudge against coworkers goes on trial today for an arson attack that killed three firefighters, Zjol.com.cn reports. Li Lijuan sneaked into a factory early in the morning and set fire to some cardboard materials. The subsequent blaze engulfed much of the building, killing the firefighters. If found guilty Li faces a possible death sentence.迷你倉