A man calls police to help when there's no toilet paper, a provincial governor has chicken for lunch to dispel people's fear of bird flu, and a primary school installs guardrails on desks to prevent students from becoming nearsighted.

 

Lacking toilet paper, man calls the police

A man in Taiwan called the police for help on Thursday afternoon when he found there was no toilet paper provided when he used a public toilet, according to news portal ifeng.com. Local police then asked workers at a gas station nearby to help him. After police posted his case online, the man's move was criticized by web users as wasting police resources.

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Baby sitter is paid 300,000 yuan up front

A Shenzhen resident surnamed Shi gave a lump-sum payment of more than 300,000 yuan ($49,250) to her baby sitter for services for the next 10 years, Southern Metropolis Daily reported on Friday. Shi said she decided to pay the sitter up front because she had been offered higher payments by neighbors several times.

After Spring Festival, there was an obvious rise in baby sitters' wages in cities, including Shenzhen and Guangzhou, due to a local labor shortage, the report said.

Provincial governor who likes chicken

The vice-governor of East China's Zhejiang province visited a chicken processing company and ate chicken for lunch to defuse residents' fears of chicken consumption amid bird flu scares, Zhejiang-based Qianjiang Evening News reported Friday.

Zheng Jiwei also called for the upgrade of the poultry industry in the province, urging more poultry farmers to join frozen chicken processing companies, as the province has closed the live poultry market since July, and only frozen chicken is allowed in the market.

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Actor's response to gambling debt

Ge You, a very famous movie actor in China, in a telephone interview said that he does not want to respond on the matter about an actor's gambling debts in Macao, as internet users supposed him to be the one who is accused of owing tens of millions of patacas to casinos in Macao and recently disappeared, China News Service reported.

 

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The Finishing Touch

A man from Dongying city of Shandong province was suspected of killing a 12-year-old girl after raping her, a local news website Iqilu.com reported Thursday.

Police said the man, surnamed Zhang, in his 40s, was suspected of jimmying open the window of the girl's bedroom and carrying the girl out, sometime before 5 am on Jan 27, while the family were sleeping.

He allegedly raped the girl and killed her on the same day, before dumping the girl's body into a river, which was recovered and identified on Feb 20, said the report.

Mastiff tamer

A butcher calmed down a stray adult mastiff and helped police to catch the wild canine, after it caused chaos and panic in a residence compound in Jiangmen city of East China's Guangdong province, Nanfang Daily reported Friday.

"I said,‘don't worry, I don't eat dogs,' while approaching it", the man in his 40s told a reporter, after he successfully put a collar on the beast, which weighs 62.5 kilograms.

More than 10 policemen with live fire crowded the mastiff into a corner, but they choose not to shoot it, and asked the butcher, who has a reputation for taming ferocious animals, for help.

The dog has been transported to a local animal disease control center while its owner is sought. 　　

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Desks, prevent myopia

Students are using a new type of desk featuring a railing device for preventing myopia at a primary school in Xinzhou, Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, news.163.com reported.

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Fake condom den busted

An illegal workshop selling fake and inferior condoms was busted by local police, in suburban Jiangxi province, East China, Modern Express reported. The small den produced condoms in a room space with only hundreds of square meters, and packed the fake products with forged certificates, brand names and trademarks from established manufacturers.

The workshop has sold 2.17 million boxes of fake condoms to seven provinces and municipalities, including Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Shandong. The amount of money involved reached 21.7 million yuan ($3.56 million). Nine main criminal suspects have been arrested.

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