Actress' father wants the media to leave his daughter and her philandering husband alone, the Jade Rabbit is still alive on the moon and a Porsche owner is rescued from kidnappers.

 

Ma Yili's father says leave couple alone

A Weibo user who claimed to be the father of Ma Yili, a Chinese actress whose husband was exposed as cheating on his wife, called on media to stop probing the couple's domestic affairs on his Weibo account, a Twitter-like social networking site.

"My daughter thanks you for exposing his affairs, you are doing a public scrutiny job, but we want to handle the following things ourselves...... your pursuing this is making it harder...... do you want them to divorce?" The anguished Weibo post urged Southern Metropolis Entertainment Weekly, which exposed the affair, to stop hyping the matter.

Wen Zhang, a well-known actor, made headlines recently after he admitted having an affair with another actress.

Yutu still working after expected service span ended

China's moon rover Yutu, which landed on the moon on Dec 14, has exceeded its expected three-month life, and is still working, Chengdu Commercial Daily reported Wednesday, citing Yu Dengyun, deputy chief designer of China's moon exploration project.

Yutu can still receive signals, process information and send data and photos back to earth, but it can't walk due to a mechanical control abnormality, Yu said.

Yutu entered its fourth lunar night on March 24. It is now less than 20 meters away from its lander, and the two can take pictures of and communicate with each other. Yu said the moon exploration project will continue to use the moon rover until it completely stops working.

Porsche owner kidnapped

A woman who owns a Porsche worth around 3 million yuan ($480,000) was kidnapped by three people who demanded her husband pay a 20 million yuan ransom in Leqing city, East China's Zhejiang province, Ningbo-based Modern Gold Express said on Wednesday.

The ransom is the highest ever for a kidnapping case in Wenzhou. The police cracked the case and rescued the hostage within 24 hours. Three suspects are under arrest.

PX project will not launch without public agreement

The vice mayor of Maoming city in Guangdong province, which was mulling the construction of a petrochemical plant, promised that the government won't start the project if the majority of residents object to it, Mm111.net, a local news network, reported Wednesday.

Liang Luoyue said this while talking with petitioners asking to halt the paraxylene (PX) project.He also urged people who vandalized public facilities during a mass rally on Sunday to turn themselves in.

Driver quits job to donate stem cells

A man in the county of Ansai quit his job and traveled to donate stem cells to a girl he had never met, Huashang Daily reported on Tuesday. Wang Guangheng, 24, received a phone call from staff members at the Shaanxi branch of the Chinese Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors Database after he had just started work as a driver in Erdos, Inner Mongolia. Wang asked his new boss for a week's leave to travel to Xi'an, the provincial capital, for tests and to make a donation, but his boss refused. Wang quit his job, feeling that saving a life is more important.

Scams trigger police raid on tour guides

Police raided a group of suspected illegal tour guides near the Forbidden City who, they said, cheated foreign tourists. A female overseas tourist said she met a Chinese woman on March 17 who recommended a bar and a teahouse near the Forbidden City, Xinhua News Agency reported. Her bill at the two spots was nearly 6,500 yuan ($1,047).

Male monkey kills baby counterpart

A monkey king at a zoo killed a newborn baby monkey, leaving the mother holding the corpse for more than 10 days, Liaoshen Evening News reported on Tuesday.

Zoo keepers suspect monkey king killed the baby because it believed the baby was not his offspring, the report said.

The monkey king was the only male in the zoo, but it could not produce offspring. After zookeepers introduced another male monkey into the group, a female monkey gave birth to two babies. The monkey king, finding that these were not his offspring, beat one of them to death.