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(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-04-11 12:09

Six-hour work day is the envy of the Internet. A Chaoyang county family has a very old neighbor - the ancient tomb below their home. Falungong "master" arrested on suspicion of rape and fraud.

Web users envious for shorter working hours

The news that a Swedish city is giving a six-hour workday a go created a buzz among Chinese Internet users. According to the latest figures in an ongoing online poll on Weibo, 17,907 people say they desperately want that short working span, while 1,692 say they don't want it, and it's a "lazy" policy. Chinese labor law requires people to work for no more than eight hours a day.

The Swedish city of Gothenburg's municipal government just adopted the six-hour workday with full pay for some of its workers, with hopes that it will cut down on sick leave, boost efficiency and ultimately save Sweden money.

Old man died in clash with officers

Two city maintenance officers suspected to be involved in a 68-year-old man's death have been detained, and an investigation is under way, Fuzhou-based news website fznews.com reported.

Zheng Xiuyuan, in Fuzhou city, East China's Fujian province, was suspiciously beaten to death, allegedly by two city maintenance officers on Wednesday morning, after he tried to resolve a quarrel between a street vendor and one of the two officers, Fujian-based Strait News said on its official Weibo account Wednesday. It later deleted the post.

But later a notice from Fuzhou government said Zheng collapsed and died during the crash.

Woman who hit man not our employee, court says

The Supreme People's Court denied that a woman who knocked into an old man at a parking lot after a parking space dispute is its employee, after an investigation, the court said on its official Weibo account on Friday morning.

A post by a Weibo user said a woman attempting to seize a parking space where an old man was standing and waiting for his daughter's car, kept reversing the car deliberately and knocked into the elderly man, on Wednesday at noon. She refused to apologize and even shouted at him. When the police came, she took out an identity card showing that her residence is "No 27 Dongjiaominxiang", the address of the Supreme People's Court. She asked the police to think twice before punishing her, the post said.

The case attracted wide attention among Chinese internet users, who speculated she was an official who abused privileges.

Vaccine-reaction insurance eyed

Beijing is considering introducing insurance to cover adverse vaccine reactions, the Beijing Health and Family Planning Commission said on its website on Wednesday.

"Though the probability (of severe abnormal reactions) is only 1 in several million, the reactions have a major effect on children and their families," said Xie Hui, director of the disease prevention and control department under the commission, as quoted by Beijing Times.

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One dead, one injured after helicopter crash

One pilot died and another was injured after a helicopter crash in Miyun county on Thursday morning, according to rescue authorities.

At 11:39 am, the Beijing emergency center received the crash report, dispatched an ambulance helicopter to the scene and sent the two pilots to the county hospital. The Bell 407 helicopter belongs to a company in the capital.

Family lives over ancient tomb for 30 years

A family in Chaoyang county has lived for more than 30 years over an ancient tomb listed as a protected national cultural relic, Liaoshen Evening News reported.

In 1982, Wei Hongxi discovered the tomb, which was later confirmed by the local relics protection department as an Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 317-420) tomb. To protect it, the Wei family did not perform repairs on their dilapidated house or water their vegetables in the courtyard. The local government has not decided what to do with the tomb.

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Bee breeder, 92, attends university

Wu Tianxiong, a 92-year-old honeybee breeder in Hefei, has been attending courses at a local university twice a week, Jianghuai Morning Post reported on Thursday.

Wu was accepted by the University of Science and Technology of China two years ago. He had been helping to breed animals at the School of Life Sciences at the university for about five years after his retirement in 1980 and entered a local middle school for education in 2002.

Man raped Falungong female followers, police say

Henan police authorities have arrested a 63-year-old man suspected of raping and getting money by fraudulent means after claiming to be a "master" of the Falungong,cult Henan-based Dahe Daily reported.

The man, surnamed Sun, is said to have had sexual relations with 17 women since 2001, saying he is the father of Li Hongzhi, the founder and so-called master of the Falungong cult. The victims, who believed Sun's sperm would help purify their bodies, also gave him money as a token of their gratitude. Sun has reportedly illegally earned more than 200,000 yuan ($32,000).