Heated debate over high-end bins
Jinan city has installed more than 100 new wheelie bins bearing thermometers on city streets - each costs up to 720 yuan ($117) - in a bid to show users and passers-by real-time temperatures, iqilu.com reported.
Not every citizen has welcomed the high-end bins however with some finding the thermometers show temperatures as high as 50°due to long-time exposure to sunlight, very different from the actual figure.
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Taiwan program has skeptics
Taiwan news program TalkChina of UDN TV said earlier this month the reason Chinese mainlanders use more mobile Internet than Taiwan people is that the mainland's income gap is larger and some blue-collar workers can't afford computers, plus mobile Internet is cheaper, Dahe.cn reported. The news sparked heated debate and is now the third hottest topic on Chinese social networking site Sina Weibo, as users question what they said and suspect anchormen were being condescending.
A netizen said: "I cannot even afford a tea flavored egg, let alone a computer," echoing earlier reports of another Taiwan program which said last year "mainlanders are too poor to afford a tea flavored egg".
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Deformed child eyes a cure
An eight-year-old girl born with 15 toes and 12 fingers has had surgery to remove the extra toes, with further operations to come on her hands and to correct dental deformities, China Youth Daily reported. Xiao Yu's parents have never taken her to see doctors due to high costs. Experts said her problems were likely caused by abnormal embryonic development due to ignorance of antenatal care.
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Middle-aged women fight over dance partner
Two middle-aged women who fought over a 68-year-old male dancing partner were sent to the police, Qianjiang Evening News reported. The man's regular 52-year-old partner was not available on Sunday, so he danced with another woman, aged 48. His regular partner later arrived unexpectedly and grabbed the younger woman's hair. Later at the police station, the older woman apologized and compensated the younger one.
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Man 'mourns' faulty cell phone
A Chongqing man received a new cell phone after complaining over the "death" of his newly-purchased model by carrying a floral wreath to the store, Chongqing Evening News reported.
The man surnamed Su had bought the phone more than a month ago and it had gone wrong after only a few days. He returned it for repair but was kept waiting and went to the store again on Sunday with the wreath.
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Would-be robber helps himself
A Shenzhen man, planning a robbery, managed to get into a landlord's home by claiming to be a tenant seeking a roommate. After finding no cash, he took out a point of sale machine and transferred 2,000 yuan from the landlord's credit card to himself, Nanjing's Modern Express newspaper reported. The man, surnamed Chen, 28, has been put under criminal investigation.
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Special day for sinistrals
Users of Chinese social networking site Sina Weibo launched an activity sharing the handwriting of sinistrals (left-handed people). Some 3,519 participated, although not all left-handers, to celebrate International Left-Handers Day that falls annually on Aug 13. Approximately 10 percent of the world's population are left-handed.
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