Trending: Scorching day 'cooks' meat

The Temperature was so high in East China's Shandong province that a woman barbecued meat in a car. A newspaper criticizes a 7,000-member travel group visiting the US. And vehicles towing a dismantled helicopter make an usual sight on an expressway.

 

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Barbecue on car trunk

A woman experimented with barbecuing some meat in a car trunk when the first orange heat alert of this summer was issued in Jinan city, East China's Shandong province on Thursday, according to icpress.cn.

The highest temperature that day reached 39 degrees Celsius and the food clearly turned ready to be served.

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Marketing activities criticized

An oversized Chinese travel group was reported and commented on as a patriotic activity and show of national strength by some news coverage and netizen.

But it turned out it was actually an usual marketing practice in the US by a direct selling company. The Sina Weibo official account of Southern Metropolis Daily criticized it on Thursday.

The travel group consists of 7,000 Chinese, with each traveler spending an average of more than $10,000 per person in Los Angeles, while most travelers spend $2,500 on average.

The huge group unexpectedly and unnecessarily sang the national anthem together, raised the national flag and had a photo shoot with all its members, leading to huge attention.

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Vehicles towing helicopter on expressway

A BMW and a Chevrolet were seen towing two separate parts of a helicopter in Leiyi city, Hunan province on Thursday, rednet.cn reported.

The helicopter was being transferred for an exhibition and was separated into two parts so it could be transported by the two cars. The police stopped and examined the cars, requiring the car owners to drive off the expressway to avoid an accident. One of the car owners was punished and fined for his car's expired annual inspection.

 

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Second son files lawsuit

Xu Huaru, Xu Linlu's second son, has filed a lawsuit regarding a dispute against his mother Wang Lingwen and his other two brothers over Xu Linlu inheritance. The case, which went to trial on Thursday,Beijing Youth Daily reported.

Xu Linlu was a renowned painter, calligrapher, and connoisseur of painting in China who left behind 72 calligraphies, paintings and 3 purple clay teapots worth 210 million yuan($33.6m) in total after his death.

Xu Huayi, one of Xu's sons, was asking for a share of the inheritance, while his mother showed authorities Xu Linlu's handwritten will, saying all his possessions belong to her.

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Watchdog warns against buying festival gift

China's top anti-graft watchdog warned government officials on Thursday against spending public funds to buy gifts ahead of the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival.

The public can submit whistle-blowing posts to expose the buying of gifts such as zongzi, - a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves - with public funds through the website of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, according to the commission.

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Former teacher gets capital punishment

A former primary school teacher who raped and molested students has had his death sentence approved by the Supreme People's Court, Chengdu Commercial Daily reported on Thursday.

The man, surnamed Wei, raped seven and molested four of his 8- to 11-year-old students a number of times from 2008 to 2011. He was sentenced to death in 2013.

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Hospital offers discounts to patients

Panyu Maria Hospital is allowing its patients to pay according to how satisfied they are with the treatment they receive. Since the program began on May 1, not one of the 4,400 patients has failed to pay, News Express reported.

About 61 percent of the patients rated their treatments above 90 on a scale of 1 to 100, and 38 percent rated their treatment between 80 and 90. The patients paid a total 1.9 million yuan ($304,600), with a patient-imposed discount of 270,000 yuan. The hospital president said the loss of income from the discounts was acceptable.

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4,000 make dumplings in attempt to set record

More than 4,000 people tried to challenge a Guinness World Record by making zongzi together within three minutes in a primary school of Luyuan district, Changchun, according a report by City Evening News.

Zongzi are the glutinous-rice dumplings eaten during the traditional Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on Monday this year. During a Fun Games program at the school, the students, wearing various drama and cartoon costumes, were organized to make zongzi together with their teachers and parents. 

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