Society

Weekly Quotes (March 29 - April 4): No way out but to die

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-04-04 16:44

"I wouldn’t expose this if I weren’t driven to desperation."

The wife of an official posted her husband's extramarital affair with a club singer online. The wife said her husband, a deputy chief of Drug Supervision and Administration Bureau in Shuangfeng County, Hunan province, has lived with the woman for ten years and they even have a child. Local governments have started to investigate the report. [hunan.voc.com.cn]

"They wouldn't care about my case even after I spent several thousand yuan to treat them. There is no way out for me but to die."

Peng Gonglin wrote this in his will. A farmer in Zhumadian, Henan province, Peng committed suicide when after his many attempts failed to persuade local law enforcement officials to handle a fake seeds complaint. Peng suffered heavily due to the fake seeds, local media reported. Three officials have been suspended for malpractice.

"I'm familiar with the Tibetan area. Let me work for another few years?"

Gongchoe Tsultim died on duty after working for 24 years in Tibet and participating in hundreds of emergency rescue missions. He was born into a Tibetan family in 1954, and joined the PLA when he was 16. He died of high-altitude sickness in February last year at the age of 55.

"Do you think I am the kind of person who works in an office? I go to the teahouse for official business."

An official from Wancheng Town in Hainan province thusly explained why he was absent from office and spend much time in a teahouse.

"If you have so much hatred, why didn't you stab the corrupt officials instead?"

Former local community doctor Zheng Minsheng stabbed eight schoolchildren to death and left five seriously injured in Nanping, Fujian province. One student in Nanping expressed his indignation this way in a composition he wrote, reflecting on the incident.

"The journalist said something provocative."

A journalist was beaten by urban management officials when he covered a clash between the officials and hundreds of residents of Kunming, Yunnan province. Local police later explained the officials' actions this way.

"From now on I will study from textbooks. I really envy children nowadays."

After attending her first 23-minute class at an elementary school in Jinan, Shandong province, Ma Xiuxian, a 102-year-old woman realized her lifelong dream of going to school.