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(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-01-23 10:37

Tickets for CCTV Spring Festival gala is going for up to 55,000 yuan online, even though it's illegal to sell them, and Li Na is fined $4,000 for being coached during a match at the Australian Open.

Sweet burden

A survey by Beijing News shows that about 40 percent of people consider it a burden to go home for the Spring Festival holiday, and half of them spend more than 5,000 yuan for the festival.

It's a tradition for Chinese people to be with their family during Spring Festival (Lunar New Year's Day, Jan 31 this year), and tens of millions of people travel back home.

Spring Festival pressure

Grieving family

Family members of a patient smashed into the office of a hospital in Xi'an, capital city of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, on Tuesday afternoon, injuring a doctor and two policemen.

Four suspects were detained by police, and all of them are family members of a 4-year-old girl who died 30 hours after being sent to Xi'an Children's Hospital, Beijing Times reported.

Man accused of killing doctor appears in court

Illegal costly tickets

Tickets for the Spring Festival gala held by China Central Television (CCTV) are being sold online for 55,000 yuan ($9,090) each.

CCTV announced repeatedly that it never sold tickets for the Spring Festival gala, nor had it authorized any individual or organization to sell tickets.

Galas canceled in reform move

War reports

The Liaoning provincial archive publicized three historical reports about how Japanese military forces deployed five to six trucks and more than 200 civilians every day to clear the bodies of Chinese people killed during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937-1938.

The files recorded that a squad of special forces of the Japanese army collected 31,791 bodies of the Chinese army and civilians in three months from December 1937 to March 1938. At least 300,000 Chinese people were killed by Japanese invaders during the Nanjing Massacre.

Li Na fined

Li Na, 2011 French Open champion, was fined $4,000 by authorities of the Australian Open on Wednesday, West China City Daily reported.

Li was punished for accepting guidance from her coach during a match. The Australian Open committee punished eight players that day, the report said.

Azarenka joins stars' tumbling knockout list

Commanders probed

Disciplinary authorities in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region are investigating two vice division commanders over allegations of corruption.

Song Guo'an and Feng Yan are suspected of serious violations of discipline and the law, local anti-graft authorities announced on Wednesday.

2nd child allowed in Anhui

The new family-planning policy went into effect in East China's Anhui province, allowing couples to have a second child, the Anhui Market News reported.

The Anhui provincial people's congress approved the policy during its annual session in mid-January, the report said.