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An angry father accuses his cheating son-in-law bribery, a 20 cent restaurant overcharge results in a four-month lawsuit and one member of the CPPCC thinks people who pursue the highest levels of education are doing it only to look good.

Family feud

When family members turn into foes, two things can often be behind the scenes – money and women. Qiao Hongcheng could have had an envious career until he was reported to have taken bribes worth 60,000 yuan. Qiao has a master's degree and had worked for Sinopec for less than one year before the expose. His affair came to light and prompted his angry father-in-law to be the whistleblower, Beijing Television reported.

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Customer nitpicks

A court in Beijing rejected a cash-savvy customer's request for 3.15 yuan as compensation in a case caused by a 20 cents overcharge. The man surnamed Zhang claimed the bill was wrong after a restaurant rounded up the fees to an integer in December. Zhang then launched a four-month lawsuit, which ended up with him getting back 20 cents, Beijing Morning Post reported.

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Soccer fan blackmails

A fanatic fan of Shandong Luneng, a Chinese Super League club, was widely denounced online after posting a threat letter to kill Guangzhou Evergrande's coach Marcello Lippi and owner Xu Jiayin. The Luneng fan, jealous of Evergrande's glory, said there's no more he could do to help his beloved team become champions. Other Luneng fans called for calm and dismissed the post as overzealous. Evergrande made other Chinese clubs green-eyed after claiming the coveted Asian Champions League title last season. Evergrande has called police for an investigation, Guangzhou Daily reported.

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PhD officials snubbed

Not all the people give credits to officials who seek academic titles, for example, a PhD. Meng Xuenong, an outspoken member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body that is convening in Beijing now, said the pursuit of a PhD is merely a face job, only to make the person look good. "There is no shortage of PhD-awarded officials who ended up taking bribes," Meng told Beijing Youth Daily.

Second-child request makes woman sick

A woman surnamed Xu in Guangzhou became ill and had to see a doctor after her mother-in-law continuously told her that she should have a second child, Nanfang Daily reported. Xu, 35, a university teacher, complained of headaches, stomachaches and insomnia. Xu said she did not want to have a second child because of work and life pressure.

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Thousands put out blaze in three days

Firefighters extinguished a forest fire on Monday afternoon, according to local forest fire prevention headquarters. Crews were clearing the site to avoid a resurgence of the blaze, which started at about 4:40 pm on Saturday near Qingshan, a village in Lufeng county, said the Kunming Forest Fire Prevention Headquarters. A total of 2,320 people helped put out the fire.

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Mobile app used to steal money

A 20-year-old woman has been accused of cheating her ex-boyfriend's ex-wife out of 290,000 yuan ($47,400). The woman pretended to be a doctor studying in the United States and got in touch with her ex-boyfriend's ex-wife through Wechat, a popular mobile app. The woman was detained by Nanjing police.

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Love for dog stops suicide attempt

A woman from Nanjing contemplated committing suicide on Saturday night but changed her mind because she didn't want to leave her dog, Yangtze Evening Post reported on Monday. The woman had taken a high dosage of sleeping pills before her dog began clawing at her door. She suddenly didn't want to die and called her colleagues. She has been taken to the hospital for treatment.

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River jumper found 300 kilometers away

A woman surnamed Dong in Fuyang who jumped into the Fuchun River in an attempted suicide after being beaten by her husband on Thursday evening wound up 300 km away two days later in Taizhou in neighboring Jiangsu province. The 37-year-old said she did not know how she got there but faintly remembered somebody in a boat saving her and telling her that people in Taizhou would help her.

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