Endangered leopards caught on video

A man buys 125 minibuses to hoard license plates, a devoted daughter builds a nursing home after she can't find one to care for her paralytic father.

Man bought 125 minibuses for hoarding license plates

A man, surnamed Jin, bought 125 minibuses in Hangzhou, and is said to hoard license plates, Youth Times reported on Friday.

"All of the minibuses that Jin bought are produced by Changan Automobile Company, and are priced 27,000 yuan for each one," an employee, of the Xiang Tong Automobile Company, surnamed Zhang, told Youth Times.

"This type of Changan minibus is a low-emission car and the performance of the car in many aspects is very low," said Zhang

"Among the cars that are allowed to have a license plate, this type of car is the cheapest," Zhang added.

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Woman builds nursing home for her father

A 41-year-old woman, Zhao Jingxia, raised 3 million yuan to build a nursing home for her paralytic father in Changzhou city, east China's Jiangsu province. Zhao has employed 50 caregivers in the past five years to take care of her father. Zhao said that the majority of nursing homes rejected her father because he can't take care of himself.

"What pushes me to open a nursing home is not money but filial piety. I hope the old, like my father, can have a place to enjoy in their old age," Zhao said.

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Man gets death for killing 3 children

A man was sentenced to death on Thursday for kidnapping and murdering three children late last year. Zhang Xingyan, 33, from Gangkou township in Yueyang, kidnapped and killed two girls and a boy aged between 8 and 9 on Oct 30 because of a grudge against the boy's family, according to the intermediate people's court of Yueyang. Zhang lured the children to a car when they were on their way to school, and then he killed them and left their bodies on the roadside, the court said. Zhang was also a neighbor and distant relative of the victims.

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Freshwater lake starts fishing ban

A three-month fishing moratorium at Poyang Lake, China's biggest freshwater lake, started on Thursday. All fishing activities and other actions that may threaten fish and the lake environment will be banned during the moratorium, said officials at the provincial fishery administration. The annual fishing ban was initiated in 2002.

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Ancient coins unearthed

About 28,000 ancient coins were unearthed in the Shunyi district as people were planting trees, Mirror Evening News reported on Thursday. The coins, with a combined weight of 70 kg, were found in Qianlingshang village and can be dated to 2,100 years ago, according to the district's cultural relics management department. It was the first time that a large number of such artifacts had been found in the area, the news report said.

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'Green card' policy to be relaxed

China will relax its policy of awarding permanent residency permits, or Chinese green cards, to expatriates, an official said on Thursday. "We're working on adopting more flexible policies of granting Chinese green cards, with the hope of attracting more overseas Chinese back to the country," Qiu Yuanping, head of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, said.

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Tiger reserve set for expansion

China is considering a plan to expand a major Siberian tiger reserve in the northeast and relocate half of the 6,000 local residents in order to better protect the rare species, an official said on Thursday. The Hunchun National Siberian Tiger Nature Reserve will be increased by 524 hectares if the plan is adopted by the State Council, said Lang Jianmin, director of the reserve's scientific research and publicity center. The State Forestry Administration has already approved the plan.

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Court rules in favor of membership

A court ruled on Wednesday that the Kuomintang has no right to expel the embattled "parliamentary speaker", in a case that has divided the party and hit the popularity of the island's leader, Ma Ying-jeou. "Speaker" Wang Jin-pyng, a political heavyweight known for his grassroots influence in the south, was accused of meddling in a corruption case. The Kuomintang stripped Wang of his membership in September.

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