Trending: HK ups retirement age

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-04-04 11:58

Hong Kong wants to raise the retirement age for new civil servants, a family should never forget to renew graveyard management fees, and the ex-wife of Crazy English founder has received over $7 million so far in divorce settlement.

Graveyard to remove ashes if fees not renewed

A Shenyang citizen bought cemetery space, and paid management fees for the next 20 years to the cemetery owner. He finalized arrangement for his father after more than 50,000 yuan ($8,045) was spent. But an item in the contract prescribing that the graveyard will remove the ashes if management fees are not renewed after 20 years worried him, Beijing Morning Post reported.

The Chinese cities of Shenyang, Qingdao and Jinan have similar rules that public cemetery rights expire after 20 years.

Charitable shop owner turned anguish

A shop in Central China which offered free steamed breads to environmental sanitation workers has stopped serving the food. Some non-workers who were turned away from getting the free food cursed and quarreled with the shop owner, and some sanitary workers who believed a rumor that public departments paid the shop asked for money instead of steamed breads, Beijing Morning Post reported Friday.

The shop, in Zhengzhou city, capital of Central China's Henan province, began serving free food on Feb 7, after learning that sanitation workers had been working overtime to clear ice. The shop offers about 400 steamed breads daily, and gave away more than 16,000 in one month, at a huge cost to the small shop.

Govt suggests 65 as retirement age

Hong Kong's government proposed on Thursday that the retirement age of new civil servants be extended by five years to 65. Public hearings on the question will be held over the next four months. The region faces demographic challenges arising from an aging population and a shrinking labor force. The government is the largest employer in the region.

Surgeons place baby's heart into body

A 2-month-old baby underwent surgery in Nanjing, to place her heart, which was partially outside of her body, fully into her thoracic cavity, Yangtze Evening News reported.

The baby, whose home is in neighboring Anhui province, was born with part of her heart exposed. Doctors said any stimulation or touch could have injured the heart and caused death.

Suzhou pays subsidies for autistic children

Headache solution goes to man's head

A man in Wuhan who injected kerosene into his scalp to cure a headache was left with a swollen head, Changjiang Daily reported. The man, 54, had experienced severe headaches despite medical treatment and believed the kerosene injection would act as a miracle cure. After the injection, his head became swollen, his skin turned red and he had to be treated by a surgeon.

Man gets 15 months for bomb rumor

A man in Changzhou was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment on Tuesday for fabricating a rumor that a bomb had been placed in the city's railway station, Yangtze Evening News reported. Chen Zhicheng spread the rumor to take revenge on police who once detained him for theft. Police evacuated more than 300 people at the railway station and closed the waiting room.

Farmer makes spacecraft model by himself

Huang Yuzhan, a farmer who is more than 60 years old in Jiexi county, Guangdong province, makes models of spacecraft and rockets, which are placed on the roof of his house, chinanews.com reported.

Li Yang owes divorce compensation

A court in Beijing ruled that Li Yang, founder of Crazy English, a well-known English education institution in China, has paid his ex-wife 7.32 million yuan of the divorce settlement from the total 12 million awarded to her on Feb 3, 2013 in their divorce case, The Beijing News reported Friday.