Trending across China on April 13

Public-sector employees want a shorter workday, couple celebrates 90th birthday, farm loses 2,000 pigs to lenders, Wen Zhang and Ma Yili caught together.

Wen Zhang and Ma Yili show up together

Celebrity couple Wen Zhang and Ma Yili who are under spotlight for Wen's extramarital affairs were found together taking their elder daughter to an ice skating court in Beijing.

The celebrity couple has become one of the most-talked topics recently after Wen, a well-known actor, admitted his extramarital affairs with another actress Yao Di who played a wife role of Wen in a TV show.

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Master sells rice noodle at Beijing financial center

A law master gave up an attractive job offer and opened a beef flavor rice noodle restaurant at one of Beijing's most flourishing centers for business and finance.

Zhang Tianyi, who will graduate from Beijing University with a MA's degree in three months' time, started the small vendor business with three other friends, all being post 90s and as well-educated as Zhang.

Zhang, now serving as chef and handyman, boils bone soup and cooks noodles till midnight everyday in a 40-square meter store that has a monthly rent of 10,000 yuan.

He learned the recipe in his hometown in Changde, central China's Hunan province, after opening two restaurants with friends during his undergraduate years.

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Majority approve of six-hour workday

News that the Swedish city of Gothenburg will try out a six-hour workday for public-sector employees has created a buzz among Chinese Internet users.

According to an online poll on Sina Weibo, 17,907 people said they desperately want such a short workday, while 1,692 said they do not want it and called it a "lazy" policy.

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Chinese inundated with spam in 2013

Chinese mobile users received more than 300 billion spam messages last year, based on analysis of 270 million complaints, People's Daily reported on Saturday.

Sales promotions accounted for 65 percent of the spam, while real estate advertisements accounted for 15 percent. Beijing mobile users received an average of 2.22 junk messages each day. The messages are sent via fake base stations - unlicensed telecommunication installations that allow criminals to send spam to nearby mobile users with fake phone numbers or disguised as communications from government departments, telecoms operators or banks. The report said a campaign against spam at the end of last year reduced such messages by over 50 percent in November and December.

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Couple celebrates 90th birthday

A couple in Changsha, Hunan province, who have been married for 74 years, celebrated their 90th birthday together on Wednesday.

The husband, Fan Faxiang, and his wife, Su Yinglan, were both born in 1924. The couple said they saw each other for the first time when they married and never quarreled during their 74 years of marriage.

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Farm loses 2,000 pigs to lenders

Fengheng Pig Farm in Foshan, Guangdong province, lost more than 2,000 pigs to lenders after failing to pay its 40-million-yuan debt, reported Southern Rural Journal on Friday.

A group of loan lenders raided the farm over the weekend, grabbing the pigs, fans, computers, vaccines, refrigerators and more than 100 chickens while smashing the farm's feed-mixing equipment. Not being able to contact the farm, its employees called the police and the local court closed the farm on Tuesday.

Buying back house for twice the price

A man who sold a house his late father left to him and his brothers for 1 million yuan ($161,000) had to pay more than twice that to repurchase the property, Beijing Youth Daily reported Friday.

The man, surnamed Wu, was sued by his three brothers for selling the house to his colleague Zhang in 2007 without their permission. Haidian District People's Court found that the house was a community property shared by the four brothers and ruled the purchase contract invalid. Wu was ordered to pay Zhang 2.6 million yuan as compensation.

City releases elderly-care guideline

Shanghai released a guideline on Friday to accelerate the development of its elderly-care service industry, part of efforts to deal with increasingly pressing aging problems.

According to the guideline released on the official website of the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, a comprehensive elderly-care service system will be established by 2020, covering service supply, elder protection, policy support, demand evaluation and industry supervision. Shanghai is the first city in China to be entering an aging society, and has long faced serious aging problems.

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