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HERE COME THE GAMES FOR ANIMALS

Trained wild animals from across China are headed to Chingqing Municipality in Southwest China to participate in the first ever games for wild animals  during the National Day holidays.
A total of 21 wildlife parks, including those in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou, are  sending their best to show off their talents and skills on stage.
Some of these acts include black bear walking race, boxing, orang-utan basketball and hurdles race and  parrot skating.
A talkative parrot has been chosen to emcee the games.
Chongqing has the largest wildlife park in the country with more than 30,000 wild animals.

Source: Chongqing Evening News.

BID TO CRACKDOWN ON FAKE BEGGARS.

The Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau has recently  released a pmphlet on how to recognize fake beggars.
It describes the most popular street tricks in Shanghai from faking pregnancies to faking religion  and need for money to pay tuition fees.
Meanwhile, the government has also announced steps to ensure aid for those in genuine need.

Source: Youth Reference.

HOTEL ASKS 100 KG MAN TO PAY FOR BROKEN STOOL

 A man taking refuge in a hotel to escape a typhoon found  himself caught in another kind of storm – over a stool.
Lin, who weighs more than 100 kilograms, checked  into a hotel in Haikou, Hainan province on Tuesday.
A stool that he used gave way under his weight and the hotel asked him top pay for it.
Lin thought that unfair and lodged a complaint with the local authorities, which decided the stool broke because of its poor quality. It absolved Lin of any responsibility.

Source: Hainan Economic Daily.

LONELY OLD COUPLE WISH TO ADOPT GROWN UP SON

An old couple in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, wish to adopt an adult son.
The 59-year old woman  surnamed Wang has a happy marriage but the couple have no children. With age, they are finding in increasingly difficult to cope with their loneliness.
This has prompted them to  post an adoption appeal in the Nanjing Morning Post. The couple are financially self-sufficient with savings of around 600,000 yuan (US$ 74,000). They are looking to adopt a degree  holder between the ages of 20 and 30.

Source:  Nanjing Morning Post

AND THIS LITTLE PIGGY GOES TO THE  BEAUTY CONTEST…

A competition to determine the best looking pig was recently held in Rongchang, Sichuan Province.
Of the 130,000 pigs, 90 made the cut. Experts  selected the King and Queen according to national health standards for pigs, such as body, growth and breeding records.
The King is 1.35 meres long, with a chest  measurement of 1.2 metres and weighs 122 kilograms.
The Queen's length is 1.5 metres.  She weighs 160 kilograms and has bred 51 healthy piglets.

Source: www.sina.com.cn
AMERICAN DVD PIRACY CONVICT DEPORTED HOME.

An American based in Shanghai who sold pirated  DVDs on the Internet was deported back to the US yesterday after serving part of his prison term, the Ministry of Public Security said.
Randolph Hobson Guthrie III, 38, was released to officers of the US Department of Homeland Security after being arrested on July 1, 2004, in Shanghai.
On April 19, the Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced him to two-and-a-half years in jail and fined him 500,000 yuan (US$61,600).
His three accomplices - Abram Cody Thrush, Wu Dong and Wu Shibiao - were all given jail terms ranging up to 15 months and fines of between 10,000 (US$1,233) and 30,000 yuan (US$3,699).
Thrush was deported on July 1.
According to an article published on March 7 in the Wall Street Journal, Guthrie, son of a wealthy Manhattan plastic surgeon, came to Shanghai in  1995.
He failed to find the type of job he wanted and happened onto the pirated DVD business.
He built a lucrative business, advertising DVDs on  eBay.com and a Russian website, the Journal said, mostly selling James Bond DVDs to enthusiasts.
But one of Guthrie's ads on eBay was seen by a lawyer for MGM studios.
MGM notified the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which contacted Chinese authorities in Shanghai. They then launched the first  joint Sino-US investigation into DVD piracy.
They observed Guthrie's operation undercover until they had enough evidence to move in.
Local police found about 210,000 pirated DVDs at three storehouses Guthrie owned.
Police revealed the four had sold pirated DVDs for US$3 each from November 3, 2003, to July 1,  2004.
The court said the criminals sold 133,000 pirate DVDs worth more than 3.3 million yuan (US$406,000) to more than 20 countries including  the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada.
They earned nearly 1 million yuan (US$123,300) from the business.

Source: China Daily.
Writer: Wang Zhuoqiong

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