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Beijing
Tough water rules
The capital will launch the nation's strictest water resources regulations to help clean the city's filthy waterways, the Beijing Morning Post reports. Between 800,000 and a million tonnes of untreated wastewater was released into local streams and rivers every day, deputy mayor Lin Keqing told deputies at a municipal people's congress conference on Friday. Officials also suggested raising water treatment charges.
Pork racketeers jailed
A court in Changping district has imposed jail terms and big fines on two groups who bought diseased pig carcasses and sold the meat mixed with certified pork mince to the public from 2012 to 2013, the Beijing Morning Post reports. The kingpin of one group was jailed for three years and fined 200,000 yuan (HK$253,000), while the leader of the other group was jailed for 31/2 years and fined 150,000 yuan. The remaining 51 members of the two syndicates received sentences of various lengths.
Guangdong
Officer found dead
A 31-year-old police officer in Shijie Town, Dongguan, was found dead in his police station's dormitory on Saturday afternoon, the Southern Metropolis News reports. It is believed the officer, He Canhui, shot himself with his service pistol. A colleague said He was having marital problems.
Panyu jewellery festival
Ninety per cent of Hong Kong's retail jewellers have their products made in Guangzhou's Panyu district, according to sources at the Guangzhou Panyu Jewellery Culture Festival, which opened on Saturday, Chinanews.com reports. The district boasts more than 400 jewellery enterprises that employ more than 100,000 workers. Annual exports of Panyu-made jewellery have risen by an average of 28 per cent in recent years.
Fujian
Official 'shot farmer'
An official in Wuping county has been arrested for the fatal shooting of a farmer who he mistook for a wild boar, the Southern Metropolis News reports. The 45-year-old farmer was picking wild mushrooms on a mountainside on November 23 when he was shot in the knee, and died from blood loss, his relatives said. The official reported to work until a friend who accompanied him on the hunting trip turned himself in to police four days later. An official from Henyang , Hunan , shot and killed a woman picking wild tea two weeks ago while he was hunting wild boars.
Close snake encounter
A deadly many-banded krait was found on a road at Fuzhou University on Thursday, the Southeast Express reports. Security guards caught the half-metre-long reptile but refused to say how they disposed of it.
Hunan
Seeds of contempt
A teacher at a medical school in Loudi has found a novel way to punish 16 students caught nibbling melon seeds in class - he bought a 15kg bag of the seeds and made them finish them in one sitting, Huashang Daily reports. Only one student got through his allotted portion.
Boy runs away - again
A 10-year-old boy who was beaten by his father for stealing 50 yuan slept for three nights in a playground in Changsha before he was found by police, Voc.com.cn reports. Teachers told officers that it was the third time he had run away from home this year. The boy's mother abandoned the family after he was born and his father, a migrant worker who runs a night canteen, allegedly neglects him. When the boy was reunited with his father, the man just scolded him, according to the report.
Jiangsu
Woman sues over surgery
A woman, 33, has taken the Yangzhou municipal health bureau to court for ignoring her complaint about her botched cosmetic surgery, People.com.cn reports. She said she had facial surgery last year that left her unable to open her mouth properly. The doctor was not qualified and the hospital had not been held accountable, she claimed. Her husband divorced her after the operation and she has suffered depression ever since. She is seeking 3 million yuan in compensation and free corrective surgery.
Jiangsu seeks HK help
Jiangsu has called for greater cooperation with Hong Kong on urban development after the two places signed an investment cooperation agreement, Xinhua Daily  reports. More than 60 per cent of Jiangsu residents lived in cities and one million farmers would be resettled in cities every year, the report said.
Ningxia
Probe into boy's death
Education authorities and prosecutors in Yinchuan are investigating why a 12-year-old boy jumped to his death at home last week, Nxnews.net reports. The boy's family said the principal and teachers at the school, which only enrols pupils from the Hui minority, had refused to discuss the matter with them but agreed to cooperate with the authorities.
Pets for the pot
Police in Helan county have busted a gang who stole and slaughtered pet dogs and sold their meat to more than 500 restaurants in nearby Yinchuan, Ycen.com.cn reports. Police discovered two farms where the dogs were locked up and killed. The dog meat was allegedly served in restaurants without health checks. Residents have reported many dogs missing in recent months.
Shaanxi
Official abuses reporter
A court in Qianyang county will investigate an official who twice swore at a Huashang Daily journalist who had requested an interview. Although the reporter produced his official credentials, the official asked him to show letters from the provincial high court, the Qianyang county propaganda department and the newspaper group respectively to back his interview request. When the reporter asked why he needed to meet these demands, the official scolded him. Their exchange was recorded on a surveillance camera in the office.
Neglected after blast
Residents living in the area between Yanta district and Xian's New Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone have complained that no community officers will attend to daily official matters in their area since a fatal gas blast at a restaurant in November, 2011, Hsw.cn reports. The blast killed 11 diners and injured 31, all of them local residents. The report did not detail the link between the blast and the official neglect.
Shanxi
Three-person crime wave
Taiyuan police have detained three burglars who picked the locks of their victims' homes, the Sanjin Metropolis Daily reports. The trio are accused of more than 70 break-ins in 10 provinces since last year, during which valuables worth more than 1 million yuan were stolen. Two members burgled the properties then couriered the loot to the third member living in Baotou , Inner Mongolia .
Man held over girl's killing
A villager in Ruicheng county has been detained over the killing of an 18-year-old girl, Xinhua reports. Police allege the man saw the girl walking on the street and offered her a ride on his bike. He took her to a room and tried to rape her. She resisted so he knocked her out with a brick, strangled her and buried her body in his yard.
 


Dongguan officer found dead; woman sues over surgery; Jiangsu seeks HK help

Police in Helan county have busted a gang who stole and slaughtered pet dogs and sold their meat to more than 500 restaurants in nearby Yinchuan. Photo: AFP

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The capital will launch the nation's strictest water resources regulations to help clean the city's filthy waterways, the Beijing Morning Post reports.
