China: Around The Nation

A collection of news bulletins from around China. Published as China Digest in the print editions of South China Morning Post.

A department under the Xuzhou government is investigating the case of a farmer’s missing right kidney. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese farmer finds right kidney missing after undergoing chest surgery

A man in eastern China found to his shock that his right kidney was missing after he underwent chest surgery.

Hospital authorities told Liu Yongwei, a farmer from Suzhou, Anhui province, that the kidney might have naturally decayed, Xinan Evening News reports.

5 May 2016 - 1:23pm

Firefighters cut open the wreckage of the car. Photo: Qianjiang Evening News

Chinese pair make miraculous escape after car crushed by speeding truck

5 May 2016 - 11:05am

The radius of interference created by a black radio station’s broadcasts can stretch up to 300km – the range for most take-offs and landings of a flight. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Black radio station busted in southwest China after it interferes with plane landing

4 May 2016 - 3:53pm 1

Customs officers with the massive haul of silver plates found on the refrigerator truck. Photo: Shenzhen Customs District PRC

Tonne of smuggled silver worth over HK$4 million seized in Shenzhen-Hong Kong checkpoint’s biggest metal-smuggling haul

4 May 2016 - 4:21pm 1

A family runs for cover during the sandstorm in Xinjiang. Photo: Chinanews.com

China’s Xinjiang region hit by huge sandstorm

3 May 2016 - 3:48pm

Twins taking part in the parade in Yunnan province. Photo: Chinanews.com

Seeing double: hundreds of twins, triplets attend special parade in southwest China

3 May 2016 - 11:55am

An officer seen striking a villager during the security operation in Hainan. Photo: Sohu.com

Chinese law enforcement officials detained for allegedly beating villagers with batons during operation to demolish illegal buildings

3 May 2016 - 3:30pm

Resturant workers deliver food to students at the college in Jingzhou. Photo: Thepaper.cn

Chinese college in ‘climb down’ after students use ladders for takeaway food deliveries to bypass ban on leaving campus

2 May 2016 - 5:28pm

Bobbing for apples. A woman bather eats an apple in the hotspring. Photo: Youth.cn.

Hot pot: Holiday bathers at Chinese spa help themselves to ‘forbidden’ fruit

2 May 2016 - 4:18pm 2

Screen grabs from a video, posted by China’s Ministry of Public Security, which apparently show a woman fighting off two suspected thieves. Photos: Qq.com

Chinese girl power: videos apparently showing fearless women fighting off thieves feature in official crime prevention campaign

2 May 2016 - 6:01pm 4

Wan Qingliang, the former Communist Party Secretary of Guangzhou, left, and Chen Hongpin, the ex-party chief of Jieyang. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Disgraced Communist Party chiefs in southern China unknowingly shared the same mistress

2 May 2016 - 3:11pm 3

Some of the tour group posing for pictures in New York. Photo: Sina.com

‘Socialism is good, socialism is good!’: Chinese tourists raise eyebrows by singing revolutionary songs outside UN headquarters in New York

2 May 2016 - 12:53pm 2

The three young brothers were seen on Saturday in Shenzhen handing out a missing person flyer for their mother. Photo: Gg.qq

Triplets, aged 5, take to the streets of Shenzhen in search of their missing mother

1 May 2016 - 10:51pm

For the third year since 2012, Zhejiang University hosted a mass wedding for hundreds of former students. Photo: News.cn

Chinese university hosts mass wedding for 400 couples

1 May 2016 - 8:13pm

The city of Hangzhou hopes its women urban management officers can present a better public image than their notorious male counterparts. Photo: Chinanews.com

All-women patrols present a new image for China’s notorious urban management officers

1 May 2016 - 7:23pm 2

Several passengers were injured by flying glass when a bus rammed another in a road rage incident in Tianjin. Photo: Weibo

Seeing red: bus rams another after drivers’ quarrel at traffic lights turns to road rage

1 May 2016 - 6:00pm

Visitors to the tourist district outside Shanghai Disney land complained about stiff prices for refreshments during the Labour Day holiday. Photo: SCMP.

Magically inflated-prices kingdom: tourists stung by cost of refreshments outside Shanghai Disneyland

1 May 2016 - 5:10pm 3

Sorting out messy wardrobes for lazy people on the mainland is fetching a tidy monthly income of up to 10,000 yuan (HK$11,970) for this woman from Chengdu.

Chinese woman from Chengdu making moolah out of lazy bones

29 Apr 2016 - 6:38pm 2

A resident in Shijiazhuang puts a makeshift sieve over a tap to stop worms getting through. Photo: Yanzhao Evening News

Can of worms: Chinese residents revolted after wriggly creatures found in their tap water

29 Apr 2016 - 3:06pm

The scammers were arrested in two flats in Chengdu, Sichuan province, during police’s door-to-door checks on the community. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Scammers masquerading online as pretty young girls trick over 500 people out of 300,000 yuan

29 Apr 2016 - 3:36pm

The gym equipped with stolen goods at the thieves house. Photo: Shandong Television

Den of thieves: Chinese villa packed to the rafters with stolen goods, including gym equipment and massage chairs

29 Apr 2016 - 1:09pm

A gang allegedly targeted migrant workers in Guangzhou by claiming it could help them obtain a hukou, or household registration, providing access to better social welfare services in the city. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese city police detain ‘gang using hukou social welfare scam to swindle 50 million yuan from migrants’

28 Apr 2016 - 3:46pm 2

A video of the brawl appeared on the Chinese internet. Photo: SCMP pictures

Monks expelled from monastery after video of brawl goes viral

28 Apr 2016 - 4:10pm

China had more than 688 million internet users – the largest number in the world – by the end of 2015. Photo: Reuters

China’s national security ‘under threat as foreign spies target nation’s young internet users’

28 Apr 2016 - 2:47pm 2

Room enough for just one: Zhang Shengwu in his submarine. Photo: QQ.com

Farmer in southeast China builds submarine, earns patent

28 Apr 2016 - 2:42pm 5

Zheng Juming, of Zhejiang province, admitted he met the girl’s mother in 2003 when they were migrant workers. Photo: SCMP Pictures

‘Kind-hearted’ security guard feted by Chinese media finally comes clean

27 Apr 2016 - 7:30pm 2

Students had been ordered to work as unpaid film extras for up to 12 hours a day. Photo: he Paper.cn

Chinese student protest forces university to reverse ruling forcing them to work as unpaid extras on Long March film

27 Apr 2016 - 5:28pm 1

A suspected thief, who reportedly stole a doctor’s white coat and a woman patient’s handbag at a Chongqing hospital, was captured on surveillance footage. Photo: Chongqing Evening News

Chinese police issue warning after thefts from hospitals by bogus doctors and patients

27 Apr 2016 - 3:05pm 4

The security guard waits for treatment to his injuries in a Beijing hospital. Photo: Thepaper.cn

Chinese police hunt gang of thugs who attacked security guard after dispute with driver of Bentley

27 Apr 2016 - 2:25pm 2

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