Beijing highways will be toll-free during Spring Festival, train travelers should be alert for online scams, and Olympic champ Sun Yang is back in training after a brief suspension.
Toll-free holiday
Highways in Beijing will open for free during the seven-day Chinese Spring Festival holiday starting Jan 31, according to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport on Wednesday.
Toll-free expressways in the city will not available for New Year's Eve, it said.
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Benz owner mugged
A woman surnamed Sun in Shanghai was mugged on Monday night while opening the door of her Mercedes after shopping at a local supermarket, Shanghai TV reported.
Three suspects forced her to withdraw 40,000 yuan from her bank and fled after drugging her with sleeping pills. The suspects have been caught.
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Beware of online scams
Authorities from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau reminded local residents to pay attention to phishing and other online scams while buying railway tickets online for Spring Festival.
The bureau listed on its Weibo four main tricks buyers should be aware of.
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Transformers proposal
A young man in Hebei province put together an 8-meter Transformer model and presented if as a gift for his girlfriend while proposing on Christmas Day, CCTV reported.
The model weighs one metric ton and can move its flexible limbs.
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Easing in Guangzhou
Restrictions on buying property and price control measures in Guangzhou, policies aimed at curbing local housing prices, will be gradually eased next year, said Li Junfu, a city housing official.
But analysts said the current control policies are unlikely to change since the city has no other measures to stabilize the market, Yicai.com reported.
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Vaccine deaths
"It was likely that the vaccines were polluted during the production process," medical analysts in Guangzhou said in Nanfang Metropolis Daily, after the recent deaths of babies who received hepatitis B vaccine injections produced by Shenzhen-based Biokangtai.
An official investigation result has not been released.
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Fine gap
There was a 1.1 billion yuan difference in reported fines for violating the family planning policy in 2012 in Guangdong province. The two figures were released by two different local government departments, said Han Zhipeng, a CPPCC member in Guangzhou.
The fine was 2.6 billion yuan according to the provincial finance department, while the local health department said it was 1.56 billion yuan. The government promised to clarify.
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Swimmer back in training
Olympic swimming champion and world record holder Sun Yang is back in training in Kunming, Yunnan province, CCTV reported on Wednesday.
In November, the swimmer was temporarily banned from training and any commercial activities after he received a seven-day administrative detention for driving without a license.
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