Trending across China

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-01-07 09:31

CCTV will announce its annual Spring Festival Gala hosts, workers in Sichuan are asked to give up their weekends and holidays, and finally, a 13-year ban on producing and selling game consoles is lifted.

Kneeling driver

An online photo in which a man was kneeling near a police car was widely circulated, with a caption explaining that the man was asking the policemen for a lighter punishment.

On Sunday, Meng Guangcai and Ya Likun, two policemen in Changji city of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region who were involved in the incident, published their cell phone numbers, People's Daily reported.

The driver was pulled over for expired plates, and he knelt down when the police were ready to seize his car. The police ended up letting him go with just a warning, the two policemen said.

Game ban lifted

The State Council, China's cabinet, lifted a 13-year ban on the production and sale of game consoles on Monday afternoon.

Foreign capital could be invested in the manufacture and sale of game consoles within the pilot free trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai, the State Council said in a statement.

China set the ban on game consoles in June 2000 to help prevent adolescents from getting addicted to video games.

CCTV gala hosts

China Central Television (CCTV) will unveil the hosts of the annual Spring Festival Gala, to be held on New Year's Eve on the Chinese lunar calendar.

The list will be different from a previous version widely circulated on the Internet, CCTV said on its official micro blog on Sunday.

Trust crisis

A 46-year-old man committed suicide after he was accused by an elderly man who fell on the ground.

Wu Weiqing, from Dongzhang county of Guangdong province, jumped into a pond and died on Jan 2. His wife told the Southern Metropolis Daily that before his death, Wu said he helped an older man who fell on the ground, but that the man accused him of knocking him over.

Charity questioned

The SmileAngel Foundation (SAF), a charity NGO aimed at improving the conditions of children born with birth defects in China, denied a news report that accused it of misusing 70 million yuan ($11.56 million) in donations, Beijing News reported on Tuesday.

SAF was jointly founded by actor Li Yapeng and his then-wife Faye Wang in November 2006. SmileAngel is named after their daughter.

No breaks

A construction company in Suining city of Southwest China's Sichuan province was found to be forcing its employees to give up their weekends and holidays.

The workers have to sign a promise in which they "voluntarily" give up breaks and lengthen their work time by more than two hours every day, West China City Daily reported.

The local government is investigating the company for violating the law, the report said.

Theft using virus

Police have caught the suspects who stole 27 million yuan from a businesswoman in Guangzhou city by installing virus software on her computer.

The businesswoman, surnamed Huang, said she was asked to install the software by a man who claimed to be a policeman. Through phone calls, the man told her that her funds are not safe and she had to install the software to guarantee safety of her money, New Express reported.

Toll extended

The Shandong provincial government was criticized by the public after it announced it will continue charging highway toll fees even though the time limit of the toll was reached.

Highways can charge toll fees for 15 years at most, and six highways in the province have reached the limit, but the government said that it will continue the tolls.