Trending across China

Family of 12 on one motorized tricycle for 1,500-km trip. Hepatitis B vaccine cleared. And "posting" the kids to grandma and grandpa’s - it's all trending across China.

Poor family heads for home on tricycle

A family of 12 traveling to their home packed on a motorized tricycle was stopped by police on a highway in Dezhou on Thursday, Shandong Television said.

The family, from Anhui province, said they couldn’t afford the 800-km journey home from Tianjin. Police contacted a local bus company to give them a ride. (CCTV.com)

Related: Getting home by any means

Asia's richest man

Hong Kong multi-billionaire Li Ka-shing is still crowned as Asia's richest man, Bloomberg made the correction on Friday night. Bloomberg’s earlier report on that day said Macao gambling tycoon Lui Che-woo had a fortune of about $100 million ahead of Li, whose fortune stood at $29.5 billion on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on Thursday.

Lui’s fortune was corrected to $23.7 billion, $5.8 billion behind Li.

Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent, China's largest Internet company by revenue, became the Chinese mainland's richest man with a wealth of $13 billion. (www.stcn.com）

Related: Tencent's Ma tops China rich list

Heating firm says it didn't put urine in pipe

A heating company in Weifang said on Thursday it did not inject urine into the heating system to prevent residents from stealing hot water from the pipes.

In an earlier notice, the company, Anqiu Shengyuan Thermal Power, said it was collecting urine at 10 yuan ($1.3) per unit to mix into the hot water. It later said it simply spread the news to scare away any potential thieves.

Doubts cleared over hepatitis B vaccine

The China Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it has resumed the use of the hepatitis B vaccine produced by a Shenzhen company suspected to have caused the deaths of 17 children.

The vaccine produced by Biokangtai is safe, the administration and the National Health and Family Planning Commission announced. It said the 17 deaths were caused by other diseases, not by the vaccine.

Related: Families question vaccine's safety

Woman poisoned by boyfriend's bathroom

A man in Guangzhou, the provincial capital, has to pay 1.6 million yuan ($264,200) to his girlfriend who fell into a coma after she was poisoned by gas when bathing at his home, according to a court ruling.

New Express Daily reported on Friday that the woman’s parents filed the lawsuit asking for compensation after the incident in January 2011.

Posting kids

Working parents in Qingdao who have no time to accompany their children during the winter holiday can post their kids to grandparents in their hometown. The service is being introduced by Qingdao long-distance bus station and only children aged 5 to 12 can participate.

To ensure safety, parents who send their children away need to set a six-digit password in advance and the person who picks them up needs to provide the number when the bus arrives at the destination.

No schedule for two kids for all couples

Spokesperson of National Health and Family Planning Commission said the nation will gradually improve and reform the family planning policy. There is no detailed time schedule for the new birth policy allowing all the couples to have two children.

Now many provinces have submitted plans to allow couples to have two children if one of them is an only child. Zhejiang province is the first Chinese province to ease the country’s decades-long family planning policy.

Related: New birth policy goes into force in E China province

Li refutes the death rumour

Rumours on Weibo, China's twitter, have it that Li Kaifu, former Google China president, passed away.

Li posts on his Weibo account Saturday morning saying that he is doing well at the moment and is continuing with the treatment and exercises. Li confirmed he has lymph cancer on his Weibo post of Sept 6, 2013.