Trending across China on March 29, 2014

Heartless thief jailed for robbing beggars, generous pair provides free food for students and weddings guests are treated to feast of bank notes.

 

Gas cylinders explode

A blast occurred around 3:30 pm on Friday at a gas station, in Jinan, Shandong province. No casualties were reported and the cause of the explosion is under investigation, news.cnr.cn reported. 

Conviction for authorized Apple service provider

Shanghai Zhabei People's Court handed down the first criminal conviction for an authorized Apple service provider, who illegally exchanged parts from stolen iPhones to make "new" ones and make money, Shanghai Morning Post reported. Since the middle of last year, many iPhones have been stolen in Shanghai and local police found that a lot were taken "for repairs" to Aifeng Workshop, an Apple authorized service provider in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

Man who robbed beggars sentenced

A man surnamed Wu from Shenzhen, Guangdong province, was sentenced to 11 years in jail for a spate of robberies and assaults on elderly beggars. Wu's victims were mostly old and sick people, incapable of fighting back. In one case, Wu stole money four times from an 86-year-old sleeping on a pedestrian bridge near Honghu Park in Shenzhen. He took about 200 yuan ($32).

Bakery provides free lunches for students

Aniwar Tumur, 37, who runs a bakers in Kuqa county, Xinjiang province, with his wife selling nang, a flatbread that is a staple food for the region's Muslims, has provided free lunches for more than 100 poor students who study at schools near their shop for the past five years. The childless couple decided to help after they learned some students drank water to fight off hunger at lunchtime.

Couple serves money to wedding guests

A netizen posted a picture of a wedding banquet in Changle, a county-level city in Fuzhou, Fujian province at which each guest was served a dish containing a stack of several 100 yuan notes.

Some said the phenomenon is not unusual and has been seen at not only wedding banquets, but also funeral banquets.

      

Giant egg beats Guinness world record

A chicken raised by 64-year-old farmer Zhao Minxiu from Luonan county， Shaanxi province laid an egg weighing 194 g. The giant egg outweighs the one currently listed in Guinness World Records, which weighed 176 g and measured 7.9 cm in length and 6.4 cm in width.

One twin brother only 700g at birth

A 23-year-old woman, surnamed Li, gave birth to twin boys, one of whom only weighs 700 grams, Chongqing Morning News reported.

She gave birth on March 25 by cesarean section, two months prematurely, because doctors found that one of the babies was suffering from a blood flow abnormality of its umbilical cord.

     

Man dies at police station

A man in Sanya, Hainan province, died after he was taken to a local police station. The case is under investigation, people.com reported. According to a resident surnamed Liang, his 26-year-old son was knocked down by a police officer on the night of March 25 as the young man rode a motorcycle along a street. He was then taken to the police station.