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(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-04-25 13:01

Norovirus sweeps through Beijing primary schools, TV station denies anchorman quit rumor and little known drug hits underground Guangzhou market.

Chongqing police face trial over forced confessions

Two cases involving at least four Chongqing policemen suspected of extorting confessions by torture and assault will go to court late this month, the Zhengzhou Times reported Friday.

One of the alleged forced confessions occurred in July 2011. The victim, Lv Jian chairman of Chongqing Daye Concrete, suffered serious injuries to both arms.

Hong Kong man tie money on his body

A Hong Kong man was detained by Shenzhen customs officers when he attempted to enter the Chinese mainland with about $300,000 in cash tied around his waist and to his legs, news.xinhuanet.com reported. The man was put under detention.

Non-resident travelers entering the mainland with more than US$5,000 or an equivalent amount in other foreign currencies must declare the money to customs, according to Chinese customs laws.

Virus hits Beijing primary schools

Some primary schools in Beijing have reported mass infection of the Norovirus, the Beijing News reported on Friday. Those infected are all six-to-seven years old and the symptom is vomiting.

Meng Fei not quitting

Jiangsu Satellite TV denied claims that Meng Fei, anchorman of the popular dating show If You Are The One (Fei Cheng Wu Rao), has resigned in an official announcement on Thursday.

A Weibo user, claiming to be an insider of the entertainment industry, said Meng and 26 team members on the show resigned from the provincial TV station on Wednesday.

New drug traded in Guangzhou

Khat, a flowering plant and addictive drug banned China, has been found being traded in the underground drug market in Guangzhou, capital of East China's Guangdong province, Guangzhou Daily reported on Friday.

The plant is native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and a controlled substance in some countries, such as the United States, Canada and Germany.

Man, 98, ignored after he falls on street

Nobody came to help a 98-year-old man who lay on a Nanchong street for 20 minutes after a fall on Tuesday afternoon, in Sichuan province. West China Metropolis Daily reported that the man fell in Lidu, a township in Jialing district. Onlookers said he lay in the street for 20 minutes, but nobody helped him. Police later came to his rescue.

Mother rents farmland for child's nature lesson

A woman rented 1.3 hectares of land in the countryside so her daughter could experience rural life, Chongqing Evening News reported on Thursday. Gan Lin found that her daughter, a third-grader, did not know how to describe a peach blossom when the child was asked to write an essay on the flower. Gan then rented the land to let her daughter and her daughter's classmates get a firsthand understanding of nature.

Hotline to help lost people find home

A hotline will be launched on May 1 in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region to help find missing persons, China News Service reported. The hotline, 12349, launched by the local government, will hand out to residents 100,000 blue bracelets containing a code that tells the wearer's home address and phone number of their family members. Guangxi now has more than 10 million residents over the age of 60, and missing persons cases occur often.