Trending acorss China

More than 400,000 share online their most unforgettable World Cup moments. Assistance cards to encourage people to assist elderly who fall has skeptics. And a hospital's refusal to help a girl with a 41 C fever faces backlash.

Online World Cup carnival

More than 429,000 users on Sina Weibo, one of China's most popular social networking sites, had by 9 am Friday shared online of their most unforgettable World Cup moments.

Discussions on the glamourous opening ceremony of 2014 FIFA World Cup and the long-anticipated opening match came as the second hottest topic.

Assistance cards issued to elderly

A community service office in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, has issued cards bearing the words "Help me, please" to elderly people in case they need assistance if they fall down, dbw.cn reported on Thursday.

The cards also bear the person's name, age, address, medical history and a contact phone number.

There have been numerous reports of elderly people making compensation claims against those who help them, deterring many from offering assistance to strangers.

Clinics punished for gender identification

Nine clinics, which illegally identified fetal gender, have been punished by the health authority in Handan county of Hebei province, Hebei Daily reported on Thursday.

Officials checked the clinics on Tuesday after receiving reports about the illegal identification of fetal gender.

They found that the nine private clinics had made such identifications for 20 yuan ($3.20). The clinics were punished by the authority.

Officer sentenced for contract killing

A police officer in Meishan was given the death sentence with a two-year reprieve after being hired by a rich friend to kill a co-manager of his business. When Shen Yongzheng found that his wife had an affair with Fan Decai, he promised to pay the police officer, Yan Farong, 1.8 million yuan ($290,323) to kill Fan. With the help of a driver, Yan beat Fan to death with a steel pipe, West China Metropolis Daily reported.

Hospital 'refused to treat fever case'

A Guangzhou resident has complained that a children's hospital refused to treat her daughter who had a temperature of 41 C, New Express reported on Thursday. The woman, surnamed Luo, took her daughter to the hospital on the night of May 22 and was told there were no more registration cards for patients and she had to go elsewhere. The health bureau, which received Luo's complaints, said on Wednesday the hospital was wrong to refuse the patient. An investigation is underway.

Tangshan man tours world on bike

A 57-year-old bicyclist has toured 138 countries alone. Along the way he's lost six bikes and been robbed four times. Li Yuezhong, a resident of Tangshan, Hebei province, arrived in Los Angeles recently, according to a report from World Journal, a US newspaper. Li said he will finish his tour in two to three years, and then write a travel book about his adventure, the report said.

Police target drunken drivers during Cup

Beijing police will be on the streets in large numbers to crack down on drunken driving during the World Cup, which will start on June 13. The traffic control bureau of the Ministry of Public Security has alerted soccer fans to the risks of driving after matches if they are drunk or tired. About 33,580 cases of drunken driving occurred in Beijing during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, which saw 225 accidents that killed 91 and injured 247.

Pregnant woman alleged to run drug ring

Zhejiang police have broken a drug ring allegedly headed by a 27-year-old pregnant woman. According to the Modern Jinbao newspaper, police recently confiscated 32 kg of drugs, such as ketamine and gamma hydroxybutyrate, and captured 68 criminal suspects. The ringleader, surnamed Zhang, 27, from Anhui province, was a child bride sent away at a young age by her parents, whom she does not remember at all.