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CHINASCENE 6 WEDNESDAY MARCH 21, 2007 CHINA DAILY From widely read asked for the money as they were all chatting in a nearby park after leaving the karaoke Chinese media parlour. The woman refused, so they punched Rural women’s and kicked her before fl eeing with her bag and mobile phone. The police are looking for the theater troupe SOUTH three men. Wen Wei Po moves to the Young man uses hairdo to Netizen looking to spread Olympics spirit auction off domain name world stage The warm-hearted netizen who registered the Xiao Ma longest domain in China for one yuan ($0.12) is planning to auction it off for 500,000 yuan ($61,728) to help a girl student in Henan A collection of plays put together by an Province. all-woman-farmer rural theater troupe The girl, Zhang Haixia, won the title of in Central China’s Henan Province has “zhongguo zui meili de pinkun shanqu nvtong” (or, been released as a textbook at two of the China’s most lovely girl student from a poverty- country’s more prestigious universities, stricken mountainous area) on the Internet after and the troupe’s name reported around a newspaper reported that she was looking the world. for a 500,000-yuan loan with interest to Members of the six-year-old troupe help a leukemia patient who once mailed have been writing and performing plays Zhang 500 yuan to help her pay for school. based on the daily events around them Touched by Zhang’s story, the netizen, who since 2000. Under the leadership of 39- goes by the name “Daydreaming” on the year-old Wang Xia, the troupe has been Internet, registered three domains: www.z performing at the Zhongyue Offi ce in hongguozuimeilidepinkunshanqunvtong.com, the city of Dengfeng. www.zhongguozuimeilidepinkunshanqunvton Students at Beijing’s Tsinghua g.com.cn and www.zhongguozuimeilidepinkun University and Nankai University in shanqunvtong.net.cn in an effort to collect the neighboring Tianjin have been studying 500,000 yuan . the collection of plays, entitled “Grass A young man named Guo Zhihao attracted a The Oriental Morning Post Roots Also Have Voices”, to learn about lot of attention from pedestrians as he walked rural culture, the Zhengzhou Evening the streets of Shenzhen last Thursday. Skill-swapping takes News reported. Guo, 22, has fi ve circles shaved into his The troupe was invited to perform head in the shape of the Olympic insignia. Net surfers by storm in Hong Kong in July 2002, the same Guo, a native of East China’s Zhejiang year Wang was nominated as one of Province, said he wanted to support next Looking to acquire a skill, but don’t want to pay the “1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace year’s Beijing Olympic Games and use his for lessons? Just check out the Internet, and Prize 2005”. new coiffure to help raise local residents’ you can find a group of people who have Wang, a native of East Zhangzhuang awareness of the international sports event. the same desire and are anxious to make a Village, said a woman lecturer from the Shenzhen Commercial News deal with you. Department of Social Anthropology at Swapping skill sets has become a fad Parrots in love Manchester University was planning Father keeps daughter among white-collar netizens and university Birds at Hongshan Forest Zoo in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, play together in anticipation of to come to her mountainous village students in big Chinese cities, including Beijing, the coming warm weather. Li Wenbao this month to exchange views and in chains for 10 years Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Among help set up a cooperation program for the most popular skills wanted on the Internet rural women. A 14-year-old girl surnamed Guo had been are driving, the ability to play an instrument, Experts have suggested piping water from operation last Wednesday in a hospital in “Our principle is to invigorate cul- locked up with iron chains for more than a painting, learning a dialect and photography. Ex- another basin to replenish the lake. Xi’an, capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi tural life, encourage self-education and decade when police in Zengcheng, a suburb of perts have said trading skills is a fl exible channel Urumqi Evening News Province. She is recovering now. promote gender equality,” Wang said of Guangzhou, rescued her last Thursday. for people to improve themselves and enrich www.xinhuanet.com her troupe, whose members range in Guo, a local dropout, said her foster father their lives at a low cost. Woman nabbed for age from 21 to their 70s and who come had locked her up because he worried she Contemporary Express from four administrative villages. would try to escape. Guo said her foster father marriage extortion trick Wang was inspired to reach out to the and brothers had also maltreated her. Boy springs into action to CENTRAL community in June 2000 after taking a But Guo’s foster father refused to admit he Local police in Urumqi, capital of Northwest class on social gender development in had abused the girl, saying he had locked her up rescue sick grandmother China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dinner dispute leads to Dengfeng that had been offered by the with iron chains because he worried she would arrested a woman named Liu Wenjun who had local women’s federation. Wang’s fi rst follow bad examples if she went outside. Local Drawing on the fi rst-aid education he had extorted money by cheating at marriage. police intervention step was to set up a rural publicity team police are investigating the matter and have received at school, a 10-year-old boy in In the past 10 months, Liu has cheated more with the help of her teacher. promised to bring the father to court if they fi nd Shandong Province rescued his gas-poisoned than 200 people, extracting money from them Police were called to the scene of a The Rosy Clouds Cultural Publicity evidence that he had abused Guo. grandmother last Wednesday. with marriage commitments. strange domestic dispute in Wuhan, capital Team directed and preformed their Police rescued the girl after receiving reports The boy, Bo Yu, returned home at 6 pm and The case is under further investigation and of Hubei Province, last Thursday. fi rst play, entitled “Mountain Flower”, from Guo’s neighbors. was surprised when nobody answered the door. suspected victims have been encouraged to fi le A husband and wife, surnamed Zhu and to refl ect the challenges local women Yangcheng Evening News He searched for his grandmother, but failed to complaints against Liu. Li, had called the police because neither of faced in overcoming family diffi culties. fi nd her anywhere. Suspecting that something www.tianshannet.com them wanted to cook dinner that night. For example, the children of some fami- ‘Act of kindness’ lands bad might have happened, Bo climbed over Zhu, who runs a company, said he lies had to drop out of school after the the wall and entered the yard. Through the Funeral parlor workers was really too busy to cook, while Li families lost their cultivated land and man in front of the judge window, he saw his grandmother lying on the complained she was too tired to cook compensation money due to marriages, bed unconscious. Bo broke the window with donate body parts because she had to look after their one- divorce or the death of husband. A Hong Kong man was caught helping a his hands, opened the door and called the 120 year-old son all day. The play, fi rst performed in May 2001, pregnant woman from the mainland illegally emergency hotline. An ambulance arrived Twenty-four workers and retirees in a funeral The couple eventually came to a was a success, and the 22 performers cross the border, but at a court hearing last soon thereafter to take the woman to hos- parlor in Chongqing signed an agreement compromise thanks to the police’s were invited to perform in Central Chi- Wednesday, he claimed it was an act of pital. Doctors determined that the woman last Tuesday to donate their bodies or parts persuasion and mediation. na’s Hubei and Hunan provinces, Yunan kindness. had been poisoned by a gas leak. Bo’s father of their bodies to hospitals after they passed Wuhan Evening News Province in Southwest China, Shandong Wong, 28, was caught driving the woman, visited his son’s school on Thursday to thank it away. Province in East China and Beijing in who was holding a forged two-way permit, in a for providing fi rst-aid education. With ages ranging from 28 to 70, the do- Taxi driver told to pay up North China. A year later, they were restricted area in Sha Tau Kok on August 25 last Qilu Evening News nors said that it was a pity for them to witness invited to perform in Hong Kong. year. Wong said he had picked up the strange the cremation of bodies. Donating their bodies after running over a dog Liu Yuejie from Dengfeng’s Zhongyue woman because it was raining. But a police or parts of their bodies would be of help to Offi ce said Wang’s culture association offi cer who had been watching Wong before medical research and to those who need A taxi driver surnamed Xia was ordered helped disseminate cultural, legal and the arrest testifi ed that though it was raining, he WEST them, they said. to pay compensation worth 4,000 yuan scientifi c knowledge to local farmers, had obviously been expecting her.