Society

Weekly Quotes (March 29 - April 4): No way out but to die

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-04-04 16:44

? "I wouldn’t expose this if I weren’t driven to desperation."

? The wife of an official posted her husband's extramarital affair with a club singer online. The wife said her husband, a deputy chief of Drug Supervision and Administration Bureau in Shuangfeng County, Hunan province, has lived with the woman for ten years and they even have a child. Local governments have started to investigate the report. [hunan.voc.com.cn]

? "They wouldn't care about my case even after I spent several thousand yuan to treat them. There is no way out for me but to die."

? Peng Gonglin wrote this in his will. A farmer in Zhumadian, Henan province, Peng committed suicide when after his many attempts failed to persuade local law enforcement officials to handle a fake seeds complaint. Peng suffered heavily due to the fake seeds, local media reported. Three officials have been suspended for malpractice.

? "I'm familiar with the Tibetan area. Let me work for another few years?"

? Gongchoe Tsultim died on duty after working for 24 years in Tibet and participating in hundreds of emergency rescue missions. He was born into a Tibetan family in 1954, and joined the PLA when he was 16. He died of high-altitude sickness in February last year at the age of 55.

? "Do you think I am the kind of person who works in an office? I go to the teahouse for official business."

? An official from Wancheng Town in Hainan province thusly explained why he was absent from office and spend much time in a teahouse.

? "If you have so much hatred, why didn't you stab the corrupt officials instead?"

? Former local community doctor Zheng Minsheng stabbed eight schoolchildren to death and left five seriously injured in Nanping, Fujian province. One student in Nanping expressed his indignation this way in a composition he wrote, reflecting on the incident.

? "The journalist said something provocative."

? A journalist was beaten by urban management officials when he covered a clash between the officials and hundreds of residents of Kunming, Yunnan province. Local police later explained the officials' actions this way.

? "From now on I will study from textbooks. I really envy children nowadays."

? After attending her first 23-minute class at an elementary school in Jinan, Shandong province, Ma Xiuxian, a 102-year-old woman realized her lifelong dream of going to school.