A flower seems to live forever in Shenyang, arithmetic "homework" helps a 93-year-old woman stay alert and a mother allegedly kidnaps her daughter to take her to visit dying grandmother.

Longevity flower

A 125-year-old peony is on display at the Shenyang Expo Garden in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning province, the Tianjin-based Bohai Morning News reported. The flower was donated to the garden by a local citizen and has been handed down for four generations.

Another weird building

A belt-shaped leaning gate was finished and triggered criticism about its shape and safety in Yichuan county, Central China's Henan province, people.com.cn reported. The gate is on an expressway linking Yichuan and its neighboring county.

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Alibaba expands footprint into media

A company named Alibaba Film Group was registered in Hong Kong on April 8, Hong Kong media reported on Monday. The company is run by ChinaVision Media Group Ltd, with a 60 percent stake held by the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, China's Internet conglomerate.

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Family of three infected with HIV

The husband, wife and child of a family in Yangzhou were all infected with HIV. The wife was later found to be Vietnamese, Modern Express reported on Monday. Surnamed Zhang, the husband married the woman six years ago, after she allegedly told him she was from Yunnan province. Three years after their son was born, Zhang was found to be infected with HIV. His wife and son were also diagnosed as infected. It was then that the woman confessed that she was a Vietnamese HIV patient, the report said.

Taiwan star sues e-commerce giant

Jimmy Lin, a Taiwan singer and actor, sued JD.com, a leading shopping site based on Chinese mainland, for using his image for commercial publicity without his authorization, according to a post by the official Weibo account of Beijing Chaoyang District People's Court. Lin is seeking 655,000 yuan ($105,000) in compensation.

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Son, 74, gives mother, 93, math homework

A 74-year-old son in Changshu encouraged his 93-year-old mother to do simple arithmetic problems and corrected her "homework" every day, aiming to reduce her risk of getting dementia, Yangtze Evening Post reported on Monday. Xu Zhenhong, the son, selected the math problems from his granddaughter's second-grade arithmetic books, and he insisted on taking his elderly mother on walks to the community center for exercise.

Daughter kidnapped over refusal to visit

A girl, surnamed Liu, who refused to travel from Shaoguan in Guangdong province to Shandong province to visit her dying grandmother due to the upcoming college entrance examination, was allegedly kidnapped by her mother after school, Southern Metropolitan Daily reported on Monday. Police said they intercepted the mother's car at a toll station in Guangdong after receiving instructions to do so on Saturday morning. A further investigation was still underway.

Operating room lounge stirs online criticism

A hospital that set up a lounge that looked into operating rooms and charged families of patients 15 yuan ($2.40) per seat was ridiculed by netizens who said it was "so anxious to earn any money possible", according to Southern Metropolitan Daily. Zhao Nangang, chief of the general affairs department at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, responded that the lounge would be removed and replaced with more chairs and electrical equipment.