Lift stops running for gaokao candidate

A 15-story residential building in Yuzhong district, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, has only one elevator to serve 96 apartments and even that will not run for several hours to avoid disturbing a student appearing in the national college entrance exam, according to China News Service.

Head of the residential property management company said the elevator will not work for several hours for three straight days, June 6 to June 8, after the family of the student claimed that its sound might disturb?the child's sleep.

A total of 9.39 million students have registered for the exam, known as the gaokao, this year to vie for 6.98 million vacancies in universities and colleges, China News Service reported.


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Unexpected guests dispel rats

Residents of an old community in Nanjing city, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, were pleasantly surprised to find that hordes of annoying rates were gone thanks to unexpected visitors - weasels, Yangtze Evening News reported.

People living in the neighborhood have recently seen weasels hunt for rats in the community, which has been plagued by rats for years.

More than 10 weasels have been spotted and the number of rats has fallen sharply, according to residents.


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Beckham roots for China

Former football star David Beckham expressing his total confidence in the Chinese national football team said "I believe the Chinese team will win the World Cup sooner or later."

The former captain of England team was asked about the Chinese team during a recent interview with China Central Television.

Chinese national football team is in a tough position and people should give their support to it to help it cope with the difficulties, said Beckham, adding that the Chinese team will succeed one day.


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Sea Coast Guard rescues 14 fishermen

The China Coast Guard has rescued 14 fishermen who were reported missing in the South China Sea on Thursday, the CCG headquarters said on Saturday. Contact with the fishing boat Qiongyangpu 13073, with its crew of 14, was lost on Thursday morning while it was on its way from the Nansha Islands to the Xisha Islands.


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Subway mishap injures 6

Six passengers suffered slight injuries after a false alarm caused panic on a subway train in Guangzhou on Saturday, police said. Police received reports of a large crowd of panic-stricken passengers flooding out of a train at Meihuayuan Station on Line 3 at 12:52 pm. A preliminary investigation showed a passenger had fallen ill and fainted on the train. While a subway worker was reporting the situation to the train driver through his walkie-talkie, one passenger shouted, "he was slashed by someone with a knife", and another one yelled, "there's a bomb on the train". Police found nothing suspicious on the train.


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Traffic officer caught taking bribe

A traffic police officer has been caught by an undercover reporter extorting bribe from a driver named Sonam Palgyal, who wanted his driving license that the officer had seized back, Xining Television Station reported on Saturday.

The license, which was confiscated after a traffic accident a month ago, was seized after the policeman claimed that Palgyal was using a fake license and demanded documents.

However, when Palgyal accompanied by the reporter went to the policeman a month later on June 6, he was not asked to produce any documents but only the identification card, which the police had already checked at the accident site a month ago.

As Palgyal was not carrying the ID card the policeman refused to give back his license, but when Palgyal gave the policeman 200 yuan, the officer replied "it's done" and returned the licence.

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