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A PE teacher was given six and a half years in prison for molesting 20 girl students, a thief took nothing and even left some money, and a property company poured stones and dirt on a square to deter people from dancing.

Judge suspended over alleged beating

The Higher People's Court of Yunnan province has suspended one of its chief judges and begun an investigation into his alleged beating of a security guard, Xinhua News Agency reported.

A video went viral on Thursday showing Li Taijun, deputy chief judge of the court's civil tribunal, appearing to beat a security guard in a neighborhood in the provincial capital Kunming.

A property management company and a security service company which manage the community claim they uploaded the video and that its content is true.

Li is said to have attacked the security guard because he had been prevented from driving into the neighborhood which had run out of parking lots.

Thief's good deed

A poor family in Xuzhou city, East China's Jiangsu province, said a thief, who broke into the house they rented, took nothing and even left some money for them to change a lock, Nanfang Daily reported.

The burglar left a note in the house saying: "You are the poorest I've ever seen. And please spend my 200 yuan buying a new lock," according to the woman surnamed Zhang living in the rented property.

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Teacher imprisoned for molesting students

Pan Qixin, 61, a PE teacher at a primary school in Shaoguan city, Guangdong province was given six and a half years in prison for molesting 20 girl students.

Between Sept 1, 2012 and May 13, 2013, Pan physically abused them by taking advantage of PE classes according to investigators. Pan said he suffered with sexual dysfunction.

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'Messy code building' dizzy

A multi-colored building design that appears like messy code has drawn attention in Shenyang, Liaoning province. Some Internet users say looking at it makes them feel dizzy.

 

 

Driver gets 10 years in prison

A driver in Beijing has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for dragging a toll collector in a parking lot to his death, Beijing Times reported.

Yang Xue'ou, 30, refused to pay the toll collector, surnamed Ding, 30 yuan ($4.80) and sped off with the collector holding her car door. Yang was charged with intentional homicide and was ordered to pay 43,000 yuan to the victim's family.

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Fight against square dancing

A property company in the Chaoyang district in Beijing poured stones and dirt on a square to deter people from dancing there.

The workers of the company admitted that they poured the rocks on the square due to the noise made by dancers. The workers said that their behavior was not proper and that they will clean up the stones and dirt.

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Suspected killers on trial for fraud

A gang of 21 in Sichuan province have been charged with defrauding iron ore mine owners in Hebei province out of 1.84 million yuan ($296,300) in accident compensation by killing mine workers and making the deaths look like accidents, Yanzhao Metropolis Daily reported.

One indictment in the case, which went to trial this week in the Intermediate People's Court of Handan, said three of the 21 killed a mine worker and then staged the death to look like stones had fallen on the victim accidentally. They were then accused of pretending to be the victim's family to claim damages from the mine owner.

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Surgery for infant draws attention

A surgery for an infant boy born with four hands and four legs has attracted attention from local media and residents in the capital city of Guangdong province, Guangzhou Daily reported. The boy, born on April 2, was to have surgery to remove the extra limbs, which are on his stomach, at the Guangzhou Hospital for Women and Children on Friday.

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