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BeijingHigh child diabetes rateNearly a third of overweight primary and middle school pupils in the city suffer from high blood pressure and more than 60 per cent have diabetes, according to a survey by the city’s health authorities, the Beijing Times reports.迷你倉最平 More than 2,000 overweight pupils took part in the research.OK to bring your ownCapital restaurants have been banned from stopping customers from bringing their own drinks or charging extra for sterile dining ware, Xinhua reports. Regulations starting this month also stop restaurants from putting up signs that were deemed unfair, like those denying responsibility for lost or stolen belongings.FujianMurder suspect arrestedJinjiang police have arrested a man from Chongqing on charges he murdered his father earlier this year, the Strait Metropolis News reports. His mother and an uncle who police say helped him flee were also detained. The 18-year-old suspect said he been beaten and mistreated by his father since birth. Authorities say he attacked his father with a sickle after quarrelling over what channel to watch on television. The suspects will be sent to Chongqing for trial.Panic on busA child accidentally set off a fire extinguisher on a bus in Xiamen , causing a stampede on board, the Haixi Morning News reports. The nine-year-old pulled out the extinguisher’s safety bolt, setting off the device. Fresh with the memory of a fire on a city bus that killed nearly 50 people in June, passengers panicked and fled.HubeiConstruction rubble rowThe demolition of houses at a subway construction site in Wuhan has generated so much dust and debris that more than a dozen city street-cleaning trucks have been damaged from overwork, the Wuhan Evening News reports. Two construction companies involved in the project admitted they had not washed the trucks that carried construction rubble and many left the site without being covered. The companies were fined 6,000 yuan (HK$7,600), but that was less than the cost of repairing the trucks.Romantic wake-up callStudents at Hubei University have found a fun way of getting out of bed on cold wintry mornings, the Chutian Metropolis News reports. Students put their mobile numbers into a pool and give one on the list a wake-up call. A student who gets a call has to ring another in the pool. The pairing is strictly random, but callers and receivers are always of a different sex. Students said they were embarrassed at first, but soon loved the idea because it felt something like a blind date.JiangsuOfficials bankrupt dinerThe government in Zhancheng has admitted that for more than a decade its officials did not pay after dining at a small restaurant and the unpaid bills helped drive it into bankruptcy, the Modern Express reports. The government said the bills amounted to nearly 20,000 yuan, with the earliest dating back to 1998. Many officials who had signed bills have already retired and cannot be disciplined. The restaurant’s owner photographed the bills and posted pictures of them on the internet earlier this month to draw attention to his plight.Pedestrian crossing scamA man in Nanjing has been arrested by police and charged with extortion after he allegedly threw himself in front of a bus to demand compensation, the Yangtze Evening News reports. Police said the suspect learned cars had to stop for people at a pedestrian crossing and sensed a money-making opportunity. He was filmed by a surveillance camera迷你倉jumping in front of a slow-moving bus at a busy intersection.JiangxiWife beats ‘mistress’A woman in Ruichang was detained by police for 10 days and fined 500 yuan for beating and injuring her husband’s dancing partner in a jealous rage, the Jiangnan Metropolis News reports. Police said the woman saw her husband dancing with another woman in the city’s central square. She suspected the woman was her husband’s mistress and beat her to the ground in the public area, where many couples were dancing.Birds nests removedRailway workers have to remove hundreds of birds’ nests from the power lines of a railway connecting Jiangxi and Fujian provinces each month, Xinhua reports. The maintenance workers on the Xiangpu railway said they felt bad destroying the homes of so many birds, but the nests could fall and cut the power supply for high-speed trains. More than 16,000 devices have been installed on the line to scare birds away, but they have grown used to the technology.SichuanJailed for sex with girlA man has been jailed for 10 years by a court in Zizhong county for sleeping with a 13-year-old girl and impregnating her, the West China City Daily reports. The man, 40, met the victim on the internet last year and told her having sex with a middle-aged man would make her into a beautiful woman. The man later made her have an abortion. The victim’s parents were migrant workers and rarely at home. They reported the man to police and said they regretted their lack of care for their daughter.Tobacco sales riseTobacco farmers in the province earned 5 billion yuan selling dry tobacco leaves this year, about 25 per cent more than in the same period last year, the Sichuan Daily reports. The provincial government is to put more money and resources into the tobacco sector and away from more traditional forms of agriculture. The newspaper said the Jinsha River was to be developed into one of the country’s biggest tobacco-production centres in the coming years.TianjinMore room for bike lanesThe city’s government plans to reduce the width of car lanes in its future road-building projects to give bicycles and pedestrians more room, the Tianjin Express News reports. Authorities were seeking experts’ opinions on the narrowest possible width for a motor lane, but no final decision had been made.Festive meals on farmMore people plan to eat meals at farm restaurants over the Lunar New Year holiday than eateries in the city because of concerns over food safety, the Tianjin Daily News reports. One rural guest house in Ji county has received bookings from more than 400 families for the festive period.ZhejiangTurtle farming bannedSoft-shell turtle farming is to be banned in the Yuhang district of Hangzhou next year and the demolition of turtle farms has already begun, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. The district government said although Zhejiang contributed nearly half the supply of soft-shell turtles to the country’s food markets, the industry created serious water and air pollution. The farms discharge untreated animal waste into rivers and burn wooden flakes to keep turtles warm in winter.Piano teacher jailedA piano teacher was sentenced to 41/2 years in jail by a court in Hangzhou for stealing from a rich student’s home in July, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. The stolen items included watches, rings, handbags, cameras and skincare products worth about 180,000 yuan. Her thefts were not discovered until October.mini storage