Wife of 'millionaire' arrested for thefts

A Shanghai woman who pretended to be the wife of a millionaire was arrested recently for allegedly stealing from her fellow customers at a beauty salon.

Over the course of three months Li Qing stole wallets, purses and other valuables totalling 100,000 yuan ($13,000) from unsuspecting customers at the salons. Many of the victims were shocked to discover Li was behind the thefts as she often boasted of her supposed millionaire husband.

Father's love dries up after trip to Canada

After spending just a few weeks living with his daughter in Canada, a man in his 60s returned home to Dalian, Liaoning, vowing he would never again speak to her.

The father, surnamed Lu, was the envy of all his neighbors for getting the chance to go and live in the West. But Lu was not impressed with the life his daughter was living there, or her changed behavior and values. For example, he got angry when she refused to tell him where she had been after returning home late one night, saying it was "private". And, he said, "She even asked me to go Dutch when we went shopping."

(China Daily 06/14/2007)

（英语点津 Linda 编辑）

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Matt Doran is an award-winning American newspaper journalist and an undergraduate student at Albion College. He is currently a polisher for China Daily Website and is on summer break from Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he will resume his study of Chinese in the fall.