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Grape-eating monkey stows away with fruit

Wang, a resident of Kunming, Yunnan, recently sent an uninvited bee monkey to the Kunming Wildlife Zoo.

When Wang opened a box of grapes he had purchased, he found a strange-looking little monkey sitting in a corner of the box eating grapes.

After Wang sent it to the Kunming Wildlife Zoo, the zookeeper told him it was a bee monkey 2 or 3 years old.

Enjoying first-class protection of the State, the bee monkey lives on fruits and reptiles. The monkey, which was found to be in good health, now lives with other bee monkeys in the zoo.

Locals find vendor's sign offensive

A newspaper vendor surnamed Zhu sparked local controversy in Haikou, Hainan Province, after putting up a poster on his kiosk that reads: "Only dogs piss here." Residents say the sign is offensive.

But the newspaper vendor argued the sign was necessary because his kiosk, near a bus terminal on the city's Longfan Road, was being used as a urinal at night.

Harbin residents want public pet toilets

Residents from the Daoli District of Harbin, Heilongjiang, appealed to local authorities last week to build pet toilets near the lawns of their residential areas and shops as a way to prevent further pet pollution by defecating cats and dogs.

"The red carpet in front of my clothing store was dirtied by pet poop even when I cleaned it twice a day," a shopkeeper surnamed Meng complained.

She and many other residents want the authorities to provide public pet toilets.

Guard sleeps as flood carries him away

A guard working for a sand quarry in the riverside village of Benxi, Liaoning, awoke to find his hut carried downstream by floodwaters last Tuesday.

Guarding the quarry machinery on the river shoal, the worker, surnamed Ding, had built the hut to sleep in. He'd been sound asleep in an inebriated state when the flood waters carried off the hut. Traveling down the rain-swollen river, he grabbed a large tree, which he sat in for four hours before being rescued by police.

(China Daily 07/18/2007)

（英语点津 Linda 编辑）

About the broadcasters:

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.

Suzann Riddle is a senior double majoring in Health Care Management and Economics at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. She finds herself at China Daily Website after visiting many areas of China as a Holland Fellow, Appalachian's international exchange program with Fudan University.