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Mr Clean sets pace for village

Wang Baotai, 73, has set the standard for his village in the city of Xuchang, Henan Province.

Every morning for 14 years, Wang has been voluntarily pushing a cart through the major streets to collect and transport rubbish to designated dumps.

With Wang's efforts, his village has been selected as one of the cleanest in the city.

Influenced by Wang, many villagers have gradually started keeping their village rubbish-free.

Poison not only way to end marriage

Fearing that his wife would poison him, a suspicious farmer in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, has eaten instant noodles for more than a year.

The farmer, surnamed Liu, said he could not get along with his wife, who was having an affair with a neighbor. In irritation, Liu revealed the affair to all the villagers last May. Liu's wife, surnamed Xu, said she had never thought of poisoning him, although she had applied for a divorce some dozen years ago.

Last Wednesday the couple finally reached an agreement on divorce.

Internet addict tries robbery

Liu Songyun, 22, seemed unreasonably happy after being arrested for robbing 8 yuan ($1.07) from a friend in Sanmenxia, Henan Province, last Wednesday.

Liu said he wanted to go to prison to quit his Internet addiction.

In many attempts over the past months, Liu couldn't stop his nightly Internet addiction played out in local cyber cafes.

To serve a jail term to break his addiction, he lured a net friend to the city's outskirts then robbed him. Liu quickly surrendered to police.

Drunken Swiss won't take no for an answer

An inebriated Swiss tourist was arrested in Hong Kong after he forced his way into a mahjong club and smashed furniture.

The 36-year-old man saw the mahjong club sign in Tsim Sha Tsui in the early morning hours of last Wednesday and mistook it for a nightclub. Despite the staff's explanation, he refused to leave. He charged into the club, pulled an iron bar off the wall in a bathroom and started using it to smash furniture and windows.

He was arrested on vandalism charges.

(China Daily 07/24/2007)

（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.