Heavyweight expectant mom a challenge for medics; lonely old man calls police nearly 1,500 times and would-be thief caught red handed

Thief chooses wrong targets

A man twice tried to steal from tourists attending a flag raising ceremony in Beijing's Tiananmen Square only to discover his "victims" were police officers, The Beijing Times reported.

The would-be thief tried to open one tourist's pocket but made off before he could be apprehended and later grabbed some 100 yuan notes from another. This time he threw the money into the air in a bid to escape, but failed and was arrested.

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Lonely senior seeks police company

A 71-year-old man dialed the police number 110 nearly 1,500 times because he wanted someone to talk with. He lived alone in Chongqing and felt lonely following his 2011 divorce, according to the Chongqing Economic Times.

A police official said that the old man had dialed 110 1,483 times since his first call on July 23 last year when he was too drunk to find the key to his house.

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Student dorm has all mod cons

The design of new dormitories at Wuhan Bioengineering Institute has been posted on its official microblog and gone viral among the netizens, Jingchu.com reported.

The new dormitory has a 10 square meter balcony, private bathroom, broadband network, air-conditioner and fixed-line telephone. It will go into use from September.

Each room covers 45 square meters with elevator access and a solar water heating system. Twin rooms will cost each student 2,400 yuan ($389) for an academic year, twice as expensive as rooms accommodating four people.

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Obese mom gives birth to baby girl

Qingqing, a 22-year-old girl weighing 147 kilograms, gave birth to a 4.25 kg baby girl after being transferred between hospitals five times, Jianghuai Morning News reported.

The woman weighed 135 kg when she discovered she was pregnant and five hospitals suggested she needed to be transferred elsewhere. One in Anhui province was finally willing to help and seven medical experts were involved in the birth. The baby girl was nicknamed Ping'an in Chinese, which means safeness.

The associate chief physician said Qingqing was the heaviest pregnant woman she had seen in more than 20 years practicing medicine.

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Rooftop villa demolished

Demolition work on an illegal rooftop villa in Beijing's Haidian District has been completed after the building was reported almost a year ago.

Artificial rocks and greenery were removed and the roof returned to normal similar to others around it.

According to owner Zhang Biqing, the illegal construction cost him two to three million yuan ($324,207), while another two to three million yuan was spent in dismantling it. Overall expenditure was enough to buy a real villa.

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Lottery winner breaks record with payout

A man in Shandong province won a big bonus－497 million yuan ($80.4 million)－in a sports lottery drawn on Monday night, Chongqing Morning News reported on Tuesday.

The man bought 60 tickets with the same number sequence, qualifying him for multiple payouts at 8.29 million yuan each. The man spent 180 yuan on the tickets. The bonus broke the previous record set in 2012 when a person in Jiangsu province won 256 million yuan.

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