A COUPLE in Beijing, China, enrolled their daughter in a rehab centre for Internet addicts because they disapproved of her new boyfriend, reported China Press.
During her 11-day stay there, the woman was allegedly subjected to physical confinement, corporal punishment and abuse, prompting authorities to launch an investigation after her ordeal was made public.
According to local press, the woman, known only as Suling, was a third-year music major at university and started dating recently.
However, her parents strongly opposed the relationship.
When Suling refused to end the relationship, her parents decided to send her to a rehab centre, colloquially known as “Internet addiction school”.
While on her way to teach a piano lesson, staff from the rehab was said to have abducted Suling and transported her to Sanmenxia city in Henan province.
After arriving at the centre, she was allegedly confined to a dormitory.
On the eighth day, the principal ordered Suling to record a video to say that she was safe but instead, she wrote an eight-page letter home describing her ordeal.
Her parents took her out of the school on the 11th day.
Once the incident became public, it triggered an investigation by Sanmenxia city authorities.
> A park in Zhejiang, China, amazed locals for being mosquito-free, thanks to some 55 high-tech biological mosquito traps that simulate human breathing and body heat, reported Sin Chew Daily.
According to local press, the park in Hangzhou city began using a mosquito-catching system, known as the Frog that Swallows the Sky, last year.
The machines mimic human breathing by releasing carbon dioxide and emitting heat to lure mosquitoes in before sucking them into a chamber with a fan.
It is an initiative to eliminate mosquitoes using purely physical means rather than using chemicals.
On an average day, the machines in the park can capture over 7,000 mosquitoes, with the highest being 20,000 mosquitoes in a day.
The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
