Shanghai woman prepays cell phone bill worth 15,000 yuan by mistake!

October 9th, 2009 LAHORE - US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W Patterson, has said many clauses in the Kerry-Lugar Bill with regard to the Pakistan Army "are a big mistake". The Daily Times quoted Patterson as saying that the Obama administration had gone the extra mile to ensure that the bill didn't harm Pakistan's sovereignty.

September 22nd, 2009 SHANGHAI - Two young couples from a South Asian country have been arrested in connection with the robberies, which netted cash and goods worth about 100,000 yuan,or 14,600 dollars, local media reported Monday. The city's local procuratorate said that on July 22, one of the female suspects began talking with a man from the Netherlands at a bar in the city.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Beijing resident has come up with an unusual way of selling off an apartment. The 26-year-old man is looking for some 1,500 Internet users to invest in an apartment, and the owner will be chosen on the basis of a lucky draw, reports the China Daily.

August 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A new report has revealed that Beijing has the maximum number of rich people in China. The latest Hurun Report on China's wealthiest people said that there are 143,000 multimillionaires and 8,800 billionaires in Beijing.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese woman has received compensation from a hospital after her husband became unable to have sex after a surgical procedure. The hospital in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region had to pay the woman 30,000 yuan, reports the China Daily.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 24-year-old woman was Thursday found dead under mysterious circumstances in her rented house in south Delhi, police said. Veerpal Kaur alias Nikki was found dead in her rented fourth floor accommodation in Kalkaji area after police broke open the doors, locked from outside.

July 30th, 2009 SHANGHAI - There are 51,000 people in China who are qualified to be called "new aristocrats". That's according to the latest research by Hurun Report, which specializes in tracking the wealthy, reports the China Daily.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A court recently ordered a Japanese businessman to publicly apologise to one of the woman employee he had wrongly accused of stealing his trousers in Wuhan, Hubei province.. The businessman has also been ordered to pay "spiritual damages" to the tune of 1,000 yuan to the woman.

July 22nd, 2009 Some IMF members say China's currency undervaluedWASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund is welcoming China's progress in letting the market determine the value of its currency, the yuan, but says some countries believe it remains "substantially undervalued." The IMF says many members believe further strengthening the yuan should be part of a comprehensive Chinese strategy to rebalance the economy, but others say it would play only a supporting role toward promoting changes. In its annual report on the Chinese economy, the IMF did not name individual countries' positions on the yuan.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Traffic came to a standstill in Haikou, capital of Hainan province, when a woman driver stopped by police for violating rules stripped naked on the road. Traffic police were in for a shock when they stopped the 40-something woman, reports the China Daily.

July 15th, 2009 BEIJING - China's foreign exchange reserves topped $2.13 trillion by the end of June, up 17.84 percent year-on-year, the People's Bank of China said Wednesday. About $185.6 billion were added to the world's largest official foreign exchange reserves in the first half of the year, but that figure is about $95 billion less than the same period a year ago, said the central bank.

July 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Cell phone towers could be a novel and reliable way to help predict the intensity of the next big flood, according to a new study. A model developed by Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers, which analyses cell phone signals, has added a critical component to weather forecasting.

July 3rd, 2009 WELLINGTON - A woman who complained to police about an unwanted sexual encounter with a former New Zealand minister has dropped the case, police said Friday. Richard Worth, a lawyer, resigned as minister of internal affairs in the conservative National Party government last month after the Korean businesswoman lodged her complaint.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A bank customer may have become the butt of everyone's jokes after he stole someone's cell phone resting on the counter, but left without taking his 1,462 dollars with him. The cell phone owner informed the police, and the mugger was later identified as a certain Liu.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A woman who made a pornographic video of herself, and uploaded it onto the Internet, has been detained. According to the public security bureau in Shanghai, the woman, surnamed Huang, was detained for spreading pornography online, reports the China Daily.