Hailstones kill 17

    Hailstones*, thunderstorms and gales pounded* Guangdong Province on Sunday, leaving at least 17 dead and 153 injured, Guangzhou Daily reported.

    The natural disasters began to savage cities including Guangzhou, Foshan, Dongguan and Zhongshan from 12 a.m. Fourteen people were killed in Foshan, two in Guangzhou and one in Zhaoqing. Most of them were killed by collapsed scaffolding*, walls and workshops, three by thunders.

    Cong Fei’s widow

    laid to rest

    This was the final farewell to an ordinary citizen, who followed her husband’s will and devoted her life to aid children in poverty.

    At the hall of the Shenzhen Funeral Home on Monday, nearly 1,000 mourners stood silently, paying their respects to Xing Dan, 30, the widow of philanthropist Cong Fei, who was killed by a stone that was thrown at her car on an expressway last Wednesday.

    Xing was on her way home on the Shenzhen-Huizhou coastal expressway when the car was hit by a rock launched by one of three teenagers on the expressway’s Nianshan section.

    Foxconn ‘suicide girl’

    A former Foxconn employee who survived a suicide attempt last year has attracted online shoppers after stories of her making hand-woven slippers* to support herself were posted online.

    Tian Yu, 18, was partially paralyzed after she jumped from her dormitory building in March last year. Tian returned to her hometown in Laohekou City, Hubei Province, in October after medical treatment in Shenzhen. She has refused donations and started making slippers for a living.

    (SD-Agencies)