China Chronicles December 27, 2012

  • Twins foil DNA test to find baby's dad

    A toddler may live with a riddle all his life because his mother had sex with twin brothers and has died of cancer and a DNA test couldn't identify his father, today's Xiaoxiang Morning Post reported.

    The identical twins from central Hunan Province shared an apartment with Luo Suhong, then girlfriend of Lin Weizhuang, in Shanghai in 2010 as the three were pursuing their dream life in the city. Lin and Luo planned to get married soon.

    But a mistake ruined everything. The three young people all got so drunk one night that Luo mistakenly went to Lin Weihao's room and even had sex with him, the paper said.

    Lin Weizhuang found this out soon, broke up with his girlfriend and hated his brother. Four months later, the twins went back Changsha, capital of Hunan. Meanwhile Luo found she was pregnant.

    She begged Lin Weizhuang to forgive her but her boyfriend wouldn't because he believed the baby was his brother's, the paper said.

    Before dying of lung cancer this May, Luo asked the brothers to take care of the baby, but neither of them admitted being the boy's father.

    Because the identical twins shared the same DNA, it is impossible to tell who the boy's father is. However, the twins have reconciled and decided to raise the child together, the paper said.

  • China sends first oceangoing patrol vessel to South China Sea

    CHINA today sent an oceangoing patrol vessel equipped with a helipad to the South China Sea, the first of its kind to be put into service there.

    The vessel, Haixun 21, will be under the administration of the Hainan Maritime Safety Administration.

    It will monitor maritime traffic safety, investigate maritime accidents, detect pollution, carry out search and rescue work and fulfill international conventions, said Huang He, deputy head of the maritime bureau of the Ministry of Transport.

    "In the past, Hainan provincial maritime law enforcement entities could only cover coastal waters and never reached the high seas. The newly enlisted Haixun 21 ends the history of no large oceangoing patrol vessels in South China Sea," said Ruan Ruiwen, head of the Hainan Maritime Safety Administration.

    Haixun 21 was put into use in 2002. It is 93.2 meters long with a maximum sailing distance of 4,000 nautical miles (7,408 kilometers) without refueling. Its maximum sailing speed is 22 knots (40.74 kilometers per hour). The helipad, located at the stern, is about 21 meters long and 11 meters wide.

  • Highway crash kills 7 in Sichuan

    AT least seven people have died in a truck-bus collision this morning on a highway near Meishan City in southwestern Sichuan Province, local officials said.

    The two vehicles clashed around 11:10am on Highway 213. Seven people have been confirmed dead, but no further details were given about the casualties and the cause of the accident.

    Rescue operation is ongoing, the China News Service reported.

  • China's Beidou system starts service in Asian-Pacific

    CHINA'S indigenous Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) today began providing services to users in the Asian-Pacific region, according to a spokesman of the system.

    The services include positioning, navigation, timing and short messages for China and surrounding areas, said spokesman Ran Chengqi, also director of the China Satellite Navigation Office.

    Ran further specified that the open service will be provided with positioning accuracy of 10 meters, velocity accuracy of 0.2 meters per second and one-way timing accuracy of 50 nanoseconds.



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