"Drunks beat and rob Samaritan" from South China Morning Post

"HENAN - Three drunks robbed a stranger who invited them to his home to sober up, the Henan Business Daily reports. The victim saw the men lying on a street in the provincial capital Zhengzhou. They robbed him after beating him with wine bottles. A district court fined and jailed the men on Tuesday."

"Beijing cracks down on commodity trades" from South China Morning Post

"The mainland's three commodity futures exchanges have raised their minimum margin requirements to curb speculation, as part of Beijing's efforts to ease inflationary pressure.

The Dalian and Zhengzhou exchange said yesterday they would increase margins to 10 per cent from as low as 5 per cent, after the market closes on Monday.

The two bourses followed in the footsteps of the Shanghai Futures Exchange, which announced on Thursday it was raising the percentage of cash a trader must deposit with brokerages."

"Water supply restored" from South China Morning Post

"HENAN - Most water supplies for some 800,000 residents of Zhengzhou were restored on Thursday, one day after a major water main burst, paralysing the city's biggest water plant, China News Service reports."