Global Times - 21.08.2019

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An elderly man in Northeast China had

to be rescued from flood waters a second

time after he returned home to feed his

pigs.

On Saturday, the man, surnamed Wu

who farms with his wife in the village

of Jixi, Heilongjiang Province, had been

taken to a temporary shelter by rescue

workers to wait for the flood to recede.

The couple became worried about

their pigs and returned to their home

to feed them when the flood receded

during the night, according to a state-

ment by the local government.

Flood waters rose again the next day,

once again trapping them in their house.

Fortunately, a rescue team in a boat

found them and after four hours of effort

the rescuers again took them to safety.

The couple profusely thanked their

rescuers in the video.

Because they defied the government’s

evacuation orders, the husband was

detained for three days.

Seven other local farmers were also

criticized for contravening the evacuation

order and returning home before the

flood had ended.

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Couple defies evacuation to feed pigs

Excavator operator ends fire danger

A construction worker who stood on the bucket
of an excavator was hoisted to the second floor of
a residential building, and then climbed through
the apartment window to shut off a gas tank in
the kitchen to stop a fire from spreading.
The homeowner had forgotten to turn off the
gas and wasn’t at home. Flames from the kitch-
en attracted the attention of nearby residents.
Construction workers, Liu Tie and Song Hai-
lin, were working near the apartment when they
were alerted to the emergency.
They immediately came with their excavator
which they first used to break through bars cov-
ering the kitchen window, according to the video
posted by Knews, a video-sharing platform based
in Shanghai.
Song then stood on the bucket and was lifted
to the second floor window, climbed into the
apartment and turned off the gas to stop the fire.
Fortunately, the fire was only coming from
the gas tank and turning it off immediately end-
ed the hazardous situation with no harm done to
the apartment.
Netizens on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like
platform, gave the workers many thumbs up.
“They have excellent skills, courage and sense of
responsibility,” a netizens wrote.
Excavators can also be used to save people.
Rescuers operated an excavator to ferry a preg-
nant woman across the river after a village in
Mianyang, Sichuan Province was attacked by the
flood in July 2018.

Knews

Quack cafe

What’s the story?

Scientists said on Tuesday they

have developed a way of extracting

hydrogen from oil without releasing

greenhouse gases – a breakthrough

they hailed as a “silver bullet” for

cleaner energy and the climate.

Unlike petrol and diesel, hydro-

gen produces no pollution when

burned. It is already used by some

car manufacturers to power vehicles

and may also be burned to generate

electricity.

But until now the wide-scale roll-

out of hydrogen technology around

the world has been prohibited by the

high cost of separating it from hydro-

carbons.

Currently the vast majority of

hydrogen used for vehicles is derived

from natural gas, the extraction pro-

cess of which produces planet-warm-

ing methane.

Now a group of Canadian engi-

neers say they have come up with a

method of getting hydrogen directly

from oil sands and oil fields, while

leaving carbon dioxide and methane

in the ground.

AFP

Russian sailor’s greeting
message in bottle found
50 years later in Alaska

A man gathering firewood in
Alaska discovered a bottle with
a handwritten message inside
wishing the finder “happy sail-
ing” more than 50 years after it
was dropped into the sea by a
Russian sailor.
“Sincere greetings! From
the Russian Far East Fleet
mother ship VRXF Sulak,”
it read. “We wish you good
health and long years of life
and happy sailing. 20 June
1969.”
Tyler Ivanoff, a teacher’s
aide in Shishmaref, Alaska,
spotted the bottle on the shore
near his village, and pried off
the plastic stopper with his
teeth.
“It was still dry on the
inside and still smelled like
wine or whatever, old alcohol.
The note was dry,” he told the
Nome Nugget newspaper.

AFP

Mom wolf lets man

crawl in her den,

play with pups

A wildlife photographer in

North China’s Inner Mongolia

Autonomous Region has de-

veloped such an attachment to

a wolf that she lets him crawl

into her den and play with her

pups.

A video shot by Zheng

Silin, a photographer living in

Chifeng, shows him crawling

into a cave and handling three

pups and then snuggling with

the mother, who he says he be-

friended when she was a pup,

according to a report posted by

Pear Video.

“I often climb into this cave

to take care of her and her

pups,” Zheng said.

The mom wolf didn’t accept

Zheng at first, but when he

showed kindness she agreed to

let him into her den.

As the female wolf lies next

to Zheng, her pups that appear

to be just over a month old,

crawl around them.

In the video, Zheng says he

has even taken the pups out

of the den to feed them from

a bottle.

“When I’m in the den, the

wolf won’t let other wolves

come in,” Zheng said. “If they

dare try to come, she will bite

them, but she trusts me with

her babies and will even leave

to find food.”

Some netizens commented

that they also want to keep a

wolf after watching the video.

Pear Video

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A cafe located in Chengdu, Southwest

China’s Sichuan Province keeps several tame

ducks and allows customers to pet, which

attracts a lot of young visitors. Photo: VCG

A story store on an old street in East China’s

Shanghai Municipality encourages people to drop in

and write a story about the neighborhood. Photo: VCG