A truck rams into Ma Ying-jeou's office, workers quit after receiving lottery tickets instead of bonuses, and two BBQ vendors sell "Tangseng's flesh" – it's all trending in China.

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'Leave me alone'

"Leave me alone" was the most hurtful phrase spoken by children according to a survey, Changchun-based New Culture Daily reported Saturday.

The survey questioned elderly residents from five nursing homes in Changchun city. "I'm busy," "You are old," and "Stop talking, it's of no use" followed "Leave me alone" as the most hurtful words.

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Ma Ying-jeou's office hit

A truck broke into a government compound and ran straight onto the steps to Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou's office building, but was stopped by the bulletproof steel door Saturday morning, CCTV reported.

The 41-year-old male driver surnamed Zhang fell into a coma after the hit. Ma Ying-jeou was not in the building.

Zhang is now mentally unstable and has refused to answer questions. But police said Zhang has a criminal record, and preliminary investigations suggest he crashed the truck on purpose.

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Party army accounts

A resident from Licheng county of Shanxi province recently published some accounts of the Eighth Route Army led by the CPC dating back to around 1940, Shanxi Evening Newspaper reported Saturday.

Guo Haibo offered the accounts, collected by his grandfather Guo Yimin, who accommodated many Party leaders during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression alongside Shanxi guerrillas. The Party leaders included Deng Xiaoping, who later became China's reformist leader.

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Homework woes

An 8-year-old boy called the police to "have his mother taken way" because she pushed him to do homework on Friday, Qianjiang Evening News reported.

"I want to watch cartoons but she won't let me," the boy from East China's Wenling city cried while reporting to police on the telephone. His mother said she goes out to work everyday, leaving the first-grader alone at home during winter vacation. She became furious when the boy didn't do any homework.

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Village of longevity overwhelmed

A village of longevity has been overwhelmed and severely polluted as too many people are flocking there for a healthier environment, Yanzhao Metropolis Daily reported Saturday.

The Bama Yao autonomous county in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is home to 270,000 people, 82 of them are over 100 years old, creating a popular myth that it has a very livable environment. But tourism development and the immigrant population have overwhelmed the area, causing the mother river to become polluted, the report said.

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Lottery bonus triggers resignations

With Spring Festival coming, people are expecting their year-end bonus. The boss of a car wash made a big mistake, according to Xinhuanet.com, when he handed out 2-yuan ($0.33) lottery tickets instead of the 500-yuan annual bonuses he promised to his employees. His employees felt hurt and lost trust in the boss. They all decided to quit.

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'Tangseng flesh' on the market

Two barbecue vendors who dressed up like characters in the famous myth Journey to the West to attract customers in Yan'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, have triggered hot debate.

Instead of protecting their master Tangseng, the Buddhist monk, as the story goes, the two vendors imitated the master's two apprentices, a monkey and a pig, by selling pork or chicken in the name of "the master's flesh," alleging that the meat could make people immortal, according to a rumor in the original story.

The strategy did attract more customers, but some people felt it inappropriate to abuse a good story that highlights loyalty.

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Unbalanced university assets

Peking University and Tsinghua University, two of China's most prestigious universities, snatched the top two spots in a ranking of assets of enterprises affiliated to the country's 489 colleges, with assets close to 100 billion yuan ($16.5 billion) and over 70 billion yuan ($11.6 billion) in 2012, respectively.

The ranking was released by the Ministry of Education.