BANK workers in China took 22 days to stitch up a massive pile of shredded banknotes worth a total of 32,600 yuan (RM20,775), Nanyang Siang Pau reported.
Quoting Jimu News, the daily said a woman identified only as Zhang arrived at a bank in Kunming city, Yunnan province, with a bag containing more than 100,000 pieces of damaged banknotes on June 27.
She asked if the bank could exchange the money, adding that they were cut up by a relative suffering from depression five years ago.
No easy feat: Bank staff trying to put shredded cash back together after a depressed woman cut the bills into 100,000 pieces.
Coming all the way from the neighbouring Sichuan province, Zhang said her sister-in-law, who owned the cash, had approached the local banks there but none was willing to help.
“My sister-in-law has passed away and left behind four young children. This money is enough for them to live for a while,” she said.
On hearing this, the bank assigned four workers from the cash centre to the task and they worked overtime to reassemble the banknotes.
Zhang received a stack of new notes equivalent to the damaged money on July 19.
To express her appreciation, she presented a banner of gratitude to the bank.
> Sin Chew Daily reported that two adjacent four-storey shophouses in Taiwan’s Changhua County had been partitioned into 45 rooms, which the owner rented to an undisclosed number of tenants.
The incident was revealed after three people died and two others injured in an early fire at one of the premises on Tuesday.
According to Taiwan’s ETtoday News, in one of the lots, the owner was operating his motorcycle workshop on the ground floor while living on the second floor with his family. He converted the third and fourth floors into eight rooms each.
In the other lot were 28 make-shift rooms and a shop.
Each room had been rented out for NT$4,000 (RM560) monthly.
“There are so many rooms until the owner does not know the exact number of tenants,” it was reported, and the cause of the fire is still being investigated.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.
