Elderly Lottery Winner Donates All Money To Charity

Comment #9

bellyache — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:30:26 GMT

He probably just wanted to see if he could win, I guess.

Comment #8

CASH Only — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:23:24 GMT

If he didn't need the money, than why did he play the lottery? I couldn't be so philantrophal (sic?) until after I'm dead.

Comment #7

bellyache — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:21:31 GMT

That's what I thought. I choose to think he donated the money out of the goodness of his heart. Unless, I read otherwise.

Comment #6

anonymous77 — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 05:14:17 GMT

To my knowledge, what rlevins says is correct.

Comment #5

shalini — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 02:45:48 GMT

Thank you

Comment #4

rlevins — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 02:04:30 GMT

If you read current affairs, you will find things have changed and it is no longer true.

Comment #3

TheGameGrl — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:55:19 GMT

Most assets can be seized by the communist regime. He choose to toss it to charity and thus save himself disgrace via the government he lives in.

Comment #2

bellyache — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:55:45 GMT

True. It was a very nice thing for him to do.

Comment #1

shalini — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:09:03 GMT

very noble and magnanimous of him. don't hear too often of people who can do that.

Elderly Lottery Winner Donates All Money To Charity

Lottery Post — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:42:00 GMT

Local media reports that A 71-year-old man in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region who won a lottery jackpot of 5RMB million (US$620,000) has donated all of the money to charity.Surnamed Wang, the man is a retired worker with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in Changji. My only wish to make use of the prize for myself is to buy a new radio, Wang was quoted by the Xinjiang Economic Daily as saying.On November 21, when Wang arrived at the lottery complex in Urumqi to receive his... [ More ]