Chinese boy saves US$28 for 6 months to buy mum birthday gift, touches shop owner

A Chinese primary school boy saved his pocket money for half a year, accumulating one yuan at a time (14 US cents), to buy his mother a pair of shoes as a birthday gift, touching both the shop owner and millions of netizens. The 11-year-old boy from Hebei province in northern China entered a shoe shop with a stack of one-yuan notes in his hands, asking to purchase a pair of shoes for his mother. He indicated that it was a birthday gift for her to use during her daily commute, as he had noticed...