A 13-year-old Chinese girl tried to commit suicide because she wanted her family to donate her liver to her cancer-stricken father, state media reported Thursday.

The girl, Chen Jin, swallowed more than 200 sleeping pills after she discovered a medical note in her mother's purse that said her father was dying of liver cancer and had three months left to live, the news agency Xinhua said.

Jin's mother returned home after visiting her husband in the hospital to find the front door locked. The mother climbed in through a back window and found two empty bottles of sleeping pills.

"Mom, I'm sorry I couldn't stay with you any longer," read a note that the teen had left next to her. "Please give my liver to dad and save him after my death."

The incident occurred January 24 in Jiangsu province in china. The teen was taken to the same hospital as her father, where she remains in intensive care, drifting in and out of consciousness.

Doctors say that even if she pulls through, she will need surgery for burns she suffered from an electric blanket on her bed when she lost consciousness, the China Daily newspaper said.

According to Chinese media reports, the family -- whose monthly income is about 1,000 yuan ($146) -- has already spent nearly 100,000 yuan ($14,600) in medical expenses since the father was diagnosed with cancer more than a month ago. The mother, who is also in poor health, retired early more than eight years ago.

The woman told China Daily she is now trying to keep her husband from learning of their daughter's desperate act of love.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Source : cnn.com

 The White House on Wednesday announced strict limits on executive pay for financial institutions receiving "exceptional assistance" from the US government, part of its drive to tighten up the rules for bailing out Wall Street.

 An administration official said that pay would be limited to $500,000 for the senior executives in institutions such as Citigroup and AIG that were receiving targeted relief from government funds.

 Executives could also receive restricted stock, but it could only pay out after government support had been repaid.But administration officials said the pay curbs applied only to the top executives, suggesting that they could continue to pay other employees more.

 President Barack Obama said: "For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only in bad taste – it's a bad strategy – and I will not tolerate it as president."

 The restricted stock strategy would assure that senior executives of companies receiving exceptional assistance had incentives aligned with the long-term interests of shareholders as well as minimising the costs to taxpayers, the official said.

 The administration also said that banks would face tougher rules on transparency including the use of corporate jets, office renovations, entertainment and "golden parachute" payments to departing executives."

 We will have to do more, substantially more, to fix this crisis," Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary, said on Wednesday."Next week, we are going to outline a comprehensive program for financial recovery," Mr Geithner said. "This program will be directed at supporting the flows of credit that are essential for our economy to begin growing again." Companies that received less specific help from the federal government, such as the capital purchase programme available to a wide range of financial institutions, would be able to pay their executives more than $500,000 only by full public disclosure of their salaries and a non-binding shareholder vote on compensation. Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel