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Death penalty for cross-border child trafficking
China Daily, May 18, 2014
Members of a cross-border child-trafficking ring stand trial at a court in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Friday. Their leader, Huang Qingheng (left) was sentenced to death. [photo / China Daily]
The leader of a group that sold more than 20 Vietnamese infants in China was sentenced to death on Friday, sending a strong signal that China will crack down on cross-border human trafficking, authorities said.
The other 23 traffickers, of whom one is a Vietnamese citizen and eight others have supposed Vietnamese citizenship that has not been confirmed, received sentences ranging from one year and 10 months to life imprisonment, with confiscation of personal property or fines for the crime of trafficking children, according to a statement released by the intermediate court of Fangchenggang in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Friday.
The group sold 23 infants aged 10 days to several months to Chinese families starting in 2010 to July 2011.
The traffickers illegally carried the infants over the border to Dongxing, in Guangxi. From there, the children were sold to families in Shantou and Jieyang, both in Guangdong province. The gang also transported pregnant Vietnamese women to Guangdong, where they gave birth, and then sold the newborns.
Eleven of the kidnapped children were rescued in the crackdown and returned to Vietnam in May 2013. Chinese police are cooperating with their Vietnamese counterparts to track down the children's birth parents.
"The trial will play a big role in warning other traffickers to stop," said Huang Qiong, a publicity official for the court in Fangchenggang.
It took more than a year to arrive at sentences in the cross-border trafficking case, much longer than other trafficking cases because it had confronted more obstacles during the investigation, Huang said.
The large number of suspects and infants required a multinational investigation. In addition, the leader received a sentence of capital punishment, requiring a longer processing period.
But the outcome of dismantling the trafficking rings and rescuing the infants made it worth all the hard work, Huang said.
Chen Shiqu, director of anti-human-trafficking office of the Ministry of Public Security's criminal investigation arm, said the trial sent a strong signal that human trafficking won't be tolerated.
The main members got more severe sentences, and the ringleader, Huang Qingheng, who claimed to be a Vietnamese citizen, was sentenced to death.
"To protect women and children, the traffickers should be punished harshly," Chen said.
Since 2004, China has had a cooperation plan in place with its Southeastern Asian neighbors, including Thailand, to fight cross-border human trafficking.
"The joint efforts will never let up, and we will rescue victims and protect our people," Chen said.
Little girl trapped in washing machine
Shanghai Daily, May 19, 2014
A 3-year-old girl was rescued from a washing machine by firefighters yesterday morning.
A screenshot of an STV news clip shows efforts to free the girl from the washing machine.
The girl’s legs became trapped in the washing machine at her home in Nanhui in the Pudong New Area about 8:30am, while she was playing, Shanghai Television reported yesterday.
Her family called firefighters but they were unable to pull her out of the washing machine directly. In the end, the fire crew broke open the machine from the outside using hydraulic tools, said the report. The report did not say if the little girl suffered any injuries.
Shanghai Daily, May 19, 2014
A 3-year-old girl was rescued from a washing machine by firefighters yesterday morning.
A screenshot of an STV news clip shows efforts to free the girl from the washing machine.
The girl’s legs became trapped in the washing machine at her home in Nanhui in the Pudong New Area about 8:30am, while she was playing, Shanghai Television reported yesterday.
Her family called firefighters but they were unable to pull her out of the washing machine directly. In the end, the fire crew broke open the machine from the outside using hydraulic tools, said the report. The report did not say if the little girl suffered any injuries.
14 held over service revealing sex of unborn babies
Shanghai Daily, May 22, 2014
Fourteen people have been held for allegedly running an illegal business offering to identify the sex of unborn babies, police said yesterday.
They are said to have sent blood samples taken from pregnant women on China's mainland to Hong Kong for tests to establish the sex of a fetus.
In China, many rural couples prefer to have boys, while in urban areas parents who qualify for a second child often hope to have a son and daughter.
To curb sex-selective abortions, China has banned sex determination since 1994.
But the test is legal in Hong Kong and with huge demand from mainland women, illegal agents have emerged.
Usually, they work with private clinics on China's mainland where doctors take a blood sample which is then sent to Hong Kong, according to Xinhua news agency.
The 14 suspects held include a 35-year-old doctor, surnamed Chen, who works at a private clinic in Wenzhou City in east China's Zhejiang Province.
Last year, Chen is alleged to have become involved in a scheme where pregnant women were charged between 5,800 yuan (US$928) and 7,500 yuan for a test.
Blood samples were taken south by long-distance coach drivers going to Shenzhen, in China's southern Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong.
Chen was promised between 500 and 800 yuan for each deal, with the rest going to illegal agents, Xinhua reported.
By the end of February, Chen and two other suspects had made nearly 200,000 yuan from tests for nearly 300 pregnant women in Wenzhou, it was reported.
Some of the women terminated their pregnancies after learning that they were carrying girls, police said.
Three deaf and mute defendants convicted of running Beijing begging gang
PUBLISHED : Friday, 23 May, 2014, 1:44pm
UPDATED : Friday, 23 May, 2014, 6:35pm
Keira Lu Huang [email protected]
Disabled beggars were forced to beg on the streets of Beijing by the gang and given only 20 to 30 yuan a day to live on. Photo: SCMP
Three deaf and mute defendants were convicted yesterday of forcing a group of young disabled people in their 20s – who were also deaf and mute – to beg on the streets of Beijing, the Beijing Times reported.
One of the defendants, Zhang Zhiguo, had been threatening at least four deaf and mute men to beg for donations since August 2011.
Zhang claimed that he collected 1,000-2,000 yuan (HK$1,260-2,520) from the four men every two to three days. He gave them just 20-30 yuan a day to live on.
He then handed over money to Yu Dongdong, 30, who in turn paid Wang Zhigang, 33.
“Yu has a bad temper, when we turned in less, we would be punished,” said Zhang. He added one punishment was standing still for up to three hours.
As one of the handlers of the beggars, Zhang earned more than 1.3 million yuan in nine months. He flew first class and often went to expensive Western restaurants, the newspaper reported.
All three defendants had denied the charges. Wang and Yu insisted they did not beat anyone.
Wang said he was borrowing money to establish a performing arts company. He said he had spent nearly 100,000 yuan to help disabled people.
Yu insisted she was “just working” with Wang and denied the pair wee dating.
When police escorted Yu into the court, she cried out and used sign language to tell her parents “Mum, I love you!” but she was stopped by the judge.
Yu’s parents said she lost the ability to speak at the age of three after medical poisoning. Yu’s father said that her daughter told him she was married at 19 but later divorced. Yu left her child with her parents and told them she was in Beijing selling bracelets.
The police arrested nine of the beggars last year, the report said. After investigating last September, the three organisers were arrested.
China’s fake Sphinx to be demolished after Egypt complains
PUBLISHED : Monday, 26 May, 2014, 10:40am
UPDATED : Monday, 26 May, 2014, 10:40am
Agence France-Presse in Beijing
The full-size replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza in Donggou village in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei province. The replica will be dismantled after an Egyptian ministry complained about the structure. Photo: AFP
A replica of Egypt’s iconic Sphinx built in northern China will be dismantled after an Egyptian ministry complained about the structure, state media said on Sunday.
A massive replica of the ancient statue was built in Hebei province, the official Xinhua news agency said.
But Egypt’s ministry of antiquities complained to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) about the Chinese imitation, it cited a source as saying.
The report quoted an official with a cultural park on the outskirts of the provincial capital Shijiazhuang as saying the imitation would serve only as a temporary scene for shooting movies and television dramas.
“We are very respectful to world cultural heritage and express our apologies for any misunderstanding,” added the official, who declined to be named.
The replica, about 80 metres long and 30 metres tall, is made of steel bars and cement.
Already notorious for copying Western goods ranging from trainers to champagne, China is building up its replica reputation with a miniature Mount Rushmore, an Eiffel Tower and an entire Austrian village.
In the southwestern megacity of Chongqing, a park is scattered with sculptures including Michelangelo’s David, Rodin’s Thinker and the gigantic heads of four American presidents in a trend known as “duplitecture”.
An assemblage of Parisian monuments including the Eiffel Tower and a fountain from Versailles stand in the city of Hangzhou, as does a French village.
Among the most eye-popping examples are a copy of the Austrian alpine village and Unesco World Heritage Site of Hallstatt in the southern province of Guangdong, which even state media called “a bold example of China’s knock-off culture”.
the dongguo sphinx exhibits chinese characteristics and looks like jack neo. :*: 
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A kid kicks and slaps his grandmother on a subway train in Jiangsu, China.
The kid threw a tantrum at his grandma on their way home. He hit the elderly woman with a thermos and even slapped her on the face. It took him about 10 minutes to calm down. The incident was video recorded by a passenger on the train and posted online. Netizens criticised the boy's behavior and call him a little bastard.
Hogwarts appears in north China city
China.org, May 28, 2014
A chateau in Xinle, Shijiazhuang City of Hebei Province in north China has recently shot to fame for its close resemblance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the fictional school in the Harry Potter series. [photo / people.com.cn]
8,000 charged for child molestation in 4 years
Xinhua, May 30, 2014
China charged a total of 8,069 people with child molestation from 2010 to 2013, said the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) here Thursday, ahead the International Children's Day.
Also, 255 people were charged with having sex with prostitutes below 14 and 121 people were charged with luring girls below 14 into prostitution, said the SPP statement.
Procuratorates across the country have stepped up their efforts against all crimes targeting children, especially sexual abuse cases, said Xiao Wei, the SPP spokeswoman, at a press conference here.
The country has been shocked by a string of child molestation cases involving teachers in recent years.
In April, a teacher in east China's Anhui Province and another in central China's Henan Province were sentenced to 17 years in prison and suspended death respectively for raping and molesting a dozen of their students.
In May last year, a news story about a school principal and a government clerk in south China's Hainan Province raping primary school girls roused strong concerns about sexual crimes against children nationwide.
In the Hainan case, Chen Zaipeng, the former principal of Wanning No. 2 Primary School, and Feng Xiaosong, a former clerk at the city's property administration bureau were respectively sentenced to 13 and half and 11 and half years in jail.
Prosecutors will continue giving priorities to child molestation cases and seek the most serious legal punishment against these offenders, Xiao said.
The SPP statement also said that prosecutors have booked and charged fewer juvenile offenders since 2012 and the recidivism rate of juvenile offenders dropped by 29.6 percent from 2008 to 2013.
However, the age of juvenile offenders kept decreasing in these years. A majority of juvenile cases involve those between 16 and 18 but the number of those involving the underage from 14 to 16 has increased, said Shi Weizhong, an SPP official at the same press conference.
Most of the young offenders are less educated, Shi said. In 2013, 90 percent of juvenile offenders prosecuted nationwide received less than nine years of education.
Most of these children are from disfunctional families and violent and pornographic contents on mass media and Internet also contribute to the cause of their misbehaviors, he said.
the dongguo sphinx exhibits chinese characteristics and looks like jack neo. :*:
That's an insult to the Sphinx.
Cult member speaks out on killing his victim
Xinhua, June 1, 2014
Footage from China Central Television (CCTV) showed Zhang Lidong, one of the six suspects detained for alledgely killing a woman in East China's Shandong province. [Photo/CCTV]
Six suspects detained for intentional homicide in East China's Shandong province are members of a heretic sect, local police announced on Saturday.
The victim, surnamed Wu, was beaten to death on Wednesday night at a McDonald's outlet in Zhaoyuan city after she refused to give her telephone number to the suspects, who were allegedly trying to recruit new members for their sect, according to a statement from the local police authority.
Local police arrived at the scene at 9:23 pm on Wednesday, four minutes after they were tipped off, and captured the six suspects in the act.
The victim was rushed to the hospital but died at 9:48 pm, according to the police.
All six suspects are members of the heretic sect Quannengshen, which means "almighty god," according to the statement, and books and other materials from the sect have been found at their residence.
The suspects include a man named Zhang Lidong, his two daughters and a son, as well as two women surnamed Zhang and Lyu, according to the statement.
With the exception of Zhang's son, who is under the age of criminal responsibility and will be dealt with separately, the other five suspects, who are all jobless, have been put under criminal detention for suspected intentional homicide, police said.
Zhang Lidong confessed to the police that his elder daughter joined the cult in 2005 and since then started to persuade other family members to join.
Zhang said he once was a businessman. On Wednesday night, he drove a luxury Porsche Cayenne to the McDonald's outlet.
"She (the victim) is an evil and so we sought to beat her to death," said Zhang in an interview with the China Central Television, the state broadcaster.
Police said the Quannengshen conducted illegal activities and its doctrine, which are distortions of those of other religions, orders cult members to fully obey its leaders and does not tolerate quitting.
"The incident highlighted the cult nature of the Quannengshen," said Wang Shuli, an expert on religious issues and also a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
"Cults are not religions and they are anti-religion and anti-human," said Wang.
Wang suggested that the authorities expose the cult nature and launch a harsh crackdown.
Local provincial police authorities vowed to severely punish illegal activities of heretic sects to protect the safety of people's lives and property.
The McDonald's outlet said in a statement that they felt very sorry for the incident and expressed deep sorrow for the victim and concerns for its staff who got injured while attempting to stop the violence.
"When the incident happened, the restaurant called the police and has handed the surveillance tape to the police for investigation," it said.
The cruel beating to death and failure of any onlookers to stop the violence have sparked public outrage on major social media platforms in China.
Up in smoke
Source : CFP Published: 2014-6-4 0:58:01
A police officer sets confiscated drugs on fire at a sports stadium in Loudi, Central China's Hunan Province on Tuesday. Regions across the country publicly destroyed confiscated drugs on Tuesday to mark the 175th anniversary of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) official Lin Zexu's famous destruction of opium on June 3, 1839. Photo: CFP
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Teen kidnapped and killed cousin for money
Chinadaily June 10, 2014
A teenager was found guilty of kidnapping and killing his cousin to get money to surf the Internet, and sentenced to jail for 15 years recently by the Bengbu Intermediate People's Court in Anhui province, chinacourt.org reported on Monday.
The teenager kidnapped his cousin, who was a second grade pupil in the village of Shiyuan in the province, and strangled him with his hands.
The teen then demanded 150,000 yuan ($24,000) from the victim's mother by text message. After she called back and confronted him, he phoned the police to report his cousin's death, but denied having any part in it. The teen later confessed.
His family will pay compensation of about 190,000 yuan to the victim's family.
According to the police, the teenager had left middle school to seek jobs outside his hometown and been apart from his family for more than 10 years.
He returned to his hometown last October from Ningbo, Zhejing province, after having argued with colleagues there. Once home, he spent most of his time in Internet cafes, on which he spent all his money. It was then that the idea of kidnapping his cousin occurred to him.
Suspect quizzed over rape of elderly women
Shanghai Daily, June 10, 2014
A man was detained last month in connection with the rape of more than 10 elderly women in Xiayi County, central China's Henan Province.
According to police, the suspect, surnamed Wang, admitted to almost 40 instances of rape, sexual assault and burglary between 2011 and this March.
He is said to have attacked the women, all of whom were aged between 73 and 95, after breaking into their homes.
The victims all lived alone as their relatives had left the area to look for work. Police were alerted to Wang's alleged crimes when an 83-year-old women told police she had been raped.
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