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HIV cases rising among the elderly in Beijing

China Daily, July 31, 2014

The number of newly discovered HIV cases in people aged 60 or older increased in Beijing in recent years.

Men who have sex with men remain one of the key groups in which the city is intervening to stop the spread of HIV, said an official from the city's Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

The latest statistics made public by the city's Health and Family Planning Commission show that from January to the end of June, the city reported 48 HIV cases in people 60 or older, compared with only 17 cases in 2007.

Most of the infected individuals are men, and most were infected through sex, said Lu Hongyan, director of an institution devoted to the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS under the city's disease control center.

However, the situation is not so severe that people aged 60 or above are going to become a key group for intervention, Lu added, since they account for less than 3 percent of 1,680 newly discovered cases in the city in the first half of this year.

"The key groups for intervention remain sexually active gay men and people who have extramarital or commercial sex," she said.

More than 93 percent of the newly discovered cases so far this year in Beijing were infected through sex, and more than 72 percent of those involved men having sex with other men, according to statistics issued by the city's Health and Family Planning Commission.

The proportion of newly discovered HIV cases in Beijing involving men having sex with men increased sharply, from 22.8 percent in 2006 to 72.7 percent by the end of June this year, the commission said.

"The prevalence of HIV has indeed been increasing among men who have sex with men," Lu said. "Many in the group know that they shouldn't have more than one sexual partner or engage in unprotected sex, but it's hard for them to turn that knowledge into practice."

Besides hospitals that carry out HIV tests for patients, the city has been paying nongovernmental organizations, such as those in gay communities, to carry out testing and consulting. The idea is to encourage gay people to be more accepting of the services, she said.

As time goes by, however, Beijing will possibly see more HIV cases in the 60-and-over category, just as the whole country has seen in the past few years, said Wu Zunyou, director of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention.

The reason for the increase, he said, is that people nowadays live longer and tend to be healthier; so it's more common for those in their 50s or 60s to seek extramarital sex, which is too often unprotected.

"The focus of our intervention is men who have sex with men, but seniors should also be covered by our efforts," Wu said.

 

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Man sues clinic for trying to 'turn him straight'

China Daily, August 1, 2014

A Chinese court began hearing the country's first-ever lawsuit by a homosexual man subjected to a treatment that was supposed to "cure" his sexual preference.

This May 2014 file photo shows gay social groups attending gatherings in Shanghai, which has witnessed an increasingly open gay subculture. Photo provided to China Daily

The gay plaintiff, Xiao Zhen, 30, told China Daily that he was confident about his case. A ruling is expected in about a month.

Xiao, who appeared in the People's Court of Haidian District, Beijing, for the hearing, said the psychological impact of the alleged "homosexual cure" provided by a private psychological counseling center in Chongqing still lingers in his mind.

That one-hour therapy session, he recalled, included hypnosis and electric shock treatment - and "was a total scam".

It cost him 500 yuan ($80).

"I think I will win the case with sufficient evidence. Homosexuality is not a mental disorder at all; so all alleged treatments are cheating," he said.

The treatment center and Baidu Inc, one of China's biggest Internet companies, will be required to issue an apology and pay cash compensation of 10,000 yuan if Xiao wins the case, he said.

Xiao went for the treatment in February after he saw the center on Baidu in a commercial promotion category.

"That's false advertising, as homosexuality is not defined as a mental problem in China," said Li Duilong, Xiao's lawyer.

China removed homosexuality from the list of mental disorders under the 3rd version of Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders in April 2001.

"That's in line with the international standard. The World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its mental diseases list in 1990," Li said.

In addition, the center's registration authorized it to provide only counseling services. Electric shock therapy belongs to mental treatment, Li said.

According to Xiao, the counselor first hypnotized him by asking him to imagine a gay sex scenario, and then administered an electric shock to his genitals when he reached orgasm.

"The whole therapy is priced at 30,000 yuan for the cheating nightmare," Xiao said.

He added that several of his gay friends had similar experiences.

Xiao Dong, director of the China Rainbow Health Organization in Beijing, an advocate for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, said that to provide such alleged "treatment" is illegal.

Moreover, Baidu, a large and well-known company, should shoulder more social responsibility and conscience in its advertising business, he said.

Experts estimate the homosexual population in China at 40 million, including 30 million men. Discrimination remains widespread, they say.

 

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Cities falling short of air standards

Source: Global Times Published: 2014-8-6 0:48:02

Hebei most polluted area despite improvements

Over 90 percent of 161 monitored Chinese cities are failing to meet new air quality standards, with the air quality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region markedly improving, according to the report on national environmental quality that was issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) on Tuesday.

Only nine cities, including Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Haikou, Sanya and Lhasa, met the standards while 152 cities did not, the report said.

According to the report, the air quality in 74 cities improved in the first half of the year, with more than 60 percent of the days reaching the government's air quality standards, representing an improvement of 1.6 percentage points year-on-year.

The levels of pollutants like PM2.5, PM10, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide in the air fell, it added.

The report was based on new national standards by the MEP in 2012. Under the new standards, the Air Quality Index, which measures PM2.5 concentrations, should be lower than 100.

The air quality in the smog-hit Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region also improved. Thirteen cities in the region saw an increase of 3.2 percentage points in terms of days meeting the national standard.

One fifth of the days in the region are still witnessing serious air pollution, 12.6 percentage points higher than those 74 cities, making the region the most heavily polluted despite the improvements.

The 10 most heavily polluted cities were Xingtai, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Tangshan, Handan, Hengshui, Jinan, Langfang, Xi'an and Tianjin, nine of which are located near Beijing.

The Chinese government has been increasing funds to tackle air pollution.

The Ministry of Finance announced on May 16 that it would invest 10 billion yuan ($1.62 billion) to cut and prevent air pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, with the focus on Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and their surrounding areas, the Beijing-based Securities Daily reported.

Beijing government will invest about 50 billion yuan to control air pollution in the next five years, promoting 117 programs, the People's Daily reported on July 8.

Beijing government, together with Tianjin and Hebei Province, will launch a 100-million-yuan research project next year using advanced technology to combat air pollution, Beijing-based newspaper The Mirror reported on July 8.

Beijing will also ban the use or sale of coal in six major districts and other regions by the end of 2020 to reduce air pollution, the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said on Monday.

Clean energy like electricity and natural gas will substitute for coal in heating, cooking and other activities, the bureau said.

Other highly polluting fuels, such as fuel oil, petroleum coke, combustible waste and some biomass fuel will also be banned, local authorities said.

 

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Father who dumped baby's body faces trial

China Daily, August 7, 2014

A father who dumped the body of his baby daughter outside a refuge for abandoned infants is to be prosecuted.

A public prosecutor at Guangzhou Intermediate People's Procuratorate said the man, surnamed Chen, had committed an offense.

Chen decided to abandon the baby in the capital of Guangdong province after she was born critically ill.

"Under the law, anyone who for any reason gives up rearing their baby has committed a crime," the prosecutor, who did not wish to be named, told China Daily on Wednesday.

Officials declined to give further details of the case, and no date has yet been set for a hearing.

Chen, 33, and his mother-in-law dumped the body, which was in a red plastic bag, on Feb 23 and left in a taxi.

Doctors who rushed to the scene found that the baby had died before it was abandoned. Police ruled out the possibility of homicide.

Chen, a migrant worker, was arrested at a maternity ward in a hospital in Guangzhou's Baiyun district the following day. The baby had been born on Feb 22.

"I had a discussion with my wife and mother-in-law and we agreed to abandon our first daughter because my wife and I could not afford expensive medical treatment for the baby," Chen said according to police.

Zhang Yiri, an associate professor of law at Guangzhou City Polytechnic, said it was right that Chen was being taken to court.

"Chen should not have decided to pass on his responsibilities to society after his daughter was born critically ill," Zhang said.

"He should have sought help from the social welfare department if he could not afford the medical expenses.

"Society would not be able to bear the burden and the pressure if other parents followed Chen's example."

Chen left the body outside a building that at the time housed Guangzhou's first baby hatch. The facility later closed because the staff could not cope with the number of infants left there.

The center opened on Jan 28, and by the time it shut on March 16, it had received 262 babies and children.

The baby hatch, in a busy downtown area, gave abandoned infants and children a temporary home.

Children aged 5 and 6 were among those left there. All those abandoned were either critically ill or disabled.

The facility, which cost 120,000 yuan ($19,500) to build, had a floor area of just 7 square meters and was equipped with cribs and incubators.

 

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13 jailed for illegally fundraising billions

Source: Xinhua Published: 2014-8-6 19:00:13

Thirteen people were jailed in Beijing on Wednesday for illegally collecting funds totaling 2.6 billion yuan (422 million US dollars).

They received jail terms ranging from 2.5 to 10 years after the Beijing Municipal Second Intermediate People's Court found they had collected the money from more than 40,000 people.

They also received fines ranging from 100,000 to 500,000 yuan, the court said in a statement.

From December 2009 to May 2012, Zhu Zijun and 12 others cheated the public to buy "franchise qualification" in their dummy company, it said.

The collection of funds from the public by unqualified entities is explicitly prohibited by Chinese law.

 

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Founder of Guangdong cult claimed to be reincarnated Buddha

By Cao Siqi Source: Global Times Published: 2014-8-7 0:18:01

Fifteen people in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province, were detained on suspicion of assembling a cult organization and committing the crimes of fraud and rape, the local police department announced on its official Sina Weibo on Wednesday.

Zhuhai police said they have cracked down this illegal organization, named Huazangfamen, which has more than 1,000 members. They said they had questioned more than 60 suspects as part of the investigation and detained 15.

The police also searched areas in which cult members had gathered and seized pamphlets and other belongings.

The leader of the cult, surnamed Wu, 47, allegedly established the organization in the 1990s and had labeled himself as Buddha reincarnated in the form of one of his descendants.

"A cult normally asks its members to worship a 'god' or 'Buddha,' but in reality it is usually the cult founder himself, based on some fabricated fallacies rather than established religious doctrines," Shen Guiping, a religious studies expert at the Central Institute of Socialism, told the Global Times.

The Huazangfamen members were required to worship Wu, who claimed to be a "Budda".

Shen said that cults often promote doctrines that are anti-social or against humanity and try to accumulate wealth through various means.

Wu used the regulations of Buddhism to force the believers to obey him and established a strict hierarchy to actively engage in illegal cult activity, police said.

"The cult usually uses spiritual control and absolute obedience as methods of controlling their believers," said Shen.

Wu was sentenced to 11 years in jail on charges of running an illegal business and the unauthorized issuing of stocks by the Beijing High People's Court in November 2001, according to the organization's website.

China has launched a campaign to crack down on cults after six members of a cult named Quannengshen, or Almighty God, beat a woman to death at McDonalds in Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province, on May 28, after she refused to provide her telephone number.

The public security bureau in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has detained over 800 members of Almighty God and 580 from the Mentuhui, or Disciples Sect cult since 2012.

 

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Fake mine accident killers sentenced to death

Xinhua, August 8, 2014

A court in north China on Thursday handed down death penalties to five people who faked fatal coal mine accidents to claim compensation.

The case is eerily similar to the plot of the movie "Blind Shaft," which won the Silver Bear award at 2003 Berlin Film Festival.

The five were found to have led a gang of 21 that killed four people with hammers in coal mine shafts from July 2011 to August 2012, said Handan City Intermediate People's Court.

After the murders, the gang faked mine accidents to defraud money from the mine owners in the name of victims' "relatives." They got away with 1.8 million yuan (290,000 U.S. dollars) from the first three cases before being caught by police during the fourth attempt.

Female gang members were responsible of luring the victims, mostly bachelors who were too poor to marry. While others scouted the shafts, killed the victims and extorted the money.

Other members of the gang received penalties ranging from death with two years' reprieve to jail terms of up to 15 years for intentional homicide and fraud.

 

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Jealous Chinese husband sentenced to death

Xinhua, August 12, 2014

A man who shot six people dead and wounded another three in revenge against his wife's infidelities was sentenced to death Monday, the local government in southwest China's Yunnan Province said.

Shao Zongqi, 38, a native of Baoshan City, was accused of murder and illegally owning a rifle, the city government of Baoshan said in a press release. The city's intermediate court heard the case Monday and announced the ruling immediately after the hearing.

Court investigation found Shao discovered in September 2012 that his wife Liu Benhong was having affairs with two men from the same village, Shao Zonghua and Shao Zongping. He bought a semi-automatic rifle and 70 bullets in August 2013, preparing to seek revenge.

On Jan. 30, 2014, the eve of Chinese New Year, Shao forced his way into the two men's homes and shot dead six people, including Zongping's entire family of four, Zonghua's father and Zonghua's wife.

Zonghua, his son and his mother were injured.

The killer fled in his SUV after the killings, but was caught by police on Feb. 3.

The court on Monday also ruled deprived Shao of his political rights, and awarded cash compensations of 506,000 yuan (82,224 U.S. dollars) and 98,000 yuan (15,925 U.S. dollars) respectively for the two families.

Shao said he would lodge an appeal.

 

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10 children 'forced to sell blood'

Shanghai Daily, August 12, 2014

The deputy director of a blood collection station in northwest China has been arrested over his alleged involvement in forcing children to sell their blood, police said yesterday.

The arrest of the official, surnamed Huang, and six other suspects, including three 15-year-olds, was sanctioned by the Liangzhou District People’s Procuratorate in Gansu Province’s Wuwei City, the provincial government’s news website reported.

Two people said to be the ringleaders, surnamed Chen and Li, are accused of taking more than 10 children to the blood station on the outskirts of Wuwei by force to “donate” blood from the end of 2013, the report said.

The children, mostly middle school students, were forced to give some 400 milliliters of blood twice a month, with the suspects receiving over 1,000 yuan (US$162) each time, police said.

Staff have to check the age, name, address and identity card of each donor before taking blood, but most of the victims gave a fake date of birth and other personal information.

Police said their investigation into the case is ongoing.

 

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Duo's sex drug ads jammed broadcasts

Shanghai Daily, August 12, 2014

A father and son who sold anti-impotence drugs without a licence, jamming radio stations to broadcast adverts for their wares, have been charged with running an illegal business.

The duo, whose surnames are Huang, sold more than 1,000 boxes of pills within two months, bringing in more than 240,000 yuan (US$38,880), the Baoshan District prosecutors office said yesterday.

According to prosecutors, the pair advertised their product hotline using a radio signal jammer that blocks radio station signals.

Prosecutors said a friend of the father recommended the scheme and provided the jammers.

Huang senior is said to have contacted a drugs merchant at an exhibition and, aided by a drugs company in northeast China’s Jilin Province, bought 3,000 boxes of anti-impotence medication.

Then the father and son used their jammer to broadcast in Baoshan and the Pudong New Area.

Hotline staff would deal with would-be customers’ questions and take orders, according to prosecutors.

Huang junior would deliver the orders, it is claimed.

Following a report from a member of the public in January, police raided their home and found more than 1,700 boxes of anti-impotence drugs and a jammer.

The medication they sold is a prescription drug which can only be sold in state-owned pharmacies.

 

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Middle-aged women fight over dance partner

Chinadaily, August 13, 2014

Two middle-aged women who fought over a 68-year-old male dancing partner were sent to the police, Qianjiang Evening News reported.

The man's regular 52-year-old partner was not available on Sunday, so he danced with another woman, aged 48. His regular partner later arrived unexpectedly and grabbed the younger woman's hair.

Later at the police station, the older woman apologized and compensated the younger one.

 

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Hidden pool hides a dark secret

Chinadaily August 12, 2014

About 50 men were found skinny dipping at a pool hidden behind trees near a road in Fangshan district, a suburb in southwest of Beijing, Beijing Youth Daily reported.

Hidden pool hides a dark secret

The pool was being used for nude sunbathing, swimming, and chatting, with women rarely going near it. A villager said people have been swimming there for more than a decade.

 

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Stubborn tenant's home destroyed in Henan

China Daily, August 12, 2014

In a report that has been much debated in local media, Zhang Hongwei, a resident of Xinzheng city, Henan province, built a four-storey, 420-square-meter home without applying for approval from the related municipal departments.

Stubborn tenant's home destroyed in Henan

In 2012, the neighborhood where Zhang built his home was scheduled for demolition in order to upgrade a national road. Zhang was the only local who didn't agree to relocate.

Earlier this year, Zhang's residence became a problem again when the extension of a subway required that his house would be the one that needed to be demolished.

Once again, Zhang did not cooperate. He asked for more money through vigorous negotiations. The dispute reportedly caused financial losses and other headaches for the subway project.

In a bizarre twist of events on Sunday, Zhang and his wife were allegedly kidnapped while they were asleep and taken to a cemetery. When they returned, according to media reports, their home was completely demolished.

Xinzheng city officials have reportedly said the matter is under investigation.

 

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Knife attack suspect arrested in Jilin

Source: Global Times Published: 2014-8-18 0:33:01

Two people died and another 12 were injured in a knife attack on Sunday afternoon in Yanji city, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of East China's Jilin Province, local police said.

The attacker, surnamed Cui Zhenyu, 25, was caught at the scene, Xinhua reported on Sunday.

The incident happened at about 3:20 pm when Cui began a stabbing spree in front of the Jinhuacheng shopping mall in the Jinhua district of Yanji, according to the official Sina Weibo account of the publicity department of CPC Yanbian prefecture committee.

One man died at the scene and another died in hospital. The injured people are receiving treatment.

Cui had been suffering from depression, said his family members. The cause of the incident is being investigated.

 

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3 top drug officials faulted for regulatory wrongdoings

Shanghai Daily, August 19, 2014

A week after the former chief of China's drug watchdog was accused of favoring special interest groups, three other regulatory officials face accusation of wrongdoings.

Ma Wenfang, a village doctor in Henan Province who is a deputy of the National People's Congress, and Zhang Yi, an executive of Henan Yisheng Pharmaceuticals, have levelled accusations of unfair practices against three top officials.

Ma and Zhang have accused the trio — Wu Zhen, deputy director of China Food and Drug Administration, Yin Hongzhang, deputy director of the administration's drug evaluation center, and Shen Qi, senior official with the administration-affiliated National Institute for Food and Drug Control — of injustice, the 21st Century Business Herald reported.

Ma alleged the trio were a "barrier against technological innovation," the paper said.

Zhang, meanwhile, bought a lawsuit on June 3 against the China Food and Drug Administration at the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's for dereliction of duty.

Zhang, who is also the executive of Liaoning Yisheng Biological Pharmaceuticals, which owns Henan Yisheng, has been demanding answers from regulatory officials for more than a year, China National Radio reported yesterday.

From 2012-end to August 2013, Liaoning Yisheng had sought regulatory approvals for 120 batches of rabies vaccines. But it was not until last summer that the National Institute for Food and Drug Control responded by saying three batches had failed sterility tests, CNR reported.

On December 24 last year, the institute told the company that it would not issue certificates to the remaining 117 batches because the "risks still existed," CNR reported.

"If they are qualified, then you issue certificates. If they are not qualified, you give us detailed reports. But we don't have any explanations," Zhang said.

"Since three batches were found to be contaminated, others were very likely to be hazardous as well," Wu Zhen reportedly told Zhang when he visited Wu's office.

Shen Qi meanwhile told Zhang that "the company did not provide any documents on contamination."

But Liaoning Yisheng claims it had provided reports of quality control and risk evaluation.

The Jilin Provincial food and drug testing authority found the 117 batches safe but it still did not issue the necessary certificates, CNR reported.

Liaoning Yisheng said the company would lose nearly 400 million yuan (US$65.09 million) because of the stalemate, CNR reported.

On August 12, Lu Quan, a Party official from Hunan Province alleged that Shao Mingli, the former chief of China Food and Drug Administration, amended the Chinese Pharmacopoeia in favor of honeysuckle producers in his hometown in Shandong Province, resulting in huge economic losses for other growers of the herb.

 

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Hospitals intervene to prevent suicides

China Daily, August 19, 2014

Psychological aid and suicide intervention will be available in the emergency rooms of Shanghai hospitals.

Such services are part of a new social organization for suicide intervention, which will be set up next month ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, observed on Sept 10 each year.

The organization, Shanghai Xinsheng Psychological Crisis Intervention Center, consists of more than 10 experts and a group of volunteers.

"Suicide can be prevented. Most suicide cases can be detected through some early signs, and nearly 90 percent of suicides can be prevented through comprehensive intervention," said psychological expert Shan Huaihai, who has been working in suicide intervention for more than 10 years.

"If a person suffers from a mental illness, his or her suicidal behavior is generally not sudden. The earlier the intervention, the higher the success rate for preventing suicide," Shan said on Monday.

The organization plans to work with hospital emergency rooms to provide early treatment for unsuccessful suicides.

"People who attempted suicide received timely physical treatment in the emergency room, but their psychological problems were still not solved," Shan said.

Shan said very few doctors have received training in clinical psychological assessment or treatment, so they cannot participate in the intervention when a suicide attempt happens in an emergency room.

Shan once worked with emergency rooms in eight Shanghai hospitals, providing intervention for 112 people who had attempted suicide. Among them, 95 people solved their psychological crises after psychological treatment and medication, and they didn't have suicidal behavior during the three-month follow-up visits, according to Shan.

About 287,000 Chinese people commit suicide each year, and another 2 million attempt it, according to the country's health administration.

In recent years, governments and social bodies have intensified their work in providing psychological aid and have opened suicide intervention hotlines.

Shanghai's first 24-hour suicide hotline was launched in 2012 by the nonprofit Life Education and Crisis Intervention Center. Unlike similar hotlines in the city, it offers late-night and early-morning services, usually the peak times for people to reach out.

During the first year of operations, more than 2,400 calls were received. Around 20 percent of the callers were in need of urgent "crisis intervention", according to the hotline's operator. So far, the 24-hour hotline service has expanded to more areas, such as Beijing and Shenzhen, as well as Henan and Jilin provinces.