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Guo Guangyun says he was elated when the mugshot of the man that had eluded him for so many years appeared on the nightly news. Nearly two decades had gone by since they last crossed paths, but he recognised the man as Cheng Muyang, now wanted in Beijing for corruption.
Guo, 73, ended up in a labour camp after trying to expose the Cheng family's dealings. "When my wife and I saw his portrait on a late-night news programme on Hebei Television we were both thrilled," he told the South China Morning Post.
Cheng is among 100 people targeted under Operation Skynet, Beijing's global hunt to locate suspected economic fugitives and return them home to face justice.
The photo of Cheng, 45, that China posted with Interpol matched recent ones of prominent Vancouver real estate developer Michael Ching Mo Yeung, Guo told the Post. Representatives of the businessman's company refused to comment on the allegations.
In the mid-1990s, Guo, then a mid-ranking official in Hebei province, sent an anonymous letter to authorities with evidence he had collected against the family patriarch, Cheng Weigao - the Communist Party's top man in the province at the time.
Guo claimed Cheng Weigao had abused his position to arrange favours for his family and other associates. But a copy of the letter found its way to the well-connected Cheng Weigao, reportedly a close ally of then-president Jiang Zemin , and Guo was prosecuted for slandering a government official.
In an interview with the Post in 2003, Guo recalled the ordeal. "A dozen lights were kept burning in the room where I was held. I wasn't allowed to sleep. I was interrogated twice a day. They wanted me to admit I had written the letter. I was threatened and harassed. I grew feverish and weak."
When the case went to trial, Guo was found innocent. But instead of being freed he was dismissed from the party and "re-educated" in a labour camp.
"I was at my weakest then," he said. "There were two attempts made on my life while in the labour camp."
Guo suspected official involvement in the attacks. He was held for a total of 15 months.
In 2003, Cheng Weigao was expelled from the party for corruption, and Guo received an official apology from the party and was reinstated as a member.
"Cheng ]Weigao]'s problem was not only about corruption," Guo said.
"He also abused his power in promoting or demoting officials. Only those close or loyal to him were promoted. He was like an emperor."
Guo said he would "love" to see Cheng Muyang brought back to China for trial. "At the time I suggested to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to put the son under surveillance because he had done many illegal things. Unfortunately, his father got wind of it and managed to arrange his escape," he said.
The beggar chained his two children to him outside a Beijing train station. Photo: SCMP Pictures
BEIJING – A beggar chained his two children to him while he panhandled outside a Beijing train station during the Labour Day holiday, sparking concern among passers-by that the children were being mistreated, or were the victims of human-trafficking, Beijing Youth Daily reports.
Photos that circulated online showed two infants chained to the waist of the father, who was wearing a mask. He had placed a letter beside his begging box that said he had leukaemia and had to beg to support his family and pay his medical bills.
A passer-by called the police after suspecting the man was using kidnapped children to win sympathy. An initial investigation by the police showed the two-year-old twin boys were the man’s children.
The beggar, 26, told the newspaper the train station was so crowded during holiday that he was worried his boys would get lost or abducted. “I’m too weak to catch up with the boys if they run away,” he said. The man, who comes from a village in Anhui, said his wife abandoned the family shortly after his diagnosis, so he had to take the boys with him when he went to Beijing to see doctors.
Hundreds showed up for the mass blind date at a camping site. Photo: SCMP Pictures
GUANGDONG – Young people who went to a mass blind dating event found themselves the target of voyeuristic tourists, China News Service reports. Hundreds showed up at the camping site where the event was being held. Women waited in the tents while men took turns to have short conversations with them. If both were interested they would hang a “don’t disturb” sign outside the tent and talk for longer.
The sign was supposed to drive away other daters but it attracted curious tourists, who stood near the tent to listen in on the proceedings. Some even opened tent flaps to take photographs.
The organisers had to send more than 20 additional staff to try to deter tourists from interfering in the event.
But the visitors kept coming, so in the end, one staff member was assigned to each tent as a doorkeeper to protect the privacy of the participants.
Motorists absorbed in Chinese chess. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Motorists in southern China played chess and did embroidery by the side of the road after they got stuck in a traffic jam at the end of the May Day weekend holiday, according to a news website report.
Tailbacks stretched for several kilometres after delays were caused by maintenance work at a tunnel on a highway linking Kunming and Foshan in Guangdong province, the news website Qq.com said.
The congestion lasted for about two hours on Sunday while the maintenance work was carried out, the report said.
Headshots of the 100 wanted fugitives posted on the CCDI's website. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Beijing is building a team of experts on international law to help repatriate fugitives abroad and tackle its territorial disputes with neighbouring countries.
The foreign ministry established an international law committee earlier this year, emphasising Beijing's hopes of advancing its interests through treaties and legal provisions, the South China Morning Post has learned.
The committee comprises 15 scholars and experts. These include: Shi Jiuyong, a former judge at the International Court of Justice; Rao Geping, a law professor at Peking University; Huang Jin, president of the China University of Political Science and Law; and Liu Nanlai, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Observers said China urgently needed to improve its study of international law as Beijing stepped up its anti-corruption campaign by targeting fugitives abroad.
Beijing released a list of 100 fugitives suspected of corruption last month - most of whom had fled to the United States, Canada and Australia.
China wants these nations to help return the fugitives as part of its "Sky Net" anti-graft operation.
The Post has revealed that one of the listed fugitives, Cheng Muyang, is now a Vancouver property developer seeking refugee status in Canada. Cheng, also known as Michael Ching Mo Yeung, is accused of graft and illegal asset transfers but denies all charges. The Post has no evidence of his guilt or innocence.
In remarks that signal Beijing's determination to bring Cheng back, foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said fugitives were "bound to receive due punishment".
But the repatriation process is difficult in Cheng's case because there is no extradition treaty between China and Canada.
Up until last November, China had concluded only 39 extradition treaties with other nations since its first, with Thailand, was signed in 1993.
Observers say this is not enough for Sky Net to succeed.
"On one hand China has to sign more bilateral extradition treaties," said Ma Chengyuan, a professor of international law at the China University of Political Science and Law.
"But it also has to see how to advance its plans through multilateral cooperation and treaties."
Beijing is aware that the negotiation of extradition treaties is often hindered by concerns over human rights and whether suspects will face the death penalty, which many countries oppose.
But it believes it can use mechanisms such as the United Nations Convention against Corruption, adopted in 2003, which says that signatories are obliged to assist in extradition, legal assistance and criminal proceedings.
Member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation have also pledged to deny safe havens to corrupt officials.
"Beijing is seeking to fully utilise these multilateral platforms for its interests, and put such frameworks into practice," Ma said.
Beijing's flexing of its muscles in territorial disputes, particularly in the South China Sea, provides further impetus to study international law.
The Philippines, one of the nations contesting China's claims in the South China Sea, has initiated proceedings under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Beijing decided not to respond to the proceedings, but Wu Shicun, president of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said China was seeking to justify its territorial claims through legal means and needed more experts to do so.
"The challenge facing China over the South China Sea is daunting and we don't have enough experts that are familiar with international law regarding territorial disputes," said Wu, who was recently invited to join the foreign ministry's Foreign Policy Advisory Committee.
"If we can count on talented people with experience … we may be able to [satisfactorily] submit our claims to arbitration."
International laws on the handling of territorial disputes were dominated by the United States and Europe, Wu said, adding that China sometimes found such rules unhelpful.
"China wants to maintain its interests using the existing international rules," he said. "But if the existing rules cannot function, then China may seek to change such rules."
Ma said studies of international laws would also be useful in helping to set up the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which is led by Beijing as part of attempts to bolster links with Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
China sets up provincial task forces to help Operation Skynet hunt for fugitives
Swift arrest of Dai Xuemin, four days after Interpol alert on China's 100 'most wanted' fugitives, hailed as sign of cooperation between government departments
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 05 May, 2015, 2:09pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 05 May, 2015, 8:59pm
Chinese fugitive Dai Xuemin (centre) was arrested on April 25 as he allegedly tried to use fake documents to enter the country. Photo: CCTV
All of China’s provinces have set up special task forces to help extradite fugitives after the mainland’s top anti-corruption watchdog released a list of the 100 most wanted suspects last month as part of its Operation Skynet global manhunt, state media reported on Tuesday.
Local party organs and government departments at provincial levels, including those of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party’s organisation department, courts, procuratorate, and public security department all part of the task forces, the People’s Daily reported.
Together they would play a greater role in pursuing fugitives and were expected to achieve “significant progress” in repatriating corrupt officials this year, the party’s mouthpiece said.
The local task forces are also responsible for negotiating with overseas nations for the return of fugitives and joint investigations.
The local authorities should also notify central authorities within 24 hours if a suspect they were dealing with had fled, People’s Daily said.
It said the swift arrest of Dai Xuemin, the former boss of a trust and investment firm suspected of embezzling 11 million yuan (HK$14 million), was an example of the success of close cooperation between various government departments from Jiangsu, Shanghai and Anhui.
Dai was detained on April 25 as he allegedly tried to enter the country using fake documents, state media reported.
His arrest came only four days after Interpol had issued red notices – appealing for the location and arrest of each wanted person, and asking member states to extradite them – on the list of 100 Chinese fugitives.
Dai had reportedly been at large since absconding in August 2001, and was believed to have fled to the United States, Belize or South Korea.
Huang Feng, head of the Institute for International Criminal Law at Beijing Normal University, said a system of close cooperation between different departments could help close the loopholes that had led to the escape of suspects.
“Without such a mechanism, no department has been willing to take responsibility for stopping a suspect from absconding, even though there were signs that the suspect was planning to do so,” Huang was quoted as saying by the People’s Daily. “They all believe that it was another department’s responsibility.”
In some extreme cases, the fugitives continued to enjoy their status as government officials and even received pay and subsidies as usual, after making their escape, Huang said.
Convicted Chinese swindler sues prosecutors over seizure of paintings
Man wants 54 million yuan in compensation arguing his art works were not used as evidence in trial and should have been returned, according to newspaper report
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 05 May, 2015, 12:30pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 05 May, 2015, 1:16pm
A work by the contemporary artist Fan Zeng. He is reported to have painted the six works at the centre of the dispute. Photo: SCMP Pictures
A man from northern China who was jailed for embezzlement is suing prosecutors for 54 million yuan (HK$68 million) in compensation after they seized six of his collection of paintings, according to a newspaper report.
Zhang Jiarui said the confiscated art works were not listed as evidence during his trial and should have been given back to him, The Beijing News said.
Zhang, who comes from Cangzhou in Hebei province and worked as a manager at a labour contractor, was jailed for 10 years in 1993 for embezzlement, the report said.
He has been demanding the return of six paintings since his release in 2003, but was later told four had been sold to make up for the losses of his company.
The paintings were created by the contemporary artist Fan Zeng, the report said, who uses a traditional Chinese painting style.
Two of the pictures were returned to Zhang, but he said they were not authentic and is seeking compensation, according to the report.
real estate developers in china are resorting to the use of ang mo models to sell homes to tiongs. they claim images of ang mo faces in their marketing and promotions will improve their standing and give them an edge.
May 6: Officials to be accountable for the environment; male driver beats woman over lane-changing row
China to curb local officials' pursuit of GDP growth at the expense of natural environment. Photo: Reuters
Politics & policies
China will implement a new set of regulations to hold officials accountable for pursuing GDP growth at the cost of the local environment. Officials will not be promoted or appointed to key government positions for any violations, and retired officials will not be immune to any investigations. (Xinhua)
Diplomacy
Top diplomats from China and the European Union (EU) held the fifth round of high-level strategic dialogue in Beijing. Both sides agreed to more cooperation on security and defence matters, especially in the Middle East and in the fight against human trafficking. (Xinhua, Reuters) Read full story here
Economy
The recent bullish stock market in China experienced a 4 per cent slump on Tuesday, the most in three months, losing some two trillion yuan in value. (Business Insider)
Shares of e-commerce giant Alibaba in the US dipped by more than 3 per cent to an all-time low of $77.77 per share in early trading on Tuesday. (Business Insider)
China will regulate the tourism market by clamping down on unreasonably cheap trips after a tourist guide verbally abused her clients over their reluctance to go shopping. (China Daily)
Tech
The popularity of Microsoft's age-guessing app How Old Do I Look has spread to China as internet users upload and share snapshots generated by the app on social media tools like WeChat. (Nyet.com)Chinese netizens use How Old DO I Look on a photo of several celebrities.
Money and Wealth
Alibaba chairman Jack Ma asks each of the company's over 30,000 employees to participate in community service for at least three hours every year. The activity will be included in the employee appraisals. (Caijing)
Society
The teacher is pictured with a student holding a parasol for her. Photo: Weibo
Public debate stirred over a male driver's brutal beating of a female driver on the street in a dispute over lane-changing. Dashboard camera videos show both had been repeatedly and recklessly crossing in front of each other. (Tencent.com)
A Shanghai teacher apologised after she was photographed having her elementary-school students holding a parasol for her while walking in the park. (thepaper.cn)
Spanish police arrested 80 Chinese from a Barcelona-based illegal-immigration ring which had been smuggling people to Canada and other western nations. (Global Times)
Chinese police detain alleged transgender prostitutes in black stockings and miniskirts
Two suspects detained for 10 days on suspicion of soliciting in Fujian province while police continue to investigate the matter
PUBLISHED : Friday, 08 May, 2015, 11:23am
UPDATED : Friday, 08 May, 2015, 4:38pm
Andrea Chen
The two alleged transgender prostitutes have been detained for 10 days while police in Fujian province investigate the matter.
Chinese police who detained two alleged prostitutes wearing miniskirts and black stockings in a park later found they were transgender women, Shenzhen Television reports.
Residents in Jinjiang, in Fujian province, complained to police on Tuesday about a problem of alleged prostitution at the nearby park.
The two suspects were both detained for 10 days on suspicion of soliciting while police continue to investigate the matter.
They reportedly told police that they had identified themselves as women since they were teenagers, but had yet to undertake transgender surgery.
One of them is married and has a 10-year-old daughter. The other recently had breast augmentation surgery.
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 07 May, 2015, 9:53am
UPDATED : Friday, 08 May, 2015, 12:37pm
May 7: New campaign against baby gender selection; Beijing bans barbecues to cut air pollution
Illegal parental gender tests and sex-selective abortions contribute to a skewed gender ratio in China. Photo: Xinhua
Politics & policies
China has launched a new campaign against illegal prenatal gender tests and sex-selective abortions to help address the country's gender imbalance. (Reuters)
Cao Yaofeng, vice-president of energy conglomerate firm Jinneng Group in Shanxi province, has been sacked and stripped of party membership for bribery. (People.cn)
Wang Yu, a former official in China's health and family planning commission has been under investigation, Caixin reports. Wang is said to have been involved in hospital corruption cases in Sichuan. Read full SCMP report
Diplomacy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Xi'an, Beijing and Shanghai in his first visit to China from May 14th-16th, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hu Chunying said. (Chinanews.com)
President Xi Jinping will visit Russia tomorrow to attend a parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Foreign ministry)
Economy
China’s services sector grew at its fastest pace this year in April, with a PMI of 52.9, up from 52.3 in March. (Reuters)
China is ranked 17 in the latest Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index. Hong Kong is listed at 13, behind Singapore at 11. The top three nations are Spain, France, and Germany. (World Economic Forum)
Dongfeng Motor, China's No.2 domestic car maker by sales, named a new chairman as part of a reshuffle of management at state-run companies. Zhu Yanfeng, vice secretary of the Communist Party of the northeastern province of Jilin, has been appointed to the post. (Wall Street Journal)
Society
German police shut down seven brothels run by a Chinese citizen. The 35-year old woman allegedly hired over 200 prostitutes in the past five years. (Global Times)
Beijing bans barbeques in open space to prevent them from exacerbating air pollution. (Beijing Times)
Tech
Beijing-based mobile ridesharing application Dida Pinche wins Series C investment of US$100 million from China Renaissance Capital Investment, Trust Bridge Partners, automotive website firm Bitauto and IDG Capital. (Yicai.com)
Around the nation: Chinese man smuggles heroin in his foreskin; divorce on menu after wedding feast dispute
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 09 May, 2015, 11:41am
UPDATED : Saturday, 09 May, 2015, 11:41am
The boy's attacker was reportedly schizophrenic.
Toddler attacked by schizophrenic man
SHAANXI - Video footage of a two-year-old boy being beaten and stomped on the head by man whom police say is schizophrenic has gone viral on the internet, according to a newspaper report.
Police in Luochuan county have detained the man, the Beijing Youth Daily reports. The video shocked internet users, but also prompted criticism of the care and oversight the man was receiving from the medical authorities in the area.
The short clip shows the toddler sweeping the ground outside a restaurant when the man walks towards him, knocks him down and stamps on his head 13 times, the report says.
The man then hits the boy's head 11 times with the broom and eight times with a dustpan until customers in the restaurant rush outside.
The customers said the boy was unconscious when they managed to stop the beating. The child was treated in hospital for a fractured skull and is said to be in a stable condition, according to the report.
The police said the 29-year-old man had been diagnosed at a local psychiatric hospital as schizophrenic, but was receiving treatment at home.
The hospital said the man seemed to be recovering when they last visited him in March.
The hospital said most families preferred to take care of patients at home and medical staff would visit people with severe mental illnesses four times a year to make sure they were stable. Many internet users accused the hospital of negligence.
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Girl, 12, dies after drinking pesticide
SICHUAN - A 12-year-old girl in Jiangyou killed herself by drinking pesticide after giving her grandmother water laced with the poison, West China City Daily reports.
The grandmother is in stable condition after emergency treatment. She told the newspaper the girl asked her to help a classmate buy a bottle of pesticide, and gave her a bowl of water that smelled slightly pungent when she returned from the fields the next day.
The girl was living at home with her grandmother while her parents laboured as migrant workers in Beijing.
They could only manage to return home once a year during the Lunar New Year holidays. The police are investigating.
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An initial search did not find the drugs on the train passenger.
Train passenger hid heroin in foreskin
BEIJING - Railway police revealed on Thursday they captured a man who hid a bag of heroin under his foreskin on a train from the capital to Lhasa in Tibet , The Mirror reports.
The police found the man acting suspiciously during a routine patrol on the train and asked him to take a urine test, which yielded a positive result for morphine. But the police did not find any drugs in his clothes or baggage.
The man later confessed to having illegal drugs on him and took out a plastic bag from under his foreskin.
The police found a tenth of a gram of heroin in the bag, according to the report.
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Principal suspended over classroom bully
ANHUI - The principal of a primary school was suspended after it was revealed that a class monitor forced pupils to eat and drink faeces and urine if they did not give him money and snacks, according to a news website.
The bullying came to light after a family discovered that their son had stolen several thousand yuan from their home and had been forced to give the cash to the bully, the website Anhuinews.com reports.
The victim's family called the parents of other pupils and found many in the class had suffered attacks.
A teacher at the school in Huaiyuan county had asked the class monitor to help check children's homework and he had abused his power to extort money from pupils, the report says. The area's education bureau is investigating the case, the report says.
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Divorce on the menu after wedding feast row
HUBEI - A couple's big day descended into violence and a call for a divorce - all over what to do with leftover food, media in Shiyan report.
The bride and groom started arguing after their wedding banquet when the groom asked the staff to pack up the remaining food, according to the Shiyan Evening News.
The request upset the bride, and she began to berate him. The groom felt humiliated and beat her in the street, which upset the bride's mother so much that she had to be admitted to hospital for treatment.
When the unhappy couple finally arrived home, the woman called the police. Officers detained the man, and the bride has vowed to seek a divorce.
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The unexploded ordnance may have been from the Red Army.
Village dig uncovers war-era munitions
HENAN - Villagers in Xin county have found hundreds of unexploded ordnance while rebuilding their homes, Chinanews.com reports.
An excavator was removing earth in the village when it uncovered what looked like shells. The villagers called the police, who blocked off the area.
A total of 137 shells and 147 grenades were found after a six-hour search. Staff from the local heritage preservation authority said Red Army troops and guerilla soldiers were based in the area during the second Sino-Japanese war and the civil war.
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Teen with heart disease dies after friend's party
ZHEJIANG - A teenager with congenital heart disease who attended school against the advice of his doctor collapsed while talking to his classmates and died, the Qianjiang Evening News reports.
The 14-year-old was diagnosed at birth with dilated cardiomyopathy, a chronic heart disease that causes the heart to become enlarged and not pump blood efficiently.
The teen's doctor repeatedly suggested he quit school to wait for a heart transplant. He caught a cold after attending a classmate's birthday party and instead of staying at home, he returned to class the next day, his mother said. The strain proved too much and he suffered a heart attack and died.
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No murder charge for woman who tossed baby
ZHEJIANG - Police in Taizhou will not file murder charges against a 19-year-old who threw her dead baby out of a fifth-floor window after taking abortion pills last month, news website Zjol.com.cn reports.
The neighbours called the authorities after they found the dead newborn wrapped in a plastic bag on the ground. During their investigation, officers noticed blood on the legs of a woman tenant, and took her to hospital for examination.
She later confessed to throwing the baby away because she was afraid her family would find out. The police decided not to press murder charges after confirming the infant was already dead at birth.
Suspected child attacker arrested after online footage emerges
CRI, May 9, 2015
File photo of the two-year-old boy who was assaulted by a mentally ill man. [Photo: news.qq.com]
Police in northwestern Shaanxi province have arrested a man suspected of beating a toddler.
Surveillance footage caught the attack and has stirred outrage online.
The suspect was a 28-year-old man surnamed Wang, who suffers from mental illness.
On Monday evening he suddenly assaulted a two-year-old boy who was playing with a broom outside a restaurant.
The story has prompted questions over treatment of people with mental disorders.
Professor Hong Daode from the China University of Political science and Law says the government should shoulder more responsibilities to take care of those with mental disorders.
"The implementation of Mental Health Law is less than satisfactory nationwide. The major reason is that local governments do not have enough funds to support mental institutions and take care of the mentally ill. Incapable of doing so, they just let them go free. So responsibilities like taking care and treating the patient fall to their families. And they don't have the capability either."
There has been a spate of child attacks by mentally ill people reported in China in recent years.
The suspect is currently under psychiatric evaluation.
Headmaster suspended after students forced to drink urine
CRI, May 9, 2015
An undated photo shows people walking pass the gate of primary school in Huaiyuan county, east China's Anhui Province. [Photo: CCTV]
A Chinese primary school headmaster has been suspended after a report showing a class monitor forced pupils to eat stool and drink urine for not handing over money and snacks.
It was reported earlier this week by Anhui news that a 12-year-old student at Huaiyuan primary school in eastern China's Anhui province forced classmates to eat stool and drink urine under the name of 'checking homework'.
Other disturbing allegations of abuse include threatening pupils to hand in money and snacks and tearing out the latter's homework when the amount of snacks or money was not 'enough'.
It was reported that a teacher at the school had empowered the bully to check classmates' homework. The student then abused his power to extort money from pupils.
The incident came to light in May after tormented students reported the matter to the local education authority. An investigation was conducted after the details of the case were revealed.
According to the authority, the headmaster and the teacher have been suspended and the bully student has since been transferred to another school.
The report showing that a 12-year-old student forced classmates to eat stool and drink urine causes wide outrage among Chinese Internet users. [Photo: CCTV]
SHAANXI - Video footage of a two-year-old boy being beaten and stomped on the head by man whom police say is schizophrenic has gone viral on the internet, according to a newspaper report.
Police in Luochuan county have detained the man, the Beijing Youth Daily reports. The video shocked internet users, but also prompted criticism of the care and oversight the man was receiving from the medical authorities in the area.
The short clip shows the toddler sweeping the ground outside a restaurant when the man walks towards him, knocks him down and stamps on his head 13 times, the report says.
The man then hits the boy's head 11 times with the broom and eight times with a dustpan until customers in the restaurant rush outside.
The customers said the boy was unconscious when they managed to stop the beating. The child was treated in hospital for a fractured skull and is said to be in a stable condition, according to the report.
The police said the 29-year-old man had been diagnosed at a local psychiatric hospital as schizophrenic, but was receiving treatment at home.
The hospital said the man seemed to be recovering when they last visited him in March.
The hospital said most families preferred to take care of patients at home and medical staff would visit people with severe mental illnesses four times a year to make sure they were stable. Many internet users accused the hospital of negligence.
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 14 May, 2015, 9:41am
UPDATED : Thursday, 14 May, 2015, 4:04pm
May 14: Premier calls for lower telecoms charges; police arrest 10 over killing of panda
SCMP online
China has close to 1.3 billion mobile phone users as of the end of last year. Photo: EPA
Politics & policies
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reiterated that telecommunications companies should lower mobile data and roaming fees. (People.cn)
China's health ministry said in a report that families following the one-child policy were better off than those who did not. (People.cn)
China will ensure that all key public areas are covered by video surveillance cameras by 2020 to fight crime and ensure social stability, the government said on Wednesday. (Reuters)
Security cameras are attached to pole in front of portrait of former Chinese Chairman Mao on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Photo: Reuters
Diplomacy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a three-day visit to China starting from today. He arrived in Xi'an, capital of in President Xi Jinping's ancestral home province of Shaanx this morning. (Xinhua)
Economy
Chinese banks issued 707.9 billion yuan (US$114 billion) worth of new yuan loans in April, down from 1.18 trillion yuan in March and below economists' expectations, data from the People's Bank of China showed. (MarketWatch)
Brazil’s top mortgage lender Caixa Econômica Federal, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC), will create a US$50 billion fund for Brazilian infrastructure investments, said sources from both governments. (Reuters)
Model of Comac C919 passenger plane is displayed at China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in China's Zhuhai. Photo: Reuters
The maiden flight of China’s only homegrown commercial jet, the Comac C919, is behind schedule and delivery could be pushed back as much as two years, sources familiar with the programme said, dealing a blow to its push to challenge Airbus and Boeing. (Reuters)
Tech
Wanda Group's Wang Jianlin and an investment firm founded by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's Jack Ma took part in a 800 million yuan ($129 million) funding round for a little-known sports entertainment company backed by local tech firm LeTV. (Reuters)
Dalian Wanda's Wang Jianlin (left) shakes hands with Jack Ma of Alibaba Group at a conference in Shenyang. Photo: Reuters
Asia’s second largest internet company Tencent’s revenue surged 40 per cent to 22.4 billion yuan (US$3.65 billion) in the first quarter ended March; The company said it might invest more to build up its WeChat messaging app mobile payment service should the opportunity arise. (Reuters)
A team from China's National Supercomputer Centre in Guangzhou has completed a simulation involving three trillion neutrinos and dark matter particles using the world's fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-2. (Xinhua)
Society
Part of the HK$28 million dollar ransom involved in the kidnapping case is exhibited at the press conference on Wednesday. Photo: qq.com
Guangdong provincial police have detained eight suspects in the kidnapping of Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law last month in Hong Kong and recovered part of the HK$28 million dollar ransom. The authorities said the case has been solved. Read full SCMP report
Ministry of Public Security said a probe has been launched into the fatal police shooting of an unarmed petitioner at a railway station in Heilongjiang province that has sparked public uproar. Read full SCMP report
Yunnan police arrest 10 residents suspected of killing a female panda and selling its flesh. (CCTV)
Police seized panda fur from the suspects in Yunnan over killing of a female panda. Photo: CCTV
PUBLISHED : Friday, 15 May, 2015, 10:23am
UPDATED : Friday, 15 May, 2015, 10:23am
May 15: State Council moves to cut bureaucracy; man arrested over baby stealing rumours
SCMP online
Supporters of the Chinese plaintiffs for the injuries caused by dumped chemical weapons of the Japanese forces in China during WWII, march in front of the Tokyo High Court. Photo: AFP
Politics
China's state council cancels non-administrative review process to cut red tape. (Xinhua)
Diplomacy and defence
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying urged Japan to speed up destruction of the abandoned chemical weapons in China as they remain a health and environmental threat. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
China said it opposed Japan's bid to list 23 coal mines, shipyards and other early industrial zones, many of which used forced labour from China and Korea during the World War II, as world heritage sites. (Ministry of Foregin Affairs)
Five were injured on Thursday in China’s Yunnan province when a bomb from Myanmar fell on Chinese territory. (The Beijing News)
Economy
China's money supply grew at its slowest pace on record and investment growth sank to its lowest in nearly 15 years as April data showed the world's second-largest economy was still losing momentum. (Reuters)
China's fiscal spending jumped 33.2 percent in April from a year earlier, data from the Ministry of Finance showed on Thursday, quickening sharply from the 4.4 percent rise seen in March and reflecting government efforts to support a slowing economy. (Reuters)
Society
Police in China's Hunan province dismissed a girl's claim that her father tried to poison her for insurance money, as a hospital examination showed she was in good health. (people.cn)
Shandong police detained a man for spreading rumours that a gang of 100 men were stealing babies to get human organs. (people.cn)
Around the nation: Chinese worker disguises himself as woman, sells sanitary pads in street to help leukemia-stricken wife
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 16 May, 2015, 11:57am
UPDATED : Saturday, 16 May, 2015, 11:57am
The victim before she was attacked by a spurned boy.
Payout for girl burned by son of officials
ANHUI - A girl who was set on fire and disfigured by a jilted schoolboy has won 1.72 million yuan (HK$2.2 million) in compensation, Anhuinews.com reports.
The parents of the boy, both senior provincial government officials, would have to pay the cash, Anhuinews.com said. Zhou Yan, who is now 20, was attacked four years ago by the boy.
They both studied at a school in Hefei and she had spurned the advances of the then 17-year-old boy, the report said.
He poured kerosene over her and set her alight. Her face was badly disfigured, according to the report. The boy was later jailed for 12 years.
The case caused a public outcry after it was revealed that the boy's parents threatened not to pay for the girl's medical treatment unless she signed a petition calling for their son's release.
The boy's father was the director of the audit bureau in the municipal administration office, according to other media reports.
Son surprises donors who helped father
BEIJING - Three years ago, a college student at Beijing University of Chemical Technology put a post online asking the public for help to pay for his father's treatment for leukaemia.
Xu Tao, who was 23 at the time, promised he would repay any donations after he graduated and had a job. Contributions poured in and soon reached more than 570,000 yuan.
Despite medical treatment, Xu's father died two years later, and many donors forgot about the incident, until Wednesday, when one put a posting online saying he was surprised to have received money from Xu.
According to the report, Xu started working in Beijing last year, earning about 5,000 yuan monthly and had repaid more than 10,000 yuan to donors.
Man learns ex-wife sapped bank account
SICHUAN - A woman in Dazhou has been sentenced to one year and nine months in prison by a local court for stealing about 50,000 yuan from her ex-husband's bank account, news website Newssc.org reports.
When the couple divorced in 2012, the man left with his debit card but forgot to take his deposit book.
He is a migrant worker and was depositing all that he earned into the bank account. But he had no idea that his ex-wife had used the deposit book to make withdrawals every time he deposited money.
He discovered what happened when he returned to the city and tried to withdraw some cash.
Man jailed for cutting up friend's corpse
CHONGQING - A man had been sentenced to four years in prison by the people's court of Qishan county for dismembering and trying to burn the body of his friend, news website Hsw.cn reports.
The friend died on December 1, 2013 after taking drugs at a local guest house that he had booked with the convicted man's ID card.
The man tried to cover up the incident and bought an axe to dismember the body. He was caught by police in a remote village where he tried to hide some of the corpse.
Private museums to drop entry charge
SHANGHAI - A total of 102 private museums will offer free admission on Monday to mark International Museum Day, news website Jfdaily.com reports.
Most of the museums will offer free access to exhibitions, others have prepared special programmes and some will extend their opening hours to 9pm.
Building plans have been cut down to size in Shenzhen.
Developer forced to halve building height
GUANGDONG - A property developer in Shenzhen has cut the height of a skyscraper it is building in the city's Qianhai free-trade zone by more than half to meet aviation safety requirements, news website Caixin.com reports.
The skyscraper was designed to be 320 metres high but will now reach just 153 metres.
The Qianhai Administration Bureau said the change was in response to orders issued by aviation authorities.
The expansion of urban areas on the mainland continues to pose problems for airspace management. The zone is about 15km from the busy Shenzhen Baoan International Airport.
Family blackmail plot reduced to ashes
ZHEJIANG - Two men were arrested by police in Wenzhou for stealing the ashes of a dead woman and blackmailing her family, news website Zjol.com.cn reports.
The men saw the family holding a funeral for the elderly woman at home on April 1 when they passed by.
They followed the family to the tomb where the woman's remains were placed.
A few days later, they pried it open and took away the ashes. They left a note for the family demanding 30,000 yuan. The police were notified and made the arrest.
'Woman hawker' turns out to be loving husband
XINJIANG - A migrant worker from Shaanxi province has raised money for his 25-year-old wife with leukaemia by pretending to be a woman selling women's sanitary pads on the street in Urumqi , news website Iyaxin.com reports.
The man, Yang Lin, said the family had spent all their savings since his wife, Zhao Hua, was diagnosed with the disease in February. He said he once saw a posting online that a father used the same method to raise money for his daughter who was ill.
Yang spent 60 yuan to buy a wig, 100 yuan for a dress and 80 yuan for 40 pads on Thursday morning.
After dressing up, he knelt on a footpath, and put a cardboard sign around his neck saying "Please help my wife with leukaemia".
He sold all 40 pads within four hours and raised more than 4,200 yuan in contributions.
The traffic warden is taken away by authorities after the attack.
Traffic warden hits jaywalker with hammer
SHANDONG - A traffic warden in Qingdao has been arrested after she hit a woman with a hammer for crossing a road when the light was red, a news website has reported.
People in the area said the warden had previously had several arguments with the woman, who often crossed the road during rush hour, ignoring traffic lights, the Thepaper.cn reported.
The attack happened at about 6pm on Tuesday.
The traffic warden shouted at the woman to stop crossing the street but was ignored. The warden then ran into the road and struck the woman on the head with a hammer, the report said.
After the attack, the woman shouted repeatedly at other passers-by: "I won't let you run the red light."
The victim survived the attack, according to the report.
