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3 arrested in animal parts investigation

Xinhua, September 12, 2015

Three people detained by police in southwest China’s Yunnan Province are facing charges in connection with the smuggling of products made from protected animals, police said on Sept. 10.

Acting on tip-offs from the public, the Mangshi forest police found that the suspects were owners of a shop selling wood carvings. After a three-week investigation, a woman surnamed Huang, her son and nephew were arrested .

A total of 219 tiger bones, rhino horns, ivory products and African lion paws were seized. Their combined value, according to police, exceeded 1.39 million yuan (US$ 218,000).

“I have worked 20 years in the police, and I’ve never seen such a large quantity of trafficked wildlife parts. Some are made from endangered animals,” said Hu Jiaguo, deputy director of the Mangshi forest police bureau.

Police said they believed the parts and products had been smuggled from other countries to sell to Chinese buyers. A further investigation is underway.

Smuggling parts of protected wild life can result in a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

 

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Guards fired after fraudster ran scam from jail cell

Shanghai Daily, September 12, 2015

Two prison guards in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province, have been suspended after a convicted fraudster ran a multi-million yuan scam from his cell.

An investigation found that Zhu Bingjia managed to acquire a smartphone from two temporary guards despite a ban on mobile phones, Caijing magazine reported yesterday.

The two temporary workers, whose names were not released, have been dismissed, said Yang Qisheng, deputy inspection chief with Shandong Judicial Department.

A number of other prison guards have been suspended, added Yang.

Investigators said Zhu used the WeChat and Momo messaging apps to befriend people living near the jail, inventing a military background to gain their trust.

Zhu is said to have convinced his new friends that he never lost predicting results in China’s national football lottery, promising daily returns of 10 percent if they “invested” in his scheme.

Such high returns are said to have enticed a number to put up cash, with one woman, also surnamed Zhu, claiming that she lost more than 1 million yuan (US$156,900) in his scheme.

On December 16 last year — after being in contact with Zhu for two days — she transferred 50,000 yuan to a designated bank account.

The next day, Zhu proved true to his word and she received 5,000 yuan as promised, reported the magazine.

Believing Zhu to be honest, the woman said that in February she transferred a further 1.4 million yuan — including 500,000 yuan raised through mortgaging her house.

However, the following month she learned that Zhu was a convicted fraudster running his “business” from a prison cell and informed police.

She said that 1 million yuan of her money remains missing.

Investigations are continuing, said police.

According to Caijing, Zhu was sentenced to 10 years in prison for credit card fraud and has served half his term.

 

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Wang Jianlin, Chinese billionaire and chairman of Wanda Group, purchased a well-known architectural landmark in Madrid known as Edificio Espana in 2014, and is now taking heat from locals for his plans to demolish the building.

Wang and Wanda Group plan to demolish the 25-story building and reconstruct it. More than 70,000 in Madrid have petitioned the government, expressing their strong opposition to Wang’s plan.

Madrid local Jose Villalobos organized a large public protest against the demolition on September 9.

Villalobos stated that the Spanish building is an important part of the collective memory of the local people, and the whole of Spain.

Even if Wang Jianlin reconstructs the building to look the same after demolition, it will lose its historical value.

 

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Chinese woman accused of dressing up as nurse and stealing newborn baby

PUBLISHED : Monday, 14 September, 2015, 11:26am
UPDATED : Monday, 14 September, 2015, 11:26am

Li Jing
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Surveillance footage allegedly showing the women taking the baby. Photo: Gucheng.com

A woman who allegedly dressed up as a nurse and stole a newborn baby at a hospital in eastern China has been arrested.

The woman had a miscarriage in May, but pretended to her family that she was still pregnant and came up with the plan to cover up for the loss of her own child, state broadcaster CCTV said.

Zhao Juan sneaked into the hospital in Huaian in Jiangsu province last month, according to the report.

She was disguised as a nurse and took the baby boy while his mother was asleep, the report said.

She brought the baby home and called an ambulance, telling medical staff she had delivered the child at home.

Her plan quickly unraveled after she was taken to the same hospital where she had stolen the baby, the report said.

The stolen baby is returned to his family. Photo: CCTV

Doctors became suspicious when checkups revealed she had not just given birth.

At the same time the newborn baby’s real mother had reported him missing to the police.

Police arrested Zhao after checking surveillance video taken at the hospital.

DNA tests confirmed the baby was not hers.

 

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Chinese official warns SOE reformers against following in Singapore's Temasek footsteps

Sasac official says the city state's approach does not comply with China's reform direction

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 15 September, 2015, 11:28pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 15 September, 2015, 11:40pm

Verna Yu
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Temasek Holdings in Singapore. Photo: AFP

As government agencies jockey for power in the overhaul of state firms, one senior official has spoken out against following in Singapore's footsteps, saying the Temasek model goes against the spirit of marketisation.

In an online commentary on Tencent Finance, Peng Jianguo, deputy chief of the research centre of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission - which oversees SOEs - wrote that the Singaporean model of setting up a government-owned investment company would not work in China.

He said the Temasek model "does not conform with China's reform direction".

The sole shareholder of Singapore's state investment firm, Temasek, is the city state's Ministry of Finance.

Sources in the decision-making process said earlier that when the shake-up of mainland state firms was complete, two new sets of companies would operate in much the same way as Temasek by channelling funds to SOEs and pressuring them to turn a profit.

Peng Jianguo

But Peng said China's state economy was much bigger than Singapore's and state firms must be supervised by a state-asset investor rather than a government department. "We must not take a U-turn on reform," he wrote.

Peng said that after the reforms central government-owned conglomerates could be grouped into three categories: not-for-profit companies could remain the same; commercial firms with national security or strategic importance could be restructured into state-owned capital investment companies; and commercial enterprises could become state-owned capital operating companies.

All three could stay under the management of a state-assets supervision body, he said.

A separate article on Tencent Finance quoted anonymous sources as saying the Finance Ministry wanted to adopt the Temasek model and be in charge of all state-owned assets but Sasac was vying for the same role as the investor of state assets.

Beijing on Sunday detailed plans to reform SOEs, including the introduction of "mixed ownership" by bringing in private investment to revive inefficient state firms. At a Communist Party top reform steering group meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping yesterday, political leaders agreed that more private capital should be injected into state-owned enterprises.

 

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Torture claim could protect China's 'top fugitive' from deportation

Staff Reporter 2015-10-07 15:09

Yang Xiuzhu in 2002. (Photo/Xinhua)

China's "most wanted fugitive," Yang Xiuzhu, has failed in her bid for political asylum in the United States but may be spared deportation back to China on the grounds that she could be subjected to torture, reports the Hong Kong-based Oriental Daily News.

Yang, a former deputy mayor of the city of Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province who sits atop a Chinese list of 100 corruption suspects believed to be abroad and subject to an Interpol "red notice," had her application for political asylum denied by a court in New York on Sept. 28.

The court stated, however, that it is leaning towards allowing her to remain in the United States rather than being deported back to China under the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which was ratified into US law in October 1998. A final ruling will be made following further background investigations.

If Yang is found to be under the protection of the UN convention, she will not be able to apply for a green card or travel outside of the United States but can remain and work in the country.

Yang, 69, fled China for Singapore in 2003 after being accused of embezzling over US$40 million. She later changed her name and flew to New York, before being detained in Amsterdam in 2005. Despite protracted negotiations, China was unable to gain custody, allowing her to escape again. She was detained in the US last year after trying to enter the country with a fake Dutch passport. She applied for political asylum in June.

Yang has long claimed political motivations for the graft accusations against her. It has been said that she once offended the top Communist Party leadership after denying a request for 500 acres of land from one of the sons of then-president and party chief Jiang Zemin.

 

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August 17: Internet censorship restrains Tianjin blast discussion; China warned over secret operations in US

China In 3 Minutes is your daily fix of the big news from China from the scmp.com team.

A total of 112 bodies have been found and 95 people remained missing after the explosion north China's Tianjin Municipality. Photo: Xinhua

Politics and policy

The Chinese government has ramped up internet censorship on the nation's social media and websites following the warehouse explosion in Tianjin last week to ensure online discussion stays within approved confines. (The Wall Street Journal)

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the Tianjin blast scene on Sunday, pledging a thorough investigation and promising compensation and honours to all the firefighters killed in the incident regardless of whether they were official firefighters or contract counterparts. (Xinhua)

Wei Jianxing, a former senior communist party official who oversaw the party's top anti-corruption agency between 1992 and 2002 was cremated on Sunday and all seven top incumbent senior communist party officials attended the ceremony. (Beijing Times)

A report by the Ministry of Environment Protection showed that the average PM 2.5 air pollution concentration in the 74 biggest Chinese cities dropped by 17.1 per cent in the first half of this year from a year earlier. (People's Daily)

Diplomacy

China has been warned by Washington about the presence of Chinese government agents operating secretly in the United States to pressure prominent expatriates, including those wanted on charges of corruption, to return home, according to American officials. (New York Times)

A commentary by the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party of China blasted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's speech marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two last week as lacking sincerity in its apology for Japan’s atrocities during the war. (People's Daily)

Economy and business

As Beijing steps up efforts to boost China’s slowing economy, more companies are using the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model to obtain additional funding for related projects. (China Securities Journal)

China Vanke, the world’s largest residential-property developer by revenue, reported its net profit rose 0.8 per cent to 4.85 billion yuan (US$759 million) in the first half of 2015 following looser regulatory limits on home purchases and more-accommodative monetary policy. (The Wall Street Journal)

Society

At least seven people have died and 57 remain missing more than four days after a landslide buried the living quarters of a vanadium mining company in northwest China's Shaanxi province. (AFP)

 

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Guangdong plans to tackle online prostitution

China Daily, December 4, 2015

A hostel in a former read-light district in Dongguan, Guangdong province. [File photo]

The police will set up a special task force to investigate and squelch the online promotion of prostitution, which has been expanding via social media in the Pearl River Delta cities of Guangdong province.

"After great efforts by law enforcement bodies to fight prostitution in local entertainment venues in past months, many organizers and operators now publish advertisements in QQ chat rooms, on WeChat, through mobile phone message texts and other instant messaging services," said Peng Hui, deputy director-general of the Guangdong Department of Public Security.

The new digital methods being used to lure customers in the prosperous province have "created many difficulties for the police", Peng said at a news conference in Guangzhou on Thursday. "Therefore, effective and concrete measures should soon be taken to fight this sort of crime."

Every city in the province also should set up a special online task force to expand both open and secret investigations of prostitution and gambling. In addition, the police should further expand their cooperation with banks, telecommunication companies, government departments or other organizations to take down the activities, which pose a threat to residents' normal lives, he said.

Peng said a special campaign, dubbed Net Oriole, was created last month to target gambling and the promotion of prostitution online. The 100-day campaign targets organizers and operators, gang heads and key gang members, bankers and anyone who profits from prostitution and gambling, he said.

Winter, including the traditional Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, is usually the peak period for online prostitution and gambling in Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, Peng said.

He urged residents to tip police to such illegal activities and promised to reward tipsters who provide information that enables police to crack down on such activities.

Chen Yingqi, a white-collar worker in Guangzhou, supported the police effort.

"The online prostitution advertisements have become rampant," Chen said.

In the first 11 months of this year, police across Guangdong detained 119,710 suspects and cracked 53,529 cases involving prostitution and gambling.

Shenzhen police detained 103 suspects after busting a gang that organized prostitution via the Internet in March. The suspects were from 28 provinces, municipalities and regions across the mainland. In Zhongshan city, 24 suspects were detained in a similar case in May, the police said.

 

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Two volunteers for an environmental NGO investigating industrial pollution and wetland destruction caused by Ni Hejin Industrial Park in Ningde were arrested for “suspected prostitution” by local police yesterday. Local police announced that the two were released this morning.

NGO staff received a text at 8 am this morning from one of the volunteers, a woman named Tian. The text said, “Please report that we are safe. The police took us to the train station. Will be in touch.”

Xu, a male, volunteered at Ziran Daxue, and Tian was a volunteer for Tianjin Luling. Both companies are environmental NGOs.

Xu and Tian, were arrested yesterday around 5:30 pm in Ningde, Fujian and were charged with “suspected prostitution.” When NGO staff members called the local police to try to get the two volunteers released they asked how police knew the two were involved in prostitution. The police answered that “they just knew.”

“Before his arrest, Xu had been investigating Ningde’s Ni Hejin (Nickel Alloy) Industrial Park’s pollution and effect on the surrounding wetlands. The organization has been looking into this since early 2015, and we will continue our research,” said Zhu Qing, a representative of the environmental organization.

“On December 1, Xu and Tian took a trip to Fujian to find out the true conditions at the industrial park. On December 2, they figured out during their research that the factory had recorded Tian’s ID number. The next day they were arrested by police,” said Zhu.

Zhu said that Xu had been researching the pollution levels of Ningde’s nickel industry since May of this year, and has been classified as a “person of interest,” in the city. Therefore, Xu did not use his ID when checking into the hotel, the two used Tian’s instead and stayed in the same room.

“Xu has been researching this place for almost seven months. Before, he had rented an apartment in Ningde. He planned to follow up on earlier research but his landlord kicked him out because of ‘pressure,” said Zhu.

Xu was repeatedly blocked during his investigation. He and a local volunteer were once followed when driving around the city. They said it seemed like the car was trying to hit them. A drone given to the local volunteer from the organization as a gift was also confiscated.

 

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10 jailed in Husi rotten meat scandal

CRI, February 2, 2016

The courts in China have handed down jail sentences to those involved in the 2014 tainted-meat scandal in Shanghai.

A total of 10 people connected to Husi's parent company, OSI, as well as a number of employees of its subsidiaries in Shanghai and Hebei, have been hit with fines and jail terms of up to three years.

The longest jail term has been handed to Yang Liqun, an Australian national.

The General Manager of Husi's processing department in China has been sentenced to three years behind bars.

He, along with a number of others, have also been hit with fines.

OSI group, based out of Chicago, says it plans to appeal.

A broadcast report in the summer of 2014 determined Shanghai Husi's meat processing operations were selling outdated meat products to its customers, which included companies under the Yum! Brand umbrella.

These included McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut, among others.

The scandal shook the fast-food industry in China, and cost the companies millions of dollars in lost revenues.

 

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Police to combat bad guides, fraud

China Daily, February 2, 2016

Five new police units will be formed in Southwest China's Yunnan province to combat fraudsters, con artists and other criminals targeting tourists.

The teams will be tasked with providing security cover in cities and towns such as Dali, Kunming and Lijiang, as well as receiving complaints from the public about fraud, unlicensed guides and ticket scalpers.

It is hoped the move will bring some order to the province's often chaotic tourism market and follows the release of a three-minute video that was widely circulated on social media, showing a tour guide in Xishuangbanna venting her frustrations about the lack of spending in scenic spots.

The unnamed woman branded nearby tourists "miserly" and said they should be "ashamed" for not spending more money, before threatening to prevent their departure if they told anyone about her behavior.

Wen Shuqiong, deputy director of the Yunnan Tourism Development and Reform Commission, said Yunnan had introduced a number of measures "to protect tourists' rights in the past year, such as limiting shopping time to under 90 minutes per day".

In fact, forced shopping was one of the reasons why China's first tourist police unit was established in Sanya, Hainan - another city plagued by rude tour guides and overpriced food.

So far, tourist police in Sanya have investigated 81 public security cases, detained 86 people and detected 1 criminal case.

"Tourist police have the right to enforce the law. The process of dealing with tourists' complaints has been streamlined and those who want to make illegal profits by setting traps for unsuspecting tourists have been effectively frightened off," said Yue Jin, vice-mayor of Sanya.

Li Jinzao, director of the China National Tourism Administration, said it was important to protect the rights of tourists and ensure they do not fall victim to criminals.

"Many places in China have invested huge amounts of money into marketing and advertising to attract tourists," he said. "This is important, but a scandal could ruin all the good effort that has been put in, especially if the local tourism market is not orderly."

Providing a better environment for tourists requires the local government to adjust its way of managing the sector, Li said.

"We used to focus on scenic spots. However, tourists do not stay in one spot forever. In order to regulate the tourism market, the local government needs to to get out of this 'scenic spot' way of thinking and regulate the whole city's public order."

 

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China bans over 200 illegal websites

Source: Xinhua-Global Times Published: 2016-2-5 0:53:02

China's Internet watchdog said Thursday it banned hundreds of websites and thousands of accounts with illegal content including pornography, gambling and terrorism.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it has closed down more than 200 illegal websites and some 6,000 accounts from various social media platforms.

The banned websites included a platform for illegally trading firearms, some that fabricated rumors or distorted history, and those engaged in illegal recruitment of students with foreign education or fake degree certificates.

The CAC also banned user accounts fabricating information about the stock and property markets and those containing pornographic content or promoting the Nazi ideology.

The closed accounts came from Sina Weibo, Baidu Tieba community, Tencent QQ and WeChat platforms.

The CAC asked the public to inform them about illegal content and promised to reward those who provided useful tip-offs. As Spring Festival approaches, rumors about food safety, public health and transportation are on the rise.

 

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China to crackdown against illegal fund-raising

Source: Xinhua Published: 2016-2-5 9:21:50

China will take strict precautions and hard actions against illegal fund-raising, the central government said, after an online peer-to-peer platform was found to swindle investors out of billions of dollars.

It is an important guarantee for economic stability and social harmony to prevent the happening of such cases and properly deal with the aftermath, said the document released by the State Council, China's cabinet, on Thursday.

Related agencies and local governments should pay high attention and strengthen their efforts to crack down on illegal fund-raising in a bid to protect people's interests and fend off systemic risks, according to the document.

A long-term prevention mechanism should be established, the document said.

The document was released to the public after police found online P2P broker Ezubao cheated about 900,000 investors out of more than 50 billion yuan (7.6 billion US dollars) by fake investment projects. An executive from the parent company has admitted it was nothing but a Ponzi scheme.

Ezubao is not an isolated case in China. Given rising financing difficulties amid a slowing economy, P2P lending platforms mushroomed across the country and have attracted numerous individual investors with high returns.

By the end of November, there were more than 2,600 such brokers nationwide which have raised a total of 400 billion yuan, around 30 percent of which were found with violations and problems in their operation, official data showed.

Facing spreading risk, China set up a ministerial joint conference mechanism to gather strength and rein in the rampant sector.

Yang Yuzhu, office head of the conference, said supervisors will make joint efforts to take strong measures against illegal fund-raising and make sure no supervision vacuum occurs.

China will improve financial services, guide informal finance and eliminate the root of illegal fund-raising, the document said.

 

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Empty Shanghai streets

Source: IC Published: 2016-2-6 1:23:01

A man looks at an empty street from an overpass in Shanghai on Friday. As many migrants returned home before the week-long Spring Festival holidays that start on Sunday, metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai are less crowded and have better traffic during the holiday. Photo: IC

 

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New human H7N9 case reported in central China

Source: Xinhua Published: 2016-2-4 23:39:32

A new human H7N9 avian flu case was reported in central China's Hunan Province Thursday, bringing the total number of cases to five, local authorities said.

A 48-year-old man surnamed Xie died Thursday at a hospital in Yongzhou City, the provincial health and family planning commission said in a press release.

Xie, a native of Lingling District in Yongzhou, sought medication Wednesday and was diagnosed of human H7N9 avian flu. The immediate cause of his death was liver and kidney failures, the document said.

But it did not say how Xie contracted the illness.

Hunan Province has reported five cases of human H7N9 avian flu since the beginning of this year. Two of the patients have died and the other three are still receiving treatment, the document said.

Sporadic human H7N9 cases have been reported in Shanghai, Guangdong and Fujian.

H7N9 is a bird flu strain first reported to have infected humans in March 2013 in China. It is most likely to strike in winter and spring.

 

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Man detained for shooting at noisy dancing grannies

Xinhua, March 11, 2016

A Chinese man was detained for shooting and injuring a woman in an angry protest against loud public "square dance" music.

Group dancing in public spaces is popular among middle-aged and elderly Chinese women. However, the dancing and accompanying music often trigger complaints, and sometimes even violent reactions, from nearby residents.

The man from Yangshuo County, in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said he was upset by the noisy group of women dancing near his house, who mocked him when they turned down his request to quiet down.

Outraged, the man fired three shots with an air rifle on the evening of March 3. He told police he was aiming at the stereo speaker but accidentally shot a woman who was operating the machine in the leg.

He was detained for endangering public safety, according to the public security bureau of Yangshuo. He may also face charges for owning firearms, which are strictly banned in China.

Reports of violent confrontations between public dancers and residents have been on the rise in China in recent years. In 2014, a man in Beijing was so annoyed by a group of dancing women that he fired a shotgun in the air and unleashed three Tibetan mastiffs to scare them away.

 

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Pedophile teacher sentenced to 10 years

Xinhua, March 10, 2016

A primary teacher has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a court in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for the sexual assault of several girls under his care.

Fangchenggang Intermediate People's Court upheld the verdict of the first trial held last year, sentencing the teacher, Su, to 10 years' imprisonment for abusing several girls in his class at a city primary school from Oct. 2014 to Jan. 2015. The defendant had appealed on grounds of lack of intent.

The court rejected his appeal, saying the sentence was fair and based on sufficient evidence.

Cases of child sexual abuse by teachers have become increasingly commonly reported in China. The All-China Women's Federation has called for changes to laws and regulations on child protection help vulnerable minors. The federation also wants educational institutions to teach children to recognize, avoid and report sexual assaults.

According to the Foundation of China Culture and Arts for Children, only 300 cases of child sexual abuse were reported in 2015. Assailants in 70 percent of reported cases were known to their victims, suggesting a strong need to make children aware of the danger and to learn how to protect themselves.