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Kindergarten teacher caught on camera 'kicking and beating' Beijing toddlers

“You all like this, right?" teacher is heard saying as she makes children scream in terror inside classroom

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 29 April, 2014, 11:21am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 29 April, 2014, 1:23pm

Keira Lu Huang [email protected]

A video still from Weibo shows the 27-year-old Liu allegedly kicking one of her students. Photo: Weibo

A 27-year-old kindergarten teacher was caught on camera allegedly beating and berating her students, prompting outraged parents to come forward with proof that their children were abused.

The incident is a latest in a series of kindergarten scandals in recent months, including physical assault by teachers and even the alleged "drugging" of children.

Dozens of parents, clutching doctors’ papers and pictures, gathered yesterday morning outside the Beijing school along Qingyuan Road, Chaoyang district, to demand an explanation and see security camera footage from the classroom, according to The Beijing News.

What they saw in the video shocked them.

In the footage, the teacher, surnamed Liu, was heard asking all 21 students, aged three to four, to stand in a corner of the restroom, which was not visible to the camera. Two boys were seen trying to run away, but a furious Liu caught them.

Then the children were heard screaming and Liu yelling, “You all like this, right? You all like this, right?” The children’s screaming lasted for about five minutes.

According to the parents, the teacher beat the children on the head, calves and back. Doctors who were asked to examine eight of the four-year-olds said the children had leg bruises and multiple soft-tissue injuries.

Ten minutes later, another security camera showed Liu bringing the children to the cafeteria, where she separated two students, who were not allowed to eat.

The rest of the class was apparently instructed to finish the food within five minutes. Noticing that one boy was slower to eat, Liu walked up to him and kicked his leg, shouting, “Can you learn from mistakes?” He quietly replied, “Yes.”

A parent shows a photo of a child's leg bruises, allegedly due to abuse from their kindergarten teacher. Photo: Weibo

Liu then walked on and kicked two more children.

The teacher was arrested yesterday and the education commission of Chaoyang district has formed a special team to investigate the matter.

Liu, who taught at the school for two years and was described as “responsible” by fellow teachers, admitted to the authorities that she started beating the students last April.

A father surnamed Ma told The Beijing News that he found bruises on his son’s legs on Friday evening when he was helping the child take a bath.

The boy was hesitant to say what happened, but eventually told Ma that Liu beat quite a few students each day and threatened them so that they kept their mouths shut.

“Since last October, I saw bruises on my son’s legs constantly,” said Ma. “My son has woken up crying several times at night, screaming, ‘Don’t hit me.’”

One parent said Liu saw the surveillance video and showed remorse. “After watching the video, she screamed, ‘I can’t believe I did this!’” said one parent. “She didn’t admit [it] in the first place. [She] said she just pushed and shoved them.”

Last month, a nursery school in Lanzhou was found to have given pupils antiviral medicine without their parents' knowledge in order to keep them strong and boost attendance. This and similar incidents have sparked a nationwide inspection into primary schools.

In Hong Kong, a photo of a kindergarten student with his hands tied together triggered a police investigation. And in 2012, two kindergarten teachers in Wenling, Zhejiang province, were detained after photos circulated online of a teacher lifting a little boy by his ears.

Later, the authorities discovered that the teacher, Yan Yanhong, had posted other photos of students being ill-treated. One photo showed a boy's mouth sealed with tape, with the caption "you deserve it". Another showed a boy upside down in a bin, with the caption "I threw him in".

 

[HighwayStar]

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[uglyloser]

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[Faker]

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[Midway]

Former lawmaker sentenced for child molestation

Xinhua, April 29, 2014

A former lawmaker in northwest China's Shaanxi Province has been sentenced to eight years in prison for molesting a teenage girl, a court announced on Tuesday.

Zhang Zhihong was caught having sexual relations with a middle school girl in a hotel in Weinan City on May 25, 2013 during a prostitution crackdown. At the time, Zhang was serving as deputy to the Weinan Municipal People's Congress, a local legislature. Zhang also serves as chairman of a local automobile sales company.

Zhang was detained by police on Aug. 17, 2013. He was given a sentence of eight years during the first trial by the Linwei District People's Court in January.

Zhang appealed after the ruling. The Weinan City Intermediate People's Court tried the appeal case on April 25. It rejected the appeal and upheld the original verdict and fined him 20,000 yuan (3,198 U.S. dollars).

Another four suspects involved in the case were sentenced to four to six years' imprisonment for organizing prostitution.

 

[Midway]

Chinese police bust major telecom fraud ring

Xinhua, April 29, 2014

A crime ring of nearly 500 suspects who allegedly sold fake base stations for telecom fraud has been busted in east China's Zhejiang Province, according to local police.

It was the largest case of this kind to be cracked since February, when the Ministry of Public Security launched a campaign to target crimes involving fake telecommunication base stations, said Luo Enbiao, a police officer at the Zhejiang provincial bureau of public security on Monday.

After a month-long investigation, local police busted the gang, whose members were scattered across 29 provinces and municipalities, dealing a heavy blow to telecom spam fraud, Luo said.

In mid-April, more than 90 suspects were caught at a location in Hangzhou City, where 113 fake base stations and 2,120 spare parts worth nearly 10 million yuan were seized, Luo said.

Luo said that fake base stations can be easily assembled with a computer, an emitter, an antenna, a phone, a storage battery and a power adapter. The equipment sends out a high power signal which forces all mobile users in an area to disconnect from their legitimate base stations and instead receive messages from the fake station.

These spam messages are often sent from fake phone numbers and disguised as communications from judicial or administrative enforcers or customer service departments of telecom operators and banks.

Official statistics showed that Chinese mobile users received 300 billion SMS spam messages spreading false advertisements and fraudulent information last year.

Since the Ministry of Public Security tightened its crackdown on similar crimes in February, police have detained a total of 1,530 suspects and closed 24 production sites for illegal base station equipment by late March.

 

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Chinese police nab 250 spammers

Xinhua, April 29, 2014

Chinese police have detained more than 250 people suspected of operating unlicensed telecommunication installations used to send spam to nearby mobile users.

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said on Tuesday eight manufacturing dens of such devices were destroyed in 16 major cases, with nearly 230 sets of equipment confiscated over a period of two months.

The campaign against fake base stations started in February and targeted installations that allow spam with fake phone numbers or disguised as official communications to be sent to nearby mobiles.

Chinese mobile users received over 300 billion pieces of SMS spam last year, based on analysis of 270 million complaints, according to a report of the People's Daily on April 12. Nearly 100 billion messages are fraud, gambling scams and promotions, according to the MPS.

According to Zhao Yimin, of the Shanghai police, fake base stations are a profitable business. One station makes about 120 yuan(19.2 U.S. dollars) per hour by sending 12,000 pieces of spam. The cost of a set of fake base station is between 14,000 yuan to 22,000 yuan, according to Zhao.

 

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Beijing police combats prostitution in rentals

Xinhua, April 29, 2014

Beijing police announced on Tuesday that a month of a campaign against illegal activities including prostitution in rentals has snared hundreds and punished rental owners.

The "clean community" campaign started in early April. A total of 144,400 rental houses have been checked and 401 law breakers, including 39 engaged in prostitution, detained, a statement by Beijing's Public Security Bureau reads.

According to the statement, Beijing police also found 16 pieces of combustible articles or explosives and 265 controlled knives in the campaign.

It says that 108 rental owners have been punished, noting rental owners should report tenants suspected of committing crimes to the police. Otherwise, the owners will be punished.

In 2013, Beijing police received more than 1,000 reports of prostitution in rentals, accounting for 25.2 percent of such cases in the city. The prostitution in rentals hampers greatly the safety and stability in the community, the statement reads.

 

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Police quiz teacher over hitting 21 kids

Shanghai Daily, April 30, 2014

A kindergarten teacher is being questioned by Beijing police after confessing to beating and terrorizing 21 children in her care.

On Monday, furious parents gathered at the Qingyuan Road kindergarten brandishing hospital reports of bruises their children had suffered.

On Monday, furious parents gathered at the Qingyuan Road kindergarten brandishing hospital reports of bruises their children had suffered.

The 27-year-old teacher, surnamed Liu, has admitted hitting, kicking and screaming at children over the past year, said Chaoyang District education officials.

On Monday, furious parents gathered at the Qingyuan Road kindergarten brandishing hospital reports of bruises their children had suffered.

Liu, who has worked at the kindergarten for two years, denied the accusations at first, saying she had just lightly pushed the children.

But when confronted with security camera footage of her mistreating her charges, Liu is reported to have said, "I can't believe that I have done all of that."

Liu's abuse was uncovered on Friday when a father, surnamed Ma, bathing his 4-year-old son quizzed the boy about bruises on his legs.

"From last October, my kid began having bruises on his body from time to time," Ma said.

The child said his teacher had kicked him, and Ma told other parents.

All Liu's students said they were beaten by their teacher and threatened by her not to tell anyone, the Beijing News reported.

Parents took their children to hospital for examinations and eight were found to have soft tissue injuries.

Some of the children have become timid and suffer nightmares, said parents.

"My son sometimes wakes up at midnight, screaming not to hurt him. My heart bleeds to see him frightened and unhappy," Ma said.

The kindergarten agreed to display the video footage captured by surveillance cameras.

It showed Liu ordering 4-year-olds to the toilets, which are not covered by cameras, followed by the sound of children crying.

The kindergarten principal and Liu will be fired, the newspaper said.

An official investigation into the case is ongoing, said officials.

 

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Accused killer of 7 has history of rage

E-mail China Daily, April 30, 2014

Lin Jianxin, a 37-year-old man who police said intentionally drove a car into pedestrians on Monday in Minhou county, Fujian province, killing 7 and injuring 12, is being labeled "the black sheep" of his hometown.

Lin is a resident of Dongyu village, located about 30 km from downtown Fuzhou.

When asked about the incident, Lin Shouye, a village resident, said the man's name has generated a negative buzz throughout the village.

"When you mention that name, eyebrows will be raised and complaints will pour out," he said.

Lin Shouye described the suspect as a hooligan and said that in the past Lin Jianxin broke nearly every street light and light bulb in the village's public toilets. He said Lin Jianxin has smashed products in stores in fits of rage.

Lin Shouye said Lin Jianxin once bought a duck in the village and asked the vendor to pluck out the feathers. After the plucking was completed, he refused to pay the vendor because he insisted that it was not done perfectly.

"He just wanted to bully the seller," Lin Shouye said.

Village police did not corroborate Lin Shouye's accounts.

Village head Chen Jiangqiu said Lin Jianxin's father died five years ago and that last year his mother went to the United States to live with his two sisters, who run a restaurant in the states.

"Lin had an issue with his wife and was involved in a divorce case. He used to scold his wife and they have lived separately for a long time," Chen said.

The village head said Lin is unemployed and often receives money from his sisters.

Village resident Lin Hongxi called Lin Jianxin "a hopeless guy without discipline".

"Lin is not rich and the car he used to run over pedestrians was rented," he added.

Lin Hongxi accused the driver, who is currently in police custody, of not wanting to work.

"He once went to a nearby temple to ask the monks for the money that people spent on incenses," Lin Hongxi said.

"He also called his mother names when she didn't give him money," Lin Hongxi said.

A China Youth Daily report on Tuesday quoted Lin's mother-in-law as saying that Lin is a cantankerous person and once cut off his own pinkie finger during a quarrel with his wife.

Lin Jianxin's mother-in-law and wife could not be reached by China Daily as of press time.

The fatal incident happened in Minhou county of Fuzhou on Monday after Lin Jianxin attended a divorce hearing in the morning.

A court worker who declined to be named said Lin's behavior was normal in court on Monday and that he left the court peacefully. A verdict into his divorce case has not been decided.

The injured victims are currently receiving treatments in two local hospitals in Fuzhou.

 

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Convicted drug dealer caught getting high with minor

Global Times Published: 2014-4-29 22:28:01

A one-time drug dealer has been sentenced to eight months in prison in Songjiang district for inviting two people, including one minor, to her home to get high, local prosecutors said Tuesday.

The defendant, surnamed Qiu, from Heilongjiang Province, was charged in district court with hosting others to take drugs, according to a press release from the Songjiang People's Prosecutor's Office.

In 2005, Qiu was sentenced to 10 months in prison for selling drugs, prosecutors said. After getting out of prison, she got a job in Shanghai as a factory worker. Over the next few years, she stayed clean, married a man from Anhui Province and had a daughter.

In 2009, Qiu and her husband quit their jobs to open an employment agency to serve the influx of migrant workers to the city.

Although the business was successful, Qiu's husband got busier and busier. Sometimes, the couple fought over trivialities, prosecutors said.

Last November, Qiu was arrested for drug possession. Prosecutors said she met several recovering drug addicts at her agency.

Several days later, Qiu invited two people, including a 17-year-old, over to her home while her husband was away. Prosecutors said the three used illegal drugs together, but did not disclose which ones.

Qiu's husband discovered the three high on drugs when he returned the following morning. He called the police.

 

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Rich-poor gap widens: study

By Yang Jingjie Global Times Published: 2014-4-30 0:58:02

A new study by American scholars suggests that income inequality in China has surpassed that in the US by a large margin and is among the highest in the world.

Although the government has shown it is serious in dealing with the issue, observers warn that the severe inequality is undermining China's economic development and risks triggering more social unrest.

Xie Yu and Zhou Xiang, two scholars from the University of Michigan in the US, calculated China's Gini coefficient, a gauge of income gap, based on surveys conducted by five universities in China. According to their paper, China's income inequality since 2005 has reached very high levels, with the Gini coefficient in the range of 0.53-0.55. In 2010, China's Gini coefficient was about 0.55, while the figure in the US was 0.45.

A reading above 0.4 usually marks strong inequality, which could be an indicator of social unrest.

However, China's official Gini coefficient was 0.481 in 2010, already higher than the US level, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

A study by the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, put the Gini coefficient for family income in 2010 at 0.61.

Li Shi, director of the Institute for Income Distribution and Poverty Studies at Beijing Normal University, told the Global Times that most experts agree that China's Gini coefficient is about 0.5.

Experts say while Africa and Latin America have the highest level of income disparity, China's Gini coefficient is among the highest in Asia.

Economists believe severe income inequality is taking a toll on the Chinese economy, which has been experiencing slower growth.

Wang Xiaolu, an economist at the Beijing-based China Reform Foundation, told news portal sina.com in January that data in the past three decades showed that whenever the Gini coefficient rises by 0.01 point, the savings rate climbs by 0.76 percentage points.

Zhuang Jian, an economist at the Asian Development Bank, told the Global Times that the income disparity goes against China's efforts to shift its economic growth model to a consumption-driven one.

"The rich use the majority of their wealth for investment, and only a limited proportion for consumption. This is not conducive to the expansion of consumption if a large amount of wealth is in the hands of only a small number of people," Zhuang said.

A 2010 World Bank report said that China's richest 1 percent of households retain 41.4 percent of the national wealth.

The severe disparity has been triggering social instability, a challenge that governments at various levels have devoted enormous resources to contain.

In recent years, the country has seen a wave of strikes, mostly due to workers becoming aware of disparity. In the latest case, a strike broke out at a shoe factory in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, later spreading to another plant in neighboring Jiangxi Province, after workers complained they had not been provided with adequate social security benefits.

Although people may have a variety of outward reasons why they are staging mass protests, income inequality is a major motivation behind their behavior, said Li.

"Widening income inequality will bring down people's approval of society. Therefore, if there is a specific incident, people will be more prone to take to the streets," he said.

The US study attributed the severe inequality to the rural-urban gap and regional disparities.

Du Xiaoshan, an economist at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the government has already been tackling the situation by stressing a strategy of integrated development of rural and urban areas.

Du told the Global Times that it has already seen some initial results, as the ratio of rural-urban income narrowed to 1:3.03 in 2013 in comparison to 2009's ratio of 1:3.33.

The official readings for the Gini coefficient also witnessed a mild decline in the past five years, according to data from the NBS.

Last year, the central government released a reform scheme for income distribution. However, specific rules are yet to be unveiled.

Zhuang noted that while the role of redistribution was stressed in the past, measures to ensure equality in the primary distribution of national income should be given equal importance.

Du shared a similar sentiment, noting that income distribution was tilted toward the owners of capital, not workers.

"Laborers' income should no longer be kept low, and the market shouldn't stress efficiency over equality," he said.

At a time of growing public discontent toward the huge wealth held by China's elite, the central government has stepped up its anti-corruption campaign.

Li said that at the same time as they reform the income distribution regime, authorities should distinguish those who earn their income through legal means and those who accumulate corrupt wealth.

To deal with the latter group, Li noted that this will require further political reform.

 

[Oishi]

Rich poor gap widens

Isn't the situation similar in sinkieland?

 

[Midway]

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[Jar Jar Binks]

Photography contest launched to catch mainlanders in the act

Netizens say competition is in response to call for visitors to ‘pee and poop in Hong Kong’s streets’

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 01 May, 2014, 2:31pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 01 May, 2014, 6:40pm

Lo Wei [email protected]

Netizens launched a photography contest yesterday in response for a call to mainlanders to "pee and poop in Hong Kong's streets". Photo: Felix Wong

A group of netizens today launched a photography competition to capture mainlanders excreting in public in Hong Kong as large numbers of visitors are expected at the start of the “golden week” holiday.

Event organiser Leung Kam-shing and about six other netizens announced the launch in Mong Kok pedestrian zone.

“We are doing this in response to mainland netizens’ calling on mainlanders to come and pee and poop in Hong Kong’s streets,” Leung said.

He added that participants should persuade offenders against the unhygienic behavior before taking photos or videos. Over 800 people have already clicked “attend” in the event on Facebook.

During today’s announcement a quarrel broke out between a mainland man and the netizens. They were soon separated by police.

One mainland tourist, a mother, said it is understandable that children needed relief urgently and cannot control themselves.

“I’m sure they must be in very urgent situations when they do that, but they could have found a more discreet place,” said Pan Lingling, 31, from Zhejiang, who is on holiday in Hong Kong with her two-year-old daughter.

A row has grown after a video and images of the toddler urinating on busy Mong Kok street appeared on social media last week. The images have drawn millions of comments and reposts on Weibo alone, while heated debate raging on both Facebook and Twitter.

The images are seen as the latest example of the culture clash between Hong Kong people and the flood of mainland visitors that has triggered anti-mainlander protests.

After the images went viral, an online campaign was launched to urge mainland parents to take their children to Hong Kong and let them urinate in the streets to familiarise the locals with “natural” functions.

A commentary in the overseas edition of People’s Daily questioned whether the bystanders who captured the boy’s act on camera had acted properly, while saying there was a need for “mutual civilisation and understanding” between tourists and Hongkongers.

This week, Commerce Secretary Greg So Kam-leung urged Hongkongers to teach mainlanders manners instead of pointing accusatory fingers at them.

In an article carried by seven Chinese-language newspapers, So clarified remarks he made earlier that urged Hongkongers to “make allowances” for such behaviour.

So said he was not asking residents to do nothing about visitors’ behaviour, but to show respect and help to educate them.“People should be understanding. I certainly don’t agree with urinating in the streets,” So wrote. “It’s not that we should put up with what’s wrong, but that we must deal with it rationally.”

 

[Jar Jar Binks]

Chinese tourists smash up resort office after bugs fail to appear in fireflies display

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 01 May, 2014, 2:53pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 01 May, 2014, 9:57pm

Mimi Lau in Guangzhou [email protected]

A man tries to smash a window at the tourism office of Xiang Lake in Hangzhou. Photo: Weibo

What was promised as a romantic evening display under the glittering lights of 30,000 fireflies by a scenic Zhejiang lake resort turned into hours of staring at the blank night sky.

This prompted a mob of angry tourists to march on the resort's management office and smash the doors and windows when they couldn’t get a refund.

The nearly 10,000 tourists had paid 30 yuan (HK$38) to see the fireflies show – some paid up to 180 yuan for scalped tickets – for opening night at the Xiang Lake plaza in Hangzhou city.

A woman kicks down what appear to be lockers for tourists at Xiang Lake. Photo: Weibo

But after the scheduled 7.30pm start, the insects were nowhere to be seen, China News Service reported today.

After two hours of waiting, the tourists surrounded the lake management office in Xiaoshan district, demanding refunds and an explanation. They got more upset when the organisers provided neither.

Another tourist tries to smash a window at the tourism office of Xiang Lake in Hangzhou. Photo: Weibo

Witnesses said some people began vandalising nearby exhibition facilities, according to China News Service. Pictures from the scene showed people smashing windows and kicking down the doors of what appeared to be lockers for tourists.

The low temperatures in Xiaoshan were likely a factor in the absence of the fireflies, which emit beams of light from their abdomen to attract mates and “flash” more in warmer weather. It was expected to be below 20 degrees Celsius over the next six evenings.

A broken window at the scene. Photo: Weibo

A tourist at the scene posted a message on Weibo criticising the event organisers for failing to return the audience’s money, some of whom came from faraway provinces just to see the show.

“We can live with the fact that no insects showed up, due to [the cold], but the organiser should have stopped selling tickets and offered us a refund,” the tourist said.

According to a report today from Dushi Kuaibao, a tabloid owned by Hangzhou Daily Press Group, the event organiser has decided to cancel the firefly show and visitors can claim refunds in the next 10 days.

The mob flocked to the tourism office to demand a refund. Photo: Weibo

The fireflies display was slated to run during the golden week holiday from yesterday to May 3. Local police said they were investigating the vandalism.

Wild fireflies had been spotted late at night in July and August at parks and in rural areas where there were rarely crowds.

When the event in Xiaoshan was announced before the holiday, mainland netizens had criticised it, saying it was “cruel” to bring 30,000 fireflies on a 10-hour journey from a Jiangxi farm to Xiaoshan Lake.

Some said releasing the bugs into a strange environment would kill them as they are sensitive to temperature, noise and light.

Thousands of fireflies were promised at a golden week exhibition at Xiang Lake in Hangzhou city. Photo: ArgusPhoto

Adult fireflies have a notoriously short life span, living for three to five days (long enough to mate and lay eggs) depending on the species or up to two months in the wild.

Last July, a forest park in Hunan province released 15,000 fireflies but the insects were deterred by the crowds’ noise and camera flashes, which also nearly caused chaos among disappointed tourists.

The same month, Qingdao’s Zhongshan Park also released 10,000 fireflies but more than half of the insects died after three days.

 

[SpaceTruckin]

Come on, come on, come on.. let's go space truckin

 

[TellMeWhy]

Canary in a coalmine.