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Leaked questions land exam writer in jailPosted by Eric Mu on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 3:10 PM
 Beijing Times December 18, 2008 The designer of a certification exam was sentenced for a year and half for "deliberately leaking state secrets," today's Beijing Times reports. Song Fulai, a 55-year-old chief engineer at Beijing's Yicheng Municipal Engineering Company, took part in the design of the 2005 and 2006 National Construction Engineer Qualification Exam. The court found that Song released exam questions to students in a study session he conducted in 2006 and was paid a total of 63,000 yuan. A fellow teacher received a year-long sentence that was suspended for one year. Also: ● With the help of an international naval force, Chinese seamen fought off pirates attempting to hijack their ship in the Gulf of Aden. ● In April, the Civil Aviation Administration of China issued a policy that lighters and matches were banned from being taken aboard planes. Yesterday, the CAAC announced that the old policy is will be overturned on December 20. Passengers will be allowed to take one lighter or a box of matches on board. Such items will not be allowed in the passengers' luggage. ● Two men convicted of killing 17 paramilitary officers on August 4 in Kashgar were sentenced to death at their first trial yesterday. ● The government will provide subsidies to underground parking lots in Beijing's CBD to allow them to cut their rates. The vacancy rate of these parking lot has been high, with many car owners preferring to park their cars anywhere they can without regard for traffic rules. Links and Sources
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"With the help of an international naval force, Chinese seamen fought off pirates attempting to hijack their ship in the Gulf of Aden."
I think they mean that the Chinese crew were rescued rather than 'we fought and won and, by the way, a couple of foreigners were splashing about in the same bit of ocean.'
In fact the Chinese crew fought the pirates armed with automatic weapons and RPG for five hours using Molotov cocktails made by beer bottles and paint before the reinforcement came. They were even rewarded 300,000 USD from the ship company for their bravery. link
I hope the students were also prosecuted for stupidity. Who pays that much for answers to a question, when they could just, I don't know, study?
Forward those students to the Univ. of Phoenix...