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Nine die in latest kindergarten stabbing spree; police bust at Passion nightclubPosted by Eric Mu on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM
 Beijing Times, May 13th, 2010 Yesterday saw another nightmarish stabbing spree targeting defenseless children: in Xinzheng, Shaanxi Province, a 48-year-old villager named Wu Huanming entered a local kindergarten, stabbed seven kids, a female teacher and her mother to death before he returned home and committed suicide. This story is the bottom left headline of today's Beijing Times; the top headline warns that this summer Beijing may see very heavy rains. The photo shows a scene from a police raid on a nightclub. Four upscale nightclubs in Beijing, including Passion (天上人间) at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel, were ordered to suspend operations for six months after a late night police raid caught hundreds of escorts by surprise at around 11 o'clock pm on Tuesday. According to the newspaper, the latest crackdown on escort service and prostitution related offenses has reduced the number of police reports on such matters by 30 percent. Links and Sources
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Comments on Nine die in latest kindergarten stabbing spree; police bust at Passion nightclub
very surprised about passion. that place has been under protection for a very long time.
I remember the story I heard (may or may not be true) about an incident in the club in the late 1990s. One man was ejected by the door men and said he would call his father, who headed up the local equivalent of SWAT. The owner of passion countered by calling his father, who was very high up in the PLA (or something like that). half an hour later, there wss the comical, but potentially dangerous, sight of armed SWAT and PLA teams were facing off in the GWS car park. someone must have lost his guanxi
FYI the article reports only on Chaoyang District, but the crackdown is city-wide since 11 May. The other three Chaoyang nightclubs targeted were Regal Club, Huadu and Kaifu Guoji (possibly next to Comfort Inn on Gongti Beilu).
Among the 31 others mentioned in the city-wide article are Block 8 nightclub (the one right out towards the lake, quite notorious), but only 1 in Dongcheng (nightclub) and 3 in Xicheng (bathhouses).
It appears the article - indeed the newspaper - is inaccessible from abroad. The connection keeps resetting. On the other hand works fine with a domestic Chinese connection.