Behind the Li Gang case
ChinaGeeks has translated investigative reporter Wang Keqin's reporting into the My Dad is Li Gang case and its aftermath.
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ChinaGeeks has translated investigative reporter Wang Keqin's reporting into the My Dad is Li Gang case and its aftermath.
Xinhua:
The number of Internet users in China reached 450 million by the end of November, up 20.3 percent year-on-year, a senior official said on Thursday.
Around 33.9 percent of the population are online, a ratio above the world average of 30 percent, Wang Chen, minister of the State Council Information Office, told a news conference in Beijing.
From The Global Times:
A statement posted on the personal blog of convicted milk activist Zhao Lianhai says he is undergoing treatment at a hospital and wants to enjoy life as an ordinary citizen.
Zhao, 38, whose three-year-old child was sickened by melamine-tainted milk powder, was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment on November 10 for inciting social disorder. He decided not to appeal, and instead applied for medical parole.
Some Hong Kong deputies to the National People's Congress said they were told Saturday that he had been granted medical parole, but there has been no official confirmation.
A statement bearing Zhao's name posted on his personal blog Tuesday said he did not want people to discuss his case any more.
"I hope the incident will go away. It will be beneficial to the country, society and my family," the statement said. "I agree with the criminal punishment imposed on me by judicial organizations. I hope other people can stop discussing the matter."
"I support and am grateful to the government. And I apologize for the radical comments made against the government in the past."
The mobile phone of Zhao's wife, Li Xuemei, was switched off. Reporters and Zhao's former lawyers lost contact with Zhao's family soon after the verdict was delivered.
One of the lawyers, Li Fangping, said he was not sure about the authenticity of the statement, and suspected that Zhao was put under pressure to downplay the incident.
From AP in Washington Post by Gillian Wong:
A Chinese journalist died Tuesday from injuries sustained in a gang beating that some say was linked to his investigative work, a colleague at his newspaper said.
Sun Hongjie, a senior reporter at the Northern Xinjiang Morning Post, died at a hospital in the city of Kuitun 10 days after he was beaten by six men at a construction site, said a man at the paper who identified himself as a supervisor but refused to give his name.
Police have said the attack was the result of a personal dispute, but many Chinese journalists believe otherwise.
On Mobinode:
31st March 2011 ... is the new deadline ... given by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) to get the mapping license. If the mapping service operator continues its service without the licence, it will be punished after 1st July. And till now, Google has not submitted its application to the officials yet.
See also Google may face censor showdown.
The Global Times:
Controversial blogger Han Han may have moved one step closer to becoming a full-time racecar driver again after staff at his magazine, Party, were let go Sunday, allowing him more time on the track.
Ma Yimu, the executive editor in chief of the magazine, announced the dismissal Monday on his microblog, saying, "I cannot believe it. I am confident we'll be back," the Xinhua News Agency reported...
...He is a professional racecar driver and author, best known for tackling sensitive issues in China without getting into serious trouble with the authorities. His magazine, whose Chinese name means "a chorus of solos," was first printed July 6, 15 months after Han started planning for the monthly publication.
Han's assistant told Xinhua that the maiden issue of the magazine sold nearly 1.5 million copies. According to ifeng. com, about 100,000 copies were sold on the magazine's debut, with 400,000 more story sold the day after...
...Citing unnamed sources, the Southern Metropolis Weekly (SMW) reported in July that the maiden copy dropped about 70 percent of Han's originally planned content in order to be approved by the publication watchdog.
From China Sports Review blog:
It’s my third time meeting Lu You this Monday at the gate of Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court. The result of her second trial against Huang Jianxiang, her former colleague at CCTV, a football commentator, was to be announce that day. As the last two meetings with her, she seemed upbeat and spirited, like on the screen as a sports reporter.
From Ap / Asian Correspondent:
China’s officially atheist government wants to build a Christian church in the hometown of Confucius to help foster a relationship between an ancient philosophy and the country’s fastest-growing religion. But suddenly, it’s not going so smoothly.
Confucian groups and 10 well-known scholars are demanding that the Gothic-style church not be built in Qufu, saying its size threatens to overshadow the world’s most famous Confucian temple and represents a foreign invasion of a sacred place.
“If a super-large Confucius temple were built in Jerusalem, Mecca or the Vatican, overshadowing the religious buildings there, how would the people feel about it? Would the government and the people accept it?” says an open letter from the protesters that was dated Wednesday and posted on blogs.
Caught in the debate is the church’s pastor, a 75th-generation descendant of Confucius.
The Global Times reports:
In the latest food scandal to rock China, six people were detained, more than a dozen corporate accounts were frozen and tainted wine bottles were pulled off shelves after red wine made in Changli county, Hebei Province, was found to have been both chemically altered and falsely labeled as a superior product.
The Jiahua, Yeli and Genghao wineries have been accused of forgery and of adulterating their wine, during investigations by the local government that shut down their operations, the Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday, adding that sixteen corporate accounts involving 2.83 million yuan ($427,000) were frozen.
The Global Times:
A 35-year old man wielding a crossbow and carrying two bombs was stopped by police in Beijing Saturday morning, after threatening gas station and toll booth staff on the Beijing-Tianjin highway.
Staff members at a Sinopec gas station in Xin'anzhen Service Area on the highway called police at 9:57 am on Saturday morning, reporting that a man in a white pick-up truck had fled after firing a crossbow at members of staff and threatening them with explosives, according to the police report.
One gas station employee told the Beijing News that he confiscated the keys to the truck after the man, a Liaoning native surnamed Hou, refused to pay 290 yuan ($43.76) for his gas.
"He said he was a petitioner and had no money," the employee was quoted as saying. After removing his keys, staff members proceeded to block his exit. It was at this point Hou reached in to his truck, removed a crossbow and fired. The gas station workers were forced to drop the keys and take cover in a nearby convenience store.