According to the Chinese law, it is illegal to operate casinos inside of mainland China. Any individual or organization operates gambling business constitutes criminal act. So in order to avoid the crackdown, criminals in mainland China opened casinos nearby outside of the Chinese border. For various reasons, many people from mainland China go to these casinos to gamble. Let’s take a look what happened there.
News from Netease and everywhere: A first grade student of a middle school from Shandong Province named Zhang Jixin (张继鑫) climbed out of the dormitory walls to buy food for another student on the evening of December 17th 2009. He was spotted by the teacher on duty when climbing the wall. The teacher hit him several times and ordered him to stand still outside as a punishment. Later the teacher went out drinking and forgot about the student. At 7 am in the morning on December 18th, Zhang Jixing was found dead (freezes to death) inside of a drain on campus. Later the teacher commented “Zhang Jixing died very comfortably” in an interview which stirred even more public out-cry all over the nation.
Both principle and vise-principle of Wujin middle school in Weifang city, Linqu County were fired on December 24. However the deceased student Zhang Jixin’s stepfather Zhang Benyong told the reporter that this incident has already been “privately settled” and they will not hold any department or individual responsible.
[DNKB] While the recent Shanghai school girl “Sister Bear (Sister Xiong)” beating incident was not yet subsided. Another heavily discussed school girl beating incident was created. A 4 minutes long video showing four girls and one boy ganging up on one girl while many bystanders just watched recently became popular on many Chinese major websites. Kids in the video were speaking Fuzhou dialect. Netizens said “This group beating scene was even ‘better’ than the Shanghai schoolgirl fight.” Some netizens fleshed out the incident location is in Minhou (闽侯), the northwestern side of Fuzhou City in Fujian Province.
Police released the film details of the kidnapper that was killed by police in Chongqing.
[Video] On October 26th, Chongqing Shapingba district police station received a phone call reporting a crime. Police quickly rushed to the scene and found a middle-aged woman named Zhen lying in a pool of blood. She had been stabbed multiple times.
A video about schoolgirls in Shanghai fighting appeared on well-known forum called KDS on the evening of October 23rd. The video is 5 minutes and 20 seconds in length. In an alley, a middle school schoolgirl wearing a purple T-shirt beat up another schoolgirl while many bystanders stood by, speaking in Shanghainese, and they continuously called the girl instigating and bullying “Sister Xiong” “Xiong Jie” (熊姐).
The night of September 2nd, Yu Xiaochun (余小春) who was viciously beaten by Wal-Mart workers, passed away after three days of rescuing efforts by the doctors. Since the exposure of the incident, Wal-Mart murder case was the hot topic of the internet forums.
On August 30th 7 pm, 37-year-old Yu Xiaochun went to Wal-Mart supercenter in Jingdezhen plaza. When she walked out of the store, five Wal-Mart employees (four men and one woman) chased up to her. They accused Yu of stealing and demanded her to show receipt. Because those guys were not wearing Wal-Mart uniforms, Yu snatched the receipt back. As a result, five employees beat her up senselessly to the ground. They would not even stop went Yu’s family was kneeling at the scene begging. Eventually the police showed up and rushed her to the hospital. But Yu still passed away 3 days later. For the details of this news coverage in September check out “Wal-Mart Workers Beat Customer To Death” by ESWN
This article “Wal-Mart: Violence and Lies” is the cover story of the Faren Magazine October issue. It reviewed this incident attempting to uncover the root cause of such bloody violence and the ugly truth of Wal-Mart.
Jessi Stafford from Newsy.com informed me today that they just posted a video about China puts Xinjiang rioters on trial.
Jessi Stafford:
Newsy.com just posted a video regarding the Chinese trials for the rioters in Xinjiang. It shows the differing media perspectives on who is at fault between Uighurs and Han Chinese. Several sources portray the future political implications of the trial.
This video tracks the media perspectives from Al Jazeera English, Foreign Policy, Australia’s ABC Radio and China Daily for the real motivations behind the violence and news on the trails.
Jessi Stafford:
Newsy videos combine and analyze global news coverage of important events. Its unique method of presenting how multiple news outlets are covering a story gives viewers the information they need to understand complex issues.
A 27 year old female college graduate serving as a village official was beaten and killed in a China’s crowded street by a man who was riding an electric tricycle at the time. The suspect does not previously know the victim. He committed this violent act all because of a simple argument. After committing the crime the murder suspect flee the scene. This incident led to huge responses on the Chinese internet. With tens and thousands of netizen’s help in 3 days the police have already found the murder suspect and brought him into custody.
[QQ] Recently this video of a female high school student wearing cloth shoes being beaten up by several other students spread on the Chinese internet. In the video this girl was blocked by other students at a staircase. They forced her to kneel in front of them. They pushed, kicked and slapped her in the face when she refused. Yesterday, netizens human flesh searched and found this happened in Xinzhen Longhu First High School (新郑龙湖一中) in Henan province.
Chongqing Business News, Zen, Donghai (曾栋海), an employee at Longtousi Train Station, has never imaged in his wildest dream that a tragedy would land upon his family because his 3-year-old son picked a flower in a hotel lobby–having his wife beaten to death led by the hotel management. After the incident took place, the murder has been arrested, yet the devastating sorrow remains with the family as well as the future of his children. As of yesterday, the victim’s family’s request of a payment of 280,000RMB from the hotel was rejected. Currently, the police from Gaoxin District has joined the investigation to resolve the case.
[NetEase] July 26 China National Men’s Soccer group A third round match between Beijing team and Tianjin team played in Tianjin. This is an important match decides who advances from the group to the next around. The game was very intense and physical. During the match three of the Tianjin players got red cards and were ejected from the game. After the game was over major disturbance broke out, Tianjin players chased and referee and attempted to beat him up.
[wikipedia] The July 2009 Urumqi riots broke out on July 5th 2009, in Urumqi the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in northwestern China.
The violence was part of an ongoing ethnic conflict between Han Chinese and Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group that is predominantly Muslim and is one of the officially recognized ethnic groups in China. These specific riots were sparked by dissatisfaction with the Chinese central government’s handling of the deaths of two Uyghur workers in Guangdong province ten days previously.
Violence broke out on July 5th 2009 in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang province. According to the Chinese government media 156 people were dead and 1434 suspects were arrested. The real reason of this riot is still unclear, but is believed the violence was caused by ethnic conflict between Han Chinese and the Uighur minority, and its dissatisfaction with the Chinese central government’s handling of the deaths of two Uighur workers in Guangdong. CCTV (Chinese Government media) said An initial investigation shows the violence was masterminded by the separatist group — World Uyghur Congress. The group is led by Rebiya Kadeer, who is a former Chinese businesswoman.
June 17 to June 20, Hubei province Shishou (石首) (city) a hotel chef’s strange death caused tens ofthousands of people gathering and road blocking. Party secretary of Hubei Province Luo Qingquan (罗清泉) and Hubei governor Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) visited the city to dispose the case. Till 20th to 21st morning, the situation has gradually subsided. The corpse were in the hotel were sent to a funeral parlor and crowd dispersed.
May 22 Eastday Reported today 12:45 at Changshou road 882 Lane Putuo district Shanghai occurred a gun related incident, one man was wounded and taking to the hospital. Currently Putuo police is investigating the matter.
