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Archive for July 6th, 2010

China Decides on Google- To Renew or Not to Renew Their License

Posted by w_thames_the_d on July 6, 2010


Google must renew its business license in China shortly, actually they are in the process. The problem is that they have pissed off China to no end and thus, the question of them actually being able to renew their license hangs in the balance.

The people here seem to be divided, the one’s with a nationalistic bent, think Google can go to hell, the others think the government is being heavy handed. The truth is that China will do what it wants, like it always does, and we the world will continue to hide our heads in the sand, as we always do, and close our eyes to the many injustices of China. Until we can have a rational global discussion about the truth of the lack of law, lack of human rights and real China, all the rest does not matter.

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3 Chinese Prisoners Escape from Jail, Now They Will be Killed

Posted by w_thames_the_d on July 6, 2010


3 jail escapees sentenced to death
Three inmates who broke out of a prison after killing a police officer last October are brought into a courtroom in Hohhot Intermediate People’s Court in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region’s capital on Tuesday. [China Daily]

HOHHOT – Three inmates who broke out of a high security prison after killing an officer last October were sentenced to death in a court in Hohhot, capital of North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Tuesday. Qiao Haiqiang, Dong Jiaji and Li Hongbin, all in their 20s, were handed down the maximum penalty at the Hohhot Intermediate People’s Court, where they stood trial on charges of using violence to escape prison, robbery, kidnapping and murder.

Before their escape, the trio was serving life-long sentences for armed robbery.

The convicts were also ordered to compensate the wife of Lan Jianguo, the prison guard they killed, to the tune of about 57,000 yuan ($8,400).

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Poor in China

Posted by w_thames_the_d on July 6, 2010


I took this photo of some of the poor in China. These guys got the bums rush from the security guards, they were just hanging out waiting for a bus. In China, the people dont like to see the poor, dont like to interact with them, so they sent them off.

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Street Strippers in China- Last Last one

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Chinese Street Strippers- Last Shots

Posted by w_thames_the_d on July 6, 2010


Here are more photos of those ladies in Guangzhou who took to the streets to strip and look for husbands. I guess that is just Chinese culture, either that or maybe they are just pros looking for a john…

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Even More Street Strippers in China

Posted by w_thames_the_d on July 6, 2010


Here are more photos of those ladies in Guangzhou who took to the streets to strip and look for husbands. I guess that is just Chinese culture, either that or maybe they are just pros looking for a john…

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Rainy Night in China

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More Chinese Street Strippers- Stripping to Marry in China

Posted by w_thames_the_d on July 6, 2010


Here are more photos of those ladies in Guangzhou who took to the streets to strip and look for husbands. I guess that is just Chinese culture, either that or maybe they are just pros looking for a john…

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Detention in China

Posted by w_thames_the_d on July 6, 2010


From human rights watch


Arbitrary Detention: In addition to judicial convictions, PRC authorities consistently use administrative procedures to detain hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Tibetans each year.

Individuals sentenced administratively by police are not charged or brought before a judge, thereby denying them access to a lawyer and the right to defend themselves. The majority of these individuals are ordinary people, but democracy and human rights activists, independent religious adherents and worker-rights advocates are also frequently detained in this way.

The most common forms of administrative detention are:

1) “reeducation through labor,” under which police, without trial, can send individuals to labor camps for up to four years; and

2) “shelter and investigation,” under which police can detain people without charge or trial for up to three months, a time limit that is routinely ignored.

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that the practice of “reeducation through labor” is “inherently arbitrary” when intended for “political and cultural rehabilitation.” According to PRC government sources, 100,000 people are sent to “reeducation through labor” camps and one million are “sheltered” each year.”

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Five Chinese Students Attempt a Group Suicide

Posted by w_thames_the_d on July 6, 2010


“Five pupils attempted to commit suicide by drinking herbicide in an old temple of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, hsw.cn reported.

Four of them are left-behind children in rural areas, whose fathers or parents have gone to cities for work.

The five 6th-grade pupils in Xinglin town, Fufeng county of Shaanxi province, made an appointment to go to the temple for a group suicide on the morning of July 3 after they made the agreement the previous night. They mixed the herbicide with a beverage which made the poison less potent. They were found in time by a passing villager.

The kids were immediately sent to the hospital after being found. Two of them who drank a half bottle of the poison were treated and believed to be out of danger, and the other three who drank less were fine without any treatment.”

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