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- 20,000 Koreans live in Shenzhen

- Girl, 14, kidnapped from Xinjiang forced to steal on streets of SZ for 8
months; forced to steal at least 2000 RMB per day

- Shenzhen hospital refuses to let new mother take newborn triplets home due
to unpaid bills… “The spokesman said it was not unreasonable to keep
patients in the hospital until they had paid their bill.

- 4 Shenzhen men steal 255 million RMB over four years, using fake documents
to secure loans which were never paid back

China:

- 5000 officials “punished for extravagance” in the first half of 2007

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- Bauhinia Foundation proposes merging Hong Kong and Shenzhen into a mega
city. Be very afraid.

- Bus conductor falls off bus near Da Mei Sha, dies.

- Barbecued oysters in Shenzhen “not fresh”. Street vendors buy wholesale
chap oysters with no shells and re-use old shells over days.

China:

- Two factories banned from export due to Mattel recall.

- Shandong government official gets death penalty for killing girlfriend
with car bomb; due to appeal saying it was just meant to cause a minor
accident, so it’s the bomb-maker’s fault

- Hebei bank staff steal 45 million RMB and spend it all on lottery tickets

- China’s trade surplus up 83% compared to last year; Food prices up 11.3%
compared to last year

- Drug manufacturer bribes regulator for licence, kills 13 with deadly
medicine

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- Huanggang / Lok Ma Chau metro/rail border crossing set to open “in the
middle of the month” (maybe) having been scheduled for opening six weeks
ago. (And Huanggang metro stop on line 4 opened over a year after the other
stations on the line. And line 4 still only has two trains.)
- 10 year-old boy kidnapped, tortured. Kidnappers demanded 250,000 RMB
ransom, bargained down to 35,000, and the boy was released after 33 hours.
- Factories producing Olympics souvenirs fined for forcing employees to work
40-53 hours a week *extra*
- 40% of tea in the consumer market found to be substandard, with excessive
amounts of chlorine. 68 out of 80 batches sampled lacked the correct
labelling.
- 60 year old woman arrested for smuggling protected tree bark by boat into
Baoan.

China:

- Officials faked a letter from the Finland Dept of Justice to get a free
trip to Europe
- Mining company stored dynamite and other explosives in the basement of a
karaoke in Liaoning. It exploded killing 25 people.

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-370 illegal foreign workers sent home; beware hiring Filipino domestic
helpers. 22 residence permits issues in Shenzhen since 2004. The status of
the other 30,000+ foreigners in SZ completely unclear… (official number of
foreigners in SZ over 1 year is 14,000)

- Man commits suicide by jumping off building in Luohu, lands on and kills
mother and child.

- 8 rubbish collecters attack police in road rage case; 300 more members of
their group threaten to attack police station.

- Grade 90 gasoline runs out in SZ due to Sinopec error

- Group of 570 Hong Kong shopping tourists refuse to leave SZ in dispute
over demands by the tour guides for extra tips.

China:

- Beijing bans food stalls next to toilets
- Universities not allowed to expel students who get pregnant. However they
will still be “encouraged to suspend their studies”
- Offensive family planning bureau slogans banned: “Raise fewer babies, but
more pigs”; “Houses toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected”.
Replaced with more tasteful slogans: “The mother earth is too tired to
sustain more children.”

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