Shenzhen News 8th August 2007
- 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.
