Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

A Nanjing traffic police officer stops a car with black Volkswagen Santana with military license plates for running a red light, using his body to block the car. The drivers of the military car come out and argue with the police officer. Netizen reaction supports the police but all internet discussion was censored and deleted after a few days.

I took this two shots with my Yashica T3 during 2006 when i was on my way to the Shanghai Museum in summer. It was in the late afternoon, there was a lot of people crossing the busy streets around Nanjing Road, People's Square and Xizang Road. This old lady sat down near a cross junction attracting lots of attention from passer-bys. She was not performing or basking. She was apparently outcrying to the public for some wrongs done to her, seeking justice and attention. There were a couple of street police and traffic police trying to clear the crowd. I took the shots quickly and left.

Hundreds of Chinese students clashed with police and overturned and burnt their car after street inspectors beat up a female student, a police officer and witnesses said on Thursday, the latest in a series of public disturbances.

Chinese police have detained 10 people in connection with the collapse of an underground railway tunnel being built for next year's Olympic Games in Beijing.

Six workers were reported to have been killed when the tunnel caved in last Wednesday.

State media has reported that the construction firm waited at least eight hours before reporting the accident to the authorities.

It is claimed that the company mounted an elaborate cover-up and tried to rescue the trapped workers on its own.

New media reports & surveillance video show that the young university student that was beaten to death first started attacking the 6 police officers. Chinese netizen were originally sympathetic and critical of the police but now many feel the student got what he deserved.

More than 100 police in Laiyang City seized control of the city government building for three hours to demand increased wages from the current 650 yuan a month, while in Longhui County, over 1,000 teachers took collective strike over unpaid allowances. Teachers said that local governments had misappropriated 400 million yuan from teachers' allowances over the past 10 years.

John Kennedy @ GVO posts about the killing of six police officers in Shanghai by 28-year-old Yang Jia (杨佳) at the beginning of July. The interesting bit is that Yang Jia has become a bit of a folk hero in the weeks since his murder spree. BBS conversations are stating that the killings were out of revenge for police brutality he suffered a year earlier that left his junk disabled. True or not - it shows the weird and twisted way in which Chinese BBSes disseminate information.

Riots broke out recently in Southern China's Zhejiang province with students and citizens protesting the death of a local teacher. The teacher's death was labelled a suicide, but the protestors believe that it was foul play by her husband, and a police coverup to boot.

Additional information and Chinese news reports about the incident can be found at ESWN (http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20060826_2.htm).

The government has ordered the demolition of the home of Ni Yulan, who has been in police custody for more than 200 days. The family claims it is not being given any compensation.