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"According to informed sources in Henan, there was a large-scale student riot late night on June 15th at the Shengda Institute of Business Management of the Zhengzhou University located in Xinzheng city.

At its worst, almost 10,000 people were rioting. The students destroyed the university facilities and then marched onto the streets to vandalize street lamps and telephone booths, and they looted banks, supermarkets and electronic stores.

The cause of the riot was that the school lowered the status of the university diploma (from Zhengzhou University to Shengda Institute) and did not refund tuition fees to fourth-year students as contracted. The local authorities sent in several thousand armed policemen to quell the riots. The situation yesterday was generally calm."

-In Translation from a Ming Pao news report.