A kindergarten teacher admitted Thursday pricking 63 "disobedient" children in her class with an empty syringe in court in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The trial of Sun Qiqi, a teacher with the Xihu Nursery, was held at the Jianshui County People's Court.
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A rather graphic series of photos showing Qing Dynasty death penalty/torture. Allegedly reserved for very serious crimes, it's hard to imagine anything justifying this. Warning, the images are quite graphic - even in their graininess.
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The judge and the juvenile had grown up on the same mean streets, 40 years apart. And in fall 1996, they faced each other in a New York court where children are prosecuted as adults, but sentenced like candidates for redemption. The teenager, a gifted student, was pleading guilty to a string of muggings committed at 15 with an eclectic crew in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
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In a stunning reversal, Hong Kong's highest court has overturned the murder conviction of Nancy Kissel, the American expatriate accused of drugging and clubbing her banker husband to death in a case widely known as the "milkshake murder."
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Another corrupted official fell off the horse because of his mistress. Zhen City former deputy secretary, deputy director of the People’s Congress party, Qiu Huosheng was charged with bribery of 1.05 million yuan and stood trial yesterday at Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court. During the trial, Qiu said the reason of him taking bribery was because his mistress Ms.
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City Evening News reports on January 25, Changchun hospital gynaecology department took in a special patient, a 9-year-old girl who was 8 and half months pregnant. On January 27, at noon, this girl gave birth by cesarean section to a 2.75 kilogram (about 6 lbs) baby boy.
read more »Now is the end of the lunar calendar with Chinese New Year approaching. That means some people are short of money ahead of returning home and to family responsibilities, and China sees a small bump in thefts and pickpocketing. Here's a brief description of a ploy seemingly at play in Dalian, where each member of the team plays a role in the picking of the pocket.
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First of all happy new year! Bye bye 2009 and hello 2010! ChinaHush is founded in 2009, today I will like to thank everyone for reading and supporting ChinaHush in the past year!
And what would be more appropriate than ending 2009 with another tally?
read more »A Pixian family was so enraged over their daughter's choice of boyfriend that they took drastic action to make their feelings clear.
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Today I am telling a story of Laowai(foreigner) petitioning in China.
Me, Julie Helms, 31 years old, an American, currently living in Beijing.
Don’t laugh, it’s real. The first time I came to China, I was attracted by the magic of this country; then, I stayed in China because I met my Chinese lover; now what I want to do here is to petition.
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