Another bizarre story of a man "accidentally" dying in a detention center, this time from falling over. Previously other people have died in suspicious ways in detention houses, including by "drinking hot water," by "breathing" and by "having a shower." Something seems fishy here.
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Does this sound familiar?
President Ma Ying-jeou: "death sentences had to be 'carried out according to the law'."
Taiwanese actress Pai Ping-ping: "Ms. Wang has deeply hurt Taiwanese people's feelings."
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It's the Year of the Tiger, and the first baby Siberian tiger found in the wild for over 20 years, dies in captivity. The usual questions apply: was it really wild? how did it die? has there been a cover-up?
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By some stroke of genius, these police officers thought that they could pass this poor felon's death off (and the hole in his cranium) to his drinking of medicated water.
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Insomnia-inflicted Liu Xianjin, chief prosecutor in Maoming city, leaped eight floors to his death at his home in south China's Guangdong province at dawn on February 5. This is the fifth publicized unnatural death of a Chinese official so far this year, according to available statistics summed by Nanfang Daily.
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Quite a reversal of PR management compared to two years ago when an employee committed suicide after being questioned over a prototype iPhone theft.
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Warning, do not click, camera footage perfectly captures an extremely graphic, extremely dangerous near-death experience, collateral damage absolutely horrifying.
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One of the more touching messages I receive in the run-up to the outrageous execution of Akmal Shaikh in China this morning is from a London-based “working girl”, who tells me she is boycotting all Chinese clients for a year in protest. Please, spare me any sanctimonious injunctions about her chosen way of life. She’s doing what she can.
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Recently, there were rumors in the Shenzhen community with news about elementary students being kidnapped and killed, causing students and parents to live in fear. Reporter learned from the Shenzhen police that since the second half of this year, three child kidnapping cases had happened in Futian district in Shenzhen, and one of the cases involved a death of one of the children hostages.
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On the evening of December 7, 2009, a tragic trampling incident happened at Yucai private middle school in Xiangxiang city, Hunan Province, causing 8 dead, 26 injured and 8 others under medical observation in the hospital.
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