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...after Duan's capture, the news blackout was lifted and the front page of Wuhan's main newspaper hailed the nabbing of the "Psycho Killer" accused of murdering 13 women. It showed Hubei's top cop, Chen Xunqiu, handing $20,000 in reward money to Inspector Zhang and a handful of colleagues involved in the investigation. "This is a typical example," Chen said, "of successfully breaking a case using high-tech methods and strategies." It was deft p.r., but the reality is more chilling: monsters are on the prowl in today's China?and someone's got to learn...
...With many of China's 60 million registered investors sharing Chen's sense of outrage, the pressure on the country's new stock cop is palpable. Shang Fulin, a little-known technocrat, landed in the hot seat last week when he was named chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). His challenge: to impose order on a stock market that a leading Chinese economist once described as worse than a casino (because "at least casinos have rules"). Shang arrives at a precarious juncture. Even as China's GDP has grown 8% annually, its market has sunk more than...
...total box-office take for Psychedelic Cop, Hong Kong's biggest flop...
...Bollywood. But in his case, the violence is for real: public records show he has personally gunned down 87 gangsters in the mean streets of India's film and organized crime capital since 1990. The 41-year-old's scorecard has made him the country's deadliest cop ahead of two other inspectors, Praful Bhosle, 46, and Vijay Salaskar, 45, who have clocked scores of 82 and 40, respectively. All three are from Bombay's ?lite Criminal Intelligence Unit, which, as Mob crime spiraled out of control in the early 1990s, was tasked with taking down the bad guys, guns...
...Many in India argue that there are few alternatives, since the country's judicial system is tainted by corruption and crippled by backlog. Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, India's most famous cop for helping put down the Sikh insurgency in Punjab state in the 1990s, is blunt: "Our legal system doesn't work at all. If there are no legal remedies, there'll be extralegal ones...