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...When Xu Mingxiu woke on the morning of July 8, she found her home in western China's Sichuan province surrounded by menacing red floodwaters. She rushed outside, bought some coal, and returned shortly before electricity and water were cut off. As the waters rose, 40-year-old Xu and her family huddled on the top floor of their house. Outside boats weaved between building tops; window frames floated in the water. For days they lived on corn stew cooked over a coal fire. "I got more and more scared," she says. "Qu county floods every year. But this...
...Xu's experience will be familiar to many Chinese, for whom the annual summer floods bring similar misery. But this year, the pain is being felt more widely than it has in a decade. More than 200 million people have been affected, including 5 million who have been evacuated from their homes, according to the Red Cross Society of China. More than 700 people have died. "It's already quite serious," says Victor Kan, relief coordinator for World Vision China. "We're still waiting to see what will develop...
...Supreme People's Court in Beijing, which recommended a retrial, as did several lower courts. In all, the case has been retried five times. Yet all four men remain in jail 13 years later. "Even for China, this is an unusual case," says law professor Xu Zhiyong, a legal adviser to the defendants' families, "because it is so clear that these men are innocent...
...Xu, the academic who is advising the prisoners' families, says that the treatment received by Zhu and his co-defendants was typical. "The same judges are not supposed to try the same case twice, but in this case they tried the case three times," he says. Xu says there were many other errors. According to documents lodged by the Chengde People's Procurate, the government alleged four men flagged down a taxi at the Chengde railway station on the night of the murder. After one asked the driver to stop so that he could relieve himself, all four attacked...
...NumbersART 9.2 million Amount paid at auction for Put Down Your Whip, a 1939 oil painting by Xu Beihong-the most ever for a painting by a Chinese artist $190 million Total sales of Asian contemporary art by auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's last year, up from $22 million...