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...Yang explains, her son and three of his friends were arrested by police and charged with the murder of two taxi drivers. After confessing to the crimes, they were swiftly convicted and sentenced to death by a local court in their hometown of Chengde. But Yang's lawyer, Xu Zhiyong, says the confessions were extracted under torture. Xu says this case is one of the most glaring examples of injustice in China, with numerous flaws in the prosecution (the only two pieces of evidence were mysteriously lost) and eyewitness accounts corroborating the men's allegations that their confessions were beaten...
...disarmament, they also said there was a long road ahead, noting two key issues that they said will play a role in North Korea’s future—its relationship with its neighbor south of the 38th parallel and of its role in the world economy. Xu Di of Peking University said international trade could improve North Korea’s economic situation, as it did for her home country. “Although it may be costly, tolerance and patience with North Korea are really key,” said Lau Ngou Ting from the University...
...return with Jianli. He needs a theme song, and desperately wants the musician to compose an anthem for him. But Jianli is a stubborn sort, not easily bossed by his childhood friend; and he complicates things by having a liaison with the warlord's strong-willed, crippled daughter Yueyang (Xu Qing), who had been promised to the lieutenant. Think any number of Victorian melodramas...
...approximately 2 million, with at least 120,000 more couples splitting up last year than the year before. "Divorce used to be a bad concept associated with a Western, capitalist society, and we thought that people in a socialist society should lead happier lives," says Xu Anqi, a sociologist at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. "But it turns out that the negative influence of divorce is actually quite small...
...While Xu was in detention - he'd been taken into police custody the night before after men who had been following him around in a car accused him of stealing a wallet, according to his friend and fellow lawyer, Teng Biao - Chen sat through a trial on charges that could earn him five years in jail. According to another of his lawyers, who had spoken to Chen's brother, Chen vomited during the trial. It was, wrote longtime China law scholar Jerome Cohen, in an e-mail sent to reporters, an "understandable and appropriate" response to "the nauseating nature...