China Digest, December 4, 2012
A court in Xuancheng has sentenced a man in his 60s to six months in jail, suspended for a year, for cutting his son's girlfriend with a kitchen knife when she allegedly tried to strangle him in January, Anhuinews.com reports. The man turned himself in four months after the incident, and the local village committee wrote to the court seeking leniency, alleging that he and his wife were frequently abused by their son's girlfriend.
A 64-year-old man, wanted for trafficking more than 300 women, was recently caught after being on the run for 20 years, the reports. Police from the man's hometown of Dingyuan county, Chuzhou, found him in Fanchang county, Wuhu. Police busted the trafficking ring in 1992 and eight people received the death penalty. Police rescued 182 women, but the other victims did not want to return home after having children with the men who bought them.
A 25-year-old man is on trial in Beijing for allegedly robbing and killing a former business partner, the reports. Prosecutors say that the man, claiming the woman owed him 3,000 yuan (HK$3,700), sneaked into her home at night and stole 2,500 yuan, a computer and a mobile phone after hitting her on the head with an iron hammer. The woman was left unconscious. The attacker fled but returned shortly afterwards and cut her throat with a kitchen knife, killing her. Police detained the man that day.
The capital needs an additional 3,300 doctors to meet the basic health needs of residents in rural areas, according to the city's first report on village doctors, the reports. Many doctors who work in rural areas are unlicensed, most are farmers without a university degree, and their average age is 58.
A former hospital chief in a village in Yuzhong county, Lanzhou, was recently sentenced to six years in jail for receiving 84,000 yuan in kickbacks from vendors who sold drugs and medical equipment to his hospital from 2006 to last year, the reports.
A student at Northwest Normal University in Lanzhou didn't want to see other students become victims of crime like she was two years ago when her mobile phone and purse were stolen. So she wrote an anti-theft manual, which has been widely distributed via microblogs, the reports. The book lists places and times of frequent thefts near her university, as well as tactics that thieves use.
A man in Gaoan has received a three-year jail sentence, suspended for four years, for destroying an internet bar that he blamed on his son's poor academic record, the reports. In December last year, he went to the bar after drinking alcohol and used a kitchen knife to drive away customers. He then destroyed computers worth about 80,000 yuan.
More than 1,000 students and their parents attended an introductory ceremony on Sunday for NYU Shanghai - a new university jointly set up by New York University and East China Normal University, the reports. The new university has recruited 151 mainland students for its first class next autumn.
A young man and woman recently received suspended jail sentences for beating up a taxi driver in June after he tried to get them to hand over a phone they discovered in the back seat of the taxi, the reports. The phone belonged to a previous passenger, and the driver said he would return it. But they refused to give him the phone, and threw stones at his head and broke his nose.
A man in Xinchang county, Shaoxing, has been sentenced to six years in jail and fined 6,000 yuan for blackmailing his former cellmate, the reports. Tian Yongfeng had asked his cellmate, who was about to be released, to look after Tian's wife and children until his own release. However, when Tian was released five months ago, his wife claimed that the cellmate raped her, but she never notified police. Tian threatened the man with a knife and told him to pay 100,000 yuan in "spiritual compensation".
