Rains of Horror

The resent few days, Nanjing in Jiangsu Province and Hefei in neighbouring Anhui Province experienced horrors from the sky – the rains of insects.

Rain of Insects

The insects are very tiny, about the size of a half grain of rice, but they have wings and love to fly towards light - street lamps are covered with these little creatures. What is most horrible is that once they land on your head they’ll squeeze into your hair, your eyes and your ears. Exerts say they are sort of rice lice, and predict their presence will have serious effect on the quality of the rice produced in the area.

3 septembre 2006 (Sunday, seond Lunar July 11)

Four Years for a Blind Law Expert

Chen Guangcheng is a blind man. Out of his strong urge to help poor peasants who are often bullied by local officials, he self-taught in law and became quite the expert in the field. Since then he investigated into some cases involving allegations of brutal practice in the part of the local governments in relation to implementing the One Child Policy, and helped the victims to launch class action lawsuit as well as personally participated in street protests. In March this year he was charged by the local police for damaging public property and disrupting transport and public services, and last Sunday he was sentenced by the district court of Linyiyinan County in Shandong Province to four-year imprisonment.

Recently there are quite a lot of talks about China’s legal system, with the debate especially hot on the Internet forums and blogs.

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