Today's Links: More memories, more domestic consumption, and oughtn't that official been fined more?
- Loss, Mourning and Hope Amid the Rubble [WSJ] "When I set off to cover the Sichuan earthquake last May, I did not know my life and the lives of the families of quake victims would acquire a strange symmetry: of lost hopes, and the struggle to find a space to mourn. Three days after the quake struck, I found a group of migrant workers in the Beijing West railway station. They carried all they had -- bedrolls, thermos flasks, plastic basins, cooking oil -- to travel a distance equivalent to that between California and Minnesota, on badly damaged roads and rails."
- Girlfriend of China's second A/H1N1 patient in quarantine [Xinhua] "The girlfriend of China's second confirmed A/H1N1 patient was quarantined Wednesday, but she has shown no symptoms of the virus, the health department of Tianjin Municipality has announced. The 17-year-old woman surnamed Zhang traveled from Toronto, Canada, with the flu carrier surnamed Lv on Air Canada flight AC029 on May 8. They separated when they arrived in Beijing and she took a private car sent by her parents to take her home to Tianjin on Sunday."
- Official fined for underage sex [People's Daily Online] "A local government official who paid a 13-year-old for sex has escaped criminal prosecution after confessing to the court that he did not know the girl was under-age. Lu Yumin, a taxation official in Yibin County, Sichuan province, was fined 5,000 yuan ($736) after having sex with the girl, last December. Local press disclosed the juvenile only as Xiao Wei. "
- Distant Holy Grail: China's Consumers [Forbes] "China is showing steady improvement in domestic consumption, as global and domestic companies set their sights and hopes on the world's most populous market. But bolstering the power of its consumers to full potential poses a long-term challenge for China and requires a structural rebalancing of economic growth."
- China arrests returned Tiananmen student leader: family [Reuters] "A former student leader of China's 1989 pro-democracy movement has been arrested on fraud charges, his family said on Wednesday, weeks before the 20th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests. The arrest of Zhou Yongjun, a leader of the Beijing Students' Autonomous Union in the 1989 protests, comes after months in secret detention following his return from the United States."
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