A man in Shenzhen invited his father to rape his girlfriend twice after quarrels with her, an "offer" which the dad accepted on both occassions. Both father and son have now been sentenced to (a shockingly low) 39 and 18 months respectively behind bars, according to a report by the Southern Daily. more ›

Shanghai Daily reports: "Three local officials are among the six men detained for having sex with two teenage girls in Lueyang County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to the police." more ›

A senior student in Dongguan University of Techonology has given himself up to the police for killing a sophomore after a failed attempt to rape her. The would-be rapist surnamed Ao followed Liang Rongcai (梁荣彩), the victim, to the washroom and attempted to rape her. Encountered with Liang's resistence, Ao killed her and subsequently escaped. more ›

A man named nicknamed Junjun was looking for work in Nanjing, and met a man surnamed Zhang at a job fair. After being offered a place to sleep, Zhang took advantage of Junjun's kindness and raped his host. A later confrontation with Zhang resulted in Junjun attacking him with a stick, and then subsequently being charged and convicted of committing willful and malicious injury. more ›

On May 17th, 26 year-old Zhou Qin (周琴), a teacher at Guizhou province's Bijiea City Middle School (毕节阿市中学), was at a banquet for government officials where her school principal ordered her to carry out toasts to the official guests, reportedly consuming up to 15 or 16 glasses of 80-proof baiju in the process. Afterwards, Wang Zhonggui (王忠贵, a city rural land resources manager who'd been at the banquet), insisted on giving her a ride home. After she stepped into the car, he drove her to his office where he proceeded to lock the door, molest, and eventually rape her. more ›

It seems as though young women have to be really careful around Shanghai these days. Just last month,two Shanghainese men went on trial for allegedly raping a French intern... and now, another school scandal has been put forth. As reported by Shanghai Daily, a man is being held for trying to rape a 22 year old female at Donghua University campus. The man lured his victim to an empty room of the university by posing as a deaf-mute Japanese student, showing her his cell phone with words saying he had lost his way and needed help. more ›

The views expressed by Professor Peng Xiaohui (彭晓辉) of the Central China Normal University at a lecture last Tuesday entitled “Sex and Interpersonal Relationships" has fired up a maelstrom of debate, among students present at the lecture and online. more ›

"POLICE have arrested a 23-year-old man who is believed to have killed a young woman and had sex with her corpse last month, prosecutors said yesterday. Zhang Fenglang, from Shandong Province, said he killed the woman because she looked like his ex-girlfriend, who had left him, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said Zhang would be charged with murdering and robbing the woman on March 9 in suburban Minhang District. Zhang allegedly fled Shanghai and was arrested by police in his hometown in Shandong on March 30. He was sent back to Shanghai to face criminal proceedings. The suspect allegedly told police he had no intention of ending the woman's life until he saw her face, which sparked his anger after he recalled being dumped by his ex-girlfriend." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

"TWO Shanghai men have been imprisoned for raping a foreign intern student, a local court said today. One man was charged with raping the 20-year-old French student, her name not revealed, in his apartment last November; the other was accused of being an accomplice, according to the court. The main convict was sentenced to three years and three months in jail while the other was to spend two years behind the bars. The French student worked as an intern in a Shanghai company, said the court. The convicts were caught soon after the student called the police. The victim has returned home." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

"A man who ran an unlicensed day-care center is facing criminal charges for molesting and raping five 10-year-old girls in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province. Huang Hui, 58, began to sexually abuse the young girls after reading from a newspaper that having sex with a junior can delight and rejuvenate the older person. He would give each girl 1 yuan (15 US cents) each time to moleste them and ask them not to tell their parents, Yanzhao Metropolitan Daily reported today. Huang was arrested last December. The parents of the five girls Huang sexually assaulted were mostly migrant workers too busy to take care of their children. A woman surnamed Ma was shocked to learn her daughter was raped by Huang and called the police. Huang was charged for rape and molestation by Qiaoxi District prosecutors yesterday. The Qiaoxi District People's Court has accepted the case." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

"A man who was sentenced to death for 116 rapes, 91 thefts and 23 robberies filed an appeal recently in eastern Anhui Province while many of his victims chose silence as they considered their cases shameful. Most of the women Liu Qingpeng, 46, raped in Linquan County in Anhui were wives left in the village when their husbands went to work in cities, Xing'an Evening Post reported today. Liu usually intruded their homes wearing a mask and threatening with a knife. After robbing them, he would rape the victims, the Fuyang City Intermediate People's Court said. The victims also included teenagers, old women and pregnant women. Liu even raped two girls in front of their mother, the court said. However, many women refused to appear in court to give testimony as they thought it's too humiliating to let other people know the rape, a police officer surnamed Yang told the newspaper." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

The Global Times highlights an interesting case that caught our attention yesterday. more ›

Following the footsteps of a Chinese professor who was sent to jail for engaging in group sex, now a 17-year-old girl is on trial on the same charges. Only, this case is even less sensible and even more heinous since - from the sounds of it - she could have been a victim of gang rape. more ›

• Trade Group Rules Against China’s Limits on Media Imports [NY Times] "A World Trade Organization panel ruled on Wednesday that China had violated international free trade rules by limiting imports of books and movies, in a decision that buttresses growing complaints from the United States and Europe about Chinese trade policies. The W.T.O. decision in Geneva is a victory for the United States at a time when a growing number of business executives and politicians perceive China as becoming increasingly nationalistic in its trade policies."
• Heavy Metal Warfare [Caijing] "Seven-year-old Liu Bingqing died in December 2008, two years after he was diagnosed with cadmium poisoning. In Xinma Village, Majiahe Township, Zhuzhou City, in central China's Hunan Province. Liu was not the first to die from contact with this toxic, bluish-white metal, a by-product of zinc production. In early 2006, the sudden death of his fellow villager, Luo Shaokun, had already sparked cadmium-related health and environmental concerns. A government-administered physical test found excessive levels of cadmium in the urine of more than 1,100 Xinma villagers, with severely excessive levels in 200 residents. "
• China's Cancer-Causing Factories [CBS News] "Deng Dingfu is living out his final days wracked with the pain of lung cancer - lung cancer blamed on toxic pollution, reports CBS News Correspondent Celia Hatton. "My doctor asked me if I live near a chemical plant," he said. In fact, he lives very close to one. The Red Butterfly Chemical Factory lies right in the heart of central China's Yong Xi village. Since 2002, the plant has processed strontium carbonate, a powerful substance used in color TV screens. Dozens of people describe how the factory's waste is making them sick. Many say they've developed painful rashes from the village water. Several people have been arrested for speaking out. But locals showed no fear when a plainclothes police officer confronted a CBS news crew. The angry crowd eventually drove him away. "

• Protest at China TV tower [The Straits Times] "Demonstrators gathered outside a fire-gutted tower near the new China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters in Beijing on Tuesday, protesting against what they called forced eviction, state press said. About 30 residents accused the state-run television station of trying to get them to move from the area to make way for the massive and nearly completed construction project, Xinhua news agency said. After about an hour, police persuaded the protesters to put away their banners and leave, the report said. "
• China Backs Off Latest Rio Tinto Claims [WSJ] "Chinese officials distanced the government from allegations on a state-backed Web site that employees of mining giant Rio Tinto PLC had used years of "deceit" to obtain state secrets that cost China's steel industry more than $100 billion — spotlighting the murky and often confusing way China handles such secrecy cases. The allegations, published over the weekend, had quickly gained widespread attention, as they appeared to represent the government ratcheting up pressure over the case of four Rio Tinto employees, including an Australian citizen, who were detained last month by the Shanghai State Security Bureau on vague accusations of using bribery to obtain secrets that harmed China's national interests."
• Another suspect dies in Kunming police custody [GoKunming] "A man being held in detention in Kunming died in a hospital on Saturday with no clear cause of death, according to a Xinhua report. According to a police spokesperson speaking to reporters on Sunday, 43-year-old Wang Shukun (王树坤) had been held in the Guandu District Detention Center since July 19 before being checked into a hospital by police on August 6. After undergoing emergency procedures to save his life, Wang died early Saturday, the spokesperson said."

According to Netease.com, netizens are now undertaking a "human flesh search" for a deputy director general in Wenzhou, after an anonymous net post on a Wenzhou BBS claimed that the official raped a 14-year-old girl earlier this week. more ›

This news piece from Shanghai Daily about a man who got drunk and raped his girlfriend's mother is pretty horrific, but we were particularly struck by a contention near the bottom of the article that the perpetrator, Liu Changren, had been accused of having sex with the mother last year as well. Allegedly, Liu told her she was possessed by the evil spirit of her dead husband and needed to sleep with a young man to cast him out. It sounded very similar to a previous sexorcism story we'd heard, only that guy's name was Ji Renhu. So... is this an editorial mistake or is there now a trend of young men in Baoshan district routinely performing sexorcisms on their girlfriend's mothers? more ›

• Chinese Woman Accused of Murdering Official Freed on Bail [WSJ] "A female hotel employee whose arrest on murder charges sparked a wave of national sympathy in China after her lawyers said she was fighting off a rape attack has been released on bail. Deng Yujiao, 21, was arrested after she stabbed two local government officials with a fruit knife on May 10 in the Xiongfeng Hotel in central Hubei province, killing one of them. Ms Deng's lawyers said she acted in self defense when the men tried to rape her after she refused to have sex with them for money. The case has sparked public anguish over the issue of violence towards woman."
• China ties make Macau good bet to beat Vegas [Reuters] "The world economy may be slumping, but don't tell that to Macau -- the former Portuguese colony which is set to trump Las Vegas heading out of the worst global downturn since the Great Depression. In the smoke-filled gambling halls of Macau's MGM Mirage casino, hundreds of Chinese gamblers were crammed around tables flipping cards, playing roulette and rolling dice on a recent day, seemingly unaffected by the slowdown."
• Climate change a 'game changer' in US-China relations: Pelosi [AFP] "US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that the fight against climate change was a "game changer" in China-US relations, as she visited Beijing on a trip focused on energy. Pelosi, a tough critic of China's human rights record and a vocal advocate of environmental protection, is leading a delegation from the US Congress to China on a working visit devoted to energy and climate change."

A man who allegedly had sex with his girlfriend's mother as a way to cure her “poor health and depression” is now on trial for rape. The mother had come to Shanghai after her husband's death from cancer and began to feel poorly. Ji Renhu, who owned a shop with his girlfriend in the Baoshan District, told the older woman that she was possessed by the evil spirit of her husband, and needed the tender caresses of a younger man to get rid of it. Altogether, they had sex five times over six months. The verdict has not yet been decided. Source: Shanghai Daily more ›

For Wu Liping, mother of an 18 year old Chinese student raped and murdered in Sydney, 2008 has been a year of unfathomable tragedy. Wu flew to Sydney earlier this week to identify the body of her only child who was raped three times before falling off the balcony in a Sydney apartment. The alleged rapist Brendan David Dennison is currently under arrest facing 21 charges. more ›

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If you've been browsing the DVD shops lately, you might have already come across Nanking, a documentary—of sorts—about the Nanjing massacre of 1937. The film consists of three elements: first-person accounts from survivors and eye witnesses, including Chinese civilians and soldiers as well as Japanese soldiers. These are all real people, telling their stories on film. Then there actors portraying some of the people, mostly Europeans and Americans, that played a role in setting up... more ›

Ladies (and guys with long hair), resist from buying those cheap hair bands you find at the mom and pop stores in your 'hood because the news is out that some of them are made from USED condoms. China Daily cites an unnamed dermatologist with the Guangzhou Hospital of Armed Police who says viruses and bacteria abound on these hair bands recycled from condoms and users could be infected with AIDS, genital warts and other... more ›

Experts in Mongolian studies who have spent the last year compiling Genghis Khan's code of laws, which is believed to be the world's first constitution say the legendary Mongolian conqueror banned homosexual acts. Under article 48 of the code, the experts say, men who "committed sodomy shall be put to death". Other acts punishable by death under Khan included "damaging grassland with unauthorized excavations or starting fires". more ›

Zhejiang Satellite TV's Citizens Take Action 《绿原公民行动》has uncovered the most extraordinary story of a woman, Wang Xiaocui (王晓翠) who has been rescued from an underground hole in Lin County, Lu Liang District, Shanxi Province. Barely 2 square meters in area, the hole was home for Wang, and this was where she would eat, drink, sleep and take care of ALL her bodily functions everyday for six long years. more ›

We almost choked on our Earl Grey Tea last night when we learned that an alleged child molester, rapist and pornographer had been hiding out in Suzhou. Kenneth J. Freeman, bodybuilder, computer expert and a former Sheriff's deputy from Washington State, fled the US last year when released on bail for three charges of child rape. more ›

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... more ›