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More than 800 HP customers have banded together to demand better treatment from HP after serious quality problems were reported in some of the company's laptops.

The group is being led by 10 lawyers from Beijing and it is negotiating with the company for compensation.

So far, a spokesperson said, they have not received a "satisfactory promise" from the company.

"HP hasn't compensated customers properly for its laptop problems," said Wang Fengchang, founder of the activist group. Wang is also CEO of Laweach, the biggest professional law website in China.

"The spare part manufacturer nVIDIA found defects in their products and paid compensation of $191 million to HP but where is the money? Are they forwarding it to the customers who were the victims of the defective products?" Wang said.

During a March 22 meeting initiated by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), the lawyers representing the customers asked HP for a solution.

GUANGZHOU - The Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee (GAGOC) has paved the way for reformed juvenile delinquents to work as volunteers at the Games.

A 6-year-old girl is among participants in a volunteer campaign at the Guangdong Reformatory for Juvenile Delinquents on Sunday. The campaign is aimed at encouraging delinquents to volunteer for the Guangzhou Asian Games after they are released from prison. 

The move is designed to encourage the teenagers, as well as to let them know "they have never been abandoned by society", according to Wang Huanqing, director of the GAGOC's volunteers department.

Explosions successfully break the ice of the dangerous Minjibu Reach of the Yellow River under the bombardment in Tumd Right Banner of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on March 22, 2010. The 1.5-meter-high ice dam filling up in the riverway was scrapped to meet the extensive ice run.

Soldiers allocate the coordinates before the blast on the ice of the dangerous Minjibu Reach of the Yellow River under the bombardment in Tumd Right Banner of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on March 22, 2010. The 1.5-meter-high ice dam filling up in the riverway was scrapped to meet the extensive ice run.