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A growing number of foreigners have been involved in drug trafficking in the country, latest figures from Chinese courts and customs showed.
Local courts in the Chinese capital tried 36 cases of drug trafficking that involved foreigners last year, 12 times the number in 2006, the Beijing Higher People's Court said on Thursday, two days before the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
The drugs trafficked by the foreign defendants were mostly heroin and methamphetamine of high purity, with the drugs trafficked by each foreign suspect weighing an average of more than 1 kg, the court said.
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Chinese like copy, so western people normally call Chinese Twitter ( Weibo in Chinese pronunciation ) as Twitter Clone.
QQ Releases a Chinese Twitter Clone
The Chinese Twitter clones are rolling out the software factory doors at a frightening pace. Another new entrant is now trying to get marketshare.
TaoTao is one that has a good chance to make it. It's backers are QQ , the insanely popular messaging network. QQ is currently the number 10 website in the world (according to alexa) and at one point in time, a vast majority of the Chinese net population used QQ as their IM solution. They have millions and millions of users to say the least. If they do a good job of cross marketing they should be able to get almost instant uptake. It will also be interesting on how they integrate with their existing QQ service and mobile phones.
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Hilton Hotel has been shutdown by Chongqing Police for providing whores and sex service. According to Chongqing Police, Hilton Hotel's Shareowner have sinister gang support.
Hilton Hotel was found doing this old business twice since Nov. 2009, but didn't change their business model after got the warning from Chongqing Police.
19th Jun. 2010, in a surprise inspection, Chongqing Police found the management level is engaged in prostitution affairs and dealing drugs. So 102 criminal suspects were arrested red-handed in Hilton Hotel.
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Organizers expected about 10,000 Chinese nationals would take to the streets of Paris on Sunday, appealing for the French government to improve public security in the country where the Chinese community has been frequent victims of robbery.
More than 30 Chinese associations planned to participate in the demonstration under the slogan of "No violence, but security". Among them are Chinese in France from various walks of life, overseas students and victims of crime.
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"This dog slaughter house settled here about 2 years ago, since then, 2 or 3 trucks of dogs are sent into it everyday. That means more than 300 dogs get killed per day." local residents said.
Dogs sent in this slaughter house have nowhere to run.
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