Society

Police in central China's Hunan Province have posted a hefty reward for information leading to the arrest of a serial killer, who is believed to be responsible for at least two murders in the provincial capital, Changsha.

Xiang Bo, spokesman of the Public Security Bureau in Changsha, said on Monday the bureau had offered a reward of up to 200,000 yuan (29,000 U.S. dollars) for information on the suspect's whereabouts.

He said the bureau had drafted an impression of the suspect's face based on footage from video monitors at a bank in downtown Changsha, where the suspect robbed a man of 45,000 yuan (6,600 U.S. dollars) and shot him dead with a handgun on Friday.

Xiang said the police believed the same man was responsible for another robbery and gun murder of another man in the city's Nanjiao Park on Oct. 14.

The police have described the man as stout, about 40 years old,1.7 meters high, with very short cropped hair.

Three people were sentenced to death for murder and other crimes committed in and after the July 5 riot in Urumqi, capital of west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Friday.
The defendants were Heyrinisa Sawut, Ruzikhari Niyaz and Li Longfei.
Another one was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi, while three others were given jail terms.
The trials were heard in open sessions with presence of relatives of the defendants and the victims.
On Thursday five people were sentenced to death by the court, two others were sentenced to life imprisonment while another six were given jail terms.

Susan Osman, 51, a former British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) News Channel presenter, announced that she would host a program in China after being consistently overlooked for jobs at the BBC.

She will host a prime-time breakfast show on China Radio International and is moving to Beijing.

Osman has worked in broadcasting for 28 years, presenting bulletins on BBC World and reporting for ITN News. She had worked in BBC One for 14 years, according to the Times. The freelance presenter had auditioned for a series of BBC jobs and been told she was "marvelous". But she was consistently overlooked without explanation.

Her name was Dandan.
A wife and mother in her 50s, she looked no different to any Beijing woman you see each day.
We met in the summer at a television studio. As I walked in she had a flask of tea in one hand, a good book in the other and a great smile on her face.
We were both there to be interviewed because apart from being a wife and mother, Dandan was a former drug user and living with HIV.
Over the next hour, she shared her story of how she was infected. But it was the stigma and discrimination she struggled through each day that reminds us that AIDS is not just a battle of public health, but a fight for social justice.