Society

Secret, illegal "black jails" exist in China, a state-run weekly has confirmed, despite official denials otherwise.

Chinese citizens in search of justice often end up in such detention centers when they file complaints against the government, the state-run weekly magazine Outlook reported last week.

A network of such jails awaits the petitioners when they travel to Beijing and provincial capitals to seek redress or compensation for injustices. Many are victims of land grabs, physical assault, discrimination and corruption, often at the hands of local officials.

"They come to Beijing out of desperation after they hit a dead end in their localities," said a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity, because he is not authorized to speak publicly.

Government officials have adamantly denied that such facilities exist.

Liang, born in 1986, lives in Yangzhou, got 10-year jail-time sentence for building 3 porn websites. From 2008.12.08 to 2009.05, He built 3 porn websites on foreign web hosting server for Chinese netizen, the most popular one is "I love sex only". He downloaded 8759 nasty photos, 4712 sential articles and 288 videos from other porn websites, then uploaded to his own websites. In the end, his gained 3470RMB(about 508.3 USD) by allowing sex toy providers put their ADs on.

This is the most serious sentence on this kind of charge in China. The former case in 2008 only got 3-year jail time.

BTW, due to the lack of formal sex education in current education system in China. People (including adults) normally get those sex information on porn websites.

So porn websites are very popular in China, and current internet management is getting out of date.

Both China and the EU agreed here Sunday that it was not the right time to withdraw their stimulus policies as the world is fighting the global financial crisis.

"Early exit (of the stimulus policy) will make us lose all results we have already earned," Wen told a trio of European Union(EU) financial chiefs ahead of the 12th China-EU summit, which is to be held in eastern China city of Nanjing on Monday.

Wen met with Euro Group President and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, discussing issue on world economy, monetary policy and exchange rate.

The Chinese government announced Friday that it would continue its proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy next year.

One year after Wei Xiaogang told his parents he is gay, his mother is still trying to find him a wife.

"When I told my mother, she was shocked and cried," he says.

She still thinks he might change if he lived with a woman.

"It is hard for her to accept," says Wei, 33, who had been hiding his sexuality from his parents for many years beforehand.

"There was a long time of doubt and struggle before my coming out."

When he told his parents, he had been with a male partner for several years, although they have since split.

Although homosexuality has become largely socially accepted in many Western countries, it is still immensely complicated in China. It was only in 2001 that homosexuality ceased to be officially described as a mental illness in China.

"Coming out is a big thing for Chinese homosexuals," Wei says.

Most people still regard homosexuals as strange and the refusal of parents to accept their children's sexual orientation is often a reason why many Chinese gays and lesbians marry, says Wei.

"About 80 percent of all Chinese gay and lesbians are living in a heterosexual relationship and marry in order to satisfy their parents."

Which does not mean they do not have a second life while they are married. "Sometimes a gay guy marries a lesbian woman, so both can live their true orientation, but they are officially married for their parents."