Beijing Adult Entertainment: REVIEW: Christian Bale May Be the Star, But Zhang Yimou Puts Women at Heart of …
The Flowers of War never errs on the side of the overly nuanced — a soaring chorus accompanies moments of grace, and beyond a setup based on the looming threat of sexual violence to 12-year-old girls, the film features multiple characters sacrificing themselves to protect the youngsters, from Major Li, who fends off a platoon singlehandedly in an over-the-top but masterfully shot action sequence, to John, in his trek toward redemption, to the prostitutes, who end up offering themselves in the place of the children. A particularly harsh digression in which two of the latter travel back to their brothel to retrieve precious items they left there seems included only to reinforce the terrible fate awaiting any women who fall into the hands of the Japanese soldiers. Colonel Hasegawa (Atsuro Watabe), is the lone Japanese officer who’s not portrayed as a complete savage, though he’s still bound to follow orders, no matter how distasteful.
See the full article from “Movieline”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: Waiting for a baby
Dreams of childless couples are difficult to fulfill as egg donations strictly limited, report Yang Wanli from Beijing and Tang Yue from Tianjin.
It is 6 am in a Beijing winter, and dozens of people are waiting outside Peking University Third Hospital to make appointments. “We’ve seen many doctors in Hebei but got nowhere. This is our final hope, and we have to line up earlier to see a chief physician,” said a young man from Hebei province who was lining up outside the hospital for the first time with his wife. He had been there since 4 am. Unlike at other hospitals, couples here are all lining up for one thing – help getting a baby. This is an increasingly common scenario as the incidence of sterility in China has grown from 3 percent in the 1970s to about 15 percent in 2009.
…
Eggs are hard to get, but the demand is still there. Without egg banks, more than 100 local agents are doing …
See the full article from “BusinessGhana”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: US Envoy Visits China After Kim Jong Il’s Death
U.S. Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, walks out from the arrival hall at Beijing airport Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 in Beijing, China. Campbell arrived in China on a tour that will also take him to South Korea and Japan to discuss developments in North Korea after the death of Kim Jong Il. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (Credit: AP)
BEIJING (AP) — The United States’ top diplomat for Asia arrived Tuesday in China on a tour that will also take him to South Korea and Japan to discuss developments in North Korea after the death of Kim Jong Il.Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, is visiting the region for discussions on how to restart nuclear and food aid talks with North Korea as well as U.S. rapprochement with Myanmar.Campbell is the most senior U.S. official to visit the region since Kim’s death and succession by his youngest son, Kim Jong Un.Campbell did not make any …
See the full article from “Salon”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: Hu: Hostile Forces Seek To Westernize, Split China
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Hu Jintao has told Communist Party members that hostile forces abroad are trying to westernize and divide the country with their cultural influence and that officials must remain vigilant against such efforts.
The party magazine Seeking Truth this week published an excerpt of a speech by Hu to party leaders in October in which he said China is facing a difficult ideological struggle.
“We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration,” Hu said.
…
Last month, Beijing and other city authorities ordered Internet microblogs to require users to register with their real names, a tightening of rules aimed at controlling China’s rapidly growing social networks. Last year, microblogs helped mobilize 12,000 people in the northeastern city of Dalian to successfully demand the relocation of a petrochemical factory.
See the full article from “Salon”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: Waiting for a baby
…
Top: Egg traders negotiate through agencies in a hotel lobby in downtown Beijing on Oct 22. The black market for eggs target girl students from famous universities and pay good money. Above: A doctor checks a frozen egg in a Petrie dish at the Peking University Third Hospital. (Photo source: China Daily)
…
Eggs are hard to get, but the demand is still there. Without egg banks, more than 100 local agents are doing business on the black market, serving more than 10,000 families in China, reported The Beijing News.
…
“I think it is just like selling an organ. It is just prostitution or even worse than prostitution because it is not being responsible for the children. I don’t think we should promote it even if the dealers say they did this to give hopes to the family. Child traffickers also claim they have helped the families that want babies. But they are something really bad,” she said.
See the full article from “Xinhua”
Beijing Escorts: Before fleeing to Canada, suspect allegedly lived a life of luxury complete …
BEIJING — China’s most-wanted man, who was deported from Canada in July after a decade-long legal battle, has admitted to his crimes and will now be handed over to prosecutors, state media reported Friday.
…
Liquor and prostitutes
Before fleeing to Canada, he lived a life of luxury in China complete with a bulletproof Mercedes Benz. He is alleged to have run a mansion in which he plied officials with liquor and prostitutes.
…
China put more than 300 suspects on trial and sentenced 14 to death, including provincial officials and a former vice minister of public security, in a case Beijing has used for a propaganda campaign against corruption.
…
Beijing has accused Lai’s business empire, the Yuanhua Group, of bribing officials to allow a massive smuggling ring. Jia’s wife, Lin Youfang, was among those implicated in the scandal. She denied any wrongdoing.
See the full article from “msnbc.com”
Beijing Escorts: $10 billion smuggling ring: Former fugitive Lai Changxing confesses, Chinese …
BEIJING — China’s most-wanted man, who was deported from Canada in July after a decade-long legal battle, has admitted to his crimes and will now be handed over to prosecutors, state media reported Friday.
…
Liquor and prostitutes
Before fleeing to Canada, he lived a life of luxury in China complete with a bulletproof Mercedes Benz. He is alleged to have run a mansion in which he plied officials with liquor and prostitutes.
…
China put more than 300 suspects on trial and sentenced 14 to death, including provincial officials and a former vice minister of public security, in a case Beijing has used for a propaganda campaign against corruption.
…
Beijing has accused Lai’s business empire, the Yuanhua Group, of bribing officials to allow a massive smuggling ring. Jia’s wife, Lin Youfang, was among those implicated in the scandal. She denied any wrongdoing.
See the full article from “msnbc.com”
Beijing Escorts: China indicts suspect in massive smuggling scandal
BEIJING — BEIJING (AP) – Prosecutors said Friday they indicted a former fugitive at the center of China’s biggest corruption scandal and that he has confessed to bribery and smuggling.
The move brings authorities a step closer to a conclusion in one of China’s most lurid, long-running corruption cases in which the chief suspect fled to Canada and fought extradition for more than a decade.
Prosecutors in the eastern city of Xiamen have indicted Lai Changxing for allegedly masterminding a network that smuggled everything from cigarettes to cars and oil and bribed dozens of government workers between 1996 and 1999, China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported.
…
Before fleeing to Canada he lived a life of luxury in China complete with a bulletproof Mercedes Benz. He is alleged to have run a mansion in which he plied officials with liquor and prostitutes.
See the full article from “Ventura County Star”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: Chinese girls to Dubai charged for potential prostitution
Then Zheng asked for micro blog fans’ confirmation, and they said it is the travel agencies rather than the Dubai authorities that charge this special fee.
The representative office of Dubai Tourism Bureau in China said the charge of special visa fee is not their official act. But the news has triggered anger among netizens, many of them thinking it is a great offence to women.
An anonymous worker from a travel agency in Beijing said that it is a common practice that agencies charge 400 yuan of special visa fee to single female travelers to Dubai aged below 35.
The worker explained that once tourists in Dubai are engaged in illegal acts such as prostitution or theft, the Dubai authorities will impose heavy penalties. Although 400 yuan per person is not a big amount, that really can reduce the travel agencies’ burden for potential penalties.
See the full article from “People’s Daily Online”
Beijing Escorts: Shadowy Sex Case Ensnares Local Officials
For McClatchy Newspapers, Tom Lasseter investigates a case of apparent forced prostitution by dozens of local teenagers in the central Chinese city of Chengguan, and questions how Beijing will be able to handle such cases of local power run amok:
…
The Legal Daily carried allegations of some 10 instances of unnamed officials and well-known citizens in Chengguan paying for sex with young prostitutes at the Water Cube in the spring of 2010. The club, named for the Olympic aquatics center in Beijing, is one intersection away from a police station.
Hard feelings over local mandarins and their corrupt dealings are commonplace in China. But the fact that suspicions extend to something as grotesque as schoolgirl prostitution is the sort of development that causes concern in the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party.
See the full article from “China Digital Times”