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Beijing Escorts: Before fleeing to Canada, suspect allegedly lived a life of luxury complete …

suziewong — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:37:29 +0000

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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Beijing Escorts: $10 billion smuggling ring: Former fugitive Lai Changxing confesses, Chinese …

suziewong — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:37:28 +0000

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Beijing Escorts: China indicts suspect in massive smuggling scandal

suziewong — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:37:25 +0000

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.
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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.

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Beijing Escorts: Shadowy Sex Case Ensnares Local Officials

suziewong — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:24:50 +0000

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:
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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.

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Beijing Escorts: Zhang, Bale blossom together on "Flowers of War"

suziewong — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:13:04 +0000

… Oscar winning actor Christian Bale arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film ‘The Flowers of War,’ in Beijing on December 12, 2011.Photograph by: MARK RALSTON/Getty Images, MARK RALSTON/Getty Images
(Reuters) – In 100 years of Chinese film, “The Flowers of War” is the first major title to feature a western movie star. It earned a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign language film, and is China’s entry for Oscars.
Budgeted at $100 million and paid for by the Chinese government, “Flowers of War” stars Oscar-winner Christian Bale as John Miller, an opportunist mortician on the run in 1937 as the Japanese are invading the province of Nanking, now known as Nanjing. The Japanese occupation led to the deaths of thousands of Chinese citizens and came to be known by some as the Rape of Nanking or the Nanjing Massacre.
In the film, which has a limited U.S. release this week before opening nationwide in 2012, Bale’s character must save a group of schoolgirls from the clutches of the Japanese. At the same time, he falls in love with a Chinese courtesan.

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Beijing Escorts: The End of the Chinese Dream – by Christina Larson

suziewong — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:36:47 +0000

BEIJING – In June, a Chinese friend of mine who grew up in the northern industrial city of Shenyang and recently graduated from university moved to Beijing to follow his dream — working for a media company. He has a full-time job, but the entry-level pay isn’t great and it’s tough to make ends meet. When we had lunch recently, he brought up his housing situation, which he described as “not ideal.” He was living in a three-bedroom apartment split by seven people, near the Fourth Ring Road — the outer orbit of the city. Five of his roommates were young women who went to work each night at 11 p.m. and returned around 4 a.m. “They say they are working the overnight shift at Tesco,” the British retailer, but he was dubious. One night he saw them entering a KTV Club wearing lots of makeup and “skirts much shorter than my boxers” and, tellingly, proceeding through the employee entrance. “So they are prostitutes,” he concluded. “I feel a little uncomfortable.”

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Beijing Escorts: A tax weapon that cuts both ways in China

suziewong — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:49:05 +0000

In 2009, Beijing traced 119.2 billion yuan (Bt588 billion) in missing taxes, or 0.002 per cent of total tax receipts, but that was probably the tip of the iceberg.
Enter the fapiao, or official invoice – a flimsy yet effective weapon in the battle against tax dodgers.
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“In the beginning, the chances of winning in Beijing were quite high. I used to ask for invoices because of this. But now it has become a habit,” said IT manager Zhang Rui, 37, of the tax lottery system, launched in 1998.
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For businesses, invoices amount to higher operational costs, noted Henry Wong, business director of an international school in Beijing.
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Officials accused in graft cases have been known to make exorbitant expense claims by misusing invoices. One urban legend has it that prostitutes in Amsterdam even proposition potential Chinese clients by cooing: “Come in, have fapiao!”

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Beijing Escorts: Former IMF boss Strauss-Kahn appears in Beijing

suziewong — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:00:45 +0000

Former IMF boss Strauss-Kahn appears in Beijing
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Photo credit: AP | A security guard drives away journalists who try to film former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn after his arrival at an economy conference organized by Chinese Internet company Netease in Beijing, China, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Strauss-Kahn began his return to public life Monday with a speech at a business conference in Beijing after the scandal earlier this year in New York over a sexual assault accusation. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
BEIJING – (AP) — Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn began his return to public life Monday with a speech at a business conference in Beijing after the scandal over his arrest in New York City on sexual assault charges.
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“In China, a lot of people still support you and really love you,” said Li, a member of the Chinese central bank’s monetary policy advisory committee. “Beijing probably is the most welcoming place for you.”
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The attempted rape charge badly damaged Strauss-Kahn’s reputation, and other scandals — including allegations by a French writer that he sexually assaulted her during a 2003 interview and claims he was linked to a suspected hotel prostitution ring — have effectively ended his political career.

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Beijing Escorts: Actor Bale attacked during trip to China dissident

suziewong — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:12:33 +0000

BEIJING — Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale has suffered a nasty brush with Chinese guards who forcibly blocked him and a CNN crew from visiting a blind lawyer-dissident being held under house arrest.
Bale, who is in China to promote his upcoming Nanjing Massacre film “The Flowers of War”, was stopped on the outskirts of the village in eastern China where the activist Chen Guangcheng is being detained.
Bale, who describes Chen as a personal “inspiration”, invited a CNN crew to accompany him on the eight-hour drive from Beijing to the village in Linyi district.
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The British actor plays an American drifter who becomes the unwitting protector of a group of Chinese schoolgirls and prostitutes trying to escape the Japanese army’s brutal sacking of China’s wartime capital.
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“This doesn’t come naturally to me, this is not what I actually enjoy — it isn’t about me,” he said during the long drive from Beijing to the activist’s village.

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Beijing Escorts: Zhang Yimou’s latest epic lauds humanity in wartime

suziewong — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:48:34 +0000

BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) — Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s “The Flowers of War,” starring Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale, will debut nationwide Friday with a story line that illuminates human nature during turbulent times.
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According to Lin, the film, instead of focusing on the cruelty of invaders and a dark and depressing atmosphere like previous Nanjing Massacre films, made her feel “warm and moved” with soldiers, prostitutes and those from different walks of life resolutely choosing to sacrifice themselves to save the country as the story unfolded.
A review of Beijing-based Jinghua Times described the film as “having both strong sound and visual effects as well as humanistic power,” calling it “very Oscarish.”
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“We fully understand the conscience and emotions of prostitutes and don’t oppose illustrating their political virtues in a humanistic way. However, for a heavy theme like the Nanjing Massacre, it’s not proper to drum up sex scenes out of box office ambitions,” Zhu wrote in a review carried by the Southern Metropolis Daily.
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The film started screening in advance in several cities, such as Beijing, Thursday evening, the producer said.

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