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 by Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2018
Police in central China said Sunday they arrested nearly 50 people after a violent protest sparked by dissatisfaction with the local school system. More than 600 protesters gathered outside a police station in Leiyang city in Hunan province around midnight Saturday after security personnel stopped a protest earlier in the day, police said in a statement on their website. They said they arrested 46 people who "attacked" the station, throwing bottles and bricks at local officials attempting to address the crowd. Many cars had been destroyed, the statement added. Apparent videos of the protests on Twitter showed an angry crowd violently clashing with police in riot gear. AFP could not independently confirm the video. Trouble began after parents of some middle school students were told they would have to move their children into dormitories at a local private school, resulting in a dramatic increase in tuition fees, according to posts on Chinese social media. Additionally, commenters complained that unsafe levels of formaldehyde had been detected in some middle schools' newly renovated dormitories. Posts about the incident had been removed from Chinese social media by Sunday afternoon but were preserved by the anti-censorship website Free Weibo. In a statement on its website, the local education department said it would test the dorms' formaldehyde levels immediately. Violent protests are not uncommon in China, where citizens have limited channels for addressing their frustrations with government. Problems affecting children's health and education are particularly sensitive subjects in the country, where government policy for decades limited parents to only one child.
It's a bird... it's a train... China pigeon racers cause flap with rail ruse Shanghai (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 Cheating to win is as old as sport itself but two Chinese pigeon racers took it to modern-day extremes when they hid the birds in milk cartons and hopped on a bullet train. It was no surprise then when their homing pigeons scooped the first four places in the race and total prize money of more than one million yuan ($150,000). But the pigeons' rapid times soon raised suspicions and Shanghai race organisers turned the men in when the scale of the ruse emerged, the state-run Legal Daily reported. ... read more
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