| Man poisons food for extortion |
男子投毒勒索超市 |
| A 21-year-old suspect has been arrested for poisoning goods to extort money from a supermarket in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, Guangzhou Daily reported. The man called the supermarket twice last week and asked for money. The second time, he told the supermarket he had poisoned six kinds of food. The police and some government agencies immediately began an investigation. They informed the public and tried to look for the customers who may have bought the food. |
據《廣州日報》報道，一名21歲的嫌疑人因投毒勒索廣東省廣州市的一家超市而被捕。上周，這名男子兩次給超市打電話，索要錢財。第二次打電話時，他告訴超市說，他已對6種食品下了毒。警方和一些政府部門迅速展開調查，并發出公告，試圖找到可能購買了這些食品的顧客。 |
| Life sentence for evading tolls |
偷逃過路費被判無期徒刑 |
| A man in Yuzhou, Henan Province has been convicted of fraud and sentenced to life for using military vehicles' license plates to evade up to 3.68 million yuan in road tolls, the Dahe Daily reported. A life sentence for such a crime is unprecedented. The man is a local peasant in the transportation business who posed as a soldier and managed to get two fake military police vehicle license plates. He had evaded tolls 2,361 times over eight months before being caught. |
據河南《大河報》消息，河南禹州市一名男子使用假軍車牌照偷逃過路費總計368萬元，被法院以詐騙罪判處無期徒刑。偷逃過路費被判無期徒刑，在國內還未有先例。該罪犯是當地的一個農民，經營運輸生意，他假裝成一名士兵，設法買到兩套假武警軍車牌照。在被抓獲之前的8個月里，他總共違法免費通行高速公路2361次。 |
| Cabbies on strike in Zhengzhou |
鄭州出租車集體停運 |
| Taxi drivers in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, began a citywide strike Monday to protest cancellation of a rest day by local authorities, Beijing News reported. Local officials began enforcing a new rule at the start of the year that no longer permits drivers to take a day off after a six-day run. Authorities say they want to put more cabs on the road, but drivers say the extra work caused fatigue and jeopardized their business. The local government has put 4,000 officers on duty to monitor taxi drivers and make sure they carry passengers. One driver said more than half of the 10,607 licensed taxis were on strike. |
據《新京報》報道，河南鄭州的出租車司機周一起開始全市大罷工，以抗議當地政府取消休息日。新年伊始，當地政府開始實施新規定，不允許出租車司機工作六天后休息一天。政府稱，他們想讓更多的出租車上路，但司機們說超時的工作使他們很疲勞，并影響他們的生意。當地政府派了4000名警察監督出租車司機，以確保司機載客。一位出租車司機表示，全市10607輛合法出租車中一半以上停運。 |
| Earthquake restoration funds misused |
隴地震災區重建款被挪用 |
| The local government of Wenxian, Gansu Province, misused more than 80 million yuan in earthquake restoration funds, Economic Information reported. The money was meant for building new houses in disaster-stricken areas in Wenxian, where more than 78 percent of houses were destroyed or became inhabitable in the 2008 earthquake. Authorities lent money from the fund to local companies, while some people are still living in tents. The 44 built houses have also been found to have severe quality problems. |
據《經濟參考報》消息，甘肅文縣政府截留8000多萬元地震災區重建款。在2008年發生的地震中，文縣受災地區78%以上的房屋受損或者無法再居住，重建款是用來為災區建新房的，但縣政府卻將這些款項借給當地企業，而一些受災群眾仍住在帳篷里。重建的44戶房屋也被曝有嚴重質量問題。 |
| Man rapes, kidnaps wife's sister |
河南男子強奸劫持妻姐 |
| A 29-year-old man from Bo'ai County, Henan Province became violently enraged on Jan. 10 after his wife asked for divorce, the Dahe Daily reported. He brutally attacked his mother-in-law with both an axe and knife, and then raped his sister-in-law and held her and her 3-month-old daughter hostage as he attempted to negotiate with his wife. Local police freed the hostages and arrested the man. |
《大河報》消息，1月10日，河南博愛縣村民張某在妻子提出離婚后勃然大怒。29歲的張某先是殘忍地用斧頭和刀砍傷了岳母，接著又強奸了妻子的姐姐。為了和妻子進行談判，他還把妻子姐姐及其3個月大的女兒劫為人質。當地警方解救了人質并已將張某抓獲。 |
