A U.K. woman married into a Chinese farming family expecting to live a traditional village life, but is desperate to return to England after seeing the family’s struggle against corrupt local cadres.
Li Fugui, 26-year-old baker, has been selling baked cakes for 50 Chinese cents (US$.08) each, for six years in Nanjing City, the capital of Jiangsu Province in China’s east, without changing the price once.
A Beijing detention center that holds Chinese petitioners without due process released an unknown but possibly large number of them without explanation earlier this week.
On Oct. 9, the same day that the Chinese State Council issued white papers titled “Judicial Reform in China,” a press conference was held at 10 a.m. where Jiang Wei, the office head of the Central Leading Group for Judicial Reform, discussed information on the white papers and answered reporters’ questions.