Man kills wife out of despair
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01/11/2002
The trial of a man who killed his wife after losing a foreign company job and a fortune on the bourse has created a stir, especially among white collar workers, Beijing Times reported yesterday. The defendant, Chen Hong, reportedly strangled his wife with a tie in her sleep in the early hours of August 2, 2001. Chen had complained of illness before losing his high-paying job. His wife had started complaining about their worsening monetary condition after he lost a lot of money on the stock market. Chen has confessed that he killed his wife out of despair. Businessman warns against cult A businessman, leading an anti- Falun-Gong drive, reached Beijing on the last leg of his countrywide tour on Wednesday. Wang Benxue, a resident of Dalian in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, began his tour in mid-2001 after seeing the sufferings of his neighbours and friends who practised the cult, Beijing Times reported yesterday. Wang addressed gatherings, distributed self-made pins and collected signatures on an anti-cult petition in the cities he toured. The campaign has cost Wang more than 2 million yuan (US$240,000), the newspaper said. Farmers' income rises by 7% The annual income of Beijing's farmers rose by more than 7 per cent last year despite a nationwide slide in income growth, reported Beijing Evening News yesterday. This is the highest income growth in the last six years. The per capita disposable income increased by 7.3 per cent, to 5,100 yuan (US$614), thanks to the profit in agriculture output, according to the newspaper. The earnings of the city's township enterprises for the first time crossed 100 billion yuan (US$12 billion) last year. Police hotline helps 40,000 The Beijing police hotline '110' helped more than 40,000 people last year, Beijing Morning Post reported yesterday. The hotline received more than 2 million calls in 2001, leading to more than 10,000 arrests.
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