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(China Daily)
Updated: 2011-05-10 08:02

Court

Wife gets life for strangling 'abuser'

A woman who strangled her abusive husband with a shoelace was sentenced to life in prison on Sunday, Beijing Times reported.

Judges heard Wang, the defendant, had suffered domestic violence since marrying the victim, who was her third husband. He allegedly beat her regularly, as well as visited prostitutes and gambled. On April 14 last year, she strangled him with a shoelace when he was drunk and threw the body into a nearby ammonia tank.

Along with the sentence handed down by Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court, Wang was also ordered to pay more than 460,000 yuan to the victim's mother and daughter.

Community

Green campaigner buried under tree

The bone ash of respected historian Liang Congjie was buried under a cypress tree on Sunday in Beijing's Changping district, Beijing Times reported.

Best known for his work as an environmental campaigner, Liang in 1994 established the country's first environmental non-governmental organization: Friends of Nature. He died last October at the age of 78.

Many colleagues of Liang have also expressed their wishes to be buried under trees after they die.

Community

Historic street reopens after revamp

Xianyukou, an ancient commercial street in downtown Beijing with a history of 570 years, was reopened to the public on Sunday after construction work to restore the area to its former glory, Beijing Youth Daily reported.

Visitors can now get a taste of Beijing specialties in many time-honored restaurants, while the street, which is close to the historic Qianmen area, also boasts international brand stores and hotels.

The street was listed as one of the 25 historical and cultural protection areas in 2004.

Crime

Students use Web to snare dorm thief

University students whose belongings were stolen from their dorm posted a picture of the suspect online in an attempt to collect clues, the Beijing Times reported on Monday.

Six male students from the China Agriculture University lost their laptops, cash and other items in their dorm on the afternoon of May 4. Through a surveillance video, they saw a man sneak into their dorm using a key, which one of the students had lost. They took a screen shot of the man from the video and posted it online.

"We wish the public could help us find out the suspect," said one of the students, surnamed Wang.

Haidian police officers are investigating the theft.

Community

Police on lookout for language graduates

The entry and exit department of Chaoyang police sub-bureau is recruiting graduates majoring in foreign languages as civil servants on Sunday to provide translation in cases involving foreigners. It is the first police bureau in Beijing to do this.

Twenty-two students majoring in English, Russian, Japanese, French, German, Korean and Arabic had interviews.

Five of them will be offered jobs translating for policemen dealing with incidents involving foreigners and providing daily consulting services to foreigners in Beijing.

The successful applicants will receive a monthly salary of about 3,000 yuan, room and board.

China Daily

(China Daily 05/10/2011)