| | Fuzhou Highway Bureau Deputy Director Beaten to Death in Riot Involving 400 | World | PC |
| | 2003 | | WEN WEI PO |
| | Around 0200 yesterday morning, a riot protesting law-enforcement took place at the highway weigh- |
| | station in the Fuzhou Bailong section of the state highway 316 in Fujian Province. Four hundred drivers |
| | smashed and destroyed the weigh-station booths, overturned four police cars, beat to death Chen |
| | Bangzhao, deputy director of a sub-sectional highway bureau of Fuzhou City, injured six other people, |
| | and caused close to one million yuan's worth of damage. |
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| | According to the staff working at the weigh-station, around 0200 yesterday, when eight workers at |
| | the weigh-station on the Fuzhou highway section were performing routine check-ups, they found that |
| | a truck with Jiangxi province plate was clearly overloaded. They therefore signaled to the driver and |
| | asked him to drive the truck to the station for inspection, but the driver refused to cooperate. In the |
| | meantime, three people jumped down from the truck and began to attack the station workers using |
| | daggers and iron bars, and smashed the weigh-station. Soon the violence led to a big traffic jam of |
| | cars and trucks passing through the weigh-station. Many drivers also joined in the attack and, at the |
| | peak time, as many as 400 drivers were involved. |
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| | Six Were Injured and the Economic Damage Was Close to One Million Yuan... |
| | PRC JFJB on Taiwan Name Rectification, Other Progressive Independence | World | PC |
| | 2003 | | JIEFANGJUN BAO |
| | There has been a great public outcry when on 1 September the Taiwan authorities started to issue the |
| | so-called "new passports" with the additional annotation of the English word "Taiwan" on their |
| | covers. The Taiwan "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" immediately made an appearance itself to |
| | "emphasize" that "the additional annotation of the English word 'Taiwan' on the new passport cover |
| | has been done without any political considerations but totally due to functional purposes" and claimed |
| | that this "has been a proposition that has the consistent support of the majority of the Taiwan |
| | populace, makes it convenient for the populace to travel abroad, absolutely has nothing to do with |
| | politics, and does not have any political implications." |
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| | Comment: This article interested me because the relations between China and Taiwan, even though |
| | Fujian is seen in a collective view. Taiwan is trying to cover their asses and say that the new |
| | passports had no political implications towards wanting its independence... |
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