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News & Politics

Taken at 2 a.m. to an 'Internet Addiction' Camp, a 31-Year-Old Woman Is Now Suing

Fu Jing was taken from her bedroom in Hubei at 2 a.m. and driven to a Chongqing 'internet-addiction treatment' center her father had paid 46,500 yuan to fix her 'lying flat'. After 159 days and a beating, she is suing — and the camp's defense in court this week was that the beating was done 'as a job duty'.

A pest-control contractor sprayed banned dichlorvos across the dining rooms of dozens of chain restaurants for years, killing the fish in customers' tanks; six people are now in custody in Xiamen, and the party body overseeing China's courts has told judges to treat such cases as bottom-line violations.

Beijing police in Chaoyang district opened a criminal case into Yixin-related companies on Monday and took compulsory measures against the group's actual controller, days after the wealth-management giant declared itself insolvent four months after freezing redemptions.