Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Deaf News: Deaf-mute victims ‘beaten, raped, intimidated’ into stealing in Chinese crime gang in China.
CHANGCHUN -- A Deaf woman has been arrested in northeast China and accused of leading a gang of mainly deaf-mute thieves who were threatened and intimidated into a life of crime, a newspaper reported.
Police in Changchun in Jilin province busted the gang last month and detained four women and seven men, most of whom are Deaf, the New Culture Express reported. The gang’s leaders pretended to help people get jobs to lure them into the gang, the article said.
Victims then had their identity cards and money seized by the gang’s boss, Gu Li, 47. Gang members would be beaten up, raped or threats made to kill their relatives if they did not go out and steal, the report said.
They targeted supermarkets and would cram expensive items inside their clothes to steal them. The gang stole about 100,000 yuan (HK$120,00 ) worth of goods in Changchun, the police were quoted as saying.
Three hundred and sixty people were arrested in a national crackdown in China three years ago and accused of abducting Deaf students and forcing them to carry out robberies.
Sixty-one gangs were discovered in 21 provinces around China. Source
CHANGCHUN -- A Deaf woman has been arrested in northeast China and accused of leading a gang of mainly deaf-mute thieves who were threatened and intimidated into a life of crime, a newspaper reported.
Police in Changchun in Jilin province busted the gang last month and detained four women and seven men, most of whom are Deaf, the New Culture Express reported. The gang’s leaders pretended to help people get jobs to lure them into the gang, the article said.
Victims then had their identity cards and money seized by the gang’s boss, Gu Li, 47. Gang members would be beaten up, raped or threats made to kill their relatives if they did not go out and steal, the report said.
They targeted supermarkets and would cram expensive items inside their clothes to steal them. The gang stole about 100,000 yuan (HK$120,00 ) worth of goods in Changchun, the police were quoted as saying.
Three hundred and sixty people were arrested in a national crackdown in China three years ago and accused of abducting Deaf students and forcing them to carry out robberies.
Sixty-one gangs were discovered in 21 provinces around China. Source
VIDEO [CC] - PETA: Olivia Munn Exposes Chinese Fur-Farm Cruelty.
Warning: This video contains graphic content may disturbing, the features images that may shock or sensitive audiences.
PETA: (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) - Actor Olivia Munn - star of HBO's hit series The Newsroom - is taking her role as senior financial reporter to a new level by exposing "globalization at its worst" in her brand-new undercover video exposé, which reveals never-before-seen footage of animals being beaten, stomped, genitally electrocuted, and skinned alive on Chinese fur farms, where there are no penalties for this abuse.
China is the world's largest exporter of fur, and undercover investigations repeatedly reveal what the fashion industry won't tell you: foxes, minks, rabbits, and even dogs and cats are mercilessly killed in order to make fur coats, vests, trim on jackets, purses, and other accessories.
"Who needs fur to feel beautiful?" Olivia asks in her beautiful print ad, shot by top photographer Emily Shur, as a poignant reminder that fur only looks good on its original owner: the animal.
Olivia reminds us that when it comes to violence on fur farms, "There's nothing good about pretending like you don't know." Please take a minute to watch the undercover video footage. Then share the video on Facebook and Twitter to let your family and friends know not what they might be wearing, but whom. Petition: olivia munn/peta.org
Olivia exposes the intense suffering of animals on fur farms in this shocking video. Find out where fur really originates and who's really paying the ultimate price for it. Learn more: http://on.fb.me/xYJbT1
Please share to stop abuse the animals. Official PETA website: www.peta.org
Warning: This video contains graphic content may disturbing, the features images that may shock or sensitive audiences.
PETA: (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) - Actor Olivia Munn - star of HBO's hit series The Newsroom - is taking her role as senior financial reporter to a new level by exposing "globalization at its worst" in her brand-new undercover video exposé, which reveals never-before-seen footage of animals being beaten, stomped, genitally electrocuted, and skinned alive on Chinese fur farms, where there are no penalties for this abuse.China is the world's largest exporter of fur, and undercover investigations repeatedly reveal what the fashion industry won't tell you: foxes, minks, rabbits, and even dogs and cats are mercilessly killed in order to make fur coats, vests, trim on jackets, purses, and other accessories.
"Who needs fur to feel beautiful?" Olivia asks in her beautiful print ad, shot by top photographer Emily Shur, as a poignant reminder that fur only looks good on its original owner: the animal.
Olivia reminds us that when it comes to violence on fur farms, "There's nothing good about pretending like you don't know." Please take a minute to watch the undercover video footage. Then share the video on Facebook and Twitter to let your family and friends know not what they might be wearing, but whom. Petition: olivia munn/peta.org
Olivia exposes the intense suffering of animals on fur farms in this shocking video. Find out where fur really originates and who's really paying the ultimate price for it. Learn more: http://on.fb.me/xYJbT1
Please share to stop abuse the animals. Official PETA website: www.peta.org
VIRAL VIDEO: Helen Keller sunglasses commercial video under fire for misleading and copyrights.
A Chinese company has grabbed international headlines by naming a line of sunglasses after Deaf-Blind activist Helen Keller.
Is it a smart thing to try and profit off of someone else’s tragedy? One company seems to think so. A Chinese fashion firm, Xiamen Jinzhi, has named a line of its sunglasses Helen Keller.
This is no marketing mistake, or lost in translation. A spokesman for the company, Chen Wenjing, told the Wall Street Journal, they were well aware Keller was blind, but saw merchandising value in her “philanthropist spirit.”
It appears Helen Keller is a famous figure Chinese children learn about in school, according to the article. But maybe the fashion company’s marketing team didn’t pay attention when the course was taught.
On the company’s Helen Keller sunglasses website, someone seems to have picked up a reference about Helen Keller from Wikipedia, “Helen Keller: She was the first Deaf-Blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.” Read more: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/24/11370286-helen-keller-sunglasses-create-a-stir
A Chinese company has grabbed international headlines by naming a line of sunglasses after Deaf-Blind activist Helen Keller.
Is it a smart thing to try and profit off of someone else’s tragedy? One company seems to think so. A Chinese fashion firm, Xiamen Jinzhi, has named a line of its sunglasses Helen Keller.
This is no marketing mistake, or lost in translation. A spokesman for the company, Chen Wenjing, told the Wall Street Journal, they were well aware Keller was blind, but saw merchandising value in her “philanthropist spirit.”
It appears Helen Keller is a famous figure Chinese children learn about in school, according to the article. But maybe the fashion company’s marketing team didn’t pay attention when the course was taught.
On the company’s Helen Keller sunglasses website, someone seems to have picked up a reference about Helen Keller from Wikipedia, “Helen Keller: She was the first Deaf-Blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.” Read more: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/24/11370286-helen-keller-sunglasses-create-a-stir
