Red Cross rents out warehouse

    The Red Cross Society of China, which has been in public relations trouble, is accused of having violated the law by leasing* a large warehouse in Beijing for profit for the past two years, the news portal QQ.com reported.

    The charity’s executive vice president, Zhao Baige, said they put the warehouse, which is usually used to store disaster-relief materials* but was empty, into commercial use because they needed funding to pay staff.

    Driver kills student

    Authorities in Chongqing concluded that a female university student who went missing after she entered an unlicensed taxi was murdered by the vehicle’s driver, cqnews.net reported.

    Gao Yu, 20, was reported missing after getting into the “black cab” she mistook as the vehicle of a family friend in the city’s Tongliang County on August 9. The driver of the car, Pu Zhengfu, confessed to killing Gao after being apprehended in Yunnan Province on August 19.

    5 cult members stand trial

    Five cult members went on trial on August 21 for beating a woman to death at a McDonald’s restaurant in a Shandong Province city.

    The woman, surnamed Wu, was attacked in May at the restaurant in Zhaoyuan in Shandong after refusing to give the suspects her telephone number. They were seeking to recruit her into a cult called Quannengshen (Almighty God). Apart from murder, the five were charged with illegal cult activities.

    8 terrorists executed

    Eight terrorists have been executed in Xinjiang, including three men behind a deadly attack in the heart of Beijing in which an SUV plowed* through a crowd, local authorities said on Saturday.

    Their crimes involved five cases, including the terrorist attack in Tian’anmen Square in Beijing, the gun-seizing and police-assaulting case in Aksu, the illegal manufacturing of explosives and intentional killing case in Kashgar, and the establishment of a terrorist organization, the murder of government officials and the incineration of a checkpoint in Hotan.(SD-Agencies)