4 arrested for spying

    Four employees of a defense industry* company in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province have been arrested on suspicion of spying and selling confidential* information on state-of-the-art weapons to overseas intelligence* agencies.

    One suspect, surnamed Wen, who was born in the 1990s and worked at a company workshop, was approached by an Internet user using the alias “H” with a part-time job offer.

    KMT names candidate Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party on Sunday endorsed* the candidacy* of Hung Hsiu-chu in the Taiwan leadership election next January.

    Addressing the congress, Hung said that if she is elected, she will promote the peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Strait on the basis of the 1992 consensus*, enabling all people in Taiwan to enjoy the dividends* brought by peaceful development.

    Writer smashes BBS computer

    Xiong Aichun, chief of the Leiyang Federation of Literary and Art Circles in Hunan Province, smashed a computer at the office of a company that runs a local Internet forum after receiving negative feedback* from readers of his poems.

    According to the report, on the morning of July 4, Xiong arrived at the office of lysq.com, demanding to see the head of the community website within five minutes.

    When the countdown ended and the leader failed to appear, Xiong smashed one of the computers.

    1 shot dead by police

    Police in Central China’s Luoyang City shot one person dead and injured another after being assaulted* on Saturday.

    Police officers received a report on Saturday that a dozen people gathered at a construction site in the city and blocked construction vehicles amid disputes. When police officers tried to make reconciliation*, several raging people assaulted the police. The officers fired two warning shots, and the mob tried to take their guns by force.(SD-Agencies)