please read the below - Yue Yue has passed away in the early morning hours of Friday 21.10.2011:
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A toddler who was twice run over by vans and then ignored by passers-by on a busy market street in southern China has died a week after the accident and after days of bitter soul-searching in the country.
Surveillance camera footage of people walking past two-year-old girl Wang Yue, nicknamed Yue Yue, as she lay bleeding and unconscious sparked a wave of condemnation and soul-searching on China's hugely popular social networking sites.
A rubbish collector who finally moved the girl to the side of the street in the southern Chinese city of Foshan was hailed as a national hero, but the incident also led many online commentators to question the state of Chinese morality.
A nurse in the intensive care unit of the Guangzhou Military District General Hospital confirmed that the two-year-old girl, Wang Yue, died early today.
"Yue Yue died of systemic organ failure," a spokesman from the hospital treating her told AFP, adding that no expense had been spared to try to save the girl, whose parents are migrant workers.
Doctors had earlier said Yue Yue, who had been in a coma since the October 13 incident, was unlikely to survive.
The death of Yue Yue was one of the most popular topics on China's weibos -- microblogging sites similar to Twitter -- today as people expressed sorrow and anger over the incident.
"Farewell to little Yue Yue. There are no cars in heaven," wrote one microblogger on Sina's weibo.
"Yue Yue was consumed for a week by the fake kindness of netizens... All the wishes are fake and only the 18 passers-by are real. Farewell, and do not be born in China in your next life," another weibo user wrote.
Police have detained the drivers of both vehicles involved in the incident.
The plight of Yueyue came to symbolise what many Chinese see as a decay in public morals after decades of headlong pursuit of economic growth.
AP/AFP
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Friday, October 21, 2011
CHILD KIDNAPPINGS IN ANHUI - LIVING WITH DEAD HEARTS
HERE WE GO ABOUT SOME MORE DIRT FROM CHINA & IT SEEMS NOBODY CARES !
This comes from chinaSMACK - I will put a link to that blog on the sidebar asap..
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by on Monday, October 17, 2011
In February of 2011, news spread across Chinese websites and BBS forums about cases of child kidnapping in Anhui province. These cases were a bit more brutal than what’s often reported in the Chinese media — in some cases, kidnapped children had been splashed with acid or otherwise disfigured to make them look more sympathetic as beggars — but the kidnapping of children is in no way uncommon in China, nor is it limited to Anhui.
In fact, tens of thousands of children — estimates vary — are kidnapped in China each year. Some, like the children in February’s Anhui case, are sold into lives on the street. Many are lucky enough to be sold to “adoptive” families who raise them as regular children. Still others, mostly older children, are sold into marriage, prostitution, or slave labor.
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Now please take a look at this - some documentary under preperation called LIVING WITH DEAD HEARTS - they need some money / sponsorship - anybody out there to help they would be very happy.
Here is the trailer:
This comes from chinaSMACK - I will put a link to that blog on the sidebar asap..
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by on Monday, October 17, 2011
In February of 2011, news spread across Chinese websites and BBS forums about cases of child kidnapping in Anhui province. These cases were a bit more brutal than what’s often reported in the Chinese media — in some cases, kidnapped children had been splashed with acid or otherwise disfigured to make them look more sympathetic as beggars — but the kidnapping of children is in no way uncommon in China, nor is it limited to Anhui.
In fact, tens of thousands of children — estimates vary — are kidnapped in China each year. Some, like the children in February’s Anhui case, are sold into lives on the street. Many are lucky enough to be sold to “adoptive” families who raise them as regular children. Still others, mostly older children, are sold into marriage, prostitution, or slave labor.
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Now please take a look at this - some documentary under preperation called LIVING WITH DEAD HEARTS - they need some money / sponsorship - anybody out there to help they would be very happy.
Here is the trailer:
Interview with the driver No. 1
Believe it or not: Before the driver who hit & overrun little Yue Yue in Foshan, turned himself into police he had an interview with a local radio station - here the translation - a translation of the "mind-set"of this guy, everybody with at least some common sense can do by themselves:
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He said he has some losses himself because he didnt get his salary: His salary maybe RMB 1,500 - approx USD 240 !
Actually the excuse to quit a job "some emergency in the family" is a very popular excuse in China.
Not only if you are a driver just killed a 2 year old girl.
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· Reporter(R): Are you the one who ran over Yueyue?
· Accident driver (A): I didn’t want that happen either. I’m just a driver.
· R: Why did you call her father?
· A: When the accident happened, I was on the phone.
· R: Why didn’t you stop after running into something? Did you know you had hit somebody?
· A: I knew I’ve run into a person. I was scared. If you hit somebody, you would ran away too.
· R: Don’t you have any conscience? Why didn’t you save her?
· A: I was too scared. I am just a driver.
· R: How many years have you been driving? Don’t you know hit-and-run is a very severe crime?
· A: I’ve been driving for 2 years. Who never makes a mistake? As you can see, that kid walked and looked around. If she walked more carefully, how would I run into her?
· R: Was there any heavy goods on the truck?
· A: Yes, that’s why I stepped on the gas.
· R: Now how do you like to deal with this accident?
· A: I want to offer them some money. But I don’t want to show up.
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· Later reporter called the accident driver again:
· R: Do you want to turn yourself in now?
· A: No. I’ve asked my friend to send my wife and kids over here from Guangxi. I’ll find a job in the construction site where no one knows me.
· R: You want to hide yourself for the rest of your life?
· A: I’m scared. I didn’t mean to (run over the girl.) Everybody makes mistake. I have a wife and a 14 year-old kid. Without me, they can’t survive.
· R: One should be responsible for his own fault. You have kid too, don’t you know how Yueyue’s parent feel?
· A: so what?
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· R: How is your feeling now?
· A: sad..haha
· R : At this point, you still laugh?
· A: It’s a bitter smile. You have no idea how much pressure I’m under now. One word-’scared’. I would hide until I couldn’t anymore. I know sometime it take more than a few decades to catch a murder. I’m over 30 year-old now. In 30 years, I might have died. This whole thing would have been forgotten. I know how to deal with the cops. I would shy away from the big cities, just stay in the suburbs and don’t make big money.
· R: Seeing your kid, wouldn’t that remind you of the little girl you ran over?
· A: Why should I? She wasn’t even my kid.
· …
· R : How would you like to compensate the losses of Yueyue’s family?
A: I also have losses myself. I didn’t get my salary. I told my boss there was some emergency in my family and just quit the jobunquote
He said he has some losses himself because he didnt get his salary: His salary maybe RMB 1,500 - approx USD 240 !
Actually the excuse to quit a job "some emergency in the family" is a very popular excuse in China.
Not only if you are a driver just killed a 2 year old girl.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Some more thoughts about the little girl
Blog picture changed to the photo of Yue Yue in the hospital. Here some more words just getting out of the net right now:
quote from DAILY MAIL UK:
Hopes fade for little Yue Yue: Doctors confirm girl, two, ignored by 18 people after being run over is brain dead
A critically injured Chinese toddler left to die in the street after she was run over twice is brain dead, doctors said today.
The parents of two-year-old Yue Yue – which translates as Little Joy in Chinese - may now face the agonising decision about when to turn off the life support machine keeping their daughter alive.
The Chinese Government's state news agency Xinhua quoted doctors as saying Yue Yue 'is in a deep coma and clinically brain dead'.
It appears her condition has deteriorated, despite showing signs of some recovery earlier this week.
'We cannot give any information,' said a hospital spokesman this morning.
Her parents, who are poor migrant workers, have been keeping millions informed about their daughter's condition via a specially created website.
Yesterday they posted that Yue Yue was showing signs of recovery and said medication had been reduced.
Reports claimed her heart beat had stabilised and she had regained the ability to take weak breaths and some feeling in her arms.
But as of Wednesday evening Beijing time, no update had been posted.
There were initial reports this morning that Yue Yue had died, but these appear to be unfounded.
The shocking incident was caught on CCTV and has stunned millions in China, with many saying their society – which has enjoyed 30 years of rapid development – is rotten and immoral.
It also sparked global outrage after more than a dozen people can be seen in the footage walking or driving past the stricken girl as she lay in the street in Foshan city, Guandong province.
The case is quickly becoming a political issue and it is feared Communist Party officials have called for tighter controls over the reporting about the incident for fear of a public backlash.
President Hu Jintao is in his final year of office and his main policy and slogan has been to build a 'harmonious society'.
But millions are using Yue Yue's tragedy to highlight all that is wrong with modern China and claim their society is anything but harmonious.
Public anger is festering over rampant corruption in politics and business, lack of the rule of law, pollution that is seeing cancer rates soar and the widening rich-poor gap, with many of the 'spoilt' siblings of the political elite – so called princelings – being singled out for extra criticism.
Both drivers who ran over Yue Yue have been arrested, but claimed not to have seen the little girl in the 'dark' street.
Chinese media reports that one of the men had allegedly just broken up with his girlfriend and was on his mobile phone when he hit the girl.
The Shanghaiist claims one driver called Yue Yue's father to offer him money just before he was arrested.
It claims he said: 'You saw that girl on the CCTV footage, she didn't see where she was going, you know.
'I was on the phone when it happened, I didn't mean it.
'When I realised I had knocked her down, I thought I'd go down to see how she was.
'Then when I saw that she was already bleeding, I decided to just step on the gas pedal and escape seeing that nobody was around me.'
Authorities in Foshan presented Chen Xianmei, a rubbish collector who went to Yue Yue's aid, with $1,570 as a reward.
Another company in the city has also offered to donate $7,500 to her family and rescuer.
Many people in China are hesitant to help people who appear to be in distress over fears they will be blamed.
High-profile law suits have ended with good Samaritans ordered to pay hefty fines to individuals they sought to help.
The incident has also sparked a series of soul-searching articles in Chinese newspapers, including the Guangzho Daily and People's Daily Online.
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AND THEN BE AWARE OF THIS:
Concern Communist Party officials have called for tighter controls over reporting the incident for fear of a public backlash.
Personal comment:
Yes it is a very tragic accident ! Many questions:
1)
Why the first driver did not stop after hitting the girl first and at least try to help ? How shameful his action just to drive away and hurt the girl again ? He was talking on the mobile ............?
Anyhow in prison you do not need a mobile anymore !
2)
Why nobody call the police / ambulance - as this is a very narrow alley - a lot of people (even not on the CCTV) have already watched the first hit !
3)
All the passers-by nobody even dare to call an ambulance or move the girl away from the driving lane ? All shall rot in HELL ! What would they think if it was their own kid ?
4)
The 2nd truck - what kind of driving is this ? You just roll over a body down there on the street ?
5)
All this is making the government so nervous that they are trying to minimize reporting about that "incident". It would be better to use this case for "education purposes" which seems urgently needed for a big part of China's population !
quote from DAILY MAIL UK:
Hopes fade for little Yue Yue: Doctors confirm girl, two, ignored by 18 people after being run over is brain dead
A critically injured Chinese toddler left to die in the street after she was run over twice is brain dead, doctors said today.
The parents of two-year-old Yue Yue – which translates as Little Joy in Chinese - may now face the agonising decision about when to turn off the life support machine keeping their daughter alive.
The Chinese Government's state news agency Xinhua quoted doctors as saying Yue Yue 'is in a deep coma and clinically brain dead'.
It appears her condition has deteriorated, despite showing signs of some recovery earlier this week.
'We cannot give any information,' said a hospital spokesman this morning.
Her parents, who are poor migrant workers, have been keeping millions informed about their daughter's condition via a specially created website.
Yesterday they posted that Yue Yue was showing signs of recovery and said medication had been reduced.
Reports claimed her heart beat had stabilised and she had regained the ability to take weak breaths and some feeling in her arms.
But as of Wednesday evening Beijing time, no update had been posted.
There were initial reports this morning that Yue Yue had died, but these appear to be unfounded.
The shocking incident was caught on CCTV and has stunned millions in China, with many saying their society – which has enjoyed 30 years of rapid development – is rotten and immoral.
It also sparked global outrage after more than a dozen people can be seen in the footage walking or driving past the stricken girl as she lay in the street in Foshan city, Guandong province.
The case is quickly becoming a political issue and it is feared Communist Party officials have called for tighter controls over the reporting about the incident for fear of a public backlash.
President Hu Jintao is in his final year of office and his main policy and slogan has been to build a 'harmonious society'.
But millions are using Yue Yue's tragedy to highlight all that is wrong with modern China and claim their society is anything but harmonious.
Public anger is festering over rampant corruption in politics and business, lack of the rule of law, pollution that is seeing cancer rates soar and the widening rich-poor gap, with many of the 'spoilt' siblings of the political elite – so called princelings – being singled out for extra criticism.
Both drivers who ran over Yue Yue have been arrested, but claimed not to have seen the little girl in the 'dark' street.
Chinese media reports that one of the men had allegedly just broken up with his girlfriend and was on his mobile phone when he hit the girl.
The Shanghaiist claims one driver called Yue Yue's father to offer him money just before he was arrested.
It claims he said: 'You saw that girl on the CCTV footage, she didn't see where she was going, you know.
'I was on the phone when it happened, I didn't mean it.
'When I realised I had knocked her down, I thought I'd go down to see how she was.
'Then when I saw that she was already bleeding, I decided to just step on the gas pedal and escape seeing that nobody was around me.'
Authorities in Foshan presented Chen Xianmei, a rubbish collector who went to Yue Yue's aid, with $1,570 as a reward.
Another company in the city has also offered to donate $7,500 to her family and rescuer.
Many people in China are hesitant to help people who appear to be in distress over fears they will be blamed.
High-profile law suits have ended with good Samaritans ordered to pay hefty fines to individuals they sought to help.
The incident has also sparked a series of soul-searching articles in Chinese newspapers, including the Guangzho Daily and People's Daily Online.
UNQUOTE
AND THEN BE AWARE OF THIS:
Personal comment:
Yes it is a very tragic accident ! Many questions:
1)
Why the first driver did not stop after hitting the girl first and at least try to help ? How shameful his action just to drive away and hurt the girl again ? He was talking on the mobile ............?
Anyhow in prison you do not need a mobile anymore !
2)
Why nobody call the police / ambulance - as this is a very narrow alley - a lot of people (even not on the CCTV) have already watched the first hit !
3)
All the passers-by nobody even dare to call an ambulance or move the girl away from the driving lane ? All shall rot in HELL ! What would they think if it was their own kid ?
4)
The 2nd truck - what kind of driving is this ? You just roll over a body down there on the street ?
5)
All this is making the government so nervous that they are trying to minimize reporting about that "incident". It would be better to use this case for "education purposes" which seems urgently needed for a big part of China's population !
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Chinese toddler run over and ignored 'to remain in vegetative state' - SOME MORE NOTES HERE
Chinese toddler run over and ignored 'to remain in vegetative state'
By Peter Foster, Beijing
By Peter Foster, Beijing
2:00PM BST 18 Oct 2011
Video footage of the incident involving 2-year-old Wang Yue – known by her pet family name Yueyue – caused outrage in China and around the world on Tuesday, prompting questions about whether China's economic miracle had left a moral vacuum in its wake.
The girl, who was eventually scooped up and rescued by the nineteenth passer-by remains in a critical condition in the intensive care unit of Guangzhou military hospital in China's industrial heartland of Guangdong.
The hospital's head of neurosurgery, quoted by the local Guangzhou Daily newspaper, said that Yueyue had suffered massive head injuries and was in a coma, only able to breathe with the aid of a ventilator.
Wang Weiming, head of the neurosurgery department at the general hospital of Guangzhou military region, said Yueyue had shown no improvement and was very unlikely to recover her mental faculties.
"The patient largely fits the criteria of brain death," he added, "but her limbs are relatively sensible to a pain reflex, so she cannot be determined as brain-dead.
The girl's parents, who owned a small stall in the wholesale market in nearby Foshan, where the incident happened, were maintaining a rotating vigil at their daughter's bedside, hoping against hope that she might recover.
The girl's mother, named as Mrs Qu, said she had moved to Foshan in 2003 to start up the shop and had rented an apartment nearby.
The middle class couple said they had been inundated with calls of support and offers of donations for their daughter's medical care, but had declined the offers, saying they were "much appreciated" but not needed.
The distraught parents have avoided voicing their feelings over the incident, saying they wanted only to focus on Yueyue's recovery, but her grandfather, named as Mr Wang, admitted to a local newspaper that he "hated those cold-blooded passers-by".
He added that he had recognised at least one of the passersby. "I wanted to beat him, but at last I held myself back," he was quoted as saying in the Southern Metropolis Daily.
The story of Yueyue has both touched and angered millions of people in China and around the world.
In China, the TV report of the incident was viewed more than 2 million times on the internet within 24 hours and on Sina Weibo – China's version of Twitter – it attracted 4.4 million comments in the same period, organised under the hashtag "Please end the cold-heartedness."
By last night the story appeared to have sparked a national campaign on Sina Weibo under the banner "Please Stop Apathy" which was the number one trending topic, with thousands of posts calling for a return to moral consciousness in China.
"Little Yueyue's tragedy should not be repeated, the morality should not disappear, our hearts must still have a conscience. From today, offer to help those who need your help, because caring for others is just help yourself," said the call for change.
The public discussion reached even the pages of People's Daily, the mouthpiece of China's ruling Communist Party that usually remains aloof from such mass debates when they erupt on China's vibrant internet discussion boards.
"Although saving people constantly brings 'trouble,' nonetheless, ignoring the dying or even helping with evil acts by negligence is ripping apart society's ethical baseline and dissolving any sense of conscience deep in the souls of the public," wrote a senior columnist, Li Hongbing.
The one person who attracted universal praise for her warmheartedness was Yueyue's rescuer, 58-year-old Chen Xianmei who was said to work as a domestic helper by day and supplement her income by collecting rubbish for recycling at night.
Yueyue's parents were photographed meeting the woman, bowing down in a ritual 'kowtow' – a public expression of gratitude that she had stopped to help their daughter when so many others had walked on by.
The woman said she had thought about the risk of malicious prosecution when she intervened to help Yueyue – the reason widely given in China why 18 others did not stop to help – adding that she responded instinctively.
She told reporters she had found Yueyue with one eye shut and the other eye open looking at her and had rushed around searching for her mother. "I didn't think I was getting into any trouble. I didn't think so much. I just wanted to help her," she said, before returning to work.
SHAME ON YOU CHINA:
How can you lead the world when you can’t even stop to pick up a little girl as she lays dieing on the road !
"The patient largely fits the criteria of brain death," he added, "but her limbs are relatively sensible to a pain reflex, so she cannot be determined as brain-dead.
The girl's parents, who owned a small stall in the wholesale market in nearby Foshan, where the incident happened, were maintaining a rotating vigil at their daughter's bedside, hoping against hope that she might recover.
The girl's mother, named as Mrs Qu, said she had moved to Foshan in 2003 to start up the shop and had rented an apartment nearby.
The middle class couple said they had been inundated with calls of support and offers of donations for their daughter's medical care, but had declined the offers, saying they were "much appreciated" but not needed.
The distraught parents have avoided voicing their feelings over the incident, saying they wanted only to focus on Yueyue's recovery, but her grandfather, named as Mr Wang, admitted to a local newspaper that he "hated those cold-blooded passers-by".
He added that he had recognised at least one of the passersby. "I wanted to beat him, but at last I held myself back," he was quoted as saying in the Southern Metropolis Daily.
The story of Yueyue has both touched and angered millions of people in China and around the world.
In China, the TV report of the incident was viewed more than 2 million times on the internet within 24 hours and on Sina Weibo – China's version of Twitter – it attracted 4.4 million comments in the same period, organised under the hashtag "Please end the cold-heartedness."
By last night the story appeared to have sparked a national campaign on Sina Weibo under the banner "Please Stop Apathy" which was the number one trending topic, with thousands of posts calling for a return to moral consciousness in China.
"Little Yueyue's tragedy should not be repeated, the morality should not disappear, our hearts must still have a conscience. From today, offer to help those who need your help, because caring for others is just help yourself," said the call for change.
The public discussion reached even the pages of People's Daily, the mouthpiece of China's ruling Communist Party that usually remains aloof from such mass debates when they erupt on China's vibrant internet discussion boards.
"Although saving people constantly brings 'trouble,' nonetheless, ignoring the dying or even helping with evil acts by negligence is ripping apart society's ethical baseline and dissolving any sense of conscience deep in the souls of the public," wrote a senior columnist, Li Hongbing.
The one person who attracted universal praise for her warmheartedness was Yueyue's rescuer, 58-year-old Chen Xianmei who was said to work as a domestic helper by day and supplement her income by collecting rubbish for recycling at night.
Yueyue's parents were photographed meeting the woman, bowing down in a ritual 'kowtow' – a public expression of gratitude that she had stopped to help their daughter when so many others had walked on by.
The woman said she had thought about the risk of malicious prosecution when she intervened to help Yueyue – the reason widely given in China why 18 others did not stop to help – adding that she responded instinctively.
She told reporters she had found Yueyue with one eye shut and the other eye open looking at her and had rushed around searching for her mother. "I didn't think I was getting into any trouble. I didn't think so much. I just wanted to help her," she said, before returning to work.
SHAME ON YOU CHINA:
How can you lead the world when you can’t even stop to pick up a little girl as she lays dieing on the road !
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
SOME MORE INFO ABOUT THE CASE FROM BELOW POST
Mother testifies to good character of rescuer
Updated: 2011-10-18 07:23
By Li Wenfang (China Daily)
The parents of Yue Yue, a girl who had been run over by two vehicles, kneel down on Sunday to thank Chen Xianmei, who have moved their daughter to a safe place. [Provided to China Daily]
GUANGZHOU - Despite critics' disparagements of the woman who rescued a 2-year-old girl this past week in Foshan, Guangdong province, the girl's mother said she believes the rescuer is a good person.
"I don't have enough words to thank her with," the mother, who would identify herself only as Qu, said at the hospital on Monday.
Her praise was for Chen Xianmei, a 57-year-old woman who moved Qu's daughter Yue Yue to the side of a road after the girl had been run over by a van and a truck in a hardware market this past Thursday. Before Chen came to the rescue, 18 people had walked past Yue Yue without helping her.
A number of shopkeepers close to the accident scene denied that they had witnessed what had happened. Chen was the first person to offer help.
The rescuer hails from Qingyuan, Guangdong province, and lives with her son in Foshan, cooking meals at a small company in the morning and picking up rags in the afternoon.
According to Qu, Chen would occasionally remove refuse from the shop Qu runs in the hardware market.
"Every time she saw used cartons or plastic bottles, she would ask me, 'Do you still want them or not?' before she collected them," Qu said. "She is a good person. There is no doubt about that."
Learning of the case, the public has poured out its anger on the passers-by who ignored the girl while praising Chen for being the only person at the accident scene who gave evidence of possessing a conscience.
Recalling the accident, Chen said: "I was picking up trash in the hardware market when I saw a child lying in the road. I walked up in a hurry to the girl and heard her groan. I lifted her up and saw that one of her eyes was closed, that she had tears in her eyes, and she was bleeding from her mouth, nose and the back of her head.
"I wanted to carry her but she was soft and collapsed immediately. I was scared to try again and so I dragged her to the side of the road and shouted for help. But nobody showed up," Chen was quoted in Yangcheng Evening News as saying.Chen asked a few nearby shopkeepers who the girl was and only heard "I don't know" in reply.
Chen said she was not afraid of being wrongfully blamed for the accident. "When I see old people who fall down, I help them," she said. "Somebody has to help. The most important thing is to save a life. She was just a little child. It was dark, but I could definitely see her."
Since the rescue, Chen said she has been bewildered by the number of requests for media interviews she has received. She also heard that critics have accused her of helping the girl merely out of a desire for publicity.
Her daughter-in-law, who declined to state her full name, said those comments have been disappointing.
"Is it really so difficult to be a good person?" she said.
Qu said she puts no stock in what the critics are saying.
"I am truly grateful," she said. "She is really kind, not the type of person who enjoys publicity."
Speaking of the indifferent passers-by, Qu said: "I won't judge them. Let them make their own judgment. If they are married and have children, they will know. But I bear no grudge and refuse to be disappointed by society. Many kind people have come to help."
Qu said she plans to stay by her daughter's side at the hospital where the girl is undergoing treatment.
"I didn't care for my child very well, and it's my fault," she said. "But Yue Yue can't leave her mother and her mom won't leave her."
Yue Yue, who remains in a critical condition, underwent a special test of her brainstem on Monday. The results of that will show whether she is brain dead, said Wang Weimin, director of the neurosurgery department of the General Hospital of the Guangzhou Military Command of the People's Liberation Army. The hospital said the test results will be made public on Tuesday.
Yue Yue's mother wrote on her micro blog that her daughter's four limbs have shown signs of having feeling and a doctor said her progress has been much better than expected.
Meanwhile, the civilization office of Foshan's Nanhai district presented 10,000 yuan ($1,570) to Chen on Monday as a reward for her kind deed, said Guo Yu, director of the office.
"I feel indignant and disappointed about the passers-by, who should reflect on what their behavior says about themselves," he said. "It wasn't that difficult to help the girl, and Chen Xianmei did it out of her heart and conscience."
Charity groups have received donations for the girl and Chen, Guo said.
As for the drivers who hit Yue Yue, one has been caught by the police and the other has turned himself in, Wang Zhen'an, chief of the Foshan traffic police, said on Monday.
Tan Xuezhen and Xue Yutong contributed to this story.
Updated: 2011-10-18 07:23
By Li Wenfang (China Daily)
GUANGZHOU - Despite critics' disparagements of the woman who rescued a 2-year-old girl this past week in Foshan, Guangdong province, the girl's mother said she believes the rescuer is a good person.
"I don't have enough words to thank her with," the mother, who would identify herself only as Qu, said at the hospital on Monday.
Her praise was for Chen Xianmei, a 57-year-old woman who moved Qu's daughter Yue Yue to the side of a road after the girl had been run over by a van and a truck in a hardware market this past Thursday. Before Chen came to the rescue, 18 people had walked past Yue Yue without helping her.
A number of shopkeepers close to the accident scene denied that they had witnessed what had happened. Chen was the first person to offer help.
The rescuer hails from Qingyuan, Guangdong province, and lives with her son in Foshan, cooking meals at a small company in the morning and picking up rags in the afternoon.
According to Qu, Chen would occasionally remove refuse from the shop Qu runs in the hardware market.
"Every time she saw used cartons or plastic bottles, she would ask me, 'Do you still want them or not?' before she collected them," Qu said. "She is a good person. There is no doubt about that."
Learning of the case, the public has poured out its anger on the passers-by who ignored the girl while praising Chen for being the only person at the accident scene who gave evidence of possessing a conscience.
Recalling the accident, Chen said: "I was picking up trash in the hardware market when I saw a child lying in the road. I walked up in a hurry to the girl and heard her groan. I lifted her up and saw that one of her eyes was closed, that she had tears in her eyes, and she was bleeding from her mouth, nose and the back of her head.
"I wanted to carry her but she was soft and collapsed immediately. I was scared to try again and so I dragged her to the side of the road and shouted for help. But nobody showed up," Chen was quoted in Yangcheng Evening News as saying.Chen asked a few nearby shopkeepers who the girl was and only heard "I don't know" in reply.
Chen said she was not afraid of being wrongfully blamed for the accident. "When I see old people who fall down, I help them," she said. "Somebody has to help. The most important thing is to save a life. She was just a little child. It was dark, but I could definitely see her."
Since the rescue, Chen said she has been bewildered by the number of requests for media interviews she has received. She also heard that critics have accused her of helping the girl merely out of a desire for publicity.
Her daughter-in-law, who declined to state her full name, said those comments have been disappointing.
"Is it really so difficult to be a good person?" she said.
Qu said she puts no stock in what the critics are saying.
"I am truly grateful," she said. "She is really kind, not the type of person who enjoys publicity."
Speaking of the indifferent passers-by, Qu said: "I won't judge them. Let them make their own judgment. If they are married and have children, they will know. But I bear no grudge and refuse to be disappointed by society. Many kind people have come to help."
Qu said she plans to stay by her daughter's side at the hospital where the girl is undergoing treatment.
"I didn't care for my child very well, and it's my fault," she said. "But Yue Yue can't leave her mother and her mom won't leave her."
Yue Yue, who remains in a critical condition, underwent a special test of her brainstem on Monday. The results of that will show whether she is brain dead, said Wang Weimin, director of the neurosurgery department of the General Hospital of the Guangzhou Military Command of the People's Liberation Army. The hospital said the test results will be made public on Tuesday.
Yue Yue's mother wrote on her micro blog that her daughter's four limbs have shown signs of having feeling and a doctor said her progress has been much better than expected.
Meanwhile, the civilization office of Foshan's Nanhai district presented 10,000 yuan ($1,570) to Chen on Monday as a reward for her kind deed, said Guo Yu, director of the office.
"I feel indignant and disappointed about the passers-by, who should reflect on what their behavior says about themselves," he said. "It wasn't that difficult to help the girl, and Chen Xianmei did it out of her heart and conscience."
Charity groups have received donations for the girl and Chen, Guo said.
As for the drivers who hit Yue Yue, one has been caught by the police and the other has turned himself in, Wang Zhen'an, chief of the Foshan traffic police, said on Monday.
Tan Xuezhen and Xue Yutong contributed to this story.
Very, very sad !
Only watch this below YouTube clip if you have strong nerves - here the story first - my only question is:
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS KIND OF PEOPLE ?
Watch how a poor Chinese child gets run over and then run over again by two separate vehicles and people do nothing to help her. Unbelievable behavior.
Footage is taken from a surveillance camera presented on local TV shows Yue Yue was walking in a hardware market in Foshan, Guangdong province, on Thursday, about 100 meters away from her home, when she was run over by a van at 5:26 pm.
The girl was then run over by a light-duty truck. The riders of four electric bicycles, a tricycle and three passers-by all chose to ignore her and no one at a shop close to the scene came to her aid.
Seven minutes after she was first hit by the van, a 57-year-old rag collector noticed the girl and moved her to the curb. The woman then tried talking to the shopkeeper but received no response. When she ran from shop to shop for the identity of the girl, the rag collector was told by a number of shopkeepers to mind her own business.
She then walked into the street and a few seconds later, the girl's mother appears and rushes away with the girl.
The girl received emergency surgery in Foshan before being transferred to the General Hospital of the Guangzhou Military Command of the People's Liberation Army in Guangzhou on the same day.
The incident is the latest example of passers-by acting indifferently to victims injured in crimes. In this case, some blamed the parents for letting the girl walk on the street alone. More criticized the phenomenon of people passing by without helping, caused at least in part by previous extortion attempts from the injured and their families who have sometimes tried to blame the person helping.
-------------- 16 / 10 / 2011 News Update --------------
Chinese authorities have supposedly have caught the first driver (the second is no worse in my opinion). "If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands yuan," said the driver over the phone to the media, before he gave himself up to the police.
The girl has been pronounced "brain dead" by doctors and remains on life support in intensive care.
"She couldn't breathe on her own," said Wen Qiang, deputy director of the ICU department.
The most optimistic estimate is that the girl will remain in a vegetative state on life support.
-------------- 17 / 10 / 2011 News Update --------------
Police have detained both drivers.
-------------- 17 / 10 / 2011 News Update --------------
Unconfirmed reports that the toddler died on 16 / 10 / 2011:
"...doctors said the girl died yesterday from severe brain injuries she had suffered in the accident."
http://www.shanghaidaily.org/article/?id=484913&type=National
http://english.sina.com/china/p/2011/1016/405462.html
http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/videos/2-year-old-chinese-girl-ran-over-by-van...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8830790/Chinese-toddler-...
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS KIND OF PEOPLE ?
Watch how a poor Chinese child gets run over and then run over again by two separate vehicles and people do nothing to help her. Unbelievable behavior.
Footage is taken from a surveillance camera presented on local TV shows Yue Yue was walking in a hardware market in Foshan, Guangdong province, on Thursday, about 100 meters away from her home, when she was run over by a van at 5:26 pm.
The girl was then run over by a light-duty truck. The riders of four electric bicycles, a tricycle and three passers-by all chose to ignore her and no one at a shop close to the scene came to her aid.
Seven minutes after she was first hit by the van, a 57-year-old rag collector noticed the girl and moved her to the curb. The woman then tried talking to the shopkeeper but received no response. When she ran from shop to shop for the identity of the girl, the rag collector was told by a number of shopkeepers to mind her own business.
She then walked into the street and a few seconds later, the girl's mother appears and rushes away with the girl.
The girl received emergency surgery in Foshan before being transferred to the General Hospital of the Guangzhou Military Command of the People's Liberation Army in Guangzhou on the same day.
The incident is the latest example of passers-by acting indifferently to victims injured in crimes. In this case, some blamed the parents for letting the girl walk on the street alone. More criticized the phenomenon of people passing by without helping, caused at least in part by previous extortion attempts from the injured and their families who have sometimes tried to blame the person helping.
-------------- 16 / 10 / 2011 News Update --------------
Chinese authorities have supposedly have caught the first driver (the second is no worse in my opinion). "If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands yuan," said the driver over the phone to the media, before he gave himself up to the police.
The girl has been pronounced "brain dead" by doctors and remains on life support in intensive care.
"She couldn't breathe on her own," said Wen Qiang, deputy director of the ICU department.
The most optimistic estimate is that the girl will remain in a vegetative state on life support.
-------------- 17 / 10 / 2011 News Update --------------
Police have detained both drivers.
-------------- 17 / 10 / 2011 News Update --------------
Unconfirmed reports that the toddler died on 16 / 10 / 2011:
"...doctors said the girl died yesterday from severe brain injuries she had suffered in the accident."
http://www.shanghaidaily.org/article/?id=484913&type=National
http://english.sina.com/china/p/2011/1016/405462.html
http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/videos/2-year-old-chinese-girl-ran-over-by-van...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8830790/Chinese-toddler-...
Sunday, October 16, 2011
GONG "Master Builder" MANCHESTER uk 2010
Here comes your weekend music - some chaos perfectly matching this week in our beloved Hong Kong
Thursday, October 13, 2011
DONALD TSANG POLICY ADDRESS 12.10.2011
Today Donald Tsang delivered his last POLICY ADDRESS. Not too many things to mention in my opinion. Some sweets for the elderly, some promises to provide more "shoe-box-flats"too families with low income. No concrete measures to stop property tycoons to manipulate the first & second hand market - I am sure Donald Tsang tried his best - but sometimes the best is not good enough. Unfortunately what will be his successor will not be better.............
You can read the whole text here.
And this is the final word on the page called "highlights":
Core Values
We love Hong Kong and treasure equality, justice, integrity, the rule of law, freedom, pluralism and inclusiveness as the core values of Hong Kong. This ensures the success of "One Country, Two Systems
You can read the whole text here.
And this is the final word on the page called "highlights":
Core Values
We love Hong Kong and treasure equality, justice, integrity, the rule of law, freedom, pluralism and inclusiveness as the core values of Hong Kong. This ensures the success of "One Country, Two Systems
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