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Life Chinese version of Riverdance boasts ethnic color Folk dances carried through generations in Guizhou are alive and kicking. > PAGE 20 Business Women are more than half the sky when it comes to consumption > PAGE 13 Nation Investigation into hepatitis outbreak begins Health experts sent to Zijin county, Guangdong, to fi nd out why more than 200 people were infected. > PAGE 5 CHINADAILY chinadaily.com.cn RMB ¥1.5FRIDAY, February 24, 2012 Contacts News: (86-10) 6491-8366 Subscription: (86) 400-699-0203 Advertisement: (86-10) 6491-8631 E-mail: editor@chinadaily.com.cn iPhone app: chinadaily.com.cn/iphone On chinadaily.com.cn Bilingual News: Sotheby’s to sell Munch’s The Scream, looking at $80 million Forum: Translation Contest Series No 6 Video: Rural China 10: The next 10 years Society: Praying for luck when the dragon raises its head 国内统一编号:CN11-0091 国际标准编 号:ISSN0253-9543 邮发代号:1-3 © 2012 China Daily All Rights Reserved Vol. 32 — No. A member of the Asia News Network 9924 Training ensures that crime does not pay Violent incidents have helped shape China’s police force, Wu Wencong and Yang Wanli report in Beijing. V iolence, murder, gruesome deaths and vicious lives: the stories of some of China’s most hardened criminals may have captured headlines but their very noto- riety may curtail their crimi- nal career. Violent crime has done more than just get media at ten- tion, according to a leading expert, who says it has played an important role in develop- ing the skills of the security forces. Wang Dawei said that each dangerous villain — especial- ly those who, for a time, evad- ed capture — has in some way led to improvements in equipment, forensic science or psychological profi ling. Th e Chinese People’s Pub- lic Security University pro- fessor spoke to China Daily as authorities continue the hunt for a killer nicknamed “Brother Headshot”, who last month shot a man outside a bank in Nanjing and stole 200,000 yuan ($31,700). “Take the Wang broth- ers (thieves who killed or injured 18 people in 1983), for example,” the professor said. “Capturing them cost the lives of many offi cers and greatly challenged the combat capabilities of the police.” SEE “FUGITIVES” PAGE 6 COVER STORY TALKS RESUME PHOTO BY ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY Glyn Davies, US special representative on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea policy, speaks to the media in Beijing on Th ursday. Davies and DPRK representative Kim Kye-gwan held the fi rst talks since the death of DPRK leader Kim Jong-il in December. See story on page 12. HAIRY MOMENT PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY A range of emotions — resigned, delighted, upset and intrigued — seem to be depicted by babies experiencing a close shave on Th ursday, the second day of the second lunar month. Th is auspicious day, when “the dragon raises its head”, marks the start of spring. See story on page 3. Life Chine of Riv boast Folk dances c Guizhou are a > PAGE 20 In this issue NATION ...........................................2-5, 7 COVER STORY. ......................................6 COMMENT..........................................8, 9 WORLD.........................................10-12 BUSINESS......................................13-17 LIFE.................................................18-21 SPORTS..........................................22-24 Jordan faces challenge in a new court from Qiaodan By WANG WEN AND SUN XIAOCHEN CHINA DAILY BEIJING — Qiaodan Sports, the company sued by US bas- ketball legend Michael Jordan for unauthorized use of his name, defended itself by stress- ing its brand “cannot be identi- fi ed with Michael Jordan”. Jordan fi led a lawsuit against the Chinese company on Th ursday morning. He accused the company, based in Jinjiang in East China’s Fujian province, of building its business around his name in Chinese and jer- sey number without his per- mission. Th e fi rm denied the accusation. “We just use a Chinese trans- lation of a common foreign family name and it cannot be identified with Michael Jor- dan,” said Hou Lidong, man- ager of the public relations department of Qiaodan Sports. Later, the company issued a statement, saying the brand, Chinese Qiaodan, is legally registered in China and pro- tected by domestic law. A similar statement was also presented in Qiaodan Sports’ prospectus, which was sent to the China Security Regulatory Commission in December 2011. Th e company is prepar- ing to be listed in Shanghai. “Th e brand and trademark of Qiaodan Sports do not infringe Michael Jordan’s name right and other rights,” it said in the prospectus. A name dispute is listed as a risk hindering the company’s listing eff ort in the prospectus. Kang Yi, a Chinese lawyer representing Michael Jordan, told China Daily the US super- star asked Qiaodan Sports to stop infringement. The Chinese company has been using the brand since 2000 and even managed to become an international brand by signing current Sacramento Kings’ center Chuck Hayes as its brand ambassador last year. Kang said that Jordan was only aware of the Chinese com- pany at the end of 2011 and then approached the law fi rm. Th is seemed to address ques- tions as to why Jordan waited for 12 years to launch the law- suit. SEE “JORDAN” PAGE 2 Countries unite to tackle EU fl ight tax Moscow meeting sees common approach develop against scheme By XIN DINGDING AND CECILY LIU CHINA DAILY BEIJING / LONDON — A 32-nation conference agreed that Europe should drop its unilateral decision to impose a green tax on airlines fl ying into the European Union, and a majority of countries signed a declaration oppos- ing it, a senior offi cial said on Th ursday. All airlines using EU air- ports, from this year, are required to buy permits under the Emissions Trad- ing Scheme. Th e scheme was introduced unilaterally, with- out any negotiation. “(Charging emission fees on international aviation) is a multilateral issue, but the EU breached this principle of han- dling international matters,” said Ji Yuan, a deputy director at the planning and develop- ment department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Thirty-two countries, including China, the United States, Brazil, India, Japan, Singapore, South Africa and Argentina, participated in the international conference on cutting greenhouse gas emis- sions in Moscow on Tuesday and Wednesday. “All participating countries agreed that the EU should drop its unilateral methods and return to a multilateral discussion to solve the emis- sion issue,” said Ji, who was a member of the Chinese del- egation to the conference. So far, 29 countries have signed a joint declaration opposing the European scheme. Th e declaration envisages a basket of retaliatory measures to the EU emissions trading scheme, allowing any country to introduce any measure in line with national legislation to either completely scrap the ETS or to postpone it. Th e measures include bar- ring national airlines from participating in the EU’s car- bon scheme, lodging a formal complaint with the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization, ceas- ing talks with European carri- ers on new routes and impos- ing retaliatory levies on EU airlines. “The conference has achieved its purpose. It will send a strong signal to the EU,” Ji said. Foreign Ministry spokes- man Hong Lei on Thursday urged Europe to base its future decisions on the bigger pic- ture of international coopera- tion on climate change, the sustainable development of international aviation as well as China-EU ties. Beijing hopes the EU will beef up communication and coordination with related par- ties, including China, with “a constructive and practical atti- tude” to find an appropriate solution, Hong said. Previously, non-EU coun- tries expressed opposition against the scheme in various ways. China’s air regulator banned Chinese airlines from complying with the EU scheme this month. In the US, legislation is under way to ban US airlines from par- ticipating in the ETS. SEE “EU” PAGE 2 By XU JINGXI CHINA DAILY GUANGZHOU — As he does his rounds, the only “watch- dog” Ou Shaokun needs is his simple cell phone. “Which government depart- ment do you work for?” asks Ou as he taps on the driver’s window of a car parked on the sidewalk. “Did you drive a govern- ment car here for your own business?” When the driver refused to answer Ou’s questions, he took out his cell phone and started taking photos of the license plate and the man behind the wheel. With showy white pants and a loud voice, the 60-year- old quickly drew a group of onlookers around the car that was parked on the sidewalk in front of a bustling temple fair in the Guangdong capital. Many of them echoed Ou’s questions. Under pressure, the driver finally admitted that he was a civil servant but explained that he drove the car for work, showing Ou his work permit. “Even if you’re not using the car for personal business, you broke the rule that cars can’t park on sidewalks. Please move your car. Civil servants aren’t privileged to break this rule!” said Ou relentlessly. The civil servant finally drove away and the specta- tors congratulated Ou, some praising his boldness and oth- ers even wanting pictures with him. Among residents in Guang- zhou, he is better known as Uncle Ou, and is famous for being a persistent and outspo- ken watchdog of government. The laid-off market atten- dant hit the spotlight when he reported to the media last April that he had caught a policeman using a patrol car to pick up his daughter from school. To urge the police to pub- lish the results of the investi- gation and what punishment the policeman received, Ou handed police a pear － which has similar pronunciation in Chinese to the word “pressure”. It took police three months to relent and release the infor- mation, but since then, expos- ing the use of government cars for private business has become Ou’s new “job”. Aft er making breakfast for his family, Ou goes for a walk near his house in Haizhu dis- trict or takes a bus to Yuexiu district, where the offi ces for complaints of the Guangzhou Bureau of Public Security and the Guangzhou Price Bureau are located. Ou knows the importance of evidence and having a wit- ness, so the minute he started having a conversation with the driver in front of the temple fair, he pressed the “record” button on his cell phone. “It’s outdated but has all the functions I need, taking pho- tos, recording and uploading the photos to my Sina Weibo,” said Ou. During Spring Festival this year, he posted a picture of an invoice on his micro blog to accuse a civil servant’s wife of buying meals at public expense. He was also one of the fi rst residents who entered a public hearing for the adjust- ment of water prices last Feb- ruary. “Rather than spending the rest of my life at ease, I prefer making full use of my time to do something I believe ben- efi ts society,” said Ou. “My wife tried to persuade me to stop meddling and enjoy the idle life of chatting over tea with friends and going for a walk in parks. But I just can’t keep silent when I witness wrongdoing,” said Ou. Last September Ou filed a lawsuit against three local government departments that he blamed for allowing a con- struction site to intrude for too long into a public park. “Some people dislike Ou’s outrageous expressions of dissatisfaction, but they can’t deny the existence of the prob- lems Ou takes aim at,” said Chen Xiaozhao, who was Ou’s lawyer for the case. Lu Qing, an officer from Guangzhou Office of Hous- ing Security, described Ou as reasonable. Lu dealt with Ou’s com- plaint about the lack of gas pipes in the houses of some people living with disabilities in 2010. He recalled that Ou at fi rst was hampered by his lit- tle knowledge of government procedures to deal with com- plaints. But later Ou helped calm residents by explaining the procedures he learned from Lu. Now, to raise well-found- ed complaints, Ou has been studying laws. “Only with supervision from people like Ou can the government keep improving its work,” said Lu. 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Th e State Administration of Foreign Experts Aff airs and Hong Kong New World Development Company co-founded the Overseas High-end Talent Exchange Foundation, each contribut- ing 10 million yuan ($1.58 million). One of its foundations, which focused on social management, was offi cially launched on Th ursday, invit- ing applications. JIANGSU Gas leak leaves three dead Th ree people have been confi rmed dead, and another three seriously injured, follow- ing a gas leak that occurred around noon on Th ursday at a steel plant in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province, the plant said. Th e other seven men are in stable conditions, according to a statement issued by Meishan Steel Plant. Gas leaked from a pipeline into a gas tank under repair at about 11:50 am, when 13 tech- nical workers were perform- ing overhaul work in the tank at the plant located in the city’s Yuhuatai district, it said. GUANGDONG Suspects nabbed over harmful glue Police in Guangzhou have detained 21 people who were suspected of illegally selling, providing, transporting or storing harmful glues, the city’s public security bureau said on Th ursday. Th e suspects were detained during a special crackdown to inspect harmful glues in the southern metropolis in the past weeks. Th e campaign was launched aft er 38 work- ers were diagnosed as suff er- ing from glue poisoning in the city between November and January. Four of them who suff ered from serious poisoning died. In addition to three victims who have been discharged from the hospital, 31 are still in hospital for treatment. CHINA DAILY — XINHUA Zoom in on malpractice SUN JUNBIN / FOR CHINA DAILY Ou Shaokun, better known as Uncle Ou, is famous for being a persistent and outspoken watchdog on the misuse of government vehicles by civil servants in Guangzhou. Shanghai court postpones iPad decision By WU YIYAO CHINA DAILY SHANGHAI — Th e Shang- hai Pudong New Area People’s Court on Th ursday rejected a request by Shenzhen Proview Technology to stop Apple from selling iPads in the city. Th e court said it could not support Proview’s application because no ruling has been made on whether Apple has violated Proview’s exclusive right to use the iPad trade- mark. A lawsuit over the right to use the trademark in China is still under the second instance trial at Guangzhou people’s higher court, which is scheduled to hold a hearing on Wednesday. Xie Jinnan, a lawyer for Apple, said he was notified about the court’s decision but is not authorized to make further comments on the case. Proview’s lawyers could not be reached. Shu Jianxin, a Shanghai- based intellectual property attorney who has been closely following the case, said the Shanghai court is being cau- tious to wait for the Guang- dong court’s verdict. The lawsuit in Guangdong will decide whether the trade- mark should be exclusively used by Shenzhen Proview Technology, while the case in Shanghai will decide whether the distributors of Apple prod- ucts have the right to use it. Shu said they are quite diff er- ent lawsuits, but if the Guang- dong court rules that Apple has no right to use the iPad trade- mark, then the Shanghai court might take the decision into consideration. A legal expert said the Shang- hai court’s decision to suspend the case might be good news for Apple. Liu Chuntian, professor of i