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News and Activities around the World
The Falun Dafa Information Center Reported on July 12, Falun Dafa practitioner Yoko Kaneko from Japan passed out Falun Gong Truth Clarifying Materials on the streets of Beijing in May, and was sentenced to 18 months in a labor camp by the Beijing police on June 24. The labor camp administrator would not disclose her current whereabouts. The Falun Dafa practitioners in Japan are holding activities to rescue her.
At the end of April, four Singapore Falun Dafa practitioners were refused entry into Hong Kong for no reason, and were deported against their will. The Falun Dafa Association wrote a letter to the Hong Kong Government to ask for an apology concerning this incident, and for them to withdraw the recent illegal lawsuit against 16 Falun Dafa practitioners. The Hong Kong government should treat Falun Gong with justice, and bring good fortune to the residents of Hong Kong.
Practitioners Exchange Insights
A suggestion for overseas practitioners who use telephone calls to clarify the truth: we should first introduce ourselves after we dial the phone and use a simple greeting such as "hello." If we start clarifying the truth immediately after they pick up the phone, we would give the listener a bad first impression. When we are calling, we should use harmonious and polite actions to show non-practitioners the beauty of Dafa.
News From China
"Focal Point Interview" [a Chinese government-run TV program] tried its best to cover up for the Shayang Forced Labor Camp during its interview of Wang Bo. My first-hand experience at the Shayang Forced Labor Camp in Hubei Province is: before the upper government officials came to check on things, our practitioners were forced to do cleaning work including cutting the grass and taking care of plants and flowers. During an interview, practitioners were forced to dress up or everyone had to hide in one place. The labor camp guards are very vicious. People like Wang Bo who lies on TV are the result of cruel brainwashing.
Natural Disasters Warning People
As the people that run Masanjia Forced Labor Camp are completely conscienceless, storms of wind and rain, thunder and lightening are attacking the City of Shenyang, Liaoning Province (where Masanjia is located). On the evening of July 12, a strong rainstorm accompanied by very strong winds hit most areas of Liaoning Province, causing 100,000 mu [Note: one mu is equivalent to 0.165 acre] of crop damage. The windstorm left one dead and many injured. During that night, transportation and communication establishments in the Shenyang area were also damaged. The Municipal Bureau of Utility received over 150 reports of power outrages.
Jiang is both corrupt and cruel, and is offending heaven and reason; swarms of locusts have invaded Beijing. Starting in the evening of July 12, swarms of locusts successively appeared at the southern and western parts of Beijing. A large quantity of dead locusts, each as long as 5 to 6 centimeters, lay on the ground outside a KFC. People there were terribly shocked when they saw a dense mass of locusts fly over the city.
Clearwisdom News Brief (July 14, 2002)-part 4
Large area of bamboo-locust infestation has developed around Daweishan in Liuyang City in Hunan Province. The density has reached 15 locusts per square meter in the affected areas. Bamboo-locust is one of the four major forest-endangering bugs. Once they infest an area, they eat all the bamboo leaves, leaving only stalks. The affected bamboo forest cannot grow new shoots for another three years, and it will not fully recover for ten years. Eventually the entire forest will be destroyed.
There are over 5 million people in China infected with tuberculosis, the highest rate of infection in the world. The number of deaths due to tuberculosis has reached one hundred fifty thousand per year. In Guangdong Province, there are about two hundred fifty thousand people with active tuberculosis. There are at least seventy five thousand new cases each year. The approximate death rate per year is five thousand. Among all the infectious diseases, the tuberculosis has the highest mortality rate.
