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 A FACTORY in Xili, Nanshan District, was closed for illegally amassing fortune by selling counterfeit brand-name office supplies.

    Nanshan police stormed Leizhi Science and Technology Co., hidden in Yangmen Industrial Park, Dakan, Xili Subdistrict, on Monday morning and seized thousands of boxes of counterfeit office supplies in its 2,000-square-meter warehouse.

    The factory rented a five-story building and purchased and reconditioned used spare parts of printers and computers, and sold them as brand-new ones with the labels of well-known companies including HP and Samsung.

    The warehouse was larger than that of HP’s Beijing Headquarters, according to an HP employee invited by police to the scene.

    The company’s inventory showed its monthly revenue reached around 2 million yuan (US$304,500) in 2010.

    The products were mainly sold through the Internet, according to a worker who did not give her name.

    A manager surnamed Zhang insisted the company was engaged in environmentally friendly business by recycling used parts of computers, printers and other office supplies.

    Leizhi Science and Technology was set up in October 2009. Police alleged that the factory used electronic wastes from abroad.

    The case is still under investigation.

 A TOTAL of 132 foreign volunteers from Europe are expected to serve at the Universiade in August, according to the Volunteer Department of the Organizing Committee of the Shenzhen Universiade on Thursday.

    The 132 volunteers include 100 organized by the European Confederation of Youth Clubs and 32 from Kazan in Russia, where the next Universiade will be held in 2013, said Zhang Zhihua, vice head of the city’s Committee of Communist Youth League.

    They will also attend the world youth carnival in Shenzhen during the Games, Zhang said.

    About 600 to 800 volunteers recruited by the Hong Kong government would also be involved.

    Of these, 400 would work at the Hong Kong airport and checkpoints, while the rest will work in Shenzhen with 100 to work as interpreters in German, French, Spanish and Japanese.

    Taiwan will also send 20 volunteers to work in Shenzhen.

    The provincial education department and the Central Committee of Youth League will organize more than 600 volunteers from universities on the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao.

    A campaign would be launched Friday to encourage Shenzhen students studying at universities in other cities to work for the Universiade. The department plans to recruit more than 1,000 Shenzhen students to promote the city and the Games at universities and return during summer vacation, Zhang said 防蚊網.

    Shenzhen plans to recruit about 1.27 million volunteers for the Universiade.

    The Universiade volunteer recruitment will close at the end of May.

    About 22,000 volunteers would be selected by examinations and would be trained before starting work.

    Meanwhile, the city’s first Universiade volunteer work station — or U Station — would open in May and the rest would gradually start operating in June 結婚花車.

    There will be 810 U Stations including 750 in main communities, streets, public venues and tourism attractions and 68 at the sports venues, Zhang said.

    A series of promotions for the Universiade would be held in coming weeks, including cycling on hiking tracks and cleaning the Shenzhen North Rail Station to promote a better city Business centre.

SOUTH KOREAN police said they were investigating a mysterious break-in at a visiting Indonesian official’s hotel room in Seoul as local media reported Monday that South Korean spies had tried to steal documents about a possible arms deal.

Last Wednesday, three people broke into a Seoul hotel room used by an aide to the leader of a visiting Indonesian delegation, police officer Shin Seong-chul said. The two men and one woman used a USB flash drive to copy files from one of two laptop computers in the room. The aide returned while the intruders were there, but they soon fled and no clash was reported.

South Korean defense officials who had been guiding the Indonesians reported the break-in to police. The laptops were handed over for an investigation, but the Indonesian aide requested their return the next day and said he wouldn’t allow access to the computers.

On Monday, South Korea’s mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that the intruders were agents from the National Intelligence Service, the country’s main spy agency.

The paper, citing an unidentified South Korean official, said the agents were trying to steal information on Indonesia’s strategy on negotiations over South Korea’s push to sell trainer jets, missiles and other weapons.

The Hankyoreh newspaper carried a similar report Monday, saying the trespassers were believed to be South Korean intelligence agents.
 

  CHINESE badminton superstar Lin Dan was named the Guangzhou Asian Games most valuable player (MVP) on Friday.

    The popular 27-year-old claimed the last major title to elude him by defeating Malaysian world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei in the final.

    He is already a three-time world champion and the current Olympic champion.

    Lin received the award after collecting the highest number of votes from more than 2,000 accredited media attending the Games.

    The MVP was selected by world media through voting from Nov. 22 to 25 by more than 2,000 media staff. Five athletes with the most votes became the candidates, including Lin, Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang, swimmer Sun Yang, Tang Yi and Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan.

    At the presentation ceremony Friday, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Olympic Committee Liu Baoli received the award (the MVP Trophy, a Samsung 3D LED Television and US$50,000) on behalf of Lin Dan, who is under closed-door training for the China Open.

    Manuel Silverio, chairman of the Asiad media committee, said: “We are delighted to present this trophy to Lin Dan, taking his excellent performance into consideration during the Asian Games. He is tenacious, strong-minded and determined to pursue sportsmanship and has presented a perfect performance as an athlete.”

    Lin won two gold medals at the Guangzhou Asian Games. The victory marked his achievement of a badminton Grand Slam with wins in all the world’s top competitions, including the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup, Suriman Cup, Thomas Cup and Asian Games.

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THE parents of a student who killed himself in a suicide pact arranged via instant messaging service QQ are suing the Shenzhen firm which runs the service, a court official in Zhejiang Province said yesterday.

The 20-year-old Shanghai university student, identified as Fan, responded to an invitation to commit suicide circulated by a man identified as Zhang in June through QQ, run by Shenzhen-based Tencent, earlier media reports said.

Fan went to Lishui in the eastern province of Zhejiang to meet Zhang, 22.

The two burned charcoal in a sealed-up hotel room in an attempt to kill themselves by inhaling carbon monoxide, according to the reports.

Zhang left the hotel room after getting a headache, but Fan stayed put and died a few hours later, they said.

 Fan’s parents have demanded that Zhang and Tencent pay a combined total of more than 270,000 yuan (US$41,000) in compensation, said an official at the court in Lishui which is hearing the case.

The couple accused Zhang of inducing their son to commit suicide and failing to prevent his death after he himself abandoned the attempt, according to earlier reports.

They also claimed that Tencent failed to delete or block information about the suicide pact.

The court, which held its first hearing Thursday, has yet to deliver a verdict, the official said, without disclosing details of the charges.
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