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To: SecularBull who wrote (84396)	12/9/1998 10:18:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 176387

China hangs two for smuggling computers Posted: 9:20am Tuesday, December 8, 1998 China gets tougher on PC, cyber crimes By Clare Haney IDG News Service, Hong Kong Bureau If anyone needed convincing that the Chinese government is getting even tougher in criminal cases involving technology, they received ample proof of a tightening of the state's resolve over the past three days. Two men were executed on the Mainland on Sunday for allegedly smuggling PCs and electronics into China. And on Friday in Shanghai another man accused of providing e-mail addresses to a pro-democracy publication based in the U.S. went on trial. Two men named as Tang Mihong, general manager of Beijing Huilu Computer Development Co. and office clerk Zhao Jian -- having been found guilty of smuggling computers and electronics equipment worth US$6.7 million into the Mainland -- were executed on Sunday, according to a report in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. The men apparently finished their smuggling activities back in 1995 and only profited from their endeavors by about US$170,000 each, the report said. The Chinese government began an antismuggling crackdown covering a wide variety of goods including PCs toward the end of June this year. Since that time, the authorities appear to have got the previously epidemic problem of PC smuggling into China under control...... (Source:Computerworld-excerpts only)