Huanan New City, a residential block located in Guangzhou, has become the focus of the angry public after one of its resident was assaulted by a gang of mafia-like men, supposedly hired by the property management firm.
the victim, Li Gang, has been one of the leaders in various activities to protect residents' rights and organized a few negotiations with the property management firm.
what makes the public angry is that the Guangdong media all kept silence after Li was attacked. it's said that the general adviser for the property management firm is the former assistant to the provincial governor of Guangdong.
today CCTV news channel reported the case and a number of local media (including the web protal Netease, which is located in guangdong) followed CCTV and started to report the case.
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on the other hand, Guangdong media is quite candid in reporting issues related with taiwan, which is usually a topic of taboo in the national media. for example, you could find in Guangdong media that taiwan's Chen Shui-bian is called "president Chen Shui-bian", but today in a CCTV news report, when a KMT spokesman hold a news conference, his head suddently and sharply wavered after said, "we ask Chen Shui-bian". we all know that the part with "president" was cut off.