Rewards for tattling
Migrant workers in Guangzhou could get cash and nifty prizes for ratting out those who stirred up protests that led to three days over rioting a week ago.
A local newspaper in Zengcheng, a town within Guangzhou, has reportedly carried an ad offering financial rewards, possible long-term residency and government praise to those who turn in the workers that started the protests in the denim capital of the world. Chinese officials say they have already arrest more than two dozen people following the protests, sparked when an online posting said security forces has beaten a street vendor to death and manhandled his pregnant wife. Officials later said the couple were alive and doing well, but the uprising underscored ongoing tensions created by China's wealth gap and underclass of millions of migrant workers.
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