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A SPATE OF noisy disputes between middle-aged women and nearby residents has prompted China’s communist leaders to step in and regulate dancing in public places, the country’s state media said earlier this week.
Groups of dancers often gather on China’s public squares and street corners performing choreographed routines to loud music, sometimes provoking anger from neighbours.
China will step up efforts to manage such dancers, creating a “public square dancing management mechanism” which will be “under government leadership”, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
“Public square dancing will enter into the social management system,” Xinhua cited a joint statement from four central departments including the culture ministry and the civil affairs ministry as saying.
The agencies will manage dancing in accordance with existing laws, it added.
“Dancing in public squares, as a cultural sporting activity deeply loved by the masses… has enriched the spiritual lives of people,” the statement said.
But it added: “problems such as inadequate space and… disturbances to local residents by noise and defects in management mechanisms have gradually appeared”.
Simmering disputes
Square dancing has become a hot topic in China, with stories on dancing “damas” – a term referring to middle-aged and elderly women – lighting up state media.
But disputes have increased. A man in Beijing who could not bear the loud music played by local dancers was jailed for six months after he fired a gun into the air in protest, the state-run China Daily reported last year.
In the central Chinese city of Wuhan, a simmering dispute between enthusiastic “damas” and their irritated neighbours made headlines in 2013 when the residents threw coins, rocks and ultimately faeces at the group in a bid to make them stop.
The China Daily said in March that authorities had hired an “expert panel” to choreograph 12 state-approved dances.
The government statement won plaudits from users of Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
“It is good to ensure that damas will never disturb citizens close to residential areas,” one person said online.
“It is definitely necessary to discipline them,” added another.
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its hard to believe anyone would be that stupid as to call yourself the ‘silent bomber’ and then become not so silent and tweet looking for advise on potential targets! what idiots.
keen interest in isis………..we have one of their top recruiters here in the country and the tax payer is paying blood sucker free legal aid brigade to stop him from being deported … FFS
The wee lepper con in Phoenix park is very concerned about the rights of this Isis fan
Lived with his mam and dad who are now saying they had no knowledge of what he was doing which I find hard to believe
You lived with his mam and dad?
No doubt whatever that a lot of silent sympathisers knew what was goings-on. Moderate muslims should speak out.
@Beano …….They all say that. Instructions from Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to all relative and acquaintances and local Imams of terror suspects apprehended. Deny everything. Nothing to do with Islam,etc.
Not being funny but bring in capital punishment for these dopes, no place in any society for them
@Craft Beard Lad oh it will make a return soon enough, capital punishment. you will see the french taking the wd40 to those old guillotines in the not so distant future, 5 to 7 years i will bet, the spanish used to like a little garroting, fascinating machine in a ghoulish way. Its not so long ago that these machines were used..
There’d have to be a massive hole in the lifes of a man and woman husband/wife when for intertainment they’d set out make bombs to kill people using public transport. if their religion drove them to carry out such pervisions then there is somthing very rotten with such a religion
True John but I bet it will be used on Christians by an Islam French government
This shows that authorities have to follow up on every nutjob tweet
In France, Britain, Germany, America and nearly every other country in the world it remains government policy to say that any and all attacks carried out in the name of Mohammed have ‘nothing to do with Islam’.
America? I would of thought the opposite. And rightfully so btw, islam is totally to blame
More religious loons trying to kill people.
Absolute dirt on the end of your shoe! Religion has a lot to answer for in this world. Unfortunately there’s no one to answer to…
For those interested; one month in Sweden where the leftists in charge have adopted open borders and embraced immigration from across the Middle East. The result? Rapes, crime and the odd beheading.
Let Sweden be a lesson to the rest of Europe.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7133/sweden-rapes-acquittals-severed-heads#.VoKwdXAT6Ak.twitter
Why is the Journal so disproportionately full of rightwing nutjobs?
ted unfortunately for all of us its the likes of you that will be the end of our civilisation.
WOW…at a loss for words D,this is all Fact?!its disgusting can’t get my head around it rape etc brutal brutal
Nothing more than life in Jail with no chance of ever getting back into society . However with this country the uk they will be out in 20 to 25 years . However they should bring back some form of capital punishment for this type of treachous crime . Traitors to the uk and the western world freedoms .
RobertP; unfortunately even in jail the toxic effect of radical Islam goes on and on. This made the times front page two days ago; sad because it’s been known about for years, obviously nothing has changed.
We need to wake up and fast
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article4650726.ece
The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.
Who said that?
@JamesBarry- the same guy who said the ‘Sweetest sound is the Muslim call to prayer…..’
@James Barry……. The Mole in The White House said it.
Refugees turn on their host
Kailene Pillay, The Witness | The Witness
THE good Samaritans who took onto their farm over 100 refugees displaced by this year’s xenophobic violence, now claim they have been threatened with murder by the same people they had set out to help.
http://m.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/refugees-turn-on-their-host-20151217
Food for thought!
As Chris Kyle said ” they are savages “. He was spot on , we need more Chris Kyle’s
Dirty rotten animals
Buys bomb making material from eBay and gets it delivered to their home
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