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iabetes is rap-idly becoming one of the big-gest dangers to teenagers and

even young children in China due to a serious lack of nutri-tional education, warn health experts.

It was confi rmed last week

that the country has the high-est population of diabetics in the world, with more than 92 mil-lion suff erers. According to figures from the Chinese Medical Doctors’ Association, children make up about 5 percent of that fi gure. Th e number of juve-niles with the potentially

fatal condition is rising by 10 percent every year, a report

by the association said.But it is not just the impact

on a child’s health doctors are

concerned about.

Discrimination toward dia-betes can also seriously aff ect a suff erer’s chances of fi nding

a jo

b or even getting accepted into college.“Although the proportion

of juvenile diabetics still

accounts for a low percent-age of all diabetics, their numbers have increased very fast in recent years,” said Ji Linong, director of endocrinology at the People’s Hospital of Peking University.

“This is a situation that calls for urgent attention from society.”

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Premier Wen Jiabao, Republic of Korea President Lee Myung-bak (center) and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (right)

walk with elementary school students on Sunday as they arrive to plant a tree in Seogwipo, on the ROK’s Jeju Island.

Avoid clashes, Wen says

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New rules on confession

to limit death sentences

By ZHANG JIN

AND QIN JIZE

CHINA DAILY

JEJU ISLAND, ROK — Th ere is an urgent need to defuse the fallout of the sinking of a Republic of Korea (ROK) war-ship, Premier W en Jiabao said

on Sunday, calling on leaders in the region to push for peace and avoid clashes.W en’s remarks

came at the end of a weekend trilateral summit, which was scheduled to focus on trade but was over-shadowed by the sinking of the Cheonan in March.

“Th e most pressing task now is to appropriately deal with the grave impact of the Cheonan incident, gradually ease the

tense situation and, especially, avoid clashes,” Wen said at a joint press conference with ROK President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Min-ister Y ukio Hatoyama.

He said China will continue to “actively communicate with relevant parties and lead the situation to help promote

peace and stability in the region, which suits the three countries’ common and long-term interests best”.

“W e should spare no eff orts in maintaining peace and

stability in N ortheast Asia.

Development will be out of the question without this prereq-uisite and hard-won achieve-ments will be lost.”As the region faces many new challenges, the three coun-tries should take into account

each other’s major concerns and properly handle sensitive issues to enhance mutual trust, W en said.

Lee said the warship sinking poses an “important global challenge”, which needs to be “properly dealt with”.

“I expect very wise coop-eration in dealing with this incident from both China and Japan as responsible countries,” he added.

Hatoyama, whose country on Friday announced new sanctions against Pyongyang

over the incident, said the three leaders agreed “that this is a serious issue related to peace and stability in North-east Asia”.Th e DPRK has denied any involvement in the sinking. On Sunday, tens of thousands of people packed the main square in Pyongyang for a rally condemning the ROK and the US.

“Because of the South Korean (ROK) war-loving, mad puppets and American invaders, the North and South relationship is being driven to a catastrophe,’’ Choi Y ong-rim, secretary of the DPRK W ork-ers Party, told the crowd in Pyongyang.

T okyo and Seoul have been pressing Beijing to agree with the May 20 fi ndings by a mul-tinational investigation team that Pyongyang torpedoed the Cheonan , killing 46 sailors.However, Beijing has not endorsed the fi ndings, saying it attaches great importance to the international probe and reaction, and will take a posi-tion on the issue in an objective and fair manner.

Y onhap news cited an unnamed government offi cial as saying the ROK govern-ment hopes to write a letter to the chairman of the United Nations Security Council as early as this week to set out its claims.

The report said the exact timing for taking the case to the UN has not been set yet as further discussions are needed with other nations.Th e three leaders on Sunday also witnessed the signing of several agreements includ-ing a blueprint mapping out cooperation in the region over the next decade and the setting up of a secretarial offi ce for the trilateral mechanism in Seoul.

W en arrived in T okyo aft er leaving the ROK on Sunday aft ernoon on the second leg of his four-nation Asian nation tour, which will also take him to Mongolia and Myanmar.

Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this story.

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CHINA DAILY

BEIJING — Evidence obtained illegally — such as through torture during interrogation — cannot be used in testimony, particularly in cases involving the death penalty, according to two regulations issued on Sunday.

A death sentence should be pronounced only with suffi cient evidence acquired through legal means, stipulate the two regulations: One on evidence review in death sentence cases, and the other on excluding illegal evidence in criminal cases.

Jointly issued by the top court, the top procu-ratorate, the ministries of public security, state security and justice, they are the fi rst specifi c rules on collection of evidence and review in criminal cases.Th e fi rst regulation sets out principles and rules for scrutinizing and gauging evidence in cases involving the death penalty, and the other sets out detailed procedure for examining evidence and for excluding evidence obtained illegally.Th ey are expected to cut down on death sen-tences and reduce forced confessions, experts said.Th e regulations make it clear that evidence with unclear origin, confessions obtained through torture, or testimony obtained through violence and intimidation are invalid, particu-larly in death sentences.

“Not a single mistake is allowed in fact fi nding and collection of evidence in cases involving the death sentence,” said a written Q&A released by the fi ve central departments on Sunday.Th e new regulations defi ne illegal evidence and include specific procedures on how to exclude such evidence.

Lu Guanglun, a senior judge at the Supreme People’s Court, said such details do not exist in the Criminal Procedure Law and its judicial interpretations. “Th is is the fi rst time that a systematic and clear regulation tells law enforcers that evidence obtained through illegal means is not only illegal but also useless,” said Zhao Bingzhi, dean of the law school at Beijing Normal University.

“Previously we could only infer from abstract laws that illegal evidence is not allowed. But in reality, in many cases, such evidence was consid-ered valid,” he said.“Th is is big progress, both for the legal system and for better protection of human rights,” he said. “It will help reduce the number of executions”.Zhao said the new rules will also help change the mindset of law enforcers and reduce torture in interrogation, one of the causes of wrongful sentences.

Ever since the top court started reviewing all death sentences in 2007, the overall quality of handling criminal cases has improved, but a lot of problems still remain, the joint Q&A said.In 2008, the top court announced that about 15 percent of death sentence verdicts by lower courts in 2007 were found to have faults.

On May 20, Zhou Y ongkang, secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Political and Legislative Committee, said at a meeting that “the criminal legal system should be perfected and law enforcers should improve their capabil-ity to ensure that every case handled can stand the test of law and time”.

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