WUHAN Cheap Florida Panthers Jerseys , Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Police caught six tomb raiders who learned fengshui and used it to locate and loot tombs in the central Chinese provinces of Hubei and Hunan, authorities said Friday.
The "master tomb raider", identified only as Ye, was able to look at a site and determine the best place to dig by applying fengshui Cheap Edmonton Oilers Jerseys , a traditional Chinese study of geomantic omens used to find auspicious locations for buildings and cemeteries.
Ye, 44, was once sentenced to 10 years in prison for theft and robbery. He learned knowledge of fengshui in prison, where one of the inmates told him raiding tombs was profitable.
After he was released from prison he purchased tools online Cheap Detroit Red Wings Jerseys , such as a Luoyang shovel, and organized a tomb-raiding group.
The police investigation started in May when they received information that people had raided a Chu State tomb from China's Warring States Period (475 to 221 B.C.).
The police then targeted a six-man raiding group. By September, the suspects were caught by police.
According to Wuhan police, they seized and retrieved six cultural relics Cheap Dallas Stars Jerseys , including a bronze mirror with a diameter of 50 centimeters, the largest mirror ever unearthed in the city.
The police said that the tomb raiders had looted three tombs in Hubei, but did not disclose how many tombs they had raided in neighboring Hunan, with the investigation ongoing.
Chinese tomb raiders can make good money Cheap Columbus Blue Jackets Jerseys , as wealthy people in China used to be buried with treasure such as gold, silverware and jade in the hope of enjoying an affluent afterlife.
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MELBOURNE, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Senior Australian Olympic officials have thrown their support behind a lottery system to finance Olympic athletes.
Under the proposed lottery, people in Australia would be able to buy lottery tickets with proceeds going towards funding sport and the arts.
John Bertrand, President of Swimming Australia, said the lottery would raise between 22 and 37 million U.S. dollars in additional funding for Olympic campaigns.
A similar system is used in Britain and has been credited as partly responsible for Britain's rise to prominence in the Olympics, as the nation increased its medal tally from 15 medals, including just one gold, at the 1996 games to 67 medals at Rio in 2016 including 27 gold.
Bertrand said introducing a lottery in Australia was "an obvious solution" and extra funding would "absolutely" guarantee Olympic success.
"A lotto system has been in place in the UK for many years now and the dividends have been obvious. We've never really considered the Brits a sporting nation but at the Olympics they've done extremely well and part of that is the funding base they have," Bertrand told Melbourne radio station Sports Entertainment Network (SEN) on Monday.
Australia recorded it worst medal tally in 24 years at the Rio Olympics, taking home just 29 medals, eight of which were gold, less than half the country's best Olympic result at Athens in 2004 when it won 17 gold medals.
John Wylie, chairman of the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), joined Bertrand in supporting the lottery, saying it would likely be an online venture run by an established lottery operator.
"We'll make sure that any lottery along these lines is run in a highly regulated fashion that is consistent with responsible gambling," Wylie told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.
"We're very conscious that we want to raise more revenue for Australian sport but we want to do it in a way that's responsible.
"We think there is an opportunity here to do something good for the country to put more money into high performance programs but also community sporting programs, which are underfunded.
"We would outsource the management of the lottery itself to an established operator, someone who has experience and acumen in this area."
The ASC currently receives 190 million U.S. dollars in grants every year, a figure Wylie said is falling further and further behind the funding provided to Olympic campaigns in other countries.
"The fact is we are underfunded... (but) we are not just sticking our hand out and looking for more taxpayer funds," he said.
"We are unambiguously and unashamedly standing up for sport and saying this matters."
BEIJING Cheap Colorado Avalanche Jerseys , Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's securities regulator will soon start an inspection of online equity financing platforms to address risks brought by illegal activities and let the platforms better serve the real economy.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) will oversee several kinds of online platforms, including equity-based crowdfunding, which allows investors to receive a stake in the company funded by pooling money from many people via the Internet, said Deng Ge Cheap Chicago Blackhawks Jerseys , spokesman for the CSRC, at a press conference Friday.
The inspection will focus on several aspects, including whether the online fund raisers have promoted themselves publicly, whether the accumulated number of equity holders has exceeded 200 Cheap Carolina Hurricanes Jerseys , and whether the raisers have collected private equity funds in the name of equity-based crowdfunding, Deng said.