Bad Tourguide
Animal Cruelty
Suicide Video
Drunk Driver Turns Himself In
Vehicular Revenge
Student Beaten Over Fruit Scraps

Main Stories in today's BON News:

Open To Investment?
Ancestral Ties
Eco-Tourism
Poll Position: A Helping Hand?
Straight form the Street: Parade in Capital?
Net Check: Animal Cruelty
Question of the Day: Do Kids Love Cell Phones?

Front Page
Worries Over Drills Overstated
China's Gray Income
Playing By The Rules
Taoist Priest Accused Of Rape
The Chinese Model, Better Or Worse?
Animal Cruelty, Violent People

As we reported here on Wednesday, a draft anti-animal abuse law being drawn up here could result in fines and even jail time for anyone caught eating cats and dogs. The draft law stipulates that people who eat cats and dogs could be fined more than 700 dollars or jailed for up to 15 days.

Restaurants found offering cats and dogs on the menu face fines of more than 70,000 dollars. Supporters of the law say it would help break down trade barriers imposed on China's animal products, such as leather and fur. That's because some Western countries ban imports of Chinese animal products, citing inhumane treatment of animals in the country.

Cat and dog lovers are of course supporting the draft law. But plenty of people aren't happy about this proposed law - eating cats and dogs has been a tradition in some parts of China for thousands of years.

China is famous, some would say notorious, for its trade in exotic animal products that are used for a variety of purposes, from losing weight to boosting your memory.  This probably doesn't weight too much on the minds of one sector in the northeast of China, where business has been booming, as Tony Zhou report.