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The use of instant messaging has gone to a new level in East China's Anhui Province. Prosecutors in Xuan Cheng city is using a popular instant messaging called QQ to solve crimes.
Instant messaging service QQ has a Hotline that has been used by the Department of the Prosecutor's office in Xuan Cheng since January. Deputy Wu from the office says the hotline is a useful way to protect the confidentiality of sources and get more clues from citizens. Wu says the idea came from a crime in the town of Jixi.
The city's Attorney General Wang Xianglin was chatting with a QQ user and received a report that a major leader of a local government named Ye had been involved in a corruption scandal worth about one million dollars. Ye was sentenced to six years in prison.
A new hotline in Shanghai ensures complaints from English-speaking consumers don't go unheard. The new phone hotline, means buyers of faulty goods in Shanghai can now talk directly to an English-speaking government employee about the problem.
The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision recently opened the English-language hotline. It'll handle complaints and reports about consumer product defects, tech questions - and even product certifications and standards.
The arrival of the new service comes in the run up to the 2010 world expo in Shanghai; the government expects millions of foreign visitors during the six-month long event.