Obama's first visit to China has inspired intensive media reports and blog entries. Zhang Lijia meets media experts to discuss coverage from both China and the U.S.

Obama's first visit to China has inspired intensive media reports and blog entries. Zhang Lijia meets media experts to discuss coverage from both China and the U.S.

A criminal gang labeled by police as the most violent in Guangzhou- a city already known to be a hub for dangerous criminal activity went on trial this week. BON's Kelda Yuen has more details on the case that involves 19 gang members now facing charges for drug trafficking and homicide.

The massive mafia-style gang trials continue to unfold in the southern Metropolis of Chongqing. The latest case sees a gang boss sentenced for doing everything from laundering mountains of cash to manipulating the local pork market.

Wang Xingqiang was sentenced to 20 years behind bars for his role as the head of a gang that laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars using violence and intimidation. He was also fined more than $300,000 by the No.1 Intermediate People’s Court of Chongqing.

Everything looks above board. But it was boats like this that a 160-strong gang used to carry out the country's biggest-ever mobile phone smuggling operation, worth more than a billion dollars.

The first members of this gang have been jailed by judges in southern China.

Much of the coverage that BON has brought you of the disastrous flooding that's struck southern China over the past has focused on the area in and around the Changkai Dyke in southern Jiangxi, which burst under the pressure from the torrential rains. The gap in the dyke is now closed, but for residents in the area, the ordeal is just getting started. BON'S MATT SCHRADER takes you inside the aftermath of the disaster . . .

Reports about China's migrant workers not being paid on time, or indeed not at all, have been all too common. On occasion, some have been driven to threaten suicide to force their employees to pay what they owe.

In the wake of all the media coverage, sina.com carried out a poll asking people what they thought of the unusual initiative.

Around two-thirds, 66%, said they thought the whole affair was really just for show. Less than a third, 29%, said the pledge was sincere and believed the business leaders would follow up. And about 5% had no clear opinion.