JAKARTA Taco Charlton Hat , Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Transport ministers and senior officials from European and Asian nations will kick off a meeting on Tuesday in Bali island of Indonesia to share opinion on issues of connectivity, investment, infrastructure and other strategic issues, Indonesian Transport Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said here on Monday.
The ministers and delegates from nearly 40 nations will gather for the 4th Asia-Europe Meeting-Transport Minister Meeting (ASEM-TMM) in on Sept. 26-28, said the minister.
"Connectivity will be the main topic this year Connor Williams Hat , bridging Asia and Europe. Other issues to be discussed are infrastructure and investment in transportation field," he told a press conference at transport ministry.
The biennial event will begin with a senior official meeting on Tuesday followed by a ministerial meeting and business forum on the following day, according to him.
Minister Sumadi said he will carry out bilateral meetings with counterparts from other nations on the sideline of the meeting.
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From time to time, extreme child abuse cases are exposed which challenge commonly held attitudes toward discipline. It is sad to read such news stories, but even sadder Leighton Vander Esch Hat , they are just a tip of the iceberg. In China, where it is still common to beat children to "educate" them, too many cases of child abuse have gone unnoticed just because they are not so extreme.
A girl tries to hide behind a wall. Photo: CFP
Around this year's Tomb-Sweeping Day, an April national holiday in which people show respect to their ancestors, an 11-year-old girl named Wenwen (pseudonym) was killed by her father after he beat her for two hours.
As the teachers at her school in Hanzhong Sean Lee Hat , Shaanxi Province later revealed, they knew Wenwen was suffering from abuse and had criticized her father. He told them he beat his child to "educate" her because she "liked lying" and he didn't think she worked hard enough.
This tragedy occurred not long after Li Zhengqin, a mother in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, who was jailed for half a year for beating her adopted son to "educate" him Terrance Williams Hat , was released and made headlines across China. Li was arrested after photos showing the boy's bruises and scars were exposed online, which Li said were inflicted after the boy lied about his school work.
These types of news stories, though extreme, are sadly common. Some have even labeled them "Chinese-style child abuse" to stress how normal they are among Chinese families to "teach" them by beating them.
According to the Beijing Children's Legal Aid and Research Center, there were 697 reported child abuse cases from 2008 to 2013 Cole Beasley Hat , 359 of which involved the death of a child, many of which involve long-term abuse and are particularly extreme. The details of these cases are shocking in their violence, including fatal beatings, children being scalded with hot water or having cigarettes stubbed out on their skin.
Tong Lihua, lawyer and director of the center Travis Frederick Hat , pointed out that these cases are just the tip of the iceberg as the vast majority of less extreme cases are never discovered.
"The entire society should reach a consensus that hurting children, even one's own children, are illegal," Tong told the Global Times.
The wounds Li Zhengqin inflicted on her adopted son. Photo: Yangtze Evening News An open secret
When Li Zhengqin was arrested half a year ago, some showed surprise that beating one's own child constitutes a crime. In China Zack Martin Hat , beating children is just considered normal.
Lu, a 32-year-old from Yunnan Province, told the Global Times that most men he knows were beaten when they were boys.
Zhang, who is in her 60s and lives in Beijing, had a hot temper when she was young. And her children were the victims of her anger.
According to Zhang Tyron Smith Hat , when her children were little, they lived in a village surrounded by a pond and sometimes children fell into the water and drowned. So she would make her children kneel and beat them with a belt every time they went out of her sight. She beat them even harder when she found they lied about their examinations or stole money.
"For my generation, beating them is to love them, while pampering is doing them harm," Zhang told the Global Times.
This tradition has been passed on. Surfing online Demarcus Lawrence Hat , one can see that whenever there are posts discussing the experience of being beaten as a child many people will share their experience of being bit by their parents.