Chinese Restaurant Gets Compensation for Being Slandered as Related to British FMDAccording to a British report, a Chinese restaurant in Britain, which was slandered as the source of Britain's FMD epidemic by local media report, got 20,000 pounds as indemnity for defamation.After the local British government announced the compensation, local Chinese said that they would give the greater part of the money to a public-relation company concerned to boost its business development. When the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) ran wild in Britain this year, some reports said that leftovers with virus from the Chinese restaurant were taken as feed and sent to a nearby pasture, thus causing foot-and-mouth disease, the rumor caused very bad influence to the business of local Chinese and thus aroused their protest, after investigation into the case, related British government departments expressed that the emergence of foot-and-mouth disease has nothing to do with the Chinese restaurant. A person in China Town in Newcastle said that "those groundless rumors have incurred great losses to our business, and we were threatened and slandered by racists, we should get the due compensation, he also worried that although the situation has improved in the past few weeks, it is still not good enough, I do not know when our business will be back to normal". By PD Online staff member Li Yan |
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