ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> PICTURE QUALITY AS INCOMING<br/> Chinese riot police fired teargas to disperse a throng of protesters in a small town in southern China on Friday (December 23), the fourth day of demonstrations against the construction of a power station.<br/> Footage from Hong Kong's Cable TV showed police firing several rounds of teargas in Haimen town, in the southern boom province of Guangdong, sending hundreds of people scuttling away.<br/> The protests in Haimen intensified this week just as people about 130 km (80 miles) further along the coast, in Wukan village, called off a 10-day blockade of their village in a protest against what they said was a land grab by officials.<br/> Protests in China have become relatively common over issues such as corruption, pollution, wages, and land grabs that local-level officials justify in the name of development.
