On the 29th of December, the European Divine Land Marching Band paraded through the main streets and Chinese quarter of Paris, France, showing people the beauty of Falun Dafa. Others in the parade supported the wave of renouncements of CCP membership, which now total over 30 million. Nearly two hundred practitioners took part in the parade.

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Han Guangrong is 63 years old. She suffered from several chronic illnesses that disappeared within several months of practising Falun Gong. Ever since, she was determined to be a good person and live by Falun Dafa's principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." However, over the past 8 years, government officials have ransacked her home, arrested her, sentenced her to forced labour camps and prison, and withheld her pension. These perpetrators often harassed and monitored her. Now, Ms. Han has been arrested again. Her continuous suffering has brought great pressure to her entire family.

Ms. Huang Lijun was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in 2002 and detained at Nanjing Women's Prison. The guards continuously shocked Huang Lijun for a long time with an electric baton in the policing rooms of the workshop. When she didn't say anything, the official would yell, "Why don't you cry? If you cry out, I'll let you go!" Huang Lijun did not say a word. Prisoners in the workshop could smell burnt flesh. Those people who still had a conscience were in tears. The guards also tied Huang Lijun to an iron bed for a long time. They secured a heart monitor to her, because this torture can result in shock or death.

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liang Yaomin, about 50 years old from Haiyang City, Shandong Province was secretly arrested in August 2007. She has been imprisoned in Yantai City Detention Centre for about six months. Ms. Liang has suffered torture, including brutal beatings, being hung up in the air, and more. One day, they wrapped her head in a prisoner's clothing and brutally beat her until she lost consciousness. After she fainted, she was sent to the hospital for first aid. She was very weak upon awakening. According to inside sources, Ms. Liang was secretly and put on trial twice. The result of the latest trial are unknown.

Mr. Sun Houqin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Danhou Village in Xicheng Town of Weishan County, Shandong Province, and seventeen other local Falun Gong practitioners went to Beijing in the autumn of 1999 to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. Mr. Sun has been missing since then, and there has been no information about him during the past eight years. Mr. Xu LiXin, 39, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Changsha City, Hunan Province. Mr. Xu left home to appeal in Beijing several years ago. He has been missing since then.

NTDTV's Chinese New Year Spectacular, performed by the Divine Performing Arts company, was staged at the Buell Theatre Denver Performing Arts Complex in Denver, Colorado, on January 11th-12th, 2008. Mayor Edward J. Tauer of the City of Aurora wrote the following letter to offer his congratulations and recognition to New Tang Dynasty Television and Divine Performing Arts on the occasion of the Chinese New Year Spectacular.

It could have been jazz, ballet or hip-hop, but my all-American daughter is a Chinese dancer, in love with the rustling costumes, blingy props and mannered, graceful steps that form the foundation of the traditional genre. Generally a group effort, the form sports a classically based choreography all its own, and it's nowhere near as easy as it looks when a willowy lineup of elegantly rouged Asian beauties mince through their steps in bejeweled headdresses and brilliant watercolored silks.