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Posted on May 23, 2012 00:55
Six people have died and five others have been injured after heavy rains lasting from Monday evening to Tuesdaymorning, drenched Southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 15:38
The Higher People's Court (HPC) in East China's Zhejiang Province Monday handed businesswoman Wu Ying a death penalty with a two-year reprieve for fundraising fraud after retrial.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 01:20
The number of missing people in Southwest China's Yunnan Province now stands at 17, reported the Shanghai-based newspaper Oriental Morning Post Monday.
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Posted on May 21, 2012 01:20
Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou began his second term Sunday and signaled he will maintain a mild cross-Straits policy in his tone-setting speech, while analysts say that a major political breakthrough between the mainland and Taiwan is not likely to be achieved during Ma's second term.
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Posted on May 20, 2012 19:10
When the teacher asked how many boys and girls were in the class, one boy loudly answered, "we have 22.5 boys and 22.5 girls." All the students laughed except one.
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Posted on May 20, 2012 09:07
One body of the 20 victims killed in the central China tunnel explosion Saturday has been retrieved, rescuers told Xinhua in the wee hours of Sunday.
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Posted on May 19, 2012 01:20
Lai Changxing, the kingpin of a notorious smuggling racket in the 1990s and a former fugitive in Canada, was sentenced to life imprisonment Friday for smuggling and bribery in an open court in Xiamen, East China’s Fujian Province.
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Posted on May 18, 2012 20:25
Li Xiaomu, a 52-year-old Chinese resident of Tokyo, is happy to be a pimp, although his ex-wives and numerous ex-girlfriends may not totally agree.
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Posted on May 18, 2012 11:03
Lai Changxing, the alleged kingpin of a notorious smuggling ring, was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery by the Intermediate People's Court of Xiamen on Friday morning, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
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Posted on May 18, 2012 00:55
China Thursday called on the Philippines to send clear and consistent messages and take concrete measures to seek solutions to the standoff between the two countries in the South China Sea.
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Posted on May 17, 2012 16:10
China has come up with its second prototype of J-20, coded 2002. Photo: huanqiu.com
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Posted on May 16, 2012 17:38
China's aircraft carrier has returned to Dalian Harbor after 11 days of sea trial. It arrived on April 30, one day later than the expected time.
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Posted on May 15, 2012 01:50
The US consulate in Shanghai began publishing hourly air pollution reports at its office that provides data often in conflict with official air quality reports.
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Posted on May 13, 2012 18:55
The only domestic violence shelter in Beijing has received no visitors since it opened eight years ago, as bureaucracy, poor service turn women away from such shelters in China.
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Posted on May 13, 2012 09:05
The death toll had risen to 40 and 18 others remained missing as of 3 pm Saturday after hail and torrential rains battered a mountainous county in northwest China, authorities said late Saturday.
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Posted on May 12, 2012 00:25
A government watchdog unveiled that the level of tap water in China meeting standards stood at 83 percent, seeking to calm panic stirred by a previous report putting the rate at just 50 percent. However, this data did not quell all doubts.
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Posted on May 10, 2012 21:55
He Liehui is an African chieftain, but it’s hard to tell. For one thing, he’s Chinese, and he wears no traditional African decorations or badges of office. The only sign of his status is the African art decorations in his Shanghai office.
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Posted on May 10, 2012 01:15
The former chief of the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by the No.1 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing Wednesday.
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Posted on May 09, 2012 01:00
An ongoing dispute between the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and Shaanxi Regional Electric Power Group (SREPG) over securing the rights to supply electricity in the northwestern province culminated in violence on April 25, when hundreds of workers from both sides clashed. It marked the second physical confrontation between the two sides over the past four years, though tensions have run deep between the rivals for many years.
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Posted on May 08, 2012 01:15
The flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China Monday published an article defending the teaching of "patriotism" in Hong Kong after local authorities recently decided to put off the program amid mounting controversy and accusations of "brainwashing."
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