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Freezing weather puts pressure on fuel supplies
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:51 pm
BEIJING, Jan. 5 — A cold wave across much of China since Saturday has brought heavy snow to major cities in the north, causing a surge in fuel demand and traffic chaos on roads [...]
Read More >>Unknown driver blamed for crash that killed 16 in east China
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:50 pm
JINAN, Jan. 5 — An investigation into an east China road crash that left 16 people dead last week has blamed a driver error that led to at least one of the vehicles jumping [...]
Read More >>18 confirmed dead in central China colliery fire
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:47 pm
XIANGTAN, Hunan, Jan. 6 — The death toll has climbed to 18 in Tuesday’s coal mine fire in central China’s Hunan Province, with nine more bodies retrieved early Wednesday. Rescue work continued Wednesday to [...]
Read More >>Fatal attacks highlight lack of animal welfare in zoos
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:45 pm
ZHENGZHOU, Jan. 9 — Chinese experts and wildlife activists are calling for improved animal welfare in zoos after two deadly attacks on keepers by hungry beasts in central Henan Province last month. On Dec. [...]
Read More >>Online shopping boom in China
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:43 pm
by writer Rong Jiaojiao BEIJING, Jan. 9 — Shi Fang spends more than 4,000 yuan (588 U.S. dollars) a month shopping, but she rarely goes to the shopping mall. “Why need a shopping [...]
Read More >>What price young lives?
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:42 pm
by writers Ma Guihua Jiang Guibin HEZHOU, Guangxi, Jan. 9 — As more and more rural Chinese bid farewell to their impoverished home villages in their pursuit of a better life in [...]
Read More >>Coal mine fire traps 12 in east China
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:40 pm
NANCHANG, Jan. 9 — A coal mine fire has trapped 12 workers underground in east China’s Jiangxi Province, local authorities said Saturday. The accident took place at about 4 p.m. Friday at the Miaoshang [...]
Read More >>Crimes by laborers on the rise in Shanghai: report
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:38 pm
BEIJING, Jan. 9 — The number of crimes committed by migrants in Shanghai has sharply increased during the past decade, caused mainly by their poor living conditions, Saturday’s China Daily reported quoting a research [...]
Read More >>Chinese vendor faces prosecution for selling fake brand-name bags
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:34 pm
BEIJING, Jan. 9 — A Chinese vendor is facing prosecution over selling bags with faked international brands to tenants of Beijing’s “Silk Street” market since May 2007, the Beijing Daily reported Saturday. Police seized [...]
Read More >>Coal mine fire leaves 12 dead in east China
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:32 pm
A man walks at the Miaoshang Coal Mine in Yushui District, in Xinyu City, east China’s Jiangxi Province, Jan. 9, 2010. A coal mine fire has left 12 workers dead in east China’s Jiangxi Province, [...]
Read More >>China investigating deaths cover-up in gas leak
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:31 pm
SHIJIAZHUANG, Jan. 9 — A task force has been set up to investigate a scandal in which the death toll from a gas pipeline leak had been covered up at a north China steel [...]
Read More >>China’s coal-rich province rations power amid icy weather
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:27 pm
BEIJING, Jan. 9 — China’s coal-abundant Shanxi rationed electricity as the province reported the most severe power shortage in three years as the current coal output fell short of demand drove up by the [...]
Read More >>Shanghai may limit cars if roadways jam
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:25 pm
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Read More >>Choosing green trip mode
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:23 pm
Volunteers ride bicycles in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province, Jan. 9, 2010. Some 200 citizens and volunteers called for reducing carbon emissions by taking part in an activity of riding bicycles in Jinan [...]
Read More >>TV drama crew criticized for harming environment
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:21 pm
ZHENGZHOU, Jan. 9 — The crew of a TV drama has been criticized for harming the environment during shooting and ordered to stop activities in the pristine wetlands in central China’s Henan Province. The [...]
Read More >>Five sentenced over child trafficking in south China
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:18 pm
GUANGZHOU, Jan. 9 — Five men have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from six years to life imprisonment after being convicted of child trafficking in south China’s Guangdong Province. The sentences were handed [...]
Read More >>Three dead in N China cafeteria explosion
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:16 pm
TIANJIN, Jan. 9 — Three people were killed and six injured Saturday after a gas cylinder exploded in a cafeteria in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, local officials said. The blast happened at 9:58 a.m. [...]
Read More >>Taking full preparation for emergencies
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:14 pm
Firemen try to put out a fire on a plane during an air craft emergency drill held at the Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, east China, on Jan. 9, 2009.(/Chen Fei)
Read More >>Experience police’s life
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:12 pm
A helicopter performs for visitors on the open day of a special police force camp in Beijing, capital of China, on Jan. 9, 2010. (/Li Wen)
Read More >>Grand canal transports warm to areas swept by cold weather
By admin at 14 January, 2010, 12:09 pm
Photo taken on Jan. 9, 2010 shows tug boats fully-loaded with coal, passing through a ship lock at Yangzhou, a key hinge of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, east China’s Jiangsu Province.The authority of the grand [...]
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