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Dancers welcome their New Year

National
2011-11-12

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Emission reductions 'a pressure'

National
2011-11-12

CHINA faces great pressure in trying to meet its emission reduction target by 2015 as the country is still rapidly industrializing, a senior government official said yesterday. The State Council, or China's Cabinet,...

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Inquiry urged as charity grows richer

National
2011-11-12

FINANCIAL experts have called for an investigation into a charity based in central China's Henan Province as evidence mounts that it uses donations to profit from land speculation and lending. The Henan Soong...

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Hundreds in bid to reach trapped miners

National
2011-11-12

HUNDREDS of rescuers yesterday continued to search for 22 miners trapped underground after a gas leak on Thursday in a coal mine in Yunnan Province. Ventilators are pumping excess methane gas out of the mine, while...

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Phone boss sentenced for bribery

National
2011-11-12

THE former president of China Mobile Group Chong-qing was sentenced to a two-year stay of execution for graft in the southwest municipality of Chonqging yesterday. Shen Changfu, a former lawmaker of the national...

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Bohai oil spills ConocoPhillips' fault

National
2011-11-12

CHINA'S State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said yesterday that spills at an oilfield operated by ConocoPhillips in the Bohai Bay resulted from defects in the company's production and management. ConocoPhillips...

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Business ties with Iran are 'normal'

National
2011-11-12

CHINA and Iran have normal business ties which should not be targeted by any new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said yesterday, repeating that, in any case, sanctions were...

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Trade relations are 'win-win,' Hu tells US business leaders

National
2011-11-12

PRESIDENT Hu Jintao told the United States business community yesterday that trade relations between the two countries are win-win, promoting China as a US export market while defending it as a fair competitor on...

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Oil Firm Blamed

National
2011-11-12

CHINESE authorities said yesterday that negligence by a ConocoPhillips subsidiary caused recent oil spills in Bohai Bay that have drawn intense criticism from marine authorities and environmentalists. The State...

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Explosion at factory kills 1 and injures 5

National
2011-11-12

A WORKER died and five were injured in an explosion at a factory yesterday in east China's Zhejiang Province, local fire authorities said. The blast occurred around 9am at a polishing factory in the Ouhai District...

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Bride helps persuade father to surrender

National
2011-11-12

THE daughter of a suspected gang leader helped to convince her father to give himself up on the eve of her wedding after he had spent 17 years on the run. The suspect, surnamed Li, agreed to turn himself in as...

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Killer surrenders to police after 17 years on the run

National
2011-11-11

THE runaway organizer of an armed gang fight which left 21 people dead and 11 missing in 1994 in the western Sichuan Province has surrendered to police after 17 years in hiding, the West China City Daily reported. ...

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Woman given feticide as she seeks cure for miscarriage

National
2011-11-11

A nursing assistant in Shantou in southern Guangdong Province was suspended from her job after she gave three tablets of feticide to a pregnant woman by mistake. The woman surnamed Zheng was two months pregnant...

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17 families accused of obstructing public project

National
2011-11-11

PROSECUTORS in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province have charged 17 households of obstructing the demolition work of an urban redevelopment project and attacking 11 law enforcement officials. It is the biggest...

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Rescuers struggling to reach trapped miners in Yunnan

National
2011-11-11

HUNDREDS of rescuers are continuing to search for 22 miners who became trapped underground after a gas leak occurred in a coal mine in southwest China's Yunnan Province yesterday morning. Ventilation machines...

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Rescuers struggling to reach trapped miners

National
2011-11-11

HUNDREDS of rescuers are continuing to search for 22 miners who became trapped underground after a gas leak occurred in a coal mine in southwest China's Yunnan Province yesterday morning. Ventilation machines...

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20 killed, 23 caught in coal mine

National
2011-11-11

KILLING 20 miners and trapping another 23, a powerful gas burst in an illegally operated coal mine in southwest China yesterday brought about the second deadly Chinese coal mine disaster in a week, raising the alarm...

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Single no more for thousands, who plan to tie knot on 11-11-11

National
2011-11-11

NOVEMBER 11, 2011, or 11/11/11, has been recognized by many Chinese people as Super Single's Day or Divine Single's Day as this year falls in numerical harmony with the annual Single's Day, an informal holiday for...

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Buddhist ritual

National
2011-11-11

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Man held as 3 die from eating poisoned candy

National
2011-11-11

POLICE in China's Hebei Province said yesterday a man is being held in connection with the deaths earlier this month of two small children and a teenager who ate poisoned candy. The suspect, surnamed Tu, is being...