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Killer-deserter faces execution

AN army deserter was sentenced to death yesterday in southwest China's Sichuan Province for murder, shooting and injuring two people and committing armed robbery. The ruling was handed down by the Yibin Intermediate People's Court against defendant ...

From LI XINRAN, Shanghai Daily,  24 Nov 2009

Higher charges in health care policy

HIGHER charges for medical services but lower drug prices is the goal for China's health care reform, the country's top planning body said yesterday. According to the Website of the National Development and Reform Commission, medical staff should ...

From LI XINRAN, Shanghai Daily,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chen Zhu

Chinese sailors hailed as heroes

TWO Chinese sailors wounded in a battle against Somalia pirates 11 days ago have returned home to a hero's welcome in southern China's Guangdong Province. Hong Xianwen and Yan Bo, of the China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co, were greeted by flowers and ...

From LI XINRAN, Shanghai Daily,  22 Nov 2009

Sex probe on, but cops say no basis

AUTHORITIES of Fuxin City in Liaoning Province have decided to investigate an official even though police believe claims of sex and drug abuse against him are false. Yu Yang, deputy director of the Communist Party of China Fuxin Committee's ...

From LI XINRAN, Shanghai Daily,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wang Dan

Blighted villagers may be on move

VILLAGERS living just 100 meters from a quarry in southern China's Guangdong Province are hoping to be relocated after local government took note of their protests. Residents had complained about clouds of dust resulting from granite processing and ...

From LI XINRAN, Shanghai Daily,  19 Nov 2009

Doctor raises doubts over swine flu toll

CHINA'S health watchdog is encouraging the public and news media to keep a close watch over how it controls the spread of swine flu after a prominent medical expert raised concern that fatality figures for the disease may be underreported. Zhong ...

From LI XINRAN, Shanghai Daily,  19 Nov 2009

Chinese Trade Team Europe Trip To Boost Cooperation

A CHINESE delegation of nearly 300 executives from about 170 companies will depart Beijing on Saturday for Europe on a two-week mission to promote trade cooperation. It will be headed by Assistant Minister of Commerce Qiu Hong, said Yao Jian, a ...

From LI XINRAN, Shanghai Daily,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chen Deming (politician),  Christine Lagarde

Girl, 14, under inquiry over death of baby boy

A GRADE 7 student in southern China's Guangdong Province is under police investigation for allegedly cutting her new-born baby's throat. The girl, 14, from a middle school in a northern Guangdong township, allegedly gave birth to a boy on November ...

From LI XINRAN, Shanghai Daily,  16 Nov 2009

Cash missing in school charity

AN inquiry has been launched into a sponsorship scheme to help up to 50,000 poor students after a Ningbo man discovered that his donations hadn't reached two students in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Ningbo resident Zhang Xiaotu was one ...

From LI XINRAN, Shanghai Daily,  15 Nov 2009

Illegal fireworks blast kills 1 child, injures 12

AN explosion ripped through an illegal fireworks workshop in southwestern China yesterday, killing a child and critically injured another 12 youngsters. A man also was hurt in the 8am blast in Hezhou City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China ...

From LI XINRAN, Shanghai Daily,  12 Nov 2009

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