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  • Cantonese set to carry on as officials quash rumors

    2010-07-30 06:52

    A senior city official in this southern city has reaffirmed that no action will be taken to scrap Cantonese in favor of Mandarin.

  • Beijing to enclose villages in security move

    2010-07-30 06:36

    The national capital's Changping district is all set to erect walls around its 44 villages, with security guards manning the entrances at all times, a district government official said.

  • Child playing with fire blamed for Xinjiang building blaze

    2010-07-30 03:55

    A child playing with fire was found to have caused a residential building blaze on July 19 that left 12 people dead and 17 injured in the capital of China's far west Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said Thursday.

  • Showing them what they want

    2010-07-27 07:53

    TV programming is booming in China and Hunan TV is in the lead. Wang Yan in Changsha reports.

  • Zijin group 'attempts to buy silence'

    2010-07-27 07:24

    The Zijin Mining Group, China's largest gold producer, has been accused of attempting to bribe journalists to cover up a wastewater leak in Shanghang, East China's Fujian province.

  • Surveillance stepped up ahead of Asian Games

    2010-07-27 07:17

    Guangzhou is gearing up to host the 16th Asian Games in November, and the city has been installed video monitoring cameras.

  • Call to recruit women in campaign against HIV/AIDS

    2010-07-27 07:09

    Women should be recruited as an active force in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a campaign that has previously addressed them almost exclusively as carriers of the virus, according to study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released on Monday.

  • Struggle to contain fresh flooding

    2010-07-27 07:02

    Due to fresh torrential downpours, the Three Gorges Dam is expected to endure its second flood peak on Wednesday morning, according to local authorities.
    333 people killed in rainstorms, floods in two weeks

  • Air quality drops in first half of year

    2010-07-27 06:35

    Economic recovery has partly caused the country's air quality to fall in the first half of the year, the first such fall since 2005, figures from environmental authorities showed on Monday.

  • Man jumps off platform on subway line

    2010-07-26 09:56

    A man jumped onto the tracks of the Line 1 subway in Beijing during the morning rush hour Monday, leaving the metro operation briefly suspended, the subway company said.

  • Former doctoral student offered plea bargain

    2010-07-26 08:28

    A former Chinese doctoral student in the United States must decide by Tuesday whether to accept a plea bargain or continue fighting charges that have mistakenly seen him branded a potential "terrorist".

  • Copy-making vs profit-making

    2010-07-26 09:03

    Yes, iPads are hot, but Chinese manufacturers are learning that producing knock-off gadgetry is not as profit-making as it used to be.

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