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(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-11-30 08:29 Recruitment for doctoral students An international recruitment drive for doctoral students co-organized by the China Education Association for International Exchange and the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools will kick off in Beijing on Dec 11. International research institutions and laboratories from US, France, Canada and other countries will participate in the recruitment drive. Doctoral supervisors from these institutions will come to interview students in person, for research areas ranging from mathematics, chemistry and law to education, finance and economics. Bus company pays for beating Xicheng district court has ruled that a city bus company should pay 6,000 yuan to a passenger who was beaten on a bus in February, the Beijing News reported yesterday. According to the report, after the passenger surnamed Yu had a quarrel with the conductor, another male passenger punched her and broke her nose. Although Yu had asked the driver and conductor to help her catch the man, she was ignored and the man escaped. The court said the bus company has a responsibility to provide a reasonable standard of security to passengers, the paper reported. Undertakers to be licensed
By year-end, nearly 400 undertakers will receive a working license for the city's funeral homes, the Beijing Times reported. The government will require undertakers to obtain a work license from Dec 1 to ensure they possess the necessary skills. More than 2,000 undertakers in the city will receive training for junior, middle and senior work licenses. The government is also working on standards for services such as scattering ashes at sea and cemetery management. Jail for Olympic ticketing fraudster Haidian district court has sentenced a man surnamed Chen to 15 years in jail with a fine of 20,000 yuan for an Olympic ticketing scam that took place last year. The Beijing Times reported yesterday that a tour agency gave Chen 1.61 million yuan to buy 7,199 tickets for the Beijing Olympic Games. However, Chen spent all the money without buying a single ticket for the agency. Chen claimed he could buy tickets but he disappeared with the money one month before the Games opened, the paper said. (China Daily 11/30/2009 page17) |
