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Police caught a 20-year-old failed thief in Yuhang after he tried to force open 13 ATMs with a screwdriver in the city's Tangxi town between Jan 12 and Jan 13, Qianjiang Evening News reported. The unsuccessful thief said the ATMs were too solid.

Team returns home after fighting Ebola in Liberia

After traveling for more than 20 hours, the first team of military medical workers dispatched to Liberia to help fight Ebola returned to Chongqing on Friday morning, having completed two months on the virus's front line.

Controversial incinerators are licensed, Wuhan says

Authorities in Wuhan, Hubei province, have denied reports that two incineration plants in the city are operating without valid licenses, in the face of mounting complaints from local residents over air pollution.

Police pay family of victim who died after delay

A branch of the public security bureau in Tianshui, Gansu province, has paid 200,000 yuan ($32,220) in compensation to family members of a man who died because of the local police's delayed response to a violent robbery.

Pop singer Yao loses battle with cancer

Chinese pop singer Yao Beina, who sang the Chinese version of the theme song Let It Go from the Disney movie Frozen, died on Friday in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, after losing her battle with breast cancer at the age of 33, local media reported.

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Workers 'feel unsafe' in Kenya

More than 100 Chinese participated in a memorial on Thursday for a compatriot killed in a recent robbery in Nairobi, Kenya.

5 gang members tried for murder

Five Japanese men charged with telephone fraud and murder appeared in court in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, on Wednesday.

Panda center facing scrutiny

Questions have been raised about the Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Rescue and Breeding Research Center in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, which has been earning money by displaying rescued pandas - some of which later became sick and died.

Disease strikes rare animal

Jan 4, 8-year-old female Da Bao died of canine distemper in the Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Rescue and Breeding Research Center.

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China will strive for equal access to basic cultural services, according to an official guideline released on Wednesday.

Keeping in step with the shanghai beat

As someone who speaks the Shanghai dialect fluently and has lived in the city for more than 55 years, Hamut Mehmut calls himself Shanghainese.