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  • Sichuan residents settle into new homes

    2011-02-01 08:01

    Residents of a town situated in the epicenter of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake are moving in to new homes days ahead of the Chinese New Year.

  • 'Great' wall keeps thieves at bay

    2011-02-01 07:58

    Increasingly wealthy villagers in Taizhou of East China's Zhejiang province have built a huge wall around their village to ensure their safety.

  • Dungeon rapist sentenced to death

    2011-02-01 07:51

    A man was sentenced to death for kidnapping and caging two girls in a dungeon and raping nine other women, said a verdict of the Intermediate People's Court of Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, on Jan 30.

  • Nujiang hydro project back on agenda

    2011-02-01 07:39

    China is set to resume its development plans for the Nujiang River in Southwest China due to increasing demand for energy.

  • Province ready to rebuild its image

    2011-02-01 07:30

    Unlike some easily-content officials, the governor of Southwest China's Guizhou province is still uneasy with the province's 12 percent annual GDP growth over the past five years.

  • Man sentenced to death over illegal demolition

    2011-02-01 06:42

    Guo Haidong was sentenced to death Monday in North China's Shanxi province over an illegal demolition that killed one and injured another last year.

  • Lost children’s holiday at relief station

    2011-01-31 15:04

    Seventeen children aged 4 to 14 will spend their Spring Festival holiday at Xi'an Relief Management Station this year. The children were received by the station for various reasons. Some were abandoned due to disease; some left abusive homes, and some lost their way home and lost contact with their family.

  • Shanghai property tax hard to gauge

    2011-01-31 08:11

    The trade volume of Shanghai's housing market slumped 40 percent on the first day of a new local property tax, and transaction volumes fell further over the weekend, according to figures from the Shanghai Real Estate Trade Center.

  • Police chief's son gets 6 years for accident

    2011-01-31 07:24

    A senior police officer's son was sentenced to six years in jail for killing a young woman while driving drunk, a case that triggered public outrage after reports that he invoked his father's name to avoid responsibility.

  • Xinjiang to invest $4.6b in airport construction

    2011-01-31 06:57

    China's far western Xinjiang region plans to invest 30 billion yuan ($4.56 billion) in airport construction between 2011 and 2015, local authorities said Jan 30.

  • Selling wintersweet to holiday buyers

    2011-01-30 13:17

    Zhou is a resident from Dianjiang county of Chongqing. She makes a living and pays for her two children's education by selling wintersweet from 6 am to 11 pm every day.

  • Hostile weather tests firefighters

    2011-01-28 15:09

    As temperatures drop to -25C, about 700 soldiers of the Changchun fire brigade participate in a physical training program to build cold resistance. The drill is conducted at least twice a week.

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