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More than 2,200 officers in Nanning, Guangxi, checked at least 500 places that they suspected of harboring illegal activities during the crackdown on gambling and arrested 785 suspects.
As sixteen archaized sculling boats lined up on the lakes of Shichahai, boatmen sang the traditional work tune loudly on deck, while women dressed in red cheongsam played folk music on a nearby island surrounded by dozens of drummers and lion dancers.
A police officer from South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region who allegedly shot and wounded two hotel employees has been detained as investigators probe the incident, local authorities said on Wednesday.
Civil servants will soon be expected to be just that: civil. Watching blue movies, having extramarital affairs, vandalizing public facilities all are on a new list of no-no's for public servants.
Luxury seats will be missing from many of the fast trains that will soon travel on a high-speed railway running from Beijing to Shanghai, giving passengers more room and making the ride cheaper, railway sources were quoted as saying.
Beijing lawyer Li Zhuang charged with falsifying evidence and jeopardizing testimony, will stand trial Friday for the third day after hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday.
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec Corp, said Wednesday that its chairman, Su Shulin, had resigned.
A police shooting that wounded two hotel employees in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region was the result of a dispute between two police officers and the employees, police said.
Twelve workers were trapped when a tunnel under construction collapsed Wednesday in Northwest China's Gansu province, the local safety authority said.
Firefighter try to extinguish a blaze on top of a warehouse roof in Lanzhou, Northeast China's Gansu province on April 20, 2011.
Police have revealed that workers accidentally caused the Shanghai Telecom Building fire which killed at lease four people Tuesday afternoon.
Beijing lawyer Li Zhuang stood trial on Tuesday in a court in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on additional charges of falsifying evidence and jeopardizing testimony.