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1. Three 'set themselves on fire' in Beijing
  Three people--two men and a woman--are suspected of "setting themselves on fire" in a car in Beijing's busiest shopping district Wednesday afternoon, according to a Xinhua report q...

2. 25% multinationals in China to cut jobs
  More than 25% of multinational corporations in China have started downsizing, a Chinese human resource consultancy survey has found.

3. Netizens join probe into 'hide-and-seek' prison death
  A 15-member investigation team set out for Jinning County in southwest China's Yunnan Province Friday morning for a probe of a man's death in prison, which local police had said wa...

4. West in dark on Tibet, basic facts shed light
  Shi Yinhong, a professor of International Relations at the Renmin University, thinks that the prevailing political opinion on Tibet in the West is so much based on simplistic conce...

5. Forest fires hit six provinces in China
  A series of forest fires hit six provinces in southern China over the past days, killing at least three and injuring two, reported Chinese state news agency China News Service (CNS...

6. China reports 351 people dead or missing in waterway tr...
  The number of people dead or missing in waterway traffic accidents in China dropped 5.6 percent to 351 in 2008 due to improved safety standards, according to statistics released by...

7. Trial exposes trafficking at Beijing airport
  The apprehension of Air China passengers trying to sneak into Canada led authorities to a smuggling ring at Beijing's airport.

8. Employment scam in Dongguan
  As one of China's major manufacturing city, Dongguan in Guangdong province sees millions of people pouring in looking for jobs every year. Some of them don't find exactly what they...

9. The Shanghai suicide bomber
  On Chinese New Year's Eve, there was a mysterious suicide bomb explosion in front of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau building. The cause of the explosion was still being invest...

10. 20 million migrant workers challenge social stability
  130 million migrant workers in China who lost their jobs will increase the possibility of rural land disputes and hurt the income of farmers.

11. 60% Chinese to economize
  More than 60% of Chinese people will cut back on spending in 2009, a DDMA survey has found.

12. How stupid to link act of patriotism with buying apartm...
  "BUY an apartment, and you are patriotic," says a local Chinese official in her bizarre call to beggar the poor to bail out housing speculators.

13. Women 'keen' to have more than 1 kid
  Most Chinese women would like to have more than one child, a survey by the National Family Planning Commission Thursday has said.

14. China's rich too fast, too furious
  With the explosive growth of motor vehicle sales in recent years, traffic accidents in China have also skyrocketed. So much so that the Middle Kingdom has become a world leader in ...

15. Consumer confidence 'hits 6-year low'
  Like many trendy women in Shanghai, Bao Shengsheng, who lives with her parents, used to spend more than 80 percent of her 5,000-yuan (US$732) monthly income on shopping and enterta...

16. Investigation into death of woman beaten by nurses
  Authorities in Laiwu, Shandong province, are investigating the suspicious death of a psychiatric patient after video footage that showed her repeatedly being physically abused by h...

17. Xinhua warns of national wave of unrest
  The mainland faces surging protests and riots this year as rising unemployment stokes discontent among migrant workers and university graduates, a state-run magazine said in a blun...

18. Coffee bar bomber now linked to two bus blasts
  Police say the coffee bar explosion on December 24 and two bus explosions on July 21 in southwest China's Kunming City were carried out by the same man.

19. University accused of using student IDs to get credit c...
  A university in Xi'an secretly used the personal information of at least 11,000 students to apply for credit cards as a return favour for a bank loan, the mainland's media reported.

20. Migrant workers on a long vacation
  More and more migrant workers have lost their jobs in the cities and returned to the countryside, adding pressure to rural employment scarcity.

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