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Three 'set themselves on fire' in Beijing
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February 26, 2009 |
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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... |
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25% multinationals in China to cut jobs
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February 23, 2009 |
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More than 25% of multinational corporations in China have started downsizing, a Chinese human resource consultancy survey has found. |
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Netizens join probe into 'hide-and-seek' prison death
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February 20, 2009 |
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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... |
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West in dark on Tibet, basic facts shed light
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February 20, 2009 |
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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... |
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Forest fires hit six provinces in China
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February 13, 2009 |
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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... |
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China reports 351 people dead or missing in waterway tr...
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February 12, 2009 |
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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... |
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Trial exposes trafficking at Beijing airport
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February 13, 2009 |
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The apprehension of Air China passengers trying to sneak into Canada led authorities to a smuggling ring at Beijing's airport. |
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Employment scam in Dongguan
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February 9, 2009 |
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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... |
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The Shanghai suicide bomber
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February 2, 2009 |
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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... |
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20 million migrant workers challenge social stability
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February 3, 2009 |
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130 million migrant workers in China who lost their jobs will increase the possibility of rural land disputes and hurt the income of farmers. |
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60% Chinese to economize
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January 19, 2009 |
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More than 60% of Chinese people will cut back on spending in 2009, a DDMA survey has found. |
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How stupid to link act of patriotism with buying apartm...
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January 19, 2009 |
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"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. |
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Women 'keen' to have more than 1 kid
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January 16, 2009 |
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Most Chinese women would like to have more than one child, a survey by the National Family Planning Commission Thursday has said. |
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China's rich too fast, too furious
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January 9, 2009 |
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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 ... |
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Consumer confidence 'hits 6-year low'
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January 9, 2009 |
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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... |
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Investigation into death of woman beaten by nurses
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January 6, 2009 |
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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... |
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Xinhua warns of national wave of unrest
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January 6, 2009 |
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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... |
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Coffee bar bomber now linked to two bus blasts
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December 29, 2008 |
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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. |
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University accused of using student IDs to get credit c...
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December 22, 2008 |
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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. |
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Migrant workers on a long vacation
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December 19, 2008 |
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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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