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25 Jul 08
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BOCOG adjusts ticket sales procedure THE Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games adjusted ticketing procedures for the last batch of Games tickets to be sold to reduce waiting times, its Website said yesterday.
Thousands of people waited... |
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25 Jul 08
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Mosque collapse kills at least 7 in NW China AT least seven people were killed and four others badly injured after a mosque being constructed in Qinghai Province, northwestern China, collapsed yesterday.
Rescuers said today that about 20 people received... |
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24 Jul 08
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Quake-ravaged zone rocked by tremors THREE powerful aftershocks hit southwest China's earthquake area yesterday, killing at least one person, injuring 17 others and inflicting damage on about 1,200 houses.
More than 69,000 people have been confirmed... |
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24 Jul 08
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Port Security Crackdown CHINA'S Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has agreed with its Russian counterparts to cooperate in conducting port security checks on their borders during next month's Beijing Olympic Games.
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24 Jul 08
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Hong Kong man jailed over nude Web photos A HONG Kong man has become the first person to be convicted of uploading nude photos on to the Internet .
Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts sentenced Kwok Chun-wai to two months in prison with two years of probation,... |
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24 Jul 08
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Rules on police misuse THE Chinese authorities have published the first rules on dealing with misuse of police when handling mass activities. These include inappropriate use of police equipment and forceful measures, carrying or using of... |
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24 Jul 08
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Life sentence for former official THE former deputy Party secretary of northeast China's Changchun City, Jilin Province, has been sentenced to life in jail for corruption.
His property was confiscated and the Intermediate People's Court also... |
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24 Jul 08
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Xu feels the heat in long wait for tickets XU Yonghe wants tickets to the Olympics, and he was willing to camp out in sweltering heat for almost two days to get them.
The Beijing resident was at the head of a line of thousands waiting on lawnchairs, under... |
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24 Jul 08
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China lifts ban on leprosy sufferers CHINA has lifted its ban on foreign leprosy sufferers entering the country.
Leprosy sufferers and their relatives from other countries can enter China from Sunday, according to the General Administration of Quality... |
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24 Jul 08
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Manufacturers warned over use of copyright Games logos THE Olympic rings and "Beijing 2008" are among the most frequently infringed Olympic logos, a Chinese official said yesterday.
Fu Shuangjian, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce deputy head, said... |
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24 Jul 08
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Net result - China now leads the world IT'S official - China has the world's largest number of Internet users.
The nation had overtaken the No. 1 spot from the United States by the end of June, a government-backed center said in a report yesterday.
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24 Jul 08
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China tops US for Internet user CHINA has the world's largest number of Internet users, passing the United States by the end of June, a government-backed center said in a report today.
Another 43 million netizens joined in the first half of... |
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24 Jul 08
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Police shoot kidnapper, free hostage POLICE shot and killed a man who had kidnapped a woman and stabbed her in what seems to be a love affair gone wrong.
The woman was taken to hospital but her injuries were not life threatening.
The drama was... |
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24 Jul 08
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Man given 2 months in jail over celebrity nude photos A HONG Kong man has become the first person to be convicted of uploading nude photos onto the Internet of actor and singer Edison Chen.
Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts sentenced Kwok Chun-wai to two months in prison... |
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24 Jul 08
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Strong aftershock jolts west China AN aftershock measuring 6.0-magnitude jolted the area between Ningqiang County, Shaanxi Province and Qingchuan County, Sichuan Province this afternoon, leaving at least five people injured.
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24 Jul 08
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Manhunt in bus bombs case POLICE in Kunming City have launched a manhunt for a suspect in the bus bomb blasts case.
They are looking for a man wearing a white coat and jeans.
Detectives are going through close circuit TV tapes from... |
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24 Jul 08
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Airline to offer phone-call service on 3 flights SHANEZHEN Airlines said it will offer phone calls on three flights from Shenzhen to Beijing and Shanghai before the Beijing Olympics.
Li Kun, president of the airlines, said the company had already signed an... |
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24 Jul 08
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Police investigate suspicious package at Nanjing airport POLICE and officials from the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) are investigating a case in which a suspected explosive device was found at Lukou Airport in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province yesterday.
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24 Jul 08
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Rice to lead US official delegation at closing ceremony of Beijing Olympics THE White House said yesterday that US President George W. Bush has designated an official delegation to attend the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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24 Jul 08
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Man gets life for brazen jail break AN escaped prisoner who used a crane to smash through a prison wall to flee was given a life sentence for endangering social order by a court in Hebei Province yesterday, Xinhuanet.com reported today.
Xie Wanli... |
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24 Jul 08
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Magnitude-5.6 aftershock hits area between Shaanxi, Sichuan A MAGNITUDE-5.6 aftershock jolted the area between Ningqiang County, Shaanxi Province and Qingchuan County, Sichuan Province at 3:54am today, the China Earthquake Administration said.
The epicenter was at 32.8... |
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23 Jul 08
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Two yuan buyer turns into lottery millionaire A LOTTERY buyer in east China's Jiangsu Province has won a record 20.56 million yuan (US$3 million) by spending just 2 yuan.
The 85th Super Sports Lottery had a prize pool of nearly 130 million yuan and a prize... |
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23 Jul 08
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Policemen honored for finding detonators HEBEI Province police department yesterday honored three officers who uncovered 22,000 detonators in a car traveling toward Beijing on an expressway last month, Eastday.com reported.
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23 Jul 08
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Tibetan monastery's treasure recovered CHINESE police solved the case of a theft of treasure from a famous Tibetan lamasery in northwest China's Qinghai Province, retrieving eight important relics belonging to a pagoda in the temple.
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23 Jul 08
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Last shot tickets on sale tomorrow THE last tickets for next month's Olympics will go on sale tomorrow at ticket booths at the Games' venues, according to Beijing2008.cn.
About 250,000 tickets will be made available for Beijing-based events including... |
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23 Jul 08
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Love life, pay and age on 'don't ask' list QUESTIONS about salaries are out. Also questions about the age of a foreigner visiting Beijing for the Olympics. And an inquiry about someone's love life? Forget it.
These are part of the "Eight don't asks" displayed... |
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23 Jul 08
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Games to be launched with the biggest bang of all time FROM a yellow dragon and red peonies to 2008 smiling faces, China, the birthplace of gunpowder, said it will stage spectacular fireworks displays at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics.
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23 Jul 08
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China develops space-walk suit CHINA'S first space walk is expected to last up to an hour, the mission's chief technician said yesterday. And the history-making astronaut with Shenzhou VII will wear a Chinese-made space suit.
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23 Jul 08
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Beijing allows protests but you need a permit PROTESTS and rallies may be allowed during the Olympic Games in Beijing, but State permission must be granted and gatherings are restricted to a handful of parks in the capital.
A senior security official with... |
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23 Jul 08
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Bus blasts: police increase reward POLICE in Kunming City have trebled their reward to 300,000 yuan (US$44,000) for any information that might lead to the arrest of those responsible for Monday's fatal bus bomb blasts.
A survivor of one of the... |
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23 Jul 08
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Olympic protest parks to be set aside CHINA will set aside several parks in Beijing as zones for government-approved protests and rallies during next month's Olympic Games, a senior security official with the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee said... |
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23 Jul 08
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Chinese space suit all the rage CHINA'S first space walk is expected to last up to one hour and the astronaut to walk in space in the Shenzhou VII mission will wear a Chinese-made space suit, the mission's chief technician said today.
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23 Jul 08
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Police triple reward for tips on Kunming bus blasts POLICE in Kunming City tripled their reward to 300,000 yuan (US$43,988) for any information that might lead to the arrest of those responsible for Monday's bus blasts that killed two people and injured 14 others.
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23 Jul 08
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Getting ready for the big bang BEIJING is planning to set off 33,866 fireworks during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
A third of the fireworks will be launched from the top of the National Stadium, "the Bird's Nest," 8,428 fireworks... |
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23 Jul 08
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Chicago quake funds to help schools THE Sichuan Earthquake Relief Fundraising Committee in Chicago announced yesterday that it will use the money collected to help build two schools in Sichuan Province.
Chinese Americans formed the committee after... |
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23 Jul 08
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Officers honored for discovering 22,000 detonators HEBEI Province's police department honored three officers yesterday for discovering about 22,000 detonators in a car traveling toward Beijing on an expressway last month, Eastday.com reported today.
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23 Jul 08
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Last chance to snap up Olympic tickets THE last tickets for next month's Olympics will go on sale on Friday at ticket booths at the Games' venues, according to Beijing2008.cn.
About 250,000 tickets will be made available for Beijing-based events including... |
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22 Jul 08
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Mice on parade A PARADE of white mice in Lishui Town of Guangdong's Foshan City caused a stir yesterday. A man, identified as Li, had raised them in a deserted building but when he found they were difficult to sell, he released... |
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22 Jul 08
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Plane passenger had bullets A PASSENGER was detained at Akesu Airport in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region after two bullets were discovered in his luggage, it was revealed yesterday.
The suspect, surnamed Zhang, was stopped on July 17 when... |
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22 Jul 08
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Hotels slash room rates after foreign visitors fail to turn up HOTELS in Beijing are slashing prices for next month's Olympics after the expected windfall of visitors failed to materialize, hotels and travel industry executives said yesterday.
Fan Runjun, of travel Website... |
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22 Jul 08
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Flowers all the way for a green Games BEIJING has prepared 40 million flowering plants to decorate streets and Olympic venues.
"July and August are usually a hard time for flowers," Wang Sumei, vice director of the Beijing Landscape Forestation Bureau,... |
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22 Jul 08
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Park ready to be an emergency shelter THE Olympic Forest Park will serve as an emergency shelter during the Games in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
The 680-hectare park provides a large expanse of open areas for people to take... |
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22 Jul 08
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Deadly blasts 'not related to Olympics' POLICE investigating two deadly bus explosions in a southwestern Chinese city had not found any links between the blasts and next month's Beijing Olympics, officials said yesterday.
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22 Jul 08
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Security blanket sets stage for safe Games FROM anti-terrorism drills to the halting of flights during the opening ceremony, Beijing is taking every possible measure to ward off terrorism and ensure security for next month's Olympic Games.
The China Civil... |
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22 Jul 08
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Suicide can be murder to set up IT was a case to make even the most experienced prosecutor dive for the dustiest of legal books where, almost certainly, no precedents would be forthcoming.
It seemed an open-and-shut murder case ... a man and... |
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22 Jul 08
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TV brings turtle out of her shell CHINA'S evening TV news program has an unusual fan - a turtle who seems to be crazy about the anchorman's voice.
Whenever the pet turtle, raised by a citizen in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, hears... |
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22 Jul 08
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Hefei trip to be cut to 3 hours BULLET trains will be added to the Hefei-Nanjing line from August 1, shortening the journey time between Hefei and Shanghai from over six hours to just under three hours.
The journey time from Hefei, capital of... |
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22 Jul 08
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Monks die when blast causes temple collapse A TEMPLE collapse triggered by an explosion of stored black powder was blamed for killing two monks and injuring four others, an official with southwest China's Sichuan Province said yesterday.
The collapse occurred... |
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22 Jul 08
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Truck deaths SIX people died and nine others were injured when a farm truck overturned on Monday in Xiji County, Guyuan City, in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the regional public security bureau said yesterday.... |
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22 Jul 08
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Oragnizer of 'suicide' killers jailed A MAN who hired killers to help his sister and brother-in-law commit suicide has been sentenced 12 years in prison in south China's Guangdong Province.
Two victims, once popular regulars at Macau's casinos, committed... |
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