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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Five people died when a 10 metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen local authorities said on Tuesday. The Shenzhen Longgang district government said on its verified page on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, five people had died and added that it was investigating the incident. The sinkhole formed just outside the Huamao Industrial Park in Shenzhen on Monday evening, at a time when many factory workers would have been changing shifts, according to the website of Beijing-based newspaper the Guangming Daily. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A schoolmaster and a government official in Hainan province have been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of six primary school girls, local authorities said yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Apple is evading taxes in China and spreading pornography, said a Chinese consumer protection group in Beijing on Friday. The China Association of Consumer Protection Law, in a report published by the Legal Daily newspaper, accused Apple’s online stores in China of not paying import taxes for software that they sell to mainland consumers. The accusations come amid a global debate on how online retailers should be taxed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan has lodged a diplomatic protest with China over an article in a state-run publication that challenged Japan’s ownership of Okinawa, home to major US bases, officials said on Thursday. The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, on Wednesday published a call for a review of Japan’s sovereignty over Okinawa, suggesting that Beijing may be the rightful owner. The call came as the two countries are already at loggerheads over islands in the East China Sea. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A disturbing picture of a child in Catholic school uniform with his hands tied together with plastic tape has drawn critical remarks after it was uploaded to the internet early this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two Communist Party mouthpieces yesterday reported the controversy in Hong Kong over the HK$100 million donation to earthquake victims in Sichuan – pointing the finger at the Red Cross Society of China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two teens in eastern China committed suicide after “failing to complete homework assignments” state-run media said on Friday, in an extreme case highlighting the immense pressure schoolchildren can face. In a highly competitive education system that emphasises rote learning and passing exams, Chinese students spend on average 8.6 hours a day in class and can expect several more hours of assignments afterwards. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Chinese official says investigators have found no foreign links to last week’s extremist violence in the northwestern region of Xinjiang that left 25 people dead. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> New restrictions on using military licence plates on luxury cars came into effect in the mainland on Wednesday – prompting an immediate wave of furious microblog posts exposing vehicles still bearing them. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Of all the people Suzannah Linton interviewed for her book on military tribunals in Hong Kong after the second world war, it was retired Major Murray Ormsby who made the greatest impact. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cracked and peeling walls at Lushan County Junior Secondary School exposed bricks that were either hollow or filled with “polystyrene foam”, party mouthpiece People’s Daily reported on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese internet users exposed on Tuesday, that a noodle shop in Yingjing County had raised prices of their popular dandan noodles from an original five yuan per bowl, to 20 yuan per bowl. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Huge Shenzhen sinkhole kills five
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Five people died when a 10 metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen local authorities said on Tuesday. The Shenzhen Longgang district government said on its verified page on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, five people had died and added that it was investigating the incident. The sinkhole formed just outside the Huamao Industrial Park in Shenzhen on Monday evening, at a time when many factory workers would have been changing shifts, according to the website of Beijing-based newspaper the Guangming Daily. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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