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- China media: Pollution strikes again
- Agricultural authorities have culled about 95,000 chickens following an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in northwest China.
- Smog takes travel toll
- Fresh smog shrouded Beijing and some provinces yesterday, disrupting highway traffic and flights.
- Mercury dips amid cold snap
- Fight over debt leaves 2 dead, 1 injured in Changsha
- Two killed in central China hotel attack
- Fight over debt leaves 2 dead, 1 injured in Changsha
- Two killed in central China hotel attack
- Chinese buy up Bordeaux's wines
- Lost in Thailand shakes up China's movie industry
- Bird flu quarantine ends
- Trains run again as dam collapse damage fixed
- Tip on toxic discharges worth 100,000 yuan
- Temples shut in swindles
- Smog that shrouded Beijing a brew of deadly chemicals
- Six arrested over Buddhist temples' illegal funding
- Police nab 17,900 suspects during holiday
- Cold snap to sweep travel rush
- Sichuan anti-graft official falls to death
| China media: Pollution strikes again Posted: 17 Feb 2013 09:29 PM PST Environmental concerns dominate the media in China as newspapers warn of the dangers of toxic smog and polluted underground water. |
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| Fight over debt leaves 2 dead, 1 injured in Changsha Posted: 17 Feb 2013 07:31 PM PST AT least two died and one was injured in an armed fight this morning in a hotel in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, Xinhua News Agency reported. The fight erupted around 8am, involving two groups of people who used knives and guns to attack each other. People heard gunshots in the melee. All the suspects fled before police arrived. Changsha police said the fight might be caused by a debt dispute and they are pursuing all those took part in the fight. |
| Two killed in central China hotel attack Posted: 17 Feb 2013 07:18 PM PST TWO people died and another was wounded in a hotel assault in central China's Hunan Province, police said today. The attack occurred at around 8 am in a tea bar of the Fulihua Hotel in Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan, according to police. In the fight, some people slashed others with knives and gunshots were heard, witnesses said. Police are hunting down attackers, who fled the scene after the attack. A debts-related dispute was believed to be the cause of the attack, according to initial investigations by police. |
| Fight over debt leaves 2 dead, 1 injured in Changsha Posted: 17 Feb 2013 07:31 PM PST AT least two died and one was injured in an armed fight this morning in a hotel in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, Xinhua News Agency reported. The fight erupted around 8am, involving two groups of people who used knives and guns to attack each other. People heard gunshots in the melee. All the suspects fled before police arrived. Changsha police said the fight might be caused by a debt dispute and they are pursuing all those took part in the fight. |
| Two killed in central China hotel attack Posted: 17 Feb 2013 07:18 PM PST TWO people died and another was wounded in a hotel assault in central China's Hunan Province, police said today. The attack occurred at around 8 am in a tea bar of the Fulihua Hotel in Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan, according to police. In the fight, some people slashed others with knives and gunshots were heard, witnesses said. Police are hunting down attackers, who fled the scene after the attack. A debts-related dispute was believed to be the cause of the attack, according to initial investigations by police. |
| Chinese buy up Bordeaux's wines Posted: 17 Feb 2013 03:26 PM PST How China's consumers are turning to Bordeaux |
| Lost in Thailand shakes up China's movie industry Posted: 17 Feb 2013 01:59 PM PST The budget film that has taken China's cinemas by storm |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2013 08:00 AM PST A total of 110 people who had close contact with two patients with avian influenza H5N1 in southwest China's Guizhou Province this month have been released from quarantine, local health authorities announced yesterday. Two residents of the provincial capital of Guiyang were reported to have contracted the H5N1 virus on February 8. Health officials put 110 people who had close contact with them under quarantine. They were released as no abnormal symptoms were found. One patient, a 21-year-old woman, died of multiple organ failure last Wednesday. The other patient, a 31-year-old man, is still receiving medical treatment. No new avian influenza H5N1 cases have been reported. |
| Trains run again as dam collapse damage fixed Posted: 17 Feb 2013 08:00 AM PST TRAIN services resumed near a reservoir in Shanxi Province yesterday after more than 5,000 workers repaired a 1.4-kilometer-long railway section damaged when a dam wall collapsed last Friday, causing flooding, China News Service reported. By yesterday, more than 6,400 passengers, stranded at a railway station in Taiyuan City after train services were suspended in the incident, had left the station, many by bus or train. Residents living near the Quting reservoir in Shanxi were evacuated after part of the dam's wall collapsed on Friday morning. The collapse occurred when the top of a water duct at the reservoir caved in, leading to the collapse of part of the dam's walls, the report said. No casualties were reported after the accident, but several roads were closed due to flooding. Damage to the 1.4-kilometer-long railway section caused by flooding forced 13 train lines to travel on another routes and shut down eight train services, officials at the Taiyuan Railway Bureau said. Local officials said the water duct was built in 1959 and that its age was thought to be one cause of the incident. |
| Tip on toxic discharges worth 100,000 yuan Posted: 17 Feb 2013 08:00 AM PST A REWARD of up to 100,000 yuan (US$16,000) is being offered to anyone who blows the whistle on companies illegally discharging waste deep underground in Shandong Province's Weifang City. The offer by the local government follows online claims that many chemical companies in the east China city have been using high-pressure injection wells to discharge waste sewage over 1,000 meters deep underground for years, seriously polluting underground water and posing a cancer threat. A post on Weibo said the companies were all "rich and powerful" ones preparing for initial public offerings, and they used injection wells - vertical pipes sunk into the ground - so supervisors would not notice the illegal discharges. The Weifang government told Xinhua news agency that they had investigated 715 companies but so far hadn't found any polluting the underground water. It said it wanted whistleblowers to come forward. The post was just one among many exposing pollution scandals in an online campaign to reveal widespread water pollution in China during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday. The campaign was started by Deng Fei, a journalist of the Phoenix Weekly magazine, who asked people to photograph or film pollution when they returned to their hometowns during the holiday. The online posts claimed that it was common practice for chemical companies to directly discharge waste water deep underground in Shandong Province where many villagers in towns near the factories mainly relied on underground water for drinking. "I'm from Tai'an City of Shandong. For several years, sunlight cannot shine through thick haze as many chemical factories were set up, discharging waste water directly into underground," said one post. "I drink bottled water purchased from outside the town, but most villagers still drink the underground water. More and more people caught cancer at young age and many local children caught pneumonia," the post said. Another post by a villager in Shandong's Zibo City said the water from wells appeared to be as black as ink and had a sour taste. It said the problem had been identified as long ago as December 2010 but claimed the local government hadn't tried to correct the problem. According to China Geological Survey, 90 percent of underground water in China has been polluted to some extent, while 60 percent of that is seriously polluted, Xinhua reported. |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2013 08:00 AM PST AUTHORITIES have shut two temples on a sacred Buddhist mountain in northern China and arrested six people who were hired by the temples to deceive tourists into donating money. The Wutai Mountain Administration Bureau closed two of the mountain's dozens of temples and revoked their business licenses on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The arrests were made for illegal money collection and the report said that the temples had hired six fake monks to con tourists into buying expensive incense and paying unreasonable amounts of money for religious ceremonies. "We will continue to regulate temples and shops on Wutai Mountain to display a good image to tourists," the director of the bureau told Xinhua. Last year, the government's religious affairs office called on local authorities to ban profiteering related to religious activity and told them not to allow religious venues to be run as business ventures. |
| Smog that shrouded Beijing a brew of deadly chemicals Posted: 17 Feb 2013 08:00 AM PST THE heavy smog that affected north China in January contained a heavy concentration of deadly organic compounds, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wang Yuesi, an academy researcher, said the smog that shrouded Beijing and other cities in the region contained chemicals that were present in London's Great Smog of 1952, in which about 12,000 people died, and the photochemical smog in Los Angeles from 1940 to 1950 which killed about 800 people. The academy's study found that the source of the air pollution was vehicle and industrial emissions. Chen Liangfu, another academy researcher, said the problem was made worse as small airborne particles increased in size by two to three times when combined with water in the air. In Beijing, vehicle emissions were the biggest problem, making up about a quarter of the air pollution, the study found. This was followed by the burning of coal and dust and sand blown in from outside the city which each made up about a fifth of the pollution. The academy's experts said coal burning should be controlled and attention paid to emissions by diesel vehicles and the quality of the fuel they used. Yesterday, smog again disrupted traffic and flights in Beijing, with moderate or serious air pollution reported and visibility down to 500 meters during the early morning, the Beijing Environmental Protection Monitoring Center said. At one point, visibility at the Beijing Capital International Airport fell to 5 to 10 meters, causing flights to be delayed, Xinhua news agency reported. Meanwhile, fireworks caused PM2.5 readings to skyrocket in many cities during the Spring Festival holiday, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said yesterday. Figures released by the ministry showed that 42.7 percent of 74 cities reported higher-than-normal readings of the dangerous particles measuring 2.5 microns or less in diameter, Xinhua said. The highest average reading in a single day was 426 micrograms per cubic meter, or 5.7 times the country's standard. North China's Tianjin hit 577 on lunar New Year's Eve, the highest of all cities. Some cities also saw excessive readings for PM10 and sulfur dioxide, Xinhua said. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Six arrested over Buddhist temples' illegal funding Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:57 PM PST TWO temples on Mount Wutai, one of four sacred Buddhist mountains in China, have been shut down and six people arrested over illegal funding of the sites, the local administration bureau announced today. |
| Police nab 17,900 suspects during holiday Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:54 PM PST POLICE caught more than 17,900 people suspected of committing crimes during the Spring Festival holiday. |
| Cold snap to sweep travel rush Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:53 PM PST A strong cold snap will bring temperature drops in most parts of China over the coming three days, together with strong winds and snow, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) forecast on Sunday amid a travel peak after the Spring Festival holiday. Affected by the cold front, temperatures will drop by 6 to 8 degrees Celsius from Sunday through Tuesday in some regions of southwest China, areas south of the Yangtze River and most parts to its north, accompanied by winds of level four to six, the NMC said. Some areas will see temperatures plunge by 10 to 12 degrees Celsius, according to the observatory. The NMC also forecast rain and snow in most areas south of the Yellow River and in northeast China, with 10 to 20 mm of snow in some northern parts of regions along the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers as well as regions south of the Yangtze River. Meanwhile, moderate snow or sleet is forecast for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, eastern parts of northwest China, the northeast of Inner Mongolia and some parts of northeast and north China, while the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region will be hit by blizzards. Although the week-long Lunar New Year holiday officially ended on Friday, the NMC and the Ministry of Transport (MOT) warned about traffic safety in affected regions as many travelers are still on their way back to work. Meanwhile, sections of a few national highways across northeast China and Tibet Autonomous Region are being affected by heavy snow, the NMC and MOT said in a joint statement. |
| Sichuan anti-graft official falls to death Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:50 PM PST An anti-graft official in southwest China's Sichuan Province died this morning after falling off a building, local authorities said. |
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