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SOME factories in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, engaged in the manufacture of seasoning for hotpot cooking, have been found to be using paraffin in place of butter in their products, according to the Chongqing Morning Post.
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- WEEK IN BRIEF
SHANGHAI
- Press Clips
Uniform concern
- Fewer papers, more concrete work
SHANGHAI has vowed to cut back on official documents and do more concrete work in a new regulation designed to reform government administration and its excessive reliance on papers.
- St. Valentine steals the spotlight
INTEREST in China's traditional Lantern Festival, which fell on Thursday, February 5, this year, seems to have been overtaken by Valentine's Day on February 14 - a festive occasion which only came to be celebrated in China some 10 years ago, according to a report in the Shanghai Morning Post.
- Rising sea level
LAST year, the average sea level off Shanghai was 20 millimetres higher than that recorded in 2000, according to the latest statistics from the State Oceanographic Bureau.
- 'Insensitive' door grabs passenger
THE doors of a slowly moving metro train trapped the right foot of a middle-aged man and dragged him along the platform for over 10 metres before the train was stopped. The dangerous event happened on the evening of February 2 in Shanghai South Railway Station, according to the Shanghai Morning Post.
- Dampened expectation
A MONTHLY salary of anywhere from 3,000 yuan to 9,000 yuan (US$363 to US$1,088) is now a fading "day dream" for university graduates. They had already come to accept that 2,000 to 3,000 yuan (US$242 to US$363) was all they could hope for.
- Death for serial killer
A 38-year-old man from Central China's Henan Province who mur-dered 67 people and raped 23 women was sentenced to death last Sunday in Luohe City Intermediate People's Court.
- Hotpot malpractice
SOME factories in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, engaged in the manufacture of seasoning for hotpot cooking, have been found to be using paraffin in place of butter in their products, according to the Chongqing Morning Post.
- Death for serial killer removed
SHORT people and non-contagious Hepatitis B sufferers are now able to
- Death for serial killer
DALIAN - Construction of a 100-million-US-dollar indoor ice and snow sports park, the largest of its kind in China, will start soon in this coastal city of Northeast China's Liaoning Province, sources with the tourism industry said here Tuesday.
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