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RESCUERS are turning their attention to extinguishing the fire inside a giant slag heap to prevent possible hazards after recovering all eight people missing after its collapse and conflagration in Pingdingshan, a city in Central China's Henan Province.
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- Weather
- Week in brief
Shanghai
- House prices simmer down
MORE than 70 per cent of home buyers surveyed had decided to put off their purchases after seven key government departments jointly issued proposals on May 11 to further stabilize the country's soaring housing prices.
- Company to expand procurement
GERMANY'S Boehringer Ingelheim, the world's leading private pharmaceutical company, will reinforce its procurement of chemical intermediates and raw materials from the Chinese market to support its global pharmaceutical production.
- HK offers digital guide
THE Hong Kong Tourism Board has recently introduced a PDA version of the Hong Kong Leisure Guide for business travellers, trying to help them easily and rationally arrange leisure time into their tight business schedules.
- Briefs
- Sacked to death?
THE body of a Chinese immigrant was found in shallow water at Bondi beach in Australia, May 8. The immigrant was identified as a man in his 20s named Fang Huize, who had moved from Shanghai to Australia, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
- Dangerous playthings
IN a recent sample examination of toys sold in the local market, the city's Bureau for Quality and Technology Supervision found nearly 40 per cent of battery-operated (electromotion) moving toys unsatisfactory and required producers to withdraw these products before May 20, the Jiefang Daily reported.
- Suffocation at work
ABOUT 30 per cent of plants wither quickly when moved into office building, even if they are normally vibrant species. The main reason for the problem is lack of oxygen and environmental pollution - which means office workers in the same environment are also threatened, the Shanghai-based Youth Daily reported.
- Customers say markets not to super
AMONG the 34 major service industries in the city, the supermarkets have become the business that gives the most dissatisfaction, according to a survey launched by the city's Civilization Office, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
- Objectivity in question
A SERIES of news photos showing a bicyclist tripped over by a hole in a road on a stormy afternoon in Xiamen of East China's Fujian Province has triggered a nationwide debate on the professional ethics of journalists in the country. Liu Tao, the photo journalist who took the pictures, found himself unexpectedly caught up in the centre of a heated debate.
- Numbers of this week
- Windows into Chinese minds
IF you type the keyword "polling" into the biggest Chinese search engine at "www.baidu.com", within 0.209 seconds you'll find more than 63,000 pages, along with all sorts of advertisements for polling companies. Just a decade ago, it was impossible to publish non-official statistics in the Chinese media.
- Government addresses Internet piracy
CHINA'S National Copyright Administration (NCA) and the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced recently in Beijing the "Administrative Measures on Internet Copyright Protection", the first of their kind in the country. The new measures will take effect May 30.
- Coal kills again
RESCUERS are turning their attention to extinguishing the fire inside a giant slag heap to prevent possible hazards after recovering all eight people missing after its collapse and conflagration in Pingdingshan, a city in Central China's Henan Province.
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