Environmental protection officials urged Beijing residents to refrain from setting off fireworks yesterday - the last day they were allowed to do so for the Lunar New Year celebrations - because...
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18 Feb 2013
Sales of consumer goods totalled 1.7 billion yuan (HK$2.09 billion) for the week-long Lunar New Year holiday in Lanzhou, a 21 per cent increase from the holiday last year, Xinhua reports, citing...
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Two teenagers yesterday appeared in Tuen Mun Court on a joint charge of arson for allegedly setting fire to umbrellas and other items at a Tin Shui Wai estate on Friday.
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A farmer and his wife were burned to death as their house was set on fire in southern Chile, with authorities blaming indigenous activists for the "terrorist" act.
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A South Korean court has turned down a Japanese extradition request for a Chinese national who served a 10-month jail sentence for an arson attack on the Japanese embassy in Seoul.
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Before William Spengler opened fire on firefighters who had arrived to put out a fire at his home in the upstate New York town of Webster, killing two and seriously wounding two others, he typed a...
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A Taiwanese man has been indicted on murder and arson charges for allegedly starting a fire at a hospital in October that killed 13 people and injured 60 others, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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A connection problem with an electric cable used at a hawker's stall has been identified as the only possible cause of a Mong Kok inferno in November last year that killed nine people and injured...
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The Philippines is monitoring incidents of revenge violence in southern provinces where a 12 billion peso (HK$2.25 billion) Ponzi scheme may have duped at least 15,000 people.
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Five years ago, as he watched TV images of South Korea's foremost historical treasure being engulfed in flames lit by a lone arsonist, Hong Chang-Won remembers having to turn his head away.
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A Taiwanese prosecutor said on Wednesday that an elderly man had been arrested and detained on suspicion of starting a fire at a hospital that killed 12 people and injured 60.
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Police suspect an electrical fault, possibly overloading, rather than arson, caused November's deadly fire in Fa Yuen Street, Mong Kok.
The city's deadliest blaze in 15 years killed...
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