Shaanxi

SHAANXI

Shaanxi schoolboy slits classmate's throat after fight

9 May 2013

What began as a playful scuffle between two boys at a Shaanxi secondary school spiralled into tragedy on Tuesday.

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Chinese drive to create vast vineyards spark concern

6 May 2013

Shenzhen businessman Peng Weijian has an insatiable curiosity when it comes to wine. For more than a decade he has travelled the globe tasting the products of grapes from many regions.

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Outrage among lawyers after official calls them 'cowards'

2 Apr 2013

A local Communist Party official’s denigration of lawyers as cowardly has caused uproar among legal practitioners in China.

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Talking points

21 Feb 2013

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives in Washington for talks that will be watched closely in Beijing. Abe, who will meet US President Barack Obama for the first time tomorrow, is expected to...

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'It's not my father': says devastated daughter after Shaanxi crematorium blunder

26 Jan 2013

A woman in China's northwestern Shaanxi province, mourning her dead father Liu Bin, was devastated to discover that the wrong body was cremated after his funeral in Fuping county earlier this...

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Briefs, December 23, 2012

23 Dec 2012

An anthology of 100 bamboo-themed Chinese poems has been published that features a foreword and a poem by former president Jiang Zemin.

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Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

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'Giant cigarettes' in Shaanxi county draw ridicule from fuming netizens

Zhouzhi county, Xian, in central China’s Shaanxi province, is more famous for its kiwi fruit exports than it is for good architecture, let alone landscaping.

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Zhao Leji a man whose time has come

Shaanxi party secretary Zhao Leji is a strong candidate to become the Communist Party's personnel chief following the leadership transition at its 18th national congress next month.

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Shaanxi dormitory fire kills 12 workers, injures 24

Chinese state media say a fire in a workers’ dormitory has killed 12 people and injured 24 others in northwestern China.

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WHAT THE MAINLAND MEDIA SAY

Shaming the smiles of officials, and the watches on their wrists

It seems like every week brings another reason for mainland officials to turn their smiles into frowns. Now cadres are learning that one careless grin in public, say, while surveying a disaster...

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First thing China, August 27

Guangzhou's deputy head of police is currently under investigation for "serious discipline violations", local media reported late Sunday night.

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ROAD SAFETY

36 die in fiery inferno as sleeper coach hits tanker in northwestern China

At least 36 people died and two were in critical condition when a double-decker coach was engulfed in a fire ball after it slammed into the back of a tanker truck full of formaldehyde in Shaanxi...

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