Tianjin

President Xi Jinping aims to reassure students at jobs fair in Tianjin

15 May 2013

President Xi Jinping yesterday met hundreds of soon-to-be university graduates at a job fair in Tianjin , in what was viewed as a sign of concern among national leaders for nearly 7 million...

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Leung Chun-ying has Hong Kong on his mind in Tianjin

19 Mar 2013

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying had Hongkongers' housing needs in mind on his first official visit to Tianjin yesterday. He also pledged that his cabinet members would listen to the voices of...

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Axe murderer hopes insanity plea will spare life

21 Feb 2013

Wang Yingshen, 62, was deprived of political rights for life and sentenced to death earlier this month after being charged with deliberate murder by the province’s Court of First Instance.

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Vice-Premier weighs in on HIV patients hospital rejection

23 Nov 2012

Tianjin's Health Bureau says a hospital that rejected a lung cancer patient after finding out he was infected with HIV will face serious punishment.

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Party's number two woman Sun Chunlan named chief of Tianjin

22 Nov 2012

Sun Chunlan, one of two women on the Communist Party's new Politburo, was appointed party secretary of Tianjin yesterday, succeeding new Politburo Standing Committee member Zhang Gaoli.

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Tianjin's explosive growth carries social cost

22 Nov 2012

The north coast municipality of Tianjin, bordering Beijing, has grown dramatically in recent years, impressing residents and visitors and securing the promotion of its former Communist Party chief...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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China promotes senior woman to lead financial hub Tianjin

China has promoted one of its most senior female leaders to Communist Party chief of the northern port city of Tianjin, which the government is trying to turn into a global financial centre, state...

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Briefs, November 19, 2012

Five children 'found dead in dumpster'

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China says no to rugby at Tianjin East Asian Games

The Chinese National Olympic Committee has turned down a request by the Asian Rugby Football Union (ARFU) to include sevens in next year's East Asian Games in Tianjin.

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MONITOR TOM HOLLAND

Zhang Gaoli's Tianjin economic model promises disaster for China

Next week as the party faithful wait for China's new leaders to shuffle on to the stage in the Great Hall of the People, hopes will be riding high that the latest line-up of bosses will press...

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Toyota to shut Tianjin car factory for one week

Toyota Motor Corp will shut its production lines in Tianjin for a week, after a drop in sales of Japanese cars triggered by the diplomatic row between China and Japan.

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China Digest, September 22, 2012

Anhui

'Love capital' ambitions

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