Zhejiang

Zhejiang 'Snake Village' seeks New Year boom

10 Feb 2013

In the 1980s, villagers began raising snakes for food and traditional Chinese medicine, transforming the Zhejiang village economically.

Zhejiang official arrested after being blackmailed over fake sex photo

8 Feb 2013

A Zhejiang official has been arrested for corruption and keeping mistresses after he paid a blackmailer 100,000 yuan (HK$124,000) for a forged sex photo, Zhejiang based Qiangjiang Evening News

Zhejiang woman 'abandons' second child to avoid fines

8 Feb 2013

A woman in China’s eastern Zhejiang province ''abandoned" her recently-born second child, a two-month-old baby girl, only to ''adopt'' her later - hoping to avoid fines from birth control...

Help arrives for parents who manually kept paralysed son breathing

30 Jan 2013

They took turns squeezing a pump 18 times a minute, 25,920 times a day, continuously for most of the past seven years. They knew the minute they stopped or stepped away, their son who could no...

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'Land-saving' bridge building faces demolition

24 Jan 2013

Villagers from the Wenling's Meixi village have come up with an ingenious, if legally questionable, solution to their land shortage: They built a bridge – and put a three-storey building on top....

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'Your child is a piece of s**t': 600 parents receive text message from Zhejiang school

More than 600 parents in China’s eastern Zhejiang province were furious after receiving a text message from their children’s school calling pupils “a piece of s**t”.

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Zhejiang car driver's 130km/h nightmare trip

A version of the Hollywood film Speed took place on a highway in Zhejiang last month when a mechanical failure forced a car driver to travel at 130km/h for nearly two hours.

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Ningbo petrochemical factory protesters win pledge to halt project

Thousands of protesters who marched yesterday against the expansion of a petrochemical factory in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, won a pledge from the local government that the project would be halted...

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Kindergarten teacher lifted boy by his ears 'just for fun'

Two kindergarten teachers in Wenling, Zhejiang, were detained yesterday after a photo of a woman lifting a little boy by his ears were widely circulated on microblogs by angry internet users.

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Kindergarten child abuse photos have netizens seeing red

The human flesh search engine moved quicker than usual to track down the Zhejiang teacher who photographed herself abusing the young children in her care.

Xi Jinping's time in Zhejiang: doing the business

For clues about how China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping might manage the world's second-largest economy, Zhejiang province is a good place to start looking. The 3-1/2 years Xi spent at the helm...