Tag Archives: Dongguan Times

Property purchase regulations updated; first down payment rises

The latest regulations are out to control housing prices: A second property purchase requires first installments be 60% of the total price, and third property purchases has been forbidden altogether.

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Interpol notice for WikiLeaks founder

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange make the front page of Dongguan Times. His alleged crime is buried inside.

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It’s Xi Jinping, baby!

The news that Xi Jinping has been appointed vice chairman of the Central Military Commission at the end of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has sparked off renewed debate that he will be appointed the next president.

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Film Copyright Association to collect fees from internet cafés, long distance buses

Dongguan Times reports on a new charge for internet cafés and long distance buses commencing on January 1, 2011. Although it was reported in May that long distance buses and internet cafés might be charged for showing films through a newly developed digital distribution platform, media is now reporting that locally acquired “people with connections” will be given the duty of collecting fees.

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Microblogs react to Fang Zhouzi’s violent ordeal

Fang Zhouzi (方舟子), the crusader against fraud in academia escaped being beaten up by gangsters yesterday. Today’s Dongguan Times reflects concern in the media world at yet another anonymous attack: the title reads “Who beat up Fang Zhouzi?”

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Train carriages washed away

The K165 train from Xi’an to Kunming dropped two carriages into a river in Sichuan. No one died.

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Xinjiang terrorist cell leaders identified

Two papers from Dongguan highlight the urgent issues of the day: the floods in Southern China, and the Xinjiang terrorist cell.

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Hospital holds newborn hostage when parents can’t pay their bill

The Dongguan Maternal & Child Healthcare Hospital has held a newborn hostage for three months because his parents can’t pay their 39,299.75 RMB maternity bill.

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Is the murderer of Fujian schoolchildren mentally ill?

Most newspaper front pages today focus, some in graphic detail, on the March 23 Fujian Nanping (福建南平) incident, where 8 (or 9, depending on which account you read) primary school students were stabbed to death by a man at 7.20am in the morning.

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A birthday bash for the People’s Republic

A collage of front-page covers for the 60th Anniversary of the PRC.

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