Tag Archives: The Beijing News

Pop star Zang Tianshuo arrested for being mob leader

Posted on 2008-11-07 by Eric Mu

Zang Tianshuo, a pop star was arrested for being suspected as the crime boss behind several gang crimes, causing at least one fatality.

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China to set agenda for human rights protection

Posted on 2008-11-05 by Eric Mu

The Beijing News: China is going to release a “human rights action plan” on human rights improvement.

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Reformist emperor Guangxu was poisoned, study confirms

Posted on 2008-11-03 by Eric Mu

Modern science found that the cause of a Qing Dynasty emperor’s death was arsenic poisoning, which confirms a hundred year old rumor.

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Abortion adverts come to a college campus

Posted on 2008-10-29 by Eric Mu

New Culture View reports on a hospital distributing makeup mirrors with medical ads in a local university.

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Sprite-for-tax swap leads to 10,000 RMB lawsuit

Posted on 2008-10-29 by Joel Martinsen

A customer sues a restaurant for giving her a bottle of Sprite in lieu of a receipt.

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Strong wind: clear air again in Beijing

Posted on 2008-10-24 by Eric Mu

A strong wind dispersed the pollution hovering above Beijing’s sky and made yesterday a “first grade day” of superb air quality.

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Mainland envoy in Taiwan attacked by independence activist mob

Posted on 2008-10-22 by Eric Mu

The Beijing News reported that Zhang Mingqing, former spokesman of Taiwan Affair Office of the State Council and chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation, was attacked yesterday when he was visiting the Confucius Temple in Tainan city of Taiwan.

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Rural reform decisions released by Third Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee

Posted on 2008-10-20 by Eric Mu

Today’s The Beijing News announced a set of “decisions” on rural reform, including “farmers are allowed to lease their contracted farmland or transfer their land use right”.

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Medical Stand-Ins Dupe Physical Exams

Posted on 2008-10-16 by Eric Mu

A report in today’s The Beijing News says that the medical examination stand-ins in Beijing are making a good living by helping people pass their physical examinations.

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Former Beijing Vice Mayor on Trial

Posted on 2008-10-15 by Eric Mu

Liu Zhihua, the former vice mayor of Beijing was on trial yesterday in Hengshui, Hebei Province.

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