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Ma Jiangshan wheezes like a broken accordion. His lungs are a diseased mess after 18 years down a gold mine and, despite accruing massive debt to pay for urgent surgery, doctors say his condition will kill him.
The Eastern Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, one of the world's largest water projects, has been delayed by about five years due to problems associated with water pollution, officials in east China's Shandong province said on Friday.
A former chief prosecutor in Maoming, a city in South China's Guangdong province, jumped to his death from the eighth floor of a residential building in Zhanjiang on Friday, the police said.
Beijing's resident population grew to 17.55 million by the end of last year with migrants making up 30 percent of the community, according to the capital's census bureau.
Three suspects have been arrested and one pending trial for selling milk powder contaminated with melamine.
Li Zhonghou does not feel cold despite the minus 24 degree temperature. A warm smile appears on his face as he says "I will receive 20 kg of rice given by Korean charity," he told China Daily happily.
A row has erupted after an on-line post revealed officials of an aluminum company were paid bonuses twenty five times higher than workers.
Two men died after the 24 ton gas tank van they were travelling in overturned while passing a bridge and plunged into a river.
Tainted melamine tableware has been found in supermarkets in Beijing, an authority from the International Food Packaging Association said yesterday.
A former top judicial official in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality stood trial Tuesday on charges of protecting mafia-style gangs and other crimes, the latest court hearing in the city's sweeping crackdown on gang crimes.
Work on the second phase of subway Line 10 started yesterday morning and was greeted with protests from angry residents who fear the project will endanger their homes.
Chongqing's former director of the justice bureau and deputy police head Wen Qiang faces trial today for a host of charges including those linked to organized crime in the municipality.