Man stabs himself outside CCTV building
15 years, 3 months ago

Man stabs himself outside CCTV building

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 A migrant worker, who stabbed himself in front of the China Central Television on Sunday in order to draw attention to his article on anti-corruption, will be able to leave hospital in 10 days, a doctor said yesterday. Hu Jiquan, from Yichun, Jiangxi province but worked in Guangdong, claimed to be a TV reporter for Jiangxi TV Station and tried to show a CCTV host his 12-page article titled Modern Mencius Study - The Strategy of Anti-corruption, the Beijing News reported yesterday. Hu stabbed himself with a fruit knife after he showed his ID and was refused entry into the east gate of CCTV compound at 11 am on Sunday. The armed police and the plain-clothes police, who were on duty at the east gate of CCTV compound yesterday, refused to describe Sunday's accident but said the local police have taken over the case.

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Knife attack in South China hospital leaves 2 dead, 21 wounded
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Knife attack in South China hospital leaves 2 dead, 21 wounded

Hindustan Times  

Two people were killed and 21 others were injured in a knife attack at a hospital in Zhenxiong county of China's Yunnan province on Tuesday. Man in CCTV footage seen holding knife in hospital lobby According to state news agency Xinhua, the attack took place at around 11:37 am when a man assaulted people with a knife at a local …

Authorities continue crackdown on rumors
12 years, 11 months ago

Authorities continue crackdown on rumors

China Daily  

Get Flash Player Download Authorities will continue to take a hard line on Internet-based rumors and punish those creating fake information, a senior official said on Thursday. Authorities have removed more than 210,000 online posts and shut down 42 websites since mid-March in their latest crackdown on online rumors, said Liu Zhengrong, a senior official with the State Internet Information …

Anti-austerity protests fall flat in much of Europe
13 years ago

Anti-austerity protests fall flat in much of Europe

China Daily  

Download Spanish students angry over austerity measures have clashed with police in Barcelona and set fire to garbage containers. Police said officers in riot gear charged against a crowd of students outside the stock market in Spain's second-largest city in the country's northeast and made an unspecified number of arrests. Pan-Europe protest Several thousand people took to the streets of …

US marks end to war in Iraq
13 years, 3 months ago

US marks end to war in Iraq

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 The US military officially ended its war in Iraq on Thursday, rolling up its flag at a low-key ceremony with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta nearly nine bloody years after the invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. "After a lot of blood spilled by Iraqis and Americans, the mission of an Iraq that could govern and secure itself has become …

Photographers bring their wars to Bronx
13 years, 3 months ago

Photographers bring their wars to Bronx

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 After dangerous, dusty assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan, photographer Michael Kamber has chosen a tough area of New York City as the new backdrop for his interest in war. The Bronx Documentary Center's inaugural exhibition focused on images by Tim Hetherington, a British photographer who was killed in April, along with his colleague Chris Hondros, while working in the …

Eight children hurt by caretaker with knife
13 years, 7 months ago

Eight children hurt by caretaker with knife

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 A staff member at a daycare center for migrant workers attacked children in her charge with a knife on Monday, wounding eight of them. The attack took place at noon at the Xiaofuxing daycare center in Shanghai's suburban Minhang district, which is home to a large number of migrant workers. Gao Tiantian, a 4-year-old girl who suffered light …

Death of deputy chief deals heavy blow to al-Qaida
13 years, 7 months ago

Death of deputy chief deals heavy blow to al-Qaida

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 The killing of al-Qaida's number two leader deprives the group of a multi-talented manager who helped it spawn offshoots around the world and survive a US counter-terrorism campaign in Pakistan, security analysts say. The killing is likely to be particularly highly prized by Washington as US strategists would have been concerned about Rahman's potential influence in Libya's turmoil …

Afghan police search Kabul hotel after Taliban attack kills nine
13 years, 9 months ago

Afghan police search Kabul hotel after Taliban attack kills nine

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Afghan police sifted through one of Kabul's landmark hotels room by room on Wednesday for any more casualties and secured the building after an overnight assault by Taliban suicide bombers killed eight Afghan civilians, police and a foreigner. The nine attackers, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons, stormed the heavily guarded Intercontinental hotel, frequented by Westerners and …

Boats head for safety as storm moves in
13 years, 9 months ago

Boats head for safety as storm moves in

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Fishing boats off the coast west of the Pearl River's estuary were ordered to return to their moorings on Wednesday as South China's Guangdong province braced for the arrival of Haima, the fourth tropical storm to hit the Pacific Ocean's northwest this year. The Guangdong provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters triggered a level-4 emergency response on …

NATO airstrikes batter Tripoli
13 years, 9 months ago

NATO airstrikes batter Tripoli

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 A wave of NATO airstrikes battered Tripoli early on Wednesday, piling pressure on embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi who said he was "near" the bombing but vowed to never surrender. In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Wednesday told the visiting special envoy of the Libyan government that Beijing wants to see a cease-fire in the country …

New doubts over Yemen power deal
13 years, 10 months ago

New doubts over Yemen power deal

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh was due to sign a Gulf-brokered pact on Sunday that would make him the third Arab leader to be ousted by protests this year, but snags were emerging that could scupper a deal yet again. Hundreds of Saleh loyalists rallied against the deal on Sunday, blocking main roads and briefly preventing a Gulf …

Table for four legs? Dogs wine and dine at Belgium bar
13 years, 10 months ago

Table for four legs? Dogs wine and dine at Belgium bar

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Marshall ordered an ice-cream but left in a huff before the waiter dished it up. Brewed with none less than doggie-favorite bone-marrow, his Red Dog Energy Beer comes in iconic small brown bottles with a cap found in busy bars across a country boasting over 800 beer varieties - and an average consumption of almost 100 liters a …

Japan orders evacuation around plant
13 years, 11 months ago

Japan orders evacuation around plant

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Japan declared a 20-kilometer area evacuated around its radiation-spewing nuclear power plant a no-go zone on Thursday, urging residents to abide by the order for their own safety or possibly face fines or detention. The order, due to take effect at midnight, angered residents who fled their homes nearly empty-handed when they were told to evacuate after last …

Britain to send military advisers to Libyan rebels
13 years, 11 months ago

Britain to send military advisers to Libyan rebels

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Britain is sending up to 20 military advisers to help Libya's ragtag rebel force break a military stalemate with Muammar Gadhafi's army, even as NATO acknowledges that airstrikes alone cannot stop the daily shelling of the besieged opposition-held city of Misrata. Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, chairman of NATO's military committee, said that even though the military alliance's operations …

Police arrested over alleged torture of man
13 years, 11 months ago

Police arrested over alleged torture of man

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Two police officers in Northwest China's Gansu province have been arrested on charges of torturing a murder suspect to death during an interrogation, a spokeswoman with the provincial public security department said on Tuesday. He Yong, 27, who is suspected of robbing, raping and killing a schoolgirl in Xihe county of Gansu province, died on April 1 after …

Syria awaits key speech from Assad
14 years ago

Syria awaits key speech from Assad

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Syrian Vice-President Farouq al-Shara said on Monday that President Bashar al-Assad would announce important decisions that will "please the Syrian people" in the next two days. "On Sunday night, MPs requested that the president clarify the measures that authorities have announced and urged him to address parliament and explain," MP Mohammed Habash told AFP. The authorities have accused …

Radiation rise confirmed but locals remain unfazed
14 years ago

Radiation rise confirmed but locals remain unfazed

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 A cautious calmness prevails in four counties of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, where the first traces of radioactive iodine were detected on Saturday. Officials confirmed a rise in radiation - an infinitesimal amount of radioactive iodine-131, one-hundred-thousandth beyond normal background radiation levels - was found in the atmosphere of Dongning, Raohe, Hulin and Fuyuan counties, which are about …

Libyan rebels advance westwards
14 years ago

Libyan rebels advance westwards

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Libyan rebels' push westwards toward Tripoli gathered momentum on Sunday as their pursuit of Muammar Gadhafi's forces saw them wrest back control of key oil town Ras Lanuf. Their next target is Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, a central coastal city, and on the way they captured Bin Jawad, a hamlet 50 kilometers west of Ras Lanuf, AFP correspondents …

US jet crashes in Libya, pilots safe
14 years ago

US jet crashes in Libya, pilots safe

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Muammar Gadhafi's forces attacked two west Libyan towns on Tuesday after coalition forces bombarded Libya for a third straight night, and NATO tried to resolve a heated row over who should lead the Western air campaign. All parties must "immediately cease fire and resolve issues through peaceful means," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular news …

Foreigners, wary of risk, flee Tokyo
14 years ago

Foreigners, wary of risk, flee Tokyo

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Fearing the possible risk of contamination as Japan confronts a post-quake nuclear emergency, foreigners have begun a slow exodus from Tokyo, though some are maintaining a stiff upper lip. Several European nations have advised their citizens to consider leaving the Japanese capital following two blasts at a quake-damaged atomic power plant 250 km to the north, sparking fears …

US replaces senior diplomat after his comments irk Japan
14 years ago

US replaces senior diplomat after his comments irk Japan

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 The United States replaced a senior diplomat handling policy toward Japan on Thursday and apologized after his reported comments threatened to strain ties between the allies at a time of political deadlock in Tokyo. A senior US official who is visiting Tokyo acknowledged the reported remarks had done some harm to ties between the world's No 1 and …

NZ quake city prays as death toll rises to 147
14 years, 1 month ago

NZ quake city prays as death toll rises to 147

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Grieving New Zealanders prayed in the earthquake-ravaged city of Christchurch on Sunday as rescuers pulled apart leveled buildings in their desperate search for survivors six days after the devastating tremor that killed 147 people. Rescue teams from New Zealand and seven countries, including the United States, China, Japan, and Australia, scoured ruined buildings in the central city and …

Libyan protests spread; death toll reaches 100
14 years, 1 month ago

Libyan protests spread; death toll reaches 100

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Anti-government protests spread closer to the Libyan capital on Sunday and new fighting erupted in the flashpoint city of Benghazi, as Human Rights Watch said it feared more than 100 people were killed in clashes between police and demonstrators. Protests broke out in several Libyan cities, particularly in the second largest city of Benghazi, where demonstrators called for …

Heavy police presence blocks protests in Algeria
14 years, 1 month ago

Heavy police presence blocks protests in Algeria

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Thousands of police in riot gear blocked off the center of Algeria's capital on Saturday and stopped government opponents from staging a protest march that sought to emulate Egypt's popular revolt. Small groups of demonstrators angry at President Abdelaziz Bouteflika gathered in May 1 Square in the center of Algiers shouting "Bouteflika out!". Responding to the opposition pressure, …

Suspect in deadly campus crash set to face court
14 years, 2 months ago

Suspect in deadly campus crash set to face court

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 A man suspected of attempting to avoid charges stemming from a deadly traffic accident by invoking the name of his well-connected father will go to trial on Wednesday, the China Youth Daily reported on Monday. Li Qiming, also known as Li Yifan, will face charges of "perpetration of a traffic accident" in Wangdu county of North China's Hebei …

Stop! In the name of safety
14 years, 2 months ago

Stop! In the name of safety

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 About one year ago, a man wearing a big yellow-green whistle around his neck suddenly appeared in the middle of the crosswalk in front of No 15 Primary School in Huizhou, Guangdong province. People online even kindly refer to the Huizhou native as "Brother Whistle" for his voluntary year-round presence in front of the school. "He behaves so …

Brother turns self in for evading huge toll fees
14 years, 2 months ago

Brother turns self in for evading huge toll fees

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 In the latest twist in a case that has attracted wide media attention, the younger brother of a farmer sentenced to life in prison for evading highway tolls has turned himself in, saying he was actually the one responsible. Shi Junfeng, younger brother of the sentenced Shi Jianfeng, turned himself in at around 10 pm Saturday in Yuzhou …

US lawmaker injured in shooting, 6 others killed
14 years, 2 months ago

US lawmaker injured in shooting, 6 others killed

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 A gunman targeted Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords as she met with constituents outside a busy supermarket on Saturday, shooting a bullet through her head and killing Arizona's chief federal judge and five others in an attack that left Americans questioning whether divisive politics had pushed the suspect over the edge. Giffords, 40, is a moderate Democrat who narrowly …

Investment in media to present true picture of China
14 years, 2 months ago

Investment in media to present true picture of China

China Daily  

The country will invest more in mainstream media organizations, especially those targeting overseas readers, in the following 10 years to better present a true picture of China to the world, a top official has said. A range of plans, such as encouraging mainstream media organizations to set up more overseas stations, have received financial support from the central government, Liu …

US presses China over DPRK
14 years, 3 months ago

US presses China over DPRK

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 China is under mounting pressure from the United States as tensions on the Korean Peninsula continued to run high on Wednesday. The US will send a delegation headed by Deputy Secretary of State and former special envoy to Pyongyang James B. Steinberg to China on Dec 14 to try to persuade Beijing to put more pressure on Pyongyang. …

US presses China over DPRK
14 years, 3 months ago

US presses China over DPRK

China Daily  

US presses China over DPRK Updated: 2010-12-09 10:34 进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 China is under mounting pressure from the United States as tensions on the Korean Peninsula continued to run high on Wednesday. The US will send a delegation headed by Deputy Secretary of State and former special envoy to Pyongyang James B. Steinberg to China on Dec 14 to try to …

145 currently missing in Colombia landslide
14 years, 3 months ago

145 currently missing in Colombia landslide

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Rescuers have recovered 12 bodies from a mudslide in northwestern Colombia that may have buried up to 145 people after weeks of heavy rain, officials said on Monday. "There are 145 people missing, including the 12 dead who have been recovered up until now," Antioquia Governor Luis Alfredo Ramos told reporters in Bello. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos …

Korean tensions hit mainland tourism industry
14 years, 3 months ago

Korean tensions hit mainland tourism industry

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Outbound tourism from China to the Korean Peninsula dropped dramatically after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea exchanged artillery fire with the Republic of Korea on Nov 23. Many Chinese travelers' fear of a war breaking out drove them to cancel their plans to visit the two Koreas, along with Northeast China's Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin provinces, which …

Rabbit abuse video highlights animal rights issue
14 years, 3 months ago

Rabbit abuse video highlights animal rights issue

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Animal rights experts are calling for urgent legislation to stop animal cruelty, following the exposure of an emerging business behind widespread videos of rabbit abuse on the Internet. A man contacted her and offered her a job making videos of "preparing salad by foot", which meant Huang's job was to trample fruit with high-heeled shoes. The man, who …

US to continue to patdown travelers
14 years, 4 months ago

US to continue to patdown travelers

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 United States homeland security officials have no plans to back away from airline passenger security patdowns, despite traveler complaints that they violate constitutional rights and growing congressional concerns about the policy. But Pistole stressed that tighter security, including a wider use of controversial full body scanners at airports by year's end, is necessary to mitigate terrorism risks. Obama …

Tsunami kills 282; no Chinese casualties
14 years, 5 months ago

Tsunami kills 282; no Chinese casualties

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 All Chinese nationals in Indonesia have been reported safe in the wake of a tsunami triggered by a strong earthquake in the archipelago, as the death toll has climbed to 282 on Wednesday, authorities said. An official with the National Tourism Administration told China Daily he has received no reports of Chinese tourists stranded or hurt in Indonesia. …

Cholera toll rises above 250 but Haitians still see hope
14 years, 5 months ago

Cholera toll rises above 250 but Haitians still see hope

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Haitian health officials worked on Monday to contain a cholera epidemic after statistics showed new infections had begun to taper off while the overall toll of cholera-related deaths rose above 250. The new toll of 253 dead and 3,115 infections, provided by the director-general of Haiti's health department Gabriel Thimote, represented an increase of only 33 fatalities over …

BMW driver detained after running over 3-year-old child
14 years, 6 months ago

BMW driver detained after running over 3-year-old child

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 A 3-year-old boy in Xinyi of Xuzhou in East China's Jiangsu province died under the wheels of a BMW, which ran over the boy four times in less than 30 seconds. The incident happened around 11 am on Sept 7 when the boy Le Le was playing behind a BMW X6 car in a residential community, the Nanjing-based …

72 dead migrants found in Mexico tip of iceberg
14 years, 6 months ago

72 dead migrants found in Mexico tip of iceberg

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Paula Cruz wept quietly at the foreign ministry office in El Salvador's capital after reporting that her son was missing - and apparently kidnapped - in Mexico. Cruz fears her son may have been among the 72 migrants found shot to death in northern Mexico last week. More disturbingly, according to human rights activists, however, the total number …

Police investigate journalist's report
14 years, 6 months ago

Police investigate journalist's report

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 The latest police investigation into a journalist reporting negative news has captured the attention of the All-China Journalists' Association. The ACJA said on Monday it is listening to all the parties involved in the case, in which police in East China's Shandong province went to Beijing to examine the circumstances surrounding a journalist's negative news report. The Beijing-based …

China minister hurt in jet crash
14 years, 7 months ago

China minister hurt in jet crash

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Vice-Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Sun Baoshu was confirmed among the 54 injured in Tuesday night's passenger jet crash that left 42 dead in Yichun city of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, local officials said on Wednesday. Officials confirmed that 60-year-old Sun, together with 17 officials from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and its …

China proposes maritime hotline with Japan
14 years, 7 months ago

China proposes maritime hotline with Japan

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 China has proposed setting up a maritime emergency hotline with Japan to prevent civilian and military clashes in the East China Sea and other waters, sources with both governments have said. Kyodo said in April a Chinese navy helicopter buzzed a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer in the East China Sea. Beijing also protested to Tokyo through diplomatic …

Radical Indonesian cleric arrested in terror plot
14 years, 7 months ago

Radical Indonesian cleric arrested in terror plot

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Indonesia's anti-terrorism unit arrested a radical Islamic cleric Monday for alleged ties to an al-Qaida-affiliated cell accused of plotting high-profile assassinations and Mumbai-style attacks targeting foreigners in the capital. Abu Bakar Bashir, who has been arrested twice before and spent several years in jail, was heading home after delivering a sermon when the police swooped, surrounding his van …

WikiLeaks fuels negative war debate for US
14 years, 8 months ago

WikiLeaks fuels negative war debate for US

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Leaked documents on the Afghanistan conflict, including accusations that US ally Pakistan is helping the Taliban, further complicate President Barack Obama's strategy at a time of mounting doubt over the war effort. "The documents underscore the depth of Pakistani support and frustrations within the American military about that," said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA analyst now with the …

Police report 26 killed in Afghan bus crash
14 years, 8 months ago

Police report 26 killed in Afghan bus crash

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 A speeding bus flipped over on Monday in southern Afghanistan, killing 26 people who were on board, Afghan police said. The bus ran off the road in Daman district south of Kandahar city just after dawn and flipped over, said the head of traffic police for the province, Mohammadullah Khan. Twenty-two people had originally been reported killed, and …

Parachuting donkey no joke to shocked crowd
14 years, 8 months ago

Parachuting donkey no joke to shocked crowd

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Russian beachgoers got a shock when they saw a donkey soaring in the blue skies over the balmy beaches on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia last week, police said on Tuesday. A regional police spokeswoman said the donkey ended up in the skies as a result of an impromptu advertising campaign by several Russian entrepreneurs to …

Hackers claim they can edit students' scores
14 years, 8 months ago

Hackers claim they can edit students' scores

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 Hackers are claiming online they can break into computer systems belonging to universities and certification institutes and change the scores of students. The hackers say they can change students' scores for a price - and charge between a few thousand yuan and more than 10,000 yuan for the illegal service, depending on the majors and universities involved. When …

Geologist gets eight years for spying
14 years, 8 months ago

Geologist gets eight years for spying

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 China rejected US criticism of its sentencing of an American geologist for spying and collecting state secrets on Monday. Stressing judicial independency, the United States called for Xue Feng's immediate release and deportation to the US on Monday after the 44-year-old was sentenced to eight years in jail. The eight-year sentence is within the recommended legal limit of …

DPRK warns of clashes during exercises
14 years, 9 months ago

DPRK warns of clashes during exercises

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea warned on Tuesday that any accidental clash during an upcoming naval exercise by the United States and the Republic of Korea could spark war, as tensions remained high over the sinking of an ROK warship. Minju Josun, the cabinet's official daily, accused the ROK and the US of "fabricating" facts about the …

Last-chance saloon for troubled England
14 years, 9 months ago

Last-chance saloon for troubled England

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 England's World Cup campaign is in tatters with crisis meetings, furious fans, misfiring strikers and splits in the camp and a win against Slovenia on Wednesday is their only hope of salvation. In less than two weeks, England have gone from talented contenders to sulking underachievers, presenting unfashionable newcomers Slovenia with a chance to top the standings and …

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