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Another official suspended over death in custody - Global Times
"Everyone is waiting for the report," an employee with the Lichuan publicity department who asked to remain anonymous told the Global Times. Mou was heavily involved in Ran's case in Badong, Southern Metropolis Daily reported Sunday. ...
Individual trips to Taiwan see demand - Global Times
"We will also launch individual tourism to Taiwan at the end of June, but the timing is still uncertain," a staff member with CAISSA International Travel Service who asked to remain anonymous told the Global Times Sunday, adding that CAISSA will design ...
Police found involved in stealing from Daqing Oilfield - Global Times
The weekly quoted an anonymous source close to the investigation as saying that people working in the Zhaodong public security system lived in daily fear of being taken away for investigation, as the case concerned such a large number of police ...
Foreign hustlers charm Chinese with magical medicinal money liquid - Global Times
Investigators next found a teacher in the city who claimed to have been cheated out of 350000 yuan by a similar-sounding gang, a police officer who requested anonymity told the Global Times on Tuesday. "From March to this month, we've arrested five ...
Acting badly with AIDS - Global Times
A local HIV/AIDS health care worker who declined to be named told the Global Times that many of the HIV-positive people in Xinyang who have "come out" have resorted to such public hysterics to extort money. Most people living with HIV in China dread ...
Doctors remove ants from woman's ears - Global Times
An anonymous source close to the woman, who declined to give her name, said that the woman was a bit of a sloppy eater, often eating biscuits in bed and letting the crumbs gather in her sheets. Using her fingers to relieve the itchiness only pushed the ...
Forbidden City chiefs reportedly sack staff, confiscate cellphones - Global Times
She refused to be named. The Forbidden City publicity office worker Chang Lingxing told the Global Times he didn't know if the company had fired its employees. A microblog sent by the Forbidden City leaker Friday had alleged the museum handed out ...
Neighborhood of Huashiying in limbo - Global Times
Several of them stand by the main alleyway to attract customers," a neighborhood woman, who declined to give her name, told the Global Times. She said sometimes police arrests them, but they are back at their post within a couple of days. ...
Chopper rumor absurd: FM - Global Times
An anonymous source close to China's military dismissed the possibility that China ever asked Pakistan to share information on the chopper's wreckage, telling the Global Times that such speculation is "groundless." A press officer with Pakistan's ...
Food prices surge 11.5% - Global Times
"The price of other products as insignificant as chewing gum and as crucial as the price of housing are still going up," a 25-year-old Beijing resident who refused to be named told the Global Times. Uncertainties remain but prices will stabilize if ...
Chinese firm sends expert to investigate accident - Global Times
An anonymous source told the Global Times on Tuesday that the onboard black box flight data recorder has been found and the investigation would take two to four weeks. "The impact on sales of MA60 passenger planes will be decided by the final result of ...
Violence common in unregulated industry - Global Times
"Most products cost less than 300 yuan," says a Shanghai shopper who refused to be named. "If I buy a skirt for only 260 yuan, that means I cannot get the coupon or I have to buy extra things to reach the amount."
NDRC questions dairies - Global Times
The paper quoted an anonymous source as saying the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) summoned a meeting Friday afternoon with foreign dairy producers including Abbott, Wyeth, Nestlé, Mead Johnson and Ausnutria Dairy Corp to be briefed ...
Hotpot lover threatens to kill a dog a day if animal activists don't apologize - Global Times
The dog killing would be called off if the rescuers "apologized," Zhu's "secretary" who requested anonymity told the Shanghai Morning Post. "Zhu has already hired three lawyers and the killing will be notarized by the public notary office of Guangzhou ...
South Korea to invest in yuan assets - Global Times
South Korea's central bank, the Bank of Korea, applied for a Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor license early this year with HSBC as the required custodian bank, a person familiar with the matter told the Global Times on Thursday. ...
Party dispatches youth to grass-roots posts - Global Times
A young official who refused to be named refuted McGregor's theory and dismissed Ma De's claim as pure excuse-making. "Economic crimes don't have to accrue along with promotions or one's political career," she said. "The appointment system reform ...
Embarrassed girl drops suicide attempt - Global Times
The woman in her 20s, who declined to give her name, jumped into a river on April 25 with intentions of committing suicide and was decidedly disappointed upon realizing that the shallow water only reached her neck. Contemplating her next move, ...
Fans, scalpers line up for white iPhone 4 - Global Times
"Maybe only two or three of them are real customers, but all the others are scalpers," said a scalper who refused to be named. Many had started lining up Wednesday night, he explained. Most had been hired by scalpers to do so: Usually they got a 50 ...
Family raises animals on building roof - Global Times
The family, who asked not to be identified, is also reported to be raising ducks and peacocks in their little nest. "That family has simply commandeered the top floor and the roof, blocking access for the rest of us," said Lei Dan, ...
Milan Station plans Hong Kong IPO: source - Global Times
Milan Station, a Hong Kong-based secondhand luxury handbag chain, is gearing up for its initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong next month, aiming to raise about HK$400 million ($51.48 million), according to a source close to the ...
Damaged old pipes poisoned villagers, says county official - Global Times
Street construction damaged the pipe, said an employee at the local center for disease control who insisted on anonymity. "Some parts of the pipe were broken and polluted from seepage wells, making E. Coli exceed normal standards," he said. ...
Armed clashes kill 55 in south Sudan - Global Times
Clashes between south Sudan's army and rebel militiamen killed at least 55 people, a government official said on Sunday in the soon to be independent state gripped by a bloody wave of unrest. The fighting raged for about three hours on Saturday in ...
Mystery jet 'flies' again - Global Times
"The J-20 made several passes and waggled its wings (rolling the plane first to one side then to the other) to salute the crowd near the airfield," a witness told the Global Times on condition of anonymity, adding that the plane took off at around 4:25 ...
Chinese woman held for spying on Samsung: Yonhap - Global Times
"I read about the news in a Korean newspaper today but have no idea of its authenticity," a member of staff at the embassy, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Global Times Friday. The 40-year-old Chinese woman, who worked for Samsung in its Home ...
Facebook looks to deal with local firm - Global Times
An official statement will be announced soon," the insider told the Global Times on condition of anonymity. Hu Yanping, director of the Data Center of the China Internet, wrote on his Sina microblog Friday that Facebook had signed an official contract ...