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Villagers build a makeshift dam to stop the leaked oil sludge from flowing further into the Luohe River on Thursday. Huang Xianming / for china daily
Ground collapse at Shaanxi sewage treatment plant to blame: Officials
Some 1,000 tons of oil sludge spilled from a sewage treatment plant has contaminated Luohe River in Luochuan county of [...]

Coal mine worker in Xinjiang recalls horror of shaft collapse
Hoboksar, Xinjiang
Yong Chang is very clear about what he will not do in the future.
"I will never go down the shaft and be a mine worker again for the rest of my life, no matter how much they pay me," said the 28-year-old, [...]

Wang owns two apartments in Beijing, both bought with loans, and an investment portfolio worth 2 million yuan, but said he still doesn\’t think he qualifies as middle class yet.
"Genuine members of the middle class are those with the money as well as other resources, such as leisure time, to maintain a certain lifestyle," he [...]

Advertisers will be paying 120,000 yuan for a second of advertising during the South Africa World Cup. Additional ad space will be sold during "extra time," and the "penalty shootout," said He Haiming, the deputy director of the CCTV advertising department.
CCTV will be the exclusive broadcaster of the 2010 World Cup on the Chinese mainland.  So [...]

Li Wei, director of the anti-terrorism research center at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, said security threats could come from anywhere, such as from "East Turkistan" terrorist organizations seeking Xinjiang "independence".
Shanghai has taken such measures as extending the X-ray scanning of passengers\’ hand luggage to all metro stations.
City officials are also hoping to [...]

Cloud seeding was initiated on Tuesday and Wednesday in drought-stricken Guangxi in southwest China, but did little to ease the lingering drought, local weather department said Wednesday.
The meteorological bureau of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region said it had carried out 29 cloud-seeding operations to enhance rain amid drizzly and overcast weather in the region.
A spokesman with [...]

China said Wednesday water reservoirs had not intensified the
drought
by draining natural waterways in southwest China, and more needed to be built to ensure grain production and supply of drinking water.
Liu Ning, vice minister of water resources, made the remarks in response to claims that the building of reservoirs in southwest China had drained [...]

Cloud seeding was initiated on Tuesday and Wednesday in drought-stricken Guangxi in southwest China, but did little to ease the lingering drought, local weather department said Wednesday.
The meteorological bureau of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region said it had carried out 29 cloud-seeding operations to enhance rain amid drizzly and overcast weather in the region.
A spokesman with [...]

China said Wednesday water reservoirs had not intensified the
drought
by draining natural waterways in southwest China, and more needed to be built to ensure grain production and supply of drinking water.
Liu Ning, vice minister of water resources, made the remarks in response to claims that the building of reservoirs in southwest China had drained [...]

Li Wei, director of the anti-terrorism research center at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, said security threats could come from anywhere, such as from "East Turkistan" terrorist organizations seeking Xinjiang "independence".
Shanghai has taken such measures as extending the X-ray scanning of passengers\’ hand luggage to all metro stations.
City officials are also hoping to [...]