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Students recruited to fight pickpockets

National
2009-11-4

POLICE in a central China city have started recruiting college and secondary school students as volunteers in a crackdown on pickpockets. Authorities plan to sign up 2,000 students from 21 schools in Zhengzhou,...

Elderly victims out of pocket in 'deadly' plot

National
2009-11-3

A SCAM by village officials in central China's Henan Province to siphon off funds collected from farmers by declaring some of them dead has backfired not on the perpetrators but the victims. Now victims of the...

Big winner is a man called An

National
2009-10-29

THE identity of China's biggest-ever lottery prize winner became a little clearer yesterday as he claimed his prize of almost 360 million yuan (US$52.7 million) in central China's Henan Province. The winner...

Arrest made in morbid case

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-10-23

A HENAN Province man has been arrested on charges he stole six urns in an attempt to extort money from cemetery workers in Shanghai's Qingpu District, prosecutors said yesterday. The district's prosecutors'...

Jackpot lottery winner delays collecting cash

National
2009-10-12

THE winner of China's largest individual lottery prize has not yet claimed the money - 369.9 million yuan (US$54.2 million) - he won last Thursday. The mystery buyer from Anyang City in central China's Henan Province...

Husband jailed

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-9-11

A HENAN Province native surnamed Wang was jailed 18 months for attempting to extort 150,000 yuan (US$21,960) from his wife's ex-boyfriend after finding that she had been chatting to him online. He went to the man's...

Death toll from Henan colliery blast rises to 42

National
2009-9-9

THE death toll from a coal mine gas explosion in central China's Henan Province yesterday rose to 37 with 42 still trapped underground, the local safety watchdog said this morning. The deadly gas blast took place...

35 die as blast strikes illegal mine in Henan

National
2009-9-9

AN explosion at an illegal coal mine killed at least 35 workers in central China's Henan Province yesterday and left another 44 men trapped. An initial investigation showed that the mine in Pingdingshan City had...

Swine Flu 'Negligence'

National
2009-9-2

EDUCATION authorities in central China's Henan Province have attributed a swine flu outbreak at a high school to negligence, and they said they plan to penalize the people who were responsible for it. Twenty-nine...

Steel factory protest wins reprieve from takeover bid

National
2009-8-17

AUTHORITIES in central China's Henan Province yesterday ordered an immediate halt to the takeover of a state-owned steel factory by a private company after mass protests by workers at the plant. The decision was...