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Women strike for bonuses and pay

National
2009-11-13

NEARLY 3,000 women workers of a German-invested company in south China's Hainan Province have begun a strike to press their demands on bonus, pay and vacations. The Chinese workers gathered yesterday in front...

Citizens called out for croc hunt

National
2009-10-31

A TOWNSHIP government in south China is turning its citizens into crocodile bounty hunters after dozens of the toothy reptiles escaped from a farm in Hainan Province. Or, if the residents would rather have the...

Rare twin tigons born in Hainan

National
2009-9-28

RARE twin tigons, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion, have survived their first 28 days since being born in a wildlife park in south China's Hainan Province, a park official announced yesterday. The...

Goni Deaths Rise To 6

National
2009-8-12

THE death toll from tropical storm Goni now stands at six in south China's Hainan Province, with another 16 missing, officials said yesterday. The body of a fisherman was retrieved yesterday at Yangpu Port. Goni...

Five workers die in flooded pipeline

National
2009-6-12

AUTHORITIES in Hainan Province confirmed last night that five workers who had been trapped for more than 20 hours in an undersea pipeline that flooded were dead. Rescue workers were continuing to look for the bodies...

Collapsed tunnel workers rescued

National
2009-6-8

THE eight workers who were trapped when a tunnel collapsed on Thursday in southern China's Hainan Province were rescued yesterday afternoon. Rescue workers helped them out of the tunnel at about 4pm and they were...

Pythons swallow deer population

National
2009-6-4

CHINESE conservationists say the rapid breeding of protected pythons in a nature reserve in south China's Hainan Province has endangered a rare deer species there. Both conservationists and researchers aren't...

Mob violence in Hainan

National
2009-5-8

HAINAN Province police are probing an incident where nearly 100 people attacked an urban management office in the capital city Haikou on Tuesday night, yesterday's Hainan Special Zone News reported. Three people...

Flooded highway reopened to traffic

National
2009-4-6

BEIJING will extend its post-Olympic vehicle restrictions for another year to try to ease traffic congestion and reduce air pollution, the city's traffic officials said yesterday. The extension was widely expected...

Feuding town reopens

National
2009-3-31

SHOPS and schools reopened yesterday in a town in south China's Hainan Province after clashes between two feuding villages left one dead and nine injured last Wednesday. Yesterday 264 students from Baoshang Village...