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Henan infusion helps out airline

Business | Airlines and airports
2009-11-10

THE Henan provincial government has agreed to inject funds into Kunpeng Airlines - the latest tie-up between a local government and an airline. The provincial government and Shenzhen Airlines, the parent of Kunpeng,...

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'...

Villagers relocated to make way for reservoir

National
2009-10-19

A RESETTLEMENT project involving 330,000 people living in central China's Hubei and Henan provinces has started to make way for China's south-north water diversion project, according to resettlement authorities in...

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...

Police serve warrants in Yale grad student slaying

World
2009-9-16

POLICE yesterday raided the apartment of a man they call a person of interest in the slaying of a Yale graduate student. Two search warrants for DNA and other physical evidence were served at the apartment of 24-year-old...

Rescuers battle to save 25 miners

National
2009-9-15

THE death toll of a coal mine explosion in central China's Henan Province has risen to 54, with 25 miners still trapped underground by 8am today. The rescue work is continuing, China News Service reported. The...

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...