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Yang Ping is party secretary of the Discipline Committee, in the city of Zhuzhou, Hunan province. Recently, he got a new nickname. It all started on an internet forum he started to frequent. The netizens there began to call him 'classmate Yang Ping'. Gradually, even his friends began to refer to him this way.
Foreign journalists should complain formally if they have any problems in doing their jobs during the Beijing Olympic Games, senior Chinese leader Li Changchun said here on Thursday...
...'If you are dissatisfied, you can file your complaint directly to Liu Qi, president of Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of XXIX Olympiad,' he told reporters.
Shanghai police have detained wealthy road contractor Liu Genshan, founder and chairman of Shanghai Maosheng International Group, as a suspect in a financial crime investigation.
Caijing learned that police launched the probe focusing on Liu several weeks ago, accusing him of fraudulent loans worth 4.3 billion yuan.
Liu, 51, is one of two famous 'highway barons' in Shanghai. The other -- financier Zhang Rongkun -- was recently sentenced to 19 years in prison as a major player in a pension scandal that rocked city hall and sent a former mayor to prison.
...Liu ... was suspected in 2005 of being involved in the case of Zhang Enzhao, a former China Construction Bank president who was sentenced to 15 years for bribery.
China's centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are seeking 16 senior executives from either home or abroad, according to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC).
The SASAC ... said ... the posts included three general managers, 10 deputy general managers and three chief accountants from various industries. These covered electricity, metallurgy, electronics, chemical engineering and trade enterprises...
...China currently has 150 central SOEs directly under the control of the SASAC, with total assets of 14.6 trillion yuan (2.12 trillion U.S. dollars) as of November.
Would he be trying as hard if the Olympics were not going to be in Beijing? The 27-year-old Yao says: 'Since there is no 'if' that the Olympics will be held in Beijing, I too have no 'if'.'
The death toll of China's major earthquake still stood at Saturday's figure of 69,196 as of Sunday noon, the State Council Information Office said in a statement.
The number of the injured were 374,176 and people reported missing were 18,379 after the 8.0-magnitude quake jolted southwestern Sichuan Province and neighboring regions on May 12.
As of Sunday noon, 96,419 injured people had been hospitalized and 87,317 had recovered and left hospital. There were still 6,456 people in hospital, the statement said.