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Several Children Injured In Car Crash At Central China School

Several students were injured Tuesday after a car crashed outside a primary school in central China's Hunan province, state media said.

International Business Times

Many Children Injured After Car Crashes At Central China School: State Media

Many students were injured Tuesday after a car crashed outside a primary school in central China's Hunan province, state media said.

International Business Times

Typhoon Gaemi Causes Devastation In Southern China

Typhoon Gaemi causes devastation in Hunan, China, leading to deaths, missing persons, and rescue operations. Swift response efforts are crucial in mitigati...

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At least 22 dead as tail end of Typhoon Gaemi lashes China

Storm has hit China with deadly rain and mudslides, devastating homes, roads and crops.

Al Jazeera

Ex-Provincial Legislature Vice Chair Expelled for Falsifying Stats

Peng Guofu, who formerly served on the standing committee of the Hunan Provincial People’s Congress, has also been removed from public office for violations including bribery

Caixin Global

Ex-Provincial Official Gets Life for Causing ‘Significant Loss’ to Public Assets and Bribery

Yi Pengfei, a seasoned Communist Party official from Hunan province, took $11.2 million in bribes over two decades

Caixin Global

Provincial Party Leaders Urge Change of Mindset to Foster a Better Class of Growth

Hunan’s party committee launched a ‘great discussion’ on ‘emancipation of the mind’ to break the rigid ways of thinking that stand in the way of breakthroughs in reform

Caixin Global

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Former Party Chief Charged With Abuse of Power for Breaking Borrowing Rules

Cao Jiongfang, ex-party secretary of Xiangtan in Hunan province, was subject to a ‘key additional investigation’ last year while already facing bribery charges, local graft busters say

Caixin Global

The Hunan Man, London: ‘The best Chongqing chicken I have ever had’ – restaurant review

Fortune favours the brave when tasting these superb but challenging chilli-boosted regional Chinese dishes

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Provincial Adviser Pleads Guilty to Taking Tens of Millions in Bribes

Yi Pengfei, former vice chairman of Hunan‘s political consultative conference, abused his power for almost 20 years, costing the province nearly $63 million in public assets

Caixin Global

China-Africa relations in 2023: key moments and events to remember

In a year when headlines have been dominated by conflict in Europe and the Middle East, and geo-economic tensions between China and the West, China-Africa relations were, in comparison, a steady and stable norm.

The Conversation

China’s Africa strategy is shifting from extraction to investment – driven from the industry-rich Hunan region

China experienced a massive economic boom in the 1990s and 2000s which increased its demand for resource imports, like oil, from Africa. This led to a model of development finance in which China funded infrastructure in African countries in return for access to resources. This approach became known as the…

The Conversation

Women talking: How women in China developed a secret language

In this edition, the tale of a secret women's language in China that's existed since feudal times and the attempts to keep it alive by those who still use it in the southern province of Hunan. Annette Young also meets Iraqi Kurdish activist, Soma Farhang from the Women Empowerment Organisation…

France 24

First 'banana train' leaves Laos for China

VIENTIANE: A special freight train carrying 25 cold-chain containers loaded with 500 tonnes of fresh Lao bananas departed from the Vientiane station in the Lao capital on Wednesday.

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Evening Standard

Fire engulfs skyscraper in southern China

A massive fire sent flames and black smoke pouring from a 42-story skyscraper in central China on Friday.Dozens of floors burned in the China Telecom building in the city of Changsha, the capital of central Hunan province.The city’s fire department said it sent 280 firefighters who were able to quickly…

Reuters

Fire engulfs office tower in southern Chinese city

A massive fire engulfed a high-rise office building in downtown Changsha, capital of China's southern province of Hunan, on Friday afternoon, state media reported.

Daily Mirror

Sleep warning as napping found to be ‘early sign’ of killer heart condition

The study, conducted by researchers at Xiangya Hospital Central South University in China’s Hunan, looked at 360,000 people in the UK between the ages of 40 and 69 years

Bangkok Post

Why is China's Uighur population shrinking?

After becoming the Communist Party of China's (CPC's) chief of Xinjiang province in 2016, Chen Quanguo oversaw a security crackdown that led to a sharp drop in births. Some observers accused China's leadership of committing genocide against the province's mostly Muslim Uighur population through forced sterilisation and abortion. Chinese Foreign…

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EHang Bags Order For Five Units Of EH216 AAVs From Tianxingjian

EHang Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ:EH) has received an initial purchase order for five units of EH216 AAVs from Tianxingjian Cultural Tourism Investment and Development LLC, an affiliated enterprise of the Jishou city government in Hunan province, China. Financial terms were not disclosed. The two parties plan to develop a scenic flight project at the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Heavy Rains Leave 10 Dead, Hundreds of Thousands Displaced in China

Ten people have died in central China as torrential rains lashed Hunan province, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported. The downpours, which began on June 1, have forced the evacuation of around 286,000 people, with more than 2,700 homes collapsed or seriously damaged, the official Xinhua…

The Independent UK

10 killed, 3 missing in central China flooding

Chinese state media report at least 10 people have been killed and three are missing in flooding in the central province of Hunan

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