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Prosecuting authorities in Northwest China's Gansu province on Saturday approved the arrest of two policemen who were accused for the death of a suspect during interrogation, Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. Police authorities admitted the use of torture.
Police in Xihe county, Longnan city of Gansu province, seized four suspects on April 1, of whom two turned themselves in, after a 16-year-old girl was raped and murdered on March 27.
One of the suspects, He Yong, died at the police station during interrogation on the evening of April 1. According to police, He died from a heart attack, but He's uncle, who attended the postmortem examination the next day, said the body was "all black and blue" and "too horrible to look at."
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China is striving to increase the average Chinese wages by 15 percent annually in a bid to achieve a two-fold increase in pay by the end of 2015, the Ministry of Human Resource and Social Security (MHRSS) said according to a report in the Beijing Times Tuesday.
Yang Zhiming, vice-minister of human resources and social security, speaking during a national labor relation conference Monday, said 13 provinces have raised their minimum wage by an average of 22.8 percent, with more cities likely to see a pay raise within the year.
Addressing the widening income gap between the wealthy and the poor, Yang said the income of officials should be transparent and payment regulations should be re-examined for people with a high income.
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Health authorities in East China's Jiangsu province have begun investigating a false HIV diagnosis made in 2009, Beijing Times reported Monday.
Wu Changdong, 36, who is a native of Pizhou, Jiangsu province, donated 400 cc of blood to a collection station in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, on Nov 5, 2009.
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At least 17 people were killed and 118 injured in south China's Guangdong province as of Monday after hailstones, cloudburst and strong wind ravaged the region, flood control authorities said.
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A view of the destroyed building after an explosion at a chemical plant in Lamadian Town of Daqing City of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, April 14, 2011.
At least nine people were killed in an explosion at a chemical plant in Lamadian Town of Daqing City of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province Wednesday night, local officials said early Thursday morning.
The explosion and fire occurred at about 10:10 pm Wednesday at a three-storey building at Fuxing Chemical Plant located in Lamadian Town of Ranghulu District in Daqing.
Fourteen people were inside the building when the accident happened, local government said.
Nine people died on the scene while the other five people fled the building.
The fire has been extinguished by firefighters by press time, but the air near the plant was full of the burnt smell, according to Xinhua's on-the-spot reporter.
Cause of the explosion remained unknown, as investigation and search efforts are still underway.
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