Shenzhen moving aheadwith new home tax
SHENZHEN will release a detailed plan this week for local implementation of the new national tax law that levies a 20-percent tax on profits from sales of pre-owned homes. Additionally, the Guangdong...
View ArticleJulong Mountain Ecological Park in Pingshan opened to the public
Visitors walk through Julong Mountain Ecological Park in Pingshan New Area on Monday. The Julong Mountain Ecological Park in Pingshan New Area has officially opened to the public. The park has areas...
View ArticleUS Prof. James Arnt Aune jumps to his death over sexting extortion plot
James Arnt Aune, 59, killed himself after being caught up in a catfish scam which saw him sending sexually explicit pictures of himself to an online contact he thought was a minor. Daniel Timothy...
View ArticleUS dad accidentally kills 10yo son Christopher Stanlane Jr while cleaning his...
The bullet hit his 10-year-old son Christopher Stanlane Jr, who was watching television, in the back of the head. The child's uncle, Robert Simmons, says the father, Christopher Stanlane, 34, was...
View ArticleToronto man Allen Chow, 60, faces 42 charges for assaulting sex workers
Allen Chow, 60, is charged with 21 counts of sexual assault and 21 other criminal offences related to administering a drug. He is pictured with and without his glasses A 60-year-old Toronto man was...
View ArticleBrazilian doctor Virginia Soares de Souza 'kills 300 patients to free up...
Virginia Soares De Souza is said to have “played God,” administering fatal doses of a muscle relaxant or cutting off patients’ life support. A Brazilian doctor, on trial for killing seven patients in...
View ArticleMan killed after being swallowed by sinkhole in Shenzhen's Futian
The sinkhole in a community in Futian District of Shenzhen Workers conduct work at a land subsidence accident spot in a community in Futian District of Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province,...
View ArticleCirrus SR22 plane falls into sea off Guangdong over engine failure
A U.S.-made Cirrus SR22 plane fell into the sea off the coast of south China's Guangdong Province Wednesday afternoon, local authorities said. The plane, which is owned by Zhuhai Hanxing General...
View Article7.2kg! UK mother gives birth to whopping baby boy weighing twice normal size
March 28, 2013: A mother in the UK has given birth to a 7kg baby, which is now thriving despite being given a 10 percent chance of survival. An English mother has given birth to a whopping baby boy,...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty in deaths of three in Shenzhen drunk driving crash
Hou Peiqing, a 30-year-old former construction worker, goes on trial in Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court yesterday for causing three deaths by colliding with a taxi that then caught fire in a drunk...
View ArticleSaudi beheads & crucifies Yemeni man who convicted of murdering Pakistani...
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of sharia, or Islamic law. Picture: AFP Source: AFP SAUDI authorities have...
View ArticleNZ public school warns parents of child accessing & sharing internet porn sites
A PUBLIC school principal has warned parents after a child accessed internet porn sites at home and shared the website addresses with fellow pupils. Keith Turner, principal of Kendal School in...
View ArticleRepaving work at Lianhua Hill Park is waste of money: Shenzhen residents
Residents walk near recently installed curbs in Lianhua Hill Park. SHENZHEN residents are complaining about seemingly excessive construction projects in Lianhua Hill Park in Futian District that...
View ArticleShenzhen police shut down illegal surrogacy clinic in apartment
Five women were found in the apartment when bureau officials arrived. Officials with the city’s health inspection bureau talk with staff of an illegal surrogacy agency at a residential community in...
View ArticleUK mum Josie Cunningham does topless photoshoot after £4,800 NHS boob job
Josie Cunningham posed for her first topless shoot yesterday, telling taxpayers: “I couldn’t have done it without you." Josie Cunningham had the £4,800 operation after telling doctors her flat chest...
View Article'Shenzhen's most beautiful girl' turns out to have been involved in publicity...
A girl was feeding an aged beggar on the street A girl who was hailed as “the most beautiful girl in Shenzhen” because she fed an aged beggar on the street, was revealed to have simply been involved...
View ArticleDriver gets 6 yrs & 6 mths after killing 3 in dump truck accident in Shenzhen
A DUMP truck driver who caused three deaths and three injuries in an October crash in Futian District’s CBD was sentenced to six years and six months in jail at a Futian court in Shenzhen on Thursday....
View ArticleShenzhen University to ban motorcycles and electric bikes
SHENZHEN University will ban motorcycles and electric bikes that don’t meet national standards on its campus starting July 20, the start of summer holidays. National standards require electric bikes to...
View ArticleBollywood star Sanjay Dutt to return to jail for his conviction over 1993...
Sanjay Dutt is hugely popular for his role of a loveable gangster in Munnabhai movies Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has said he will return to prison for his conviction over the 1993 Mumbai blasts. The...
View ArticlePakistani girl Malala Yousafzai shot in head by Taliban to publish life story...
Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old girl who was shot in the head at close range by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan, reads during her recovery in an English hospital. Picture: AP Source: AP MALALA...
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