NRL player Jon Mannah, 23, dies of cancer
TOO SOON: Jon Mannah has passed away from cancer aged 23 Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan has paid tribute to Jon Mannah by declaring the club a better place for having called him one of their own....
View ArticleUK woman Lauren Harry dislocates shoulders every time she coughs, sneezes
Pain: Lauren Harry Dislocated: x-ray of shoulder When Lauren Harry feels a sneeze coming on she has to brace herself for a whole load of pain. The 20-year-old’s shoulders dislocate with every sudden...
View ArticleShenzhen Metro Longgang Line to add sectional trains during rush hours
THE operator of Longgang Line will run sectional trains between Huaxin and Tangkeng stations starting Monday. The sectional trains will operate on weekdays, from 7:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. and from 5:45...
View ArticleShenzhen woman jailed for social security fraud involving 500,000 yuan
A SHENZHEN woman was sentenced to two and a half years in jail on a suspended sentence with three years of probation, for profiting from illegal sales of medicine worth nearly 500,000 yuan (US$79,000)...
View ArticleShenzhen Party chief replaces Audi A6 with local e-car
Wang Rong, secretary of CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee, leaves his office in a BYD electric car after a meeting on Thursday, January 17, 2013 The Communist Party chief of Shenzhen in south China's...
View ArticleTommy the faithful dog goes to Italian church everyday to wait for dead owner
Tommy waits at the church for his owner. A faithful dog whose owner died months ago still turns up everyday at her church hoping she will return. Tommy, a 12-year-old German shepherd, has become a...
View ArticleSurgeons left 16 items in German banker Helmut Brecht: lawyer
A lawyer in Germany claims doctors removed a needle, compresses and surgical strips from her client's body after his wounds failed to heal properly following surgery. A LAWYER in Germany claims...
View Article2 female workers in Shenzhen threat suicide over pay dispute
2 laid-off young female workers threaten to kill themselves in front of Asia Vital Components On 16th January, two laid-off young female workers threatened to kill themselves in front of their...
View ArticleOver 60% netizens against construction of telphers to Mt. Wutong in Shenzhen
SZnews.com launched an investigation into whether there should be telphers to Wutong Mountain on 16th January. The vote result reveals that among 389 netizens, 62.92% of them were against the project...
View ArticleAussie pedophile Kenneth Trotter, 78, jailed for 3yrs in UK after being...
AFTER being deported from Australia to his native Britain, convicted pedophile Kenneth Trotter is back behind bars for again approaching children. Trotter, now 78, was described by a Victorian County...
View ArticleGuangzhou worker kills himself, injures 8 in explosion amid labor disputes
A man in south China's Guangdong Province killed himself and injured eight others in an explosion Friday amid labor disputes with a company he used to work for, police said. The public security...
View ArticleOver one-fifth of jewelry sold in Guangzhou fail to meet national standards
More than one-fifth of the jewelry sold in Guangzhou failed to meet national standards, a government inspection has found. Giving short weight and selling substandard goods as quality ones are the two...
View ArticlePearl River Delta emissions control area on the cards
News yesterday that the Hong Kong chief executive C Y Leung plans to introduce mandatory emission controls on ships and has been in touch with his counterparts in Guangdong over the possible formation...
View ArticleRare disease makes 28-year-old Chinese woman ages 50 years after delivery
The 28-year-old suffering from a premature aging disorder ages decades in just 6 months A woman suffering from a premature aging disorder is desperate for a cure, today's Zhengzhou Evening News...
View Article'I'm leaving twitter for personal reasons', Gary Lineker shocks 1.3m followers
Logged out: Gary Lineker Protective: Gary was left sickened by tweets to his son last year TV pundit Gary Lineker shocked his followers tonight by announcing he was quitting Twitter. The Match of...
View Article400 take to the street in Shenzhen over potential harm of LCD plant
Some 400 residents took to the street in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, Saturday afternoon to protest the construction of a liquid crystal display (LCD) factory that they believe could harm their...
View Article515 kg of smuggled silver slabs seized at Shenzhen Bay Control Point
Customs officers found 11 nylon bags containing 33 silver slabs being placed on the floor between the middle and rear passenger seats of the vehicle. Hong Kong Customs yesterday (January 18) seized...
View ArticleOfficials at SZ People's Congress caught sleeping, playing with phones
Officials were spotted fiddling with their mobile phones and participating in the long and venerable tradition of catching a few minutes of shut-eye. What’s your favourite quote about meetings? Is...
View ArticleHit-and-run driver held after death of 7-year old girl in Shenzhen
Police officers surveyed the scene A DRIVER who killed a 7-year-old girl in a parking lot near a restaurant in Nanshan District on Saturday has been arrested, Shenzhen police wrote on the department’s...
View ArticleCancer rate in Shenzhen nearly triples since 2002
A TUMOR registration report released by the Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Control showed that cancer rates among permanent Shenzhen residents nearly tripled from 2002 to 2011, and increased every...
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