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Cold Tidings for Hot Pot Lovers
The holy grail for spice fiends.This morning Bowery Boogie brought the sad news that Grand Sichuan on Canal Street had shuttered, which bodes ill even though the restaurant claims it will reopen. We've spent a number of happy evenings there foisting things into a tureen of fiery broth studded with Sichuan...
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Chinese Stocks Are Still in Danger of Blowing Up
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Chinese stocks listed on U.S. exchanges are ticking time bombs. The Securities and Exchange Commission and FBI are all but powerless to criminally pursue their officers and even their auditors. In short, there is (almost) no one guarding the hen house. In fact, the regulatory situation is...
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Caixin Online: China joins shale-gas game
Sinopec says it will start to pumping gas from a shale project in the southwestern province of Sichuan in early June, the first such production in China, reports Caixin Online.
marketwatch.com (before 1 day)
Charity denies claim of forced donation
The charity organization in Panzhihua, a Southwest Chinese city in Sichuan province, has denied recent online claims that civil servants and teachers were forced to donate a month of their salary to a public fund, Xinhua reports.
china.org.cn (before 2 days)
50,000 yuan offer after wife tore up bank notes
A man in the southwest Sichuan Province has been offered 50,000 yuan (US$7,950) for a bag of bank notes his wife tore up.
china.org.cn (before 10 days)
Bank workers try piece together almost £5,000 worth of Chinese yuan after woman shreds them......
The woman's desperate husband brought the money into the Sichuan branch of the Bank of China to try and get help.
dailymail.co.uk (before 10 days)
Chinese researchers dressed in panda costumes carry Giant Panda bear to new home
Tao Tao the 21-month-old Giant Panda was transported 90 minutes away from her her current home at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in the Sichuan province of China
dailymail.co.uk (before 13 days)
Restaurant Review: Café China in Midtown
Demure and quaint, Café China in Midtown serves uncompromising Sichuan food that can stand with Manhattan’s best.
nytimes.com (before 15 days)
Section of Sichuan-Tibet highway collapses in Tibet
More than 150 vehicles and over 400 people were stranded on a section of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in southwest China's Tibet autonomous region Sunday following a roadbed collapse.
china.org.cn (before 25 days)
More than a feeling: How to make the most of the texture of food
On a Saturday evening sometime in the last year of the 1990s, Fuchsia Dunlop, cookery writer and the first Westerner to train at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine in China, sat down for dinner. Joining her at the table at the upmarket
independent.co.uk (before 27 days)
Acute gastroenteritis hits students on SW China campus
Seventy-four university students have been hospitalized in southwest China's Sichuan province, after an outbreak of vomiting, diarrhea and fever, authorities said Thursday.
china.org.cn (before 28 days)
SDK to Invest in Graphite Electrode Company in China
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has signed an agreement with Sinosteel Corporation (Sinosteel), of China, to acquire 67% of shares in Sinosteel's wholly owned subsidiary Sinosteel Sichuan Carbon Co., Ltd. (Sichuan Carbon), an integrated manufacturer of
japancorp.net (before 1 month)
Drought hits 4 million hectares of China's crops -Xinhua
BEIJING (Reuters) - About 4 million hectares of crops are suffering from a severe drought in China that has hit 13 provinces including the major farming province of Sichuan in southwest China, state news agency Xinhua said.
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Hitachi Builds New Elevator Production Base in Chengdu
Hitachi Elevator (China), a subsidiary of Hitachi, will establish a new production base in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, in mainland China.
japancorp.net (before 1 month and 19 days)
Dramatic rescue in China as four-year-old boy falls from sixth floor but clings on to window cage...
The boy, from Guangyun, Sichuan Province, China was tied to the window grid by firefighters to prevent him from falling.
dailymail.co.uk (before 1 month and 24 days)
11 in Sichuan sentenced for violence, vandalism
Eleven people have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from three to 13 years for recent acts of violence and vandalism in southwest China's Sichuan province, according to statements issued by local courts on Wednesday.
china.org.cn (before 1 month and 25 days)
Shell gets China's 1st shale gas deal
BEIJING (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said it has signed a production sharing contract with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) for developing a shale gas block in southwestern Sichuan...
reuters.com (before 1 month and 25 days)
China bus crash kills 15
Mar. 14 - At least 15 people are dead and six injured after a bus fell off a bridge into a deep ravine in the a mountainous region of southwest China's Sichuan Province. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
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15 dead after bus falls into ravine in SW China
Fifteen people were killed and six were injured after a bus overturned and fell into a deep ravine in Aba Tibetan-Qiang autonomous prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan Province, local police said Tuesday.
china.org.cn (before 2 months and 6 days)
School building revamp proceeds nationwide
"Life is more precious than knowledge" is the guiding principle behind the ongoing renovation of China's school buildings, which began in the wake of a 2008 earthquake that destroyed hundreds of classrooms in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
china.org.cn (before 2 months and 12 days)
Third Tibetan self-immolates in three days in China
Dorjee, 18, died after he set himself ablaze in Aba county in Sichuan province in protest at China's policy on TibetA Tibetan youth has burned himself to death in south western China, the third self-immolation in three days, in what overseas Tibetan
guardian.co.uk (before 2 months and 13 days)
Another teen Tibetan immolates in China
BEIJING (AP) -- A Tibetan teenager in Sichuan province died after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese oppression in Tibet, the third such self-immolation in three days, a U.S.-based broadcaster said....
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Another teen Tibetan immolates in China
A Tibetan teenager in Sichuan province died after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese oppression in Tibet, the third such self-immolation in three days, a U.S.-based broadcaster said.
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Another teen Tibetan self-immolates in China
A U.S.-funded broadcaster says a Tibetan teenager in Sichuan province has died in a fiery protest against Chinese oppression in Tibet, marking the third self-immolation in three days.
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Another teen Tibetan self-immolates in China
BEIJING (AP) -- A U.S.-funded broadcaster says a Tibetan teenager in Sichuan province has died in a fiery protest against Chinese oppression in Tibet, marking the third self-immolation in three days....
ap.org (before 2 months and 13 days)
Book review: ‘Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China,’ by Ezra F. Vogel
Twenty-six years ago, an American vice president went to the western Chinese city of Chengdu with a message for China: America is here to help. In a speech to students from Sichuan University, George H.W. Bush said the United States would allow
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Once-Illegal Spice Becomes Sensation
Once you eat a dish that uses Sichuan peppercorns, you aren't likely to forget it. The tingly mouth sensation produced by the tiny crimson pods...
huffingtonpost.com (before 2 months and 17 days)
Communist Party Chief Visits Restive Tibetan Towns
Liu Qibao urged residents to follow the law and oppose separatism, according to a report Friday in Sichuan Daily, an official newspaper.
nytimes.com (before 2 months and 24 days)
SW China post-quake rebuilding complete
The reconstruction of parts of southwest China's Sichuan province hit by the 2008 earthquake has been completed, the vice governor of Sichuan Province announced on Friday.
china.org.cn (before 2 months and 24 days)
Chevron Starts China Shale Gas Exploration, Builds Sichuan Plant
Chevron Corp. said it began exploring for shale gas in China, holder of the world’s biggest reserves of the fuel, and expects to start a natural gas processing plant in the country next year.
businessweek.com (before 2 months and 24 days)
