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  • One killed 150 injured in China restaurant blasts

    A series of blasts ripped through a restaurant in China's Shanxi province Wednesday night, killing one person and injuring over 150 others, officials said. The incident took place in a two-storey building housing the restaurant in Shuozhou city, Xinhua reported. Among the 156 injured, dozens are fire fighters who were at the scene when the final blast occurred. Three fire-fighting trucks were ...

  • Sex tape official stands trial in China

    The trial of a former official embroiled in a sex tape scandal opened Wednesday in a court in southwest China's Chongqing city. The Chongqing No.1 Intermediate People's Court will hear the case of Lei Zhengfu, former secretary of Chongqing's Beibei district committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Lei, who also stands accused of accepting bribes, was dismissed from his post and placed ...

  • Huawei introduces worlds thinnest smartphone Ascend P6

    China's telecom giant has unveiled the world's slimmest android-based smartphone- Ascend P6. The smarthphone is 6.18mm thick and has a 5 megapixel front camera for high quality self portraits. Huawei stated that it has 4.7in screen and is more than 3mm thin. If compared to the iphone 5 and the Alcatel One Idol Ultra which are known to be the slimmest phones yet, Ascend P6 is slimmer but ...

  • Chinese official executed for raping 11 girls

    An official in central China's Henan province was executed Tuesday for raping 11 girls, sources said Wednesday. Li Xingong, former deputy secretary general of the Yongcheng city committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was arrested in May 2012 on charges of raping several girls starting from the second half of 2011, reported Xinhua. The Shangqiu City Intermediate People's Court later ...

  • Beckham meets fans in Shanghai

    Fans wait for David Beckham outside Shanghai Shenxin Football Club, in Shanghai east China, June 19, 2013. David Beckham is on a seven-day visit to China as the ambassador for the Football Programme in China and China's Super League. (Xinhua/Fan ...


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My Own Private Idaho [DVD]

My Own Private Idaho [DVD]

For his third feature film, writer/director Gus Van Sant was finally able to bring to the screen a story he had been trying to tell for years about Portland street hustlers. His critical and commercial success with Drugstore Cowboy (1989) had made him a name in the bur ... ...

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