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Chinese police have detained 10 people in connection with the collapse of an underground railway tunnel being built for next year's Olympic Games in Beijing.

Six workers were reported to have been killed when the tunnel caved in last Wednesday.

State media has reported that the construction firm waited at least eight hours before reporting the accident to the authorities.

It is claimed that the company mounted an elaborate cover-up and tried to rescue the trapped workers on its own.

Beijing: A Chinese businessman has advertised on the Internet for a stand-in mistress to be beaten up by his wife to vent her anger and to protect his real mistress, Chinese media reported on Monday.

The "successful" candidate would be 35 and originally from northeastern China and would be paid 3,000 yuan ($400) per 10 minutes, it said.

A powerful typhoon headed toward the eastern Chinese coast on Monday forcing over 200,000 people to seek higher ground, state media said, after it battered Taiwan over the weekend.

Imagethief discusses the problems facing the relationships between China's State-controlled media and foreign media. Good read. Check it out.

China, still working on its long-delayed homegrown third-generation wireless standard, has leapfrogged itself by launching the world's first fourth-generation standard, state media said on Monday.

Sixteen policemen in China's Muslim-majority northwest were killed on Monday in a suspected terrorist attack, state media said, raising security fears four days before the Beijing Olympics.

True Run will be splitting from China Intercontinental Press. CIP will continue operating a magazine under the title that’s Beijing, while True Run will launch its own magazine called The Beijinger using former that’s Beijing staff.

Not completely, anyway. A SwissCham Beijing lecture reveals how foreigners can own Chinese media online - and make lots of money. From a podcast.

China’s ban on the distribution and manufacture on the ultra thin plastic bags took effect last week on June 1. Retailers will also be banned from giving out free regular plastic bags.Have you ever wondered, the amount of toxic material we are ingesting which the bag likely emits when in direct contact at such high temperatures?