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Japanese 'Beethoven' neither deaf nor actually a composer

Only a day after Mamoru Samuragochi, a deaf composer sometimes called 'Japan's Beethoven', confessed to hiring another man to write some of his best-known works, allegations have arisen...

by Stefan Van Assche, 07 February 2014

Bride almost misses wedding after motorcade crashes in heavy snow

When a bride, who was on her way to her wedding in Jiangsu province on Wednesday, decided not to let the icy highway ruin her special day, she almost didn’t make it to the aisle.

by Stefan Van Assche, 07 February 2014

Chinese ivory smuggler given record $230,000 fine

A Kenyan court has fined Tang Yong Jian, a 40 year old Chinese man, the record-breaking amount of 1.3 million yuan ($230,000) for trying to smuggle ivory out of the country. If he can’t...

by Stefan Van Assche, 31 January 2014

Virgin Galactic bans Chinese from spaceflights over spying fears

Virgin Galactic, a 'space tourism' company founded in 2004 by British billionaire Richard Branson, has banned Chinese nationals from flying on its commercial space flights, set to begin...

by Stefan Van Assche, 30 January 2014

Vice mayor fired after colleague's death from alcohol poisoning

Chen Ruixi, former vice mayor of Sanming, Fujian province has been removed from his post after participating in a lavish dinner which led to the death of one government official.

by Stefan Van Assche, 30 January 2014

Death sentence for nose job killer

Lian Enqing, who killed one doctor and wounded two others over a failed nasal surgery last October at the First People’s Hospital of Wenling, has been sentenced to death by a court...

by Stefan Van Assche, 29 January 2014