92yr-old Chinese man flees grandkids’ home fearing cremation after death!

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has asked Chinese workers involved in the chimney collapse case to stay back and face investigation.

October 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani intelligence authorities have warned that extremists may try to hijack Chinese airplanes and kidnap Chinese nationals working in the country. Intelligence agencies have issued notice to the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) asking them to strengthen security measures in and around Chinese establishments inside Pakistan.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese man stabbed his wife to death after she paid no attention to his requests for dinner and continued surfing the net. Liu Hailong has been accused of killing his wife and burying her body with the help of two migrant workers last week, reports China Daily.

August 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese robber, who snatched money from a man, is said to have been captured easily after he ran straight toward a police station after committing the crime. Zhang, 19, a migrant worker in the city, ran straight to the police station in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, reports the China Daily.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The happiest day in a Chinese man's life turned out to be his last, when he drunk himself to death at his own wedding in Chengdu, Sichuan province. And now, Zhang's family is demanding a 1.2-million-yuan compensation from the hotel where the reception was held.

July 11th, 2009 URUMQI - The death toll in the riots in China's Urumqi city has risen to 184, authorities said Saturday. The dead comprise 137 people from the Han community, including 26 women.

July 10th, 2009 URUMQI - Some mosques in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi were closed Friday following Sunday's deadly riot that left at least 156 people dead, a Chinese official said. All five major mosques near the Southern Jiefang Road, centre of Sunday's violence, were closed Friday morning.

July 8th, 2009 BEIJING - Chinese authorities have lifted a curfew in the riot-hit CITY OF Urumqi after order was restored following deadly riots, a spokesman said. "The curfew was lifted in the morning and now the situation has normalised," the spokesman told RIA Novosti.

June 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese man was arrested for trying to burn down his own house, only because his wife refused to give him money to play mahjong. His wife noticed the fire in their home in Meihekou, Jilin province, when she was returning to the home.

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Fearing his arrest for stealing a licensed gun, a 20-year-old youth Wednesday committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his south Delhi home, police said. Rahul Kumar, who worked as a sweeper in a bungalow of Defence Colony, committed suicide at his home in Panchsheel Vihar area of Malviya Nagar around noon, they said.

May 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Davinder Kumar Ghai, a devout British Hindu whose plea to be cremated in the open was turned down by Britain's high court, has vowed to continue his fight, saying the final rites of Hindus 'must be done with dignity'. The high court Friday ruled that open-air funeral pyres are illegal in Britain.

April 23rd, 2009 PESHAWAR - With the Taliban gaining grip in the region, regular courts in the North West Frontier Province's Buner area have stopped their operations fearing retaliation by the extremists. The Daily Times reports that people are avoiding filing petitions for addressing their grievances.

April 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A group of Tibetan exiles chained themselves to the barbed wire fencing surrounding the Chinese embassy here in protest against the death sentence awarded to Tibetans by Chinese authorities. Chanting slogans of 'Free Tibet', the protesters stood in the scorching sun outside the Chinese embassy demanding independence for their homeland, before being led away by the police.

April 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nine Tibetan students were arrested Monday after they chained themselves to the barbed wire fencing outside the Chinese embassy here to protest against a Chinese court recently sentencing two Tibetans to death, police said. 'Nine Tibetans have been arrested for protesting outside the Chinese embassy.

April 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Around ten Tibetan students stripped and locked themselves on the barbed wire fencing surrounding the Chinese embassy here on Monday in protest against Chinese oppression inside Lhasa. Chanting slogans of 'Free Tibet', the protesters stood in the scorching sun outside the Chinese embassy demanding independence for their homeland, before being led away by the police.