Despite increased security, man stabs 2 to death in Beijing

October 8th, 2009 BEIJING - About 300 representatives from over 170 media outlets around the world gathered in Beijing to discuss the shifts and challenges in the industry at the World Media Summit that began Friday. The opening ceremony of the summit was held at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing.

September 30th, 2009 NYPD: Pedestrian collision ends in fatal stabbingNEW YORK — Authorities say that an Army veteran killed someone who had bumped into him on a New York sidewalk and that the suspect was later found dead in Philadelphia. A law enforcement official said Wednesday that Philadelphia officials notified New York police the night before that the suspect was found dead.

September 19th, 2009 French tourist injured in Beijing knife attackBEIJING — A man attacked a French tourist with a knife Saturday near Beijing's Tiananmen Square, in the second knife attack in the area in two days, state media reported. The woman was slightly injured and was taken to a hospital, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

September 18th, 2009 Man stabs 2 to death, wounds 12 in BeijingBEIJING — A man stabbed two security guards to death with a knife and wounded 12 other people in central Beijing, despite increased security ahead of the 60th anniversary of Communist rule in China. Zhang Jianfei, 46, of northeastern Jilin province, allegedly attacked the people late Thursday in Dashilan, the oldest commercial street in Beijing near the southern end of Tiananmen Square, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

September 16th, 2009 Woman stabs 2 young daughters at Calif. homeWESTMINSTER, Calif.

August 24th, 2009 BEIJING - Almost a month before China observes its 60th National Day, thousands of additional police officers have been deployed across Beijing in a bid to thwart off any terror activity. "The security work for the coming event is by no means easier.

August 22nd, 2009 BEIJING - The ratio of home price to income in Beijing is now 27 to 1, five times the international average, according to a real estate agency, which made the calculation based on government statistics. Data from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics indicates that if a family has two wage earners both making the city's average income of 28,289 Yuan (4,142 dollars) in the first half of the year, their annual household income would be 113,000 Yuan.

June 11th, 2009 Beijing demands return of 17 Muslim detaineesBEIJING — Beijing says the 17 Chinese Muslims the United States is sending to Pacific island nation of Palau are terrorists and should be handed back to China instead. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday that the United States should "stop handing over terrorist suspects to any third country, so as to expatriate them to China at an early date." Palau President Johnson Toribiong said earlier this week that Palau had agreed to a U.S.

April 22nd, 2009 ACL: Ulsan beats Beijing 1-0BEIJING — A late header by Oh Jang-eun gave Ulsan Hyundai of South Korea a 1-0 win over Beijing Guoan Wednesday in the Asian Champions League. The win gives Ulsan six points, two behind group leader Nagoya Grampus.

April 22nd, 2009 China upholds death for man who took $8.8 millionBEIJING — A Beijing court upheld the death sentence of a former securities firm manager found guilty of embezzling 60 million yuan ($8.8 million), his defense lawyer and state media said Wednesday. Yang Yanmin was convicted of stealing the identities of his staff at China Galaxy Securities Company to borrow money and open stock accounts, state media said.

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.

March 19th, 2009 BEIJING - The 10-year-old daughter of a man who killed his wife two years ago in China's Henan province has written a letter to a court pleading for a reprieve to her father's death penalty. Jin Jin had sent the letter to the Supreme People's Court (SPC) in Beijing which is handling the final review of her father Wang Junbao's case, China Daily reported Thursday.

February 24th, 2009 VERACRUZ - A woman stabbed two of her children to death, wounded a third and then tried to kill herself at her house in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, EFE reported Tuesday. The 35-year-old woman was despondent over her financial and personal situation, the state Attorney General's Office said Monday.

February 16th, 2009 BEIJING - About 1,500 cars join the already clogged roads in this Chinese capital city daily, increasing traffic pressure and safety risks, officials said Tuesday. A total of 65,970 new vehicles have been registered in Beijing in the first 45 days of this year, with a daily increase of 1,466 vehicles, the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau said.

February 11th, 2009 BEIJING - Beijing police have arrested 12 people, including an official of the China Central Television (CCTV), for the fire in the company's new headquarters building Monday that killed one person and injured seven, officials said Thursday. The arrested include three CCTV workers and eight people hired by CCTV from a fireworks company in central Hunan province, the spokesman for the municipal public security bureau said Thursday.