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Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport passenger terminal catches on fire 24th Mar. 2012.

There is no casualty report yet.

When professor Qian Nairong published his dictionary of the Shanghai dialect in 2007, he was in some ways documenting a dying language.

The number of people speaking the rapid-fire language — a badge of identity for residents of China's commercial capital of more than 20 million people — is shrinking.

As the government maintains a decades-old drive to promote Mandarin Chinese as the official language, banning dialects from media broadcasts and schools, many young people are unable to fluently speak — or fully understand — the native Shanghai tongue.

An influx of migrants from outside Shanghai and the city's drive to become more international have also combined to water down the local patois.

08:00 24th Feb 2012, One of the suspects was shot and killed, 4 arrested in Jinghong City Sipsongpanna.

In the evening of 23rd Feb 2012, the drug gang killed 1 police and wounded a passerby.

Sinopec's 93# Petrol (left) and CNPN's 93# Petrol (right)

The Industrial and Commercial Bureau of Yunnan Province recieved complains about the bad quanlity of 93# petrol which cause abnormal flameout among cars of FAW-VW, GM and Chevrolet.

Chinese netizen post the photo of 93# petrol brought from Sinopec and CNPN online.