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• 7 cases of food poisoning in Yunlong Hotel (Chinese)
  The patients are currently treated in No.2 Hospital.
• Soccer player Feng's sight saved after hooligan attack in Chengdu
  Shenyang Dongjin defender Feng Shaoshun will not lose the sight in his left eye which was cut by glass after opposing fans stoned the team bus, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) said Wednesday. Feng needed surgery on his cornea, which was damaged when bus windows were shattered by Chengdu Blades fans as second division Shenyang Dongjin left the Chengdu stadium following a 1-1 draw last weekend. The Chengdu side had apologized, promised to pay Feng's medical bill, and would accept further punishment, the CFA said.
• New natural gas pipeline from Sichuan to Shanghai
  China's largest oil refiner Sinopec Group expects to achieve annual sales of 20 billion yuan ($2.94 billion) from the Sichuan-Shanghai natural gas pipeline project.
  Huang Wensheng, Sinopec spokesman, told a press conference on Tuesday that under current average natural gas price of 1.51 yuan per cubic meters (cu m), the company is expected to achieve sales of 18 billion yuan from the project per year.
  The 62.7-billion-yuan pipeline, which starts at Sinopec's Puguang natural gas field in Sichuan province and ends in Shanghai, started official operations on Tuesday.
• Azerbaijan sends battalion chiefs for courses of motorized rifle commanders in Sichuan
  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence starts to prepare commanders of ground forces with assistance of the People's Liberation Army of China.
• Last Train Home: a new movie on a Sichuan migrant worker's family
  Seen this spring at "New Directors/New Films," Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan's prize-winning documentary Last Train Home is an intimate portrait of an unfathomable immensity, focusing on a single family caught up in the world's largest mass migration. Opening overhead shots show a huge mob waiting in the rain to push their way into China's Guangzhou railroad station—participants in an annual New Year's journey made by 130 million workers to their homes in the nation's rural outback. Fan then picks up on the struggle waged by the Zhangs, a married couple of Guangzhou sewing factory workers, to reach their Sichuan village 1,200 miles away

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From a month ago

• 10-hour Chengdu-Shanghai train opens this month; more fast trains on the way
  August 2, 2010
• Famous Sichuanese: notes on the noteworthy
  August 2, 2010
• Chongqing
  August 2, 2010
• Roadside Favorite: the milk tea café
  August 1, 2010
• Bus accident leaves 13 dead, 9 injured
  August 1, 2010

From a year ago

• Week in review: lightning, hostage, Renmin Nan Lu to return to 'normal'
  September 2, 2009
• New rail line to link Chengdu with Lhasa
  September 1, 2009
• Flash mob honors MJJ with "Thriller" dance at Chunxi Lu (video)
  August 31, 2009
• China blogs: IKEA's 'theme park,' China's husbands blasted
  August 30, 2009
• Annie eats: Sweet and sour lotus root
  August 29, 2009

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