Asian Para Games

    Guangzhou bid farewell to the inaugural* Asian Para Games on Sunday night.

    The Guangzhou 2010 Asian Para Games is the first Asian Para Games to be held after the Asian Paralympic Committee came into being in 2006. In the medal tally, China leads with a total of 391 medals (185 golds). Japan is in second place with 103 medals (32 golds).

    SUST to enroll

    The South University of Science and Technology of China (SUST) planned to enroll 150 students next spring after the first 50 Senior 2 students enter the university, officials said on Saturday.

    With a total investment of 2.48 billion yuan (US$373 million), the university would enroll students who have finished two years of senior high school education in experimental classes.

    Fireworks accident

    Nine people were killed and nine others injured when a truck loaded with fireworks material backed into an electricity pole and blew up in Central China.

    The explosion took place on Friday in Ningxiang County in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, when the truck laden with 600 boxes of fireworks fuses* hit the pole. Sparks from the fallen power cables ignited* the fuses and caused the blast.

    Blaze ‘caused by child’

    A 6-year-old boy playing with matches allegedly started a grass fire that killed 23 people in Sichuan earlier this month, local authorities said on Sunday.

    The mother of the boy was also killed in the blaze, which raged through the plateau grassland in Dawor County, in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze in Sichuan Province on December 5. Police say the child is too young to be prosecuted* under the law.

    (SD-Agencies)