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Lawmaker arrested for alleged murder of mistress 2007-7-16 A CHINESE lawmaker has been arrested in connection with the murder of his mistress with a car bomb earlier this month. Duan Yihe, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Jinan Municipal People's Congress, is alleged to have hired his nephew-in-law, a Jinan policeman, to plant the car bomb that killed Liu Haiping on July 9, according to a source with the Shandong Provincial Public Security Department. Police found remnants of the bomb in Liu's car after the blast, which killed her on the spot and also engulfed a nearby taxi in...

/begin my translation PLA Maneuvers with Intervention to N. Korea in Mind? 09/11/06 China's PLA is reportedly conducting training exercises designed to cope with crisis in Korean Peninsula Chinese state media, Xinhua, reported, "Total of 6,000 troops, made up of mechanized infantry brigade(3,000) from Shenyang Military District and its opponents(3,000), an armored brigade from Beijing Military District, went into training exercises against biochemical, naval, and aerial attacks. It started on Sept. 5 on a training base under Beijing Military District, located on a steppe in Inner Mongolia." 190th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of 39th Corps under Shenyang Military District finished map...