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HEFEI, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Seven people were killed and another one was critically injured in a pileup on Monday morning on a highway in east China's Anhui Province, said local police.

At about 6 a.m., a people carrier crashed into a truck on a section of the highway near Xuancheng city. Eight people trapped in the car were rescued and sent to hospital, said local police.

Seven of them, including the driver and two children, were confirmed dead at the hospital.

As of 2 p.m. Monday, the injured passenger was still in a critical condition.

The exact cause of the accident is still under investigation.

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Relatives of victims shed tears at the fire site in Shangdian Village of Jian'ou City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Jan. 16, 2012

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Photo taken on Jan. 16, 2012 shows the damaged building in Shangdian Village of Jian'ou City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Jan. 16, 2012. The fire broke out on about 4 a.m. Monday here, destroying two buildings and leaving nine people dead, one injured and one still missing. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is welcomed by Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum after arriving in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, Jan. 16, 2012. Wen came to pay an official visit to the UAE and attend the fifth World Future Energy Summit here. (Xinhua/Li Tao)

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (R) shares a toast with Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping (L) in Beijing January 16, 2012, during celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China. China and the United States should work together more closely on defusing regional disputes and ensure that disputes between them do not roil ties, China's likely next president Xi Jinping said on Monday, ahead of his visit to the U.S.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 16: Shuai Peng of China tries to cool down as she feels the affects of the heat in her first round match against Aravane Rezai of France during day one of the 2012 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 16, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia.

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A worker adjusts a display of Mont Blanc watches at the luxury-goods company's new store in Beijing January 5, 2012. High-end penmaker Montblanc has opened its largest store in China to capitalise on the surging growth of Chinese luxury-goods consumers, who are expected to account for most of the world's luxury purchases in eight years. The four-storey store is in a recently developed area of Beijing's trendy Sanlitun district - which includes Armani, Longchamp, Rolex and other luxury boutiques - and is meant to appeal to China's growing middle class who are increasingly obsessed with the latest and most exclusive fashions after decades in which the Communist Party frowned on fancy clothes, accessories and make-up

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A cat sits on cartons of milk in a store in Shanghai on January 16, 2011. Despite a major safety scandal in 2008, China's demand for milk is surging as people grow wealthier, but the country's poorly kept and often undernourished dairy herds are struggling to keep pace.

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Traditional Chinese dancers perform a show to celebrate The Chinese Lunar New Year on January 15, 2012 in Mijas, near Malaga Spain.

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All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft flying from Tokyo lands at Beijing International Airport in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 14, 2012. This is the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft operated commercially arriving at the airport. [Xinhua]

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Participants compete for a winter dragon boat race on the Songhuajiang River in Jilin, Jilin province on Jan 15, 2012. A total of 22 dragon boats from Russia, Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland took part in the race to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Dragon. Normally, the dragon races are held during the Dragon Boat Festival which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. [Photo/CFP]

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A girl poses with red lantern decorations in Ditan Park in Beijing Jan 14, 2012. [Photo/CFP]

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Staff from a women's wear manufacturer in East China's Shandong province show up in their own designs on Jan 15, 2012, to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year - the Spring Festival - which falls on Jan 23. [Photo/CFP]

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Residents buy festive decorations to celebrate the traditional Chinese festival "Minor New Year", which falls on Jan 16 this year, in East China's Anhui province. [Photo/CFP]

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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (2nd L) talks with China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan (2nd R) in the Xinjiang Room located in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing January 17, 2012. Osborne is visiting China and Japan this week in a drive to attract Asian investment and lift Britain's faltering economy. In an announcement yesterday, Osborne said that Britain is teaming up with Hong Kong to secure London a top spot as an offshore trading centre for the Chinese currency, as the UK aims to boost trade and investment ties with fast-growing Asian markets.

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Zhang Shuai of China hits a shot against Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada in their first round women's singles match on day two of the 2012 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 17, 2012. Wozniak won 6-3, 6-3.

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A goat walks in a field near a chromium slag hill (not pictured) in Xiaoxin village, Yunnan province, January 9, 2012. The three-storey high hill of chromium slag, produced from the Yunnan Luliang Peace Technology Company, is a rallying point for a coalition of environmental advocacy groups, who have filed a public interest lawsuit for residents of Xiaoxin and nearby Xinglong in a special environment court.

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HONG KONG - JANUARY 16: Chinese designer Qi Gang acknowledges on the runway during the 'Hong Kong Fashion Extravaganza' show on day one of Hong Kong Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2012 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on January 16, 2012 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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HONG KONG - JANUARY 16: A model showcases designs on the runway by Gary Tsang during the 'International Fashion Designers' show on day one of Hong Kong Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2012 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on January 16, 2012 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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Rescuers work at the accident site after a passenger train collided with a truck which carried sandstone and intruded into the rail track in Taoyuan County, southeast China's Taiwan, Jan. 17, 2012. A collision occurred in Taoyuan County, southeast China's Taiwan, on Tuesday morning when the train was coming from central Changhwa County to eastern Hualien County at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour in the island. The locomotive was derailed and the train's driver died from wounds. More than 20 train passengers were slightly injured.

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A local performer sings a song in the Second Annual Vancouver Spring Show 2012 organized by local Chinese community to celebrate the upcoming Chinese traditional Spring Festival in Vancouver, Canada, Jan. 15, 2012. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaonan)

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BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- A man suspected in a series of robberies was captured with a loaded AK-47 assault rifle in his possession in a southern border city on Sunday, police say.

The man - identified by police only by his surname, Huang - is suspected of masterminding two robberies during last year's Spring Festival holiday in Pingxiang, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. He is being held by authorities.

According to police, Huang, 33, would cross the border into Vietnam after robberies. But with Spring Festival drawing near, he returned this month to commit new robberies.

On Feb 3, Chinese New Year, Huang and another man surnamed Liu, are suspected of breaking into a house in Youai village of Pingxiang and getting away with 20,000 yuan ($3,166).

On Feb 26, Liu and another man surnamed Lu, both armed, robbed villagers in Zhushan, Pingxiang, Liu Wenjie, a publicity official with the Chongzuo public security bureau, told China Daily. The Chongzuo public security bureau overseas Pingxiang police forces.

According to police, Huang has many relatives in Vietnam and speaks fluent Vietnamese. During robberies, he would threaten people in Vietnamese, so they would believe he was a foreigner.

When he was captured at 2 am on Sunday, he had an AK-47 and a Type-54 pistol along with 77 bullets in his possession, police said.

According to police, the other members of Huang's gang, Liu and Lu, were arrested in April in separate raids. Liu was armed with a military pistol and 54 bullets, they said.

Arms smuggling is often reported in the border city of Chongzuo. Police say they confiscated 148 guns, 37,709 bullets and 200 kilograms of explosives in the city in 2011.

Six military guns among the 148 captured came from abroad. The rest were homemade for hunting or keeping animals away from crops, said Liu, the police officer.

Several armed robberies have been reported in China in recent months.

On Jan 4 last year, three police officers were killed in a gunfight with two shooters in Taian, in East China's Shandong province.

A fugitive suspected of killing six people in China's Chongqing municipality and Hunan province in the past eight years shot dead another person after the victim withdrew 200,000 yuan in cash from a bank in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province.

(Source: China Daily)

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Little dogs peer out from a cage after being saved from going to the slaughterhouse by a courageous blogger, Jan 16, 2012. [Photo/Asianewsphoto]

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Dogs saved from slaughter are kept in cages at a rundown pig farm in Changsheng town, Southwest China's Chongqing city on Jan 16, 2012. [Photo/Asianewsphoto]

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A truck loaded with more than 1,000 dogs heading for South China's Guangdong province was intercepted by local law enforcers and volunteers on Monday after a micro blogger posted a plea for help online when he spotted the animals in a truck on the highway.

The dogs, some in critical condition, were taken to a rundown pig farm in Changsheng town, Southwest China's Chongqing.

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China's Premier Wen Jiabao attends the 4th China-Arab Business Conference in Sharjah January 18, 2012. China and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday signed a currency swap agreement worth 35 billion yuan ($5.54 billion), the People's Bank of China said, adding that the deal was effective for three years and would boost two-way trade and investment. The agreement signed in Dubai was announced while Wen tours the Middle East, including the Emirates, and is the latest in a string of arrangements to facilitate greater use of China's yuan in international trade.

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao greets UAE businessmen as he arrives for the 4th China-Arab Business Conference in Sharjah January 18, 2012.

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Photo illustration shows posters and stickers in a Beijing bookstore showing western brand names and Chinese cultural images in Beijing on January 18, 2012. Foreign direct investment in China rose 9.7 percent last year to a record $116.0 billion, as Asian countries boosted spending despite the global economic turmoil, the government said. But investment by overseas companies fell for a second straight month in December, down 12.7 percent year on year to $12.2 billion, as the worldwide slowdown began to take hold, the commerce ministry said in a statement.

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A Chinese woman and her son rest as they wait to board their train at a railway station in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on January 18, 2011, as they return home for the lunar Chinese New Year holidays. The world's largest annual migration of people begins in China on January 8 with millions of travellers boarding public transport to journey across the vast country for the Lunar New Year celebrations.

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A Chinese man sleeps on a seat while passengers get off a train at a railway station in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on January 18, 2011, as they return home for the lunar Chinese New Year holidays.

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BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 18: Justin Yifu Lin, senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank, speaks during the launch of the report entitled 'Global Economic Prospects 2012' at the World Bank Office on January 18, 2012 in Beijing, China. The bi-annual report warns that economic growth is slowing down and urges developing countries to prepare for further economic shocks caused by the deepening debt crisis in Europe.

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Pedestrians walk past a man reading a newspaper as he sells drinks and snacks on a street in Beijing January 18, 2012. China had more city dwellers than rural residents last year for the first time in history, data showed, a demographic milestone that also points to strains in labour supply in the world's No. 2 economy. As many as 51.27 percent of 1.347 billion mainland Chinese lived in towns and cities at the end of 2011, China's National Bureau of Statistics said. Globally, about 51 percent of the world's 7 billion population live in cities, the United Nations says.

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A protesting Tibetan activist is detained outside Hyderabad House where visiting Chinese delegates are meeting their Indian counterparts to talk on border issues, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. The activists protested against lack of Tibetan representation in the ongoing border talks between India and China.

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Giant pandas Yuan Zi (L) and Huan Huan relax inside their enclosure at the ZooParc de Beauval in Saint-Aignan, Central France January 17, 2012. The pair of giant pandas, which have been loaned to the zoo by China, will be on public view for the first time on February 11, 2012.

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China's Bai Yang, center, l ooks on as his teammates Cao Ying, left, and Yang Ying work on the stone while playing against the United States during a mixed team curling event at the first winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012.

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Peng Linyi of China performs with the ribbon during the qualification round of the Rhythmic Gymnastics London 2012 Olympic qualifier, a part of the London Prepares series of test events, at the North Greenwich Arena in London on January 17, 2012.

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A vendor waits for customers at a counter selling souvenirs inside a shopping mall in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012.

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Chinese employees dressed as gods of fortune to attract customers while distributing discount vouchers outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. Chinese will celebrate the Lunar New Year on Jan. 23 this year.

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A hawker cooks exotic foods including lizards, for adventurous eaters at his stall in the Wangfujing shopping street of Beijing on January 17 2012.

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Lizards, scorpions and bugs are seen available to adventurous eaters at a food stall in the Wangfujing shopping street of Beijing on January 17 2012.

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Paramilitary policemen stand in formation as they watch passengers walk into the Beijing west railway station January 18, 2012. Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the biggest of two "Golden Week" holidays, giving migrant workers their only chance of the year to return to their home provinces with gifts for their families. More than 200 million people are expected to take to the railways over this year's holiday, the biggest movement of humanity in the world.

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Chinese passengers prepare to board their trains at a railway station in Beijing on January 16, 2011 as they return home for the lunar Chinese New Year holidays which this year marks the year of the dragon on January 23.

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A protesting Tibetan activist hangs from a bus as he is held by others after being detained outside Hyderabad House, as visiting Chinese delegates meet their Indian counterparts to talk on border issues, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. The activists protested against a lack of Tibetan representation in the ongoing border talks between India and China in New Delhi. (AP Photo)

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A man checks a dragon figurine at a store in Chinatown ahead of the Chinese Lunar new year in Manila on January 18, 2012.

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A customer selects fish near a container of frogs at a Chinatown market on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, in New York.

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