Extra! Extra! Abuse, chemical spills and top-secret weather

• A government report states that in 2006 around 320 people died per day due to industrial accidents. Looking on the bright side, this represents a 10.3% decrease from last year's figures.
• A chemical spill from a fiber company has caused 30 km section of the Yellow River to turn white, like milk. Except that unlike milk, drinking this won't do a body good.
• Treehugger says that Santa Claus is Chinese. Did you know that Americans spent $130 million on artificial trees from China?
• An official in a district commerce bureau in Hefei was was fired for playing internet games during work.
• A study finds that child abuse is fairly widespread in Guangdong province.
• Xiang Sheng star Ma Ji's funeral became a papparazzi fest as crowds of fans and onlookers tried to catch a glimpse and a picture of their stars. The situation became disorderly, and they had to ban more people from coming in.
• A number of Communist Party documents, many of which them were once classified and top secret, were released to the public. A number of these documents came from from very high level officials, such as Zhou Enlai and Bo Yibo. Many of them dealt with China's policies towards Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
• While some information is being declassified, other forms are being made secret: meteorological reports to be exact. Weather reports play an important role in national defense and military affairs, the paper reports.
• A study found that 8% of Chinese youth think that income inequality is an urgent problem.
• The China Red Cross and China Charity Society donated many homes to Sri Lankan tsunami victims.

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