BEIJING Air Presto Red , Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- About 5.6 percent of villages in north China's 28 cities had reported short natural gas supply for winter heating, an official inspection found.
Inspection teams into these cities in or near the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region found that 426,000 households in 1,208 villages had faced natural gas shortage after their homes were heated with gas instead of coal, the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said in an online statement.
Officials took measures such as increasing gas supply or temporarily heating the homes with coal to ensure all the residents in these villages enjoy a warm winter as of Wednesday night.
To make the air cleaner, China has been replacing coal-fired boilers with natural gas and electricity-powered boilers in the smog-plagued northern region.
Over 4.7 million households in 21 Air Presto Orange ,516 villages in the inspected region have completed the coal-to-gas or coal-to-electricity conversion, 3.94 million of which finished the switch this year, according to the MEP.
China is intensifying efforts to fight pollution and environmental degradation after decades of growth left the country saddled with problems such as smog and contaminated soil.
Tackling pollution has also been listed as one of "the three tough battles" that China aims to win in the next three years, according to the Central Economic Work Conference, which concluded earlier this month.
Thanks to the initiatives, China's northern region has been enjoying cleaner air this winter. The density of hazardous fine particle matter PM2.5 in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region stood at 60 micrograms per cubic meter in November Air Presto Green , 41.2 percent lower than the same period last year, previous data showed.
A court adjourned an arson trial Thursday after the defendant’s lawyer walked out of the courtroom when his objection to jurisdiction was denied by the judge.
A woman and her three children were killed in the house fire
Mo Huanjing, a family nanny, stood trial at Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court for allegedly stealing from her employer and setting fire to their house, killing a young mother and her three children aged six to 11, the court heard.
The defendant's lawyer insisted the case be heard somewhere other than Hangzhou Air Presto Black , Zhejiang Province, where the incident occurred. The judge denied his request.
The lawyer, Dang Linshan, then ignored the court's order and left the courtroom, 26 minutes after the trial began.
The case was adjourned and will resume at a later date.
The court said Mo could find another lawyer to represent her or it would appoint one for her.
Dang said on his Weibo account that he withdrew from the trial as a form of protest. He claimed the trial is now "against the law".
The brother of a woman killed in the fire takes part in an interview outside the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court on December 21.
He has filed an application with the Supreme People's Court, asking that the case be tried at another place and is waiting for the reply.
Dang has accused the Hangzhou court of "breaching the law" in opening the case today Air Presto White , as a response from the Supreme People's Court has yet to arrive.
Mo, 34, is accused of setting fire to the apartment on the 18th floor of Sapphire Mansion, a luxury apartment compound in Hangzhou, at 5am on June 22. The father, Lin Shengbin Air Presto , was on a business trip at the time.
Police said the mother and her three children were found unconscious in the apartment after firefighters broke in. Despite the efforts of emergency services to revive them, they later died of smoke inhalation.
Mo was accused of having a serious gambling problem, and police alleged she stole items from the family and pawned them off to feed her gambling addiction. She also borrowed 100,000 yuan (US$15,204) from them, claiming she needed to buy a house in her hometown.
Suspect Mo Huanjing Cheap Nike Presto , a family nanny
After the family discovered the theft, they fired the nanny but chose not to call police. A few days later, the fire was set.
Lin said he wouldn’t file a civil lawsuit against Mo to seek compensation so that Mo would receive the harshest punishment possible and the trail would be expedited.
Dang posted a hand-written letter from Mo on his Weibo account today, in which Mo said she is "willing to accept the death penalty if the sentence could make everything start over again."
by Osama Radi, Emad Drimly
GAZA, April 20 (Xinhua) -- In a few weeks Nike Presto Sale , the Palestinians will be marking ten years for the internal political and geographic split, which began in June, 2007 when Islamic Hamas movement forcibly seized control of the Gaza Strip, while the West Bank remained under the rule of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah Party.
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Hani el-Masri, a Ramallah-based political analyst, told Xinhua that Abbas currently found out that there is a chance both locally and internationally to start exerting real pressure on Hamas for ending the internal division.
"I believe that one of the major reasons that encouraged Abbas to start serious measures against Hamas is the promises of the new U.S. government and President Donald Trump to revive the stalled Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and reach a historic peace deal that en.