Firecrackers Boom in Spite of Ban: Firecracker booms rocked urban Beijing with bright flashes during this year's Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, challenging the city's 12-year-old ban on the festive but often dangerous explosives.
Chinese mine explosion kills 203: At least 203 miners have been killed after a gas blast at a coal mine in China. The accident, in China's north-eastern city of Fuxin, is the most deadly reported mining disaster since the communist party took power in 1949.
China net cafe culture crackdown: Chinese authorities closed 12,575 net cafes in the closing months of 2004, the country's government said.
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