Police to probe charcoal-burning suicide in car

The government has reduced the criminal record barriers for people wanting to work as cabbies, according to the final version of its taxi sector bill whose revision was completed by a standing committee of the Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday. For instance, the bill no longer states that conviction for a terrorism-related crime is a barrier to work as a taxi driver.Lawmaker-cum-lawyer Vong Hin Fai, who heads the legislature’s Third Standing Committee, told reporters yesterday that all the

    Former premier Li Keqiang last night of a sudden heart attack at the age of 68, state media have reported this morning.  Li passed away 10 minutes past midnight today in Shanghai despite "all-out efforts" to revive him, state media reports said.He became China’s number-two leader in 2013 and served for a decade, until he was succeeded by Li Qiang in March.Li Keqiang was a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 17th, 18th and 19th