When Zhou Changshun complained about the fairness of elections in his home village in China’s Hebei province, he had just three days left to live.
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/ 24 November 2005
An 80km-long slick of highly toxic benzene flowed along the icy Songhua river into one of China’s biggest cities on Thursday, contaminating water supplies for up to four million people. The carcinogenic chemical reached the outskirts of Harbin at about 5am on Thursday, authorities said.