Baidu CFO killed in holiday accident
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Shawn Wang, the chief financial officer of Baidu.com, China&#39;s top search engine, was killed in an accident on December 27, the company said Saturday.&quot;We are all completely shocked and deeply saddened by this tragic news,&quot; said Robin Li, Baidu&#39;s chairman and CEO, in a statement that described Wang as a &quot;tremendous leader&quot; and &quot;wonderful friend.&quot;Baidu did not provide details of the fatal accident, except to say that it took place &quot;in China during the Christmas holiday vacation.&quot;Wang joined Baidu in 2004 and&#160;helped guide the company&#160;through its 2005 initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Before Baidu, Wang worked as a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers&#39; Global Capital Markets Group.Baidu did not immediately name a new CFO, saying Wang&#39;s responsibilities would be overseen by the company&#39;s management team until a successor is found.
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Thirteen people were killed and one seriously injured in an explosion at a power plant in Wu&#39;an City in north China&#39;s Hebei Province when the plant began trialoperation on Thursday afternoon.
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An employee at a Salt Lake brine shrimp plant was killed Saturday morning after falling off a fork lift, police say.  Emergency crews were called to Salt Creek Inc., 3528 W. 500 South, around 10:25 a.m.  Salt Lake City Police Lt. J.R.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The fiery airplane crash that killed seven crew in Halifax on Thursday is the latest of a worrying series of accidents involving cargo jets, says an aviation safety expert.
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Chaotic winter weather besieged  China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the  country's worst power crisis, with one mountain-road accident  blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
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BEIJING - Fifty-four people were killed yesterday when a plane crashed into a lake shortly after take-off, apparently after a blast, in Chinaâs deadliest aviation disaster in two years, witnesses and state media said.
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A China Eastern plane crashed yesterday shortly after it took off from an airport in North China, killing 54. All 47 passengers and six crew members aboard the plane were confirmed dead.
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Former president and CEO of what was once the world's largest group e-mail provider, dies in crash with daughter.
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A Chinese engineer held hostage by al Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan was killed on Thursday but his colleague was rescued in a commando assault that killed their five kidnappers, officials said.
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The general manager of the main listed unit of Shanghai's Fudan University changed tickets at the last minute to board a commuter jet that crashed in north China killing 54 people, a source close to the company said on Monday.
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A stampede at Guangzhou railway  station killed one person when frustrated passengers rushed to  board trains after days of cancellations because of fierce cold  and snow, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Michael Klein, the chief executive of Pacificor,  was killed along with his daughter and their pilot in the crash in Panama. A 12-year-old girl survived.
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A truck carrying Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims overturned on a mountain road in western China Monday, killing at least 54 people and injuring 41, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP. blames human error for the explosion that killed five workers and seriously injured three others at its Illiopolis plant on April 23, 2004. In the narrowest possible analysis of the accident, the company is correct.
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A China Eastern Airlines Corp. jetliner bound for Shanghai crashed in the northern province of Inner Mongolia, killing all 53 people on board, the aviation authority said.
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BEIJING (China): Body of the slain Chinese engineer, Wang Peng who lost his life during operation against the al-Qaeda linked captors in the tribal belt of Pakistan reached here on Saturday by a special plane, which was arranged by Islamabad as an
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A commuter aircraft with 47 passengers and six crew members on board has crashed in China&#39;s Inner Mongolia region. All 53 people are reported to have been killed when the Canadian-built China Eastern aircraft