Fire engulfs Shanghai residential block as oil and grain market goes up in flames - South China Morning Post (subscription)

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A fire in a warehouse was burning out of control in the Yangpu District of Shanghai on Wednesday night, local authorities said. The fire broke out in a grain and oil wholesale market, mainland media reported, with pictures showing large flames sending up choking plumes of smoke. State-run CCTV reported that the fire broke out in the market at Yangpu district at about 9:15pm, and there were no reports of casualties. More than 30 fire engines were deployed to the scene, Shanghai-based news portal xinmin. Mainland online users posted pictures and videos of the fire on social media. Pictures of the blaze on social media showed a raging blaze engulfed a city block near apartment towers. “I suddenly heard people screaming, and I looked out of the window to see that there is fire outside the market,” he said.

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Don't read too much into military drills, Beijing says, after alarm in Taiwan over post-election exercises - South China Morning Post (subscription)

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China’s Defence Ministry said on Friday people shouldn’t read too much into a state media broadcast of live-fire military and landing drills just days after a landslide election win by an independence-leaning opposition party in Taiwan. Its defence ministry confirmed mainland China recently carried out “winter exercises”, but said that the pictures in the video were archive clips spliced together of drills conducted in 2015. READ MORE: China’s PLA forces carry out landing drills... There is no need to over-interpret them,” China’s Defence Ministry said in a two sentence statement. Chinese state television said late on Wednesday the 31st Group Army, based in China’s southeastern city of Xiamen, opposite Taiwan, had carried out the drills in.

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