• The Karamay fire (Chinese: 克拉玛依大火) of 8 December 1994 at the Friendship Theatre in Karamay, Xinjiang, China, was among the most notorious fires in China...
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    oil fields near the city. Karamay was the site of one of the worst disasters in modern Chinese history, the 1994 Karamay fire, when 324 people, including...
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  • Karamay (simplified Chinese: 克拉玛依; traditional Chinese: 克拉瑪依; pinyin: Kèlāmǎyī) is a 2010 documentary film by Chinese director Xu Xin about the 1994 Karamay...
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  • November 27 – Fuxin Discothèque fire at Fuxin, Liaoning, China, killed 234. December 10 – 1994 Karamay fire, Karamay, Xinjiang, China, killed 324 (288...
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  • formed by joining three pieces of land. Fires in China List of disasters in China by death toll 1994 Karamay fire, Xinjiang, 325 deaths List of fireworks...
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  • the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents caused...
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  • Metallurgica Sinica. 67. Archived from the original on 15 December 2020. "China 1994 fire killed 288 pupils as officials fled-expose". Reuters. 8 May 2007. Retrieved...
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    from the original on 12 June 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020. Zhengyuan Fu. (1994) Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics, Cambridge University Press. pp...
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  • caught fire in Liaoning Province, 71 persons were safed, 233 persons were human fatalities.[citation needed] December 8 — The 1994 Karamay fire. It took...
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  • notable fires in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. This list includes British Hong Kong and Manchukuo. Particularly fires in theatres...
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    ISBN 7-228-03205-5. 克拉玛依市地方志编纂委员会 [Annals Codification Committee of Karamay], ed. (1998). 克拉玛依市志 [Karamay Annals] (in Chinese). Ürümqi: Xinjiang People's Publishing...
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    Shawan county which uses Shihezi's 993, and Hoboksar county which uses Karamay's 990. From within Mainland China, the following emergency numbers are used:...
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  • Timmy Xu (category 1994 births)
    Ambassador of Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2020, Xu became Shanghai Karamay Cultural Exchange Ambassador on September 20, 2020. Xu filmed his first...
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    built in 1968. On November 12, 1999, the station was burnt in a serious fire. Reconstruction of the station was finished on September 1, 2005. Nanjing...
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    Macau is too small to have its own medical specialist training centre. The Fire Services Bureau is responsible for ambulance service (Ambulância de Macau)...
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    particularly vulnerable to fires. Major conflagrations destroyed large sections of the city in 1208, 1229, 1237, and 1275. The 1237 fire alone destroyed 30,000...
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    indigenous Chinese religious cult of Huoshen (火神 "Fire God"). An ancient small Temple of the Fire God has been expanded throughout the 2010s to become...
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    bank in northern China, officially opened its doors. On August 12, 2015, a fire and explosion occurred in a chemical warehouse in Tianjin Port, causing 173...
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    (1279–1368 CE) and the subject of many colourful local legends. A ruined fire temple is near the fortress. The region came under Chinese rule from Qing...
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    a fire accident occurred that was extinguished within an hour and all workers evacuated safely. Sixty-six hours later, on January 2, another fire occurred...
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    (1993) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (1994) Port Vila, Vanuatu (1994) Dunedin, New Zealand (1994) Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1994) Porto, Portugal (1995) Aden, Yemen...
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    miles (1,300 km2) in this prefecture. On January 11, 2014, there was a major fire in the 1,000-year-old Dukezong Tibetan neighborhood of the capital city Shangri-La...
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    and ethnicity and Tibetans resent Hui economic domination. The city of Karamay has banned Islamic beards, headwear, and clothing on buses. China's far-western...
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    On 7 July 1937, the 29th Army and the Japanese army in China exchanged fire at the Marco Polo Bridge near the Wanping Fortress southwest of the city...
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    Over 15,300 people killed and the city was completely levelled. Blazing fires burned all the way through the night as many canals were destroyed, shutting...
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    the flooding of Taiyuan by releasing the Fen River, and set the city on fire. The former capital was downgraded from prefecture to county town status...
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  • Alas Kwatro, Balita sa Tanghali, Katapat at Karancho, Klinika on Air, Lapid Fire, Musika Noon at Ngayon, Otso Diretcho , Shalala and Friends, Showbiz Galore...
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    (August 1904 to January 1905), but the Japanese army, using long-distance fire, sank several Russian ships at the Port Arthur naval base in early December...
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    major home fronts in the Second Sino-Japanese War, but the subsequent Wenxi Fire in 1938 and the three Battles of Changsha from 1939 to 1942 (1939, 1941 and...
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    Bank loans in China, used to construct Yangzhou thermal power station in 1994. Currently, the prefecture-level city of Yangzhou administers six county-level...
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