China Road Rage

Did you hear the one about the police chief's wife, the Porsche and the torrent of expletives? Well, most of Chongqing did, and now the police chief has been fired. It's the kind of story that's been told gazillions of times in China, but one that never ceases to stick in the common person's craw.

At least 12 people were killed and three badly injured Saturday in a six-car pileup on a major north-south highway in a southern China province.

Thirteen middle school children were injured when an enraged man, upset by a court ruling in the murder of his daughter, rammed his car loaded with a gas tank and firecrackers into a group of 23 students in northern China, officials said on Tuesday.

Did you hear the one about the police chief's wife, the Porsche and the torrent of expletives? Well, most of Chongqing did, and now the police chief has been fired. It's the kind of story that's been told gazillions of times in China, but one that never ceases to stick in the common person's craw.

At least 12 people were killed and three badly injured Saturday in a six-car pileup on a major north-south highway in a southern China province.

Thirteen middle school children were injured when an enraged man, upset by a court ruling in the murder of his daughter, rammed his car loaded with a gas tank and firecrackers into a group of 23 students in northern China, officials said on Tuesday.