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A celebration marking China's Lantern Festival apparently triggered a blaze in an unoccupied high-rise in Beijing.
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- By staff reporter Ouyang Hongliang 2009-06-09CCTV has a new director for a headquarters project in Beijing that's over budget, behind schedule and recovering from a fire.
- By staff reporters Ouyang Hongliang and Luo Changping 2009-03-03Investigators are studying financial deals while trying to pin blame for a blaze that scorched a Beijing skyscraper last month.
- By intern reporter Lan Fang 2009-02-24CCTV fire has rekindled a debate on whether the age-old Spring Festival tradition of lighting fireworks is worth its impact on human safety and the environment.
- By staff reporter Zhu Tao 2009-02-20Five new suspects have been arrested who police say helped transport illegal fireworks that caused the catastrophic fire.
- By staff reporters Luo Changping, Ouyang Hongliang and Luo Jieqi 2009-02-20The TV station is now trying to figure out how to get money for the damaged building from its insurance company.
- By staff reporters Luo Changping, Ouyang Hongliang and Zhu Tao 2009-02-19Experts and architects weigh in on how one of Beijing's most modern buildings took flame so quickly.
- By staff reporter Ouyang Hongliang 2009-02-17CCTV's investigation of the high-rise fire finds that the damage was limited to the building's surface. But doubts remain.
- 2009-02-13Unlike Shanghai, the Beijing fire department was ill-equipped to battle a high-rise blaze when flames engulfed a CCTV building.
- By staff reporter Ouyang Hongliang 2009-02-11A devastating blaze at CCTV's new headquarters has led to an investigation of the construction project's top official.
- By staff reporters Zhao Jianfei, Zhang Yingguang and Ouyang Hongliang 2009-02-10A TV network's celebration of Lantern Festival apparently triggered a blaze that engulfed an unoccupied high-rise in Beijing.
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