From Changsha in Hunan province, one of China's most productive TV markets, comes True Encounters.
It was broadcast by a satellite television station in Hunan province and relayed nationwide on cable networks.
Violent clashes over tourist entry fees in Hunan province and the cancelled debut of US director Quentin Tarantino's film have also made the papers.
Lei Pengcai, 61, moved to Beijing last year from a small town in Hunan province and took work washing the dishes in a restaurant.
Chinese media say family planning officials in Hunan province took the children from poor homes unable to pay fines for having more than one child.
Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928.
Social Entrepreneurship: University of Hawaii professor Kate Zhou's Education Advancement Fund International (www.yifei.org), for a loan program for ethnic minority Chinese women in Xiangxi, in Hunan Province.
Among all of China's 660-odd cities, only one small city of 200, 000, Lianyuan in Hunan Province, can claim to provide clean drinking water straight from the tap.
Meixi Lake will be a new planned city in the West Changsha Pioneer Zone in Hunan Province, designed by architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF).
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Xu Tao, a 27-year-old son of officials, was demoted yesterday after being promoted from a grassroots government staffer to deputy county head of Xiangtan in Hunan province in just five years, Global Times reports.
The Beijing News laments the lack of trust in local governments following earlier reports that 20, 000 residents in Pingjiang county in Hunan province have not drunk tap water for years for fear of contamination from a mine.
The official Xinhua news agency said a 16-year-old boy, who had fallen ill on January 8, died in the city of Huaihua in central Hunan province.
In Zhuzhou, Hunan Province, a home owner set himself on fire last Friday in protest against a forced demolition.
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Turning to domestic news, more than 100 dead pigs have been dredged from the Xiangjiang River in Zhuzhou, Hunan province, since 14 March.
In August 20, 000 farmers in Jiangxi province, Hunan's neighbour, went on a five-day rampage in protest at taxes and fees.
In response to the public uproar, health officials in Hunan, the Chinese province that produces the most rice, announced on Tuesday the three local rice mills implicated in the sale of the tainted rice had been ordered to suspend production.
He says his research in Hengyang, a county of central Hunan Province, earlier this year found that, in order to balance their budgets, governments were cutting various payments to peasants.
In November 2010 the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald, a newspaper in south China's Hunan Province, got into trouble with the censors after publishing a supplement on the revolution.
Sino-Forest management introduced a person to auditors as the vice-chief of the forestry bureau of Hunan province, who was no longer in that position but was a paid consultant.
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The hero who is celebrated varies by region: the romantic poet Qu Yuan is venerated in Hubei and Hunan Provinces, Wu Zixu (an old man said to have died while slaying a dragon in Guizhou Province) in South China, and Yan Hongwo in Yunnan Province among the Dai community.
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