The newspaper, the Southern Weekend, said it was unclear whether the farmer's friend intended to die too, or simply failed to get off the bus in time.
Ten days after the disaster, a liberal newspaper in the southern province of Guangdong, Southern Weekend, published an editorial that praised the government's swift response.
The probing and popular Southern Weekend in Guangzhou has been a particular target.
On August 4, Louis Armstrong's birthday is celebrated with jazz and food (natch) at Satchmo SummerFest, while the Southern Decadence party on Labor Day weekend (preceding the first Monday in September), also known as "Gay Mardi Gras", keeps the entire city partying into the wee hours.
Although aided by the clear weather, the rescue effort in Southern Manhattan transformed into a massive body recovery and earthmoving project over the weekend.
Meanwhile, Palestinian officials say the weekend's clashes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah have left at least three Palestinians dead.
Southern Weekend had already taken up the cause in March, describing the hitherto little publicised case of Yicheng county in the northern province of Shanxi.
According to Southern Weekend, a Chinese newspaper, the party's organisation department decreed in 2010 that political-legal committee heads should no longer double as police chiefs.
Over the weekend, 10 Americans, a group of Southern Baptists, were detained by Haitian officials after trying to transport 33 children over the border to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
Last weekend some 79 people lost their lives in the southern Mediterranean.
The Maori's win confirmed a southern hemisphere rugby whitewash this weekend as New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Argentina completed Test victories over Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
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Last weekend the tour alighted at the Long Beach Convention Center in Southern California.
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South West Trains and the Southern network are running revised services which may stay in force at the weekend.
This weekend will be windy everywhere with some heavy rain, the heaviest being in southern England and Wales, he added.
Last weekend, the Government of Sudan signed a possible agreement of humanitarian access to Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, where over 665, 000 people are in need.
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German media also reported that Guenther Oettinger, premier of the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, had canceled a meeting with the Briton at this weekend's German Grand Prix at Nurburgring because of his comments about Hitler.
After pressure from the Bush administration, Israel also reacted with some degree of moderation to an attack last weekend, in which Hizbullah, a Shia militant group based in southern Lebanon, shelled the northern Israeli town of Shlomi, killing a 16-year-old Israeli boy.
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