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SF Gate
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Massive flooding across a broad stretch of southern China killed almost 60 people and forced 1.3 million others from their homes, state media reported Monday.
People were forced to flee their homes across nine provinces, including Sichuan, still reelin..
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SF Gate
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China vowed Monday to prevent any outbreak of disease as it cleans up after last month's massive earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people.
Three weeks after the quake struck Sichuan province, the Health Ministry said authorities were working to ensu..
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BBC News
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The death toll from last week's devastating earthquake in south-west China has risen to 40,075, senior government officials have said.
Tens of thousands more are still missing, and hopes are fading of finding many people still alive.
Foreign medical..
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SF Gate
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Taiwan's new president took office Tuesday and set the tone for his administration's policy on rival China: better economic and political ties but no plans for unification with the mainland.
The inauguration of Ma Ying-jeou, 57, represents a clear brea..
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SF Gate
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Rescue workers are digging through flattened homes and schools in a desperate search for victims of China's worst earthquake in three decades. Authorities say nearly 12,000 people were killed and more than 18,000 are missing.
The official Xinhua News A..
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MSNBC
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A powerful earthquake buried 900 students in central China on Monday and killed at least 107 people, as several schools and a water tower collapsed in the tremor, state media reported.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central China, but sent thousan..
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CNN
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Two passenger trains collided in eastern China's Shandong province Monday morning, killing at least 70 and injuring 420, according to China's official news agency. One train on its way from Beijing to Qingdao, a city in eastern China, derailed and crashed..
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BBC News
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Food prices have risen 21% in China so far this year, fuelling concerns about inflation in the economy and the affordability of basic staple goods.
The surge was confirmed by the National Bureau of Statistics, which also revealed that economic growth e..
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BBC News
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China's human rights record is getting worse, not better, because of the Beijing Olympics, a rights group says.
According to Amnesty International, China is clamping down on dissent in a bid to portray a stable and harmonious image ahead of the Games i..
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SF Gate
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The Beijing Olympic torch will be carried along San Francisco's waterfront and briefly pass through the Marina District, according to city officials who announced the specific route today.
The long-anticipated announcement about the torch's planned rou..
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CNN
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China's foreign minister Wednesday rejected criticism of its human rights record, accusing the United States of "clinging to a Cold War mentality" and "practicing double standards." Yang Jiechi was responding to questions about a State Department report r..
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CNN
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A hijacker armed with explosives took 10 Australian tourists hostage on a bus in northwest China Wednesday, before police shot him dead, media in both countries reported.
The man released all but two of the hostages shortly after taking them captive, b..
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BBC News
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China says it plans to increase military spending by nearly 18% this year, to 417.8bn yuan ($59bn; �30bn).
The figure was revealed ahead of China's annual parliamentary session, which begins on Wednesday.
Just before the announcement, the US relea..
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MSNBC
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But Russia, Serbia's key ally, and emerging global power China remained adamantly opposed to Kosovo's independence, warning of the danger of inspiring separatist movements around the world, including in their own sprawling territories.
As veto-wielding..
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BBC News
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US film director Steven Spielberg has withdrawn as an artistic adviser at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
In a statement, he accused China of not doing enough to pressure its ally Sudan to end the "continuing human suffering" in the troubled western Darf..
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BBC News
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China is celebrating Lunar New Year, a festival which has been overshadowed by the worst snowstorms in decades.
Across the country, people gathered and set off fireworks to welcome the Year of the Rat.
But millions of migrant workers are spending th..
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MSNBC
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Troops, police keep order
China has largely avoided unrest throughout the crisis, in part due to hundreds of thousands of soldiers and paramilitary police that have been deployed around the country to help with disaster relief and crowd control.
Kin..
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BBC News
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A Chinese couple are to sue the operators of the Shanghai metro after video footage showing them kissing at a tube station appeared on the web.
The couple say their passionate embrace was taped by metro staff and uploaded onto video-sharing websites wi..
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MSNBC
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The death toll in a massive gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China rose to 105 Friday, making it the nation's second deadliest mining disaster this year, state media reported.
Rescuers from among 15 crews sent to the mine in Shanxi province's H..
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MSNBC
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China sought Thursday to head off rising concern about the environmental impact of the massive Three Gorges Dam, playing down a deadly landslide and saying that any damage had been foreseen by planners.
The comments in state-run media marked a stark re..
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