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SF Gate
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Chinese soldiers Monday moved in to explode earthquake debris blocking a river where quickly rising waters threatened to flood disaster victims.
Two weeks after the magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit central Sichuan province, lakes formed by obstructed river..
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MSNBC
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In Beijing, the Chinese government said it was pleased with India's security preparations.
"I think the Indian government will take effective measures to ensure the smooth and safe relay in New Delhi this evening," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesw..
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BBC News
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The diversion of water for the Beijing Olympics threatens the livelihoods of millions of people, a senior Chinese government official has said.
The official, An Qiyuan, from Shaanxi province, told the UK's Financial Times newspaper that people in north..
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SF Gate
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Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam by releasing a list of 10 world records. As in: The Three Gorges is the world's biggest dam, biggest power plant and biggest consumer of dirt, stone, concrete and steel. Ever...
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CNN
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A quick outburst of violence by relatives of 172 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine brought a tearful promise of Chinese government action Monday, even as state media said the miners' chances for survival were dwindling. Several mines in the hilly east..
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Newsday
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In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new "socialist villages," ordering them to build hous..
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Financial Times
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Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths could provoke “social unrest”.
The report, produced in co-operation with Chinese government ministri..
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BBC News
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Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju, one of the most senior leaders in China, has died aged 68 in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency has reported.
Huang was in charge of financial and economic policymaking in the Politburo, China's highest decision-mak..
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Yahoo News
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A Chinese court has jailed a farmer for 13 years for trading in state-protected swans and their meat, Xinhua news agency reported Friday.
Zhang Yuelin, 48, from the northern province of Henan, had bought 38 dead swans and one kg of swan meat late last..
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Telegraph
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Residents of a remote Chinese village are hoping that DNA tests will prove one of history's most unlikely legends — that they are descended from Roman legionaries lost in antiquity...
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CNN
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro called the Chinese ambassador in Havana to wish his president Hu Jintao a happy New Year...
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Reuters
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Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday pledged to double his country's assistance to the African continent by 2009, and proposed a raft of new loans, development projects in health and agriculture, and debt cancellations...
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BBC News
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The head of Taiwan's ruling party has met with Chinese President Hu Jintao in the highest-level encounter since the two sides split in 1949.
Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung is in China for a six-day landmark visit to discuss cross..
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BBC News
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Another 80,000 Chinese people are being evacuated from near a lake formed by landslides in this month's huge earthquake, state media report.
Experts fear the build-up of water at the swollen Tangjiashan lake could burst the banks, deluging the area...
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BBC News
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has flown to south-western Sichuan Province, where it is feared up to 50,000 people may have died in Monday's earthquake.
So far, 22,069 deaths have been confirmed in the region and thousands more people remain missing.
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CNN
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Chinese officials will reportedly meet a representative of the Dalai Lama in coming days amid international pressure on Beijing to re-open dialogue with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader after recent violence in the Himalayan region. The state-run Xinhua ne..
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BBC News
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The former Communist Party chief in Shanghai has been sentenced to 18 years in jail, according to Chinese media.
A court in the northern city of Tianjin found that Chen Liangyu, 61, was guilty of taking bribes and abusing his position, Xinhua news agen..
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CNN
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China rejected a U.S. report concluding that the Chinese military is secretly increasing spending to break into U.S. military computer systems, expand its Navy, and invest in intercontinental nuclear missiles and weapons to destroy satellites. The United..
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BBC News
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The Chinese government has deployed almost half a million troops to help people affected by the worst winter weather in decades.
Severe snow has hit central and eastern China, paralysing transport networks ahead of the busiest holiday season.
Some a..
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