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The demonstrators, angered over a plan to raze a city center in Longnan, burn cars and battle police with rocks, iron bars and axes. A Communist Party office is overrun and 60 officials are injured. An angry crowd of about 2,000 rioted in China's impoverished Gansu province over a government plan to demolish a downtown area, torching cars and attacking a local Communist Party office, injuring 60 officials, state-run media reported Tuesday.
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During reconstruction of the Han Dynasty's Xian Gate in Changan City, Shaanxi Province, the entrance to a 4-meter deep tunnel was found.
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The Tibetans received prison sentences for their actions in the March 14 ethnic riot that engulfed Lhasa, according to a senior Chinese official.
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The Tibetans received prison sentences for their actions in the March 14 ethnic riot that engulfed Lhasa, according to a senior Chinese official.
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A gold mine jointly financed by an Australia-registered mining company and a geological prospecting organization in Jilin Province began production on Sunday. The mine, located 7 km from Baishan City, was financed by the Tonghua Institute of Geology and Prospecting
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A local government’s decision to move its administrative offices from one city to another has provoked two days of unrest in northwest China.
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An explosion in China's central Henan province killed at least 13 people and injured five others, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Initial inquiries indicated that explosives intended for civilian use had gone off accidentally.
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An explosion in China's central Henan province killed at least a dozen people and injured five others, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Initial inquiries indicated that explosives intended for civilian use had gone off accidentally.
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Long-awaited repairs to a public swimming pool in Sydney Mines will finally go ahead, the Nova Scotia government announced Friday.
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England warmed up for the World Cup with a record 74-0 rout of an outclassed Wales at Doncaster.
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With prices for Chinese contemporary art now out of many reach for many collectors, some are looking to Korean artists.
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The shift could draw hundreds of millions of farmers more firmly into China’s city-centered market economy.
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China's mainland reported a 39.85 percent surge in the actual use of investment from other areas in the first eight months over the same period last year. Investment inflow reached 74.37 billion U.S. dollars during the January to September period,
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China's first homegrown regional jet, the ARJ21-700, has entered final stage of pre-flight preparation and is planned to make its maiden flight before the end of next month, according to Zhang Qingwei, chairman of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China
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China's State Council issued a series of quality control regulations for dairy products on Thursday. The move was prompted by the country's contaminated milk scandal. The regulations tighten control of how milk-yielding animals are bred, how raw milk is purchased
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China and Germany held the second round of strategic dialogue on Thursday, Chinese diplomats said, noting that the dialogue was "very fruitful." Thursday's dialogue was jointly hosted by Chinese Foreign Minister Assistant Wu Hongbo and Reinhard Silberberg, State Secretary of
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Major Japanese seafood maker Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd. plans to improve its food inspection capability in China, company officials said Friday. Qingdao Nissui Food Research and Development Co., which checks vegetables and other ingredients used by Nippon Suisan, will expand
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Chinese leaders are expected to allow peasants to buy or sell land-use rights for the first time.
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About 450 people fall ill in southern China after drinking water contaminated by a metal factory, state media report.
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The N.B.A. and AEG will announce plans to design and operate at least a dozen arenas in China, extending the league’s presence in its largest foreign market.
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A TOP Chinese official criticised rich nations for the problems in the global financial system today and called on them to "shoulder the responsibility" of preventing more fallout.
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China Briefing News and The Edge Daily both reported on Friday that the China Securities Regulatory Commission has stopped looking at IPO applications in an effort to boost stock prices. The move is not unprecedented. China suspended IPOs for a
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Japanese toy maker Tomy Co. , better known as TakaraTomy, is on an expansion move in China, as it aims to boost sales in the country to about 10 billion yen from 300 million yen over the next three years.
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The People's Bank of China announced that it was ready to take part in "close co-operation" with the West to "maintain stability of the global financial market".
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The National Basketball Association and its partner were to announce the plan to design and operate at least a dozen arenas in China, extending the league's presence in its largest foreign market.
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China's leaders approve a package of rural reforms that could shape economic policy over coming years.
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Hundreds of Israeli policemen are deployed in the northern city of Acre after four days of violence between Arabs and Jews.
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She was plucked from obscurity to become the most watched woman in America, but now vice presidential pick Sarah Palin's very image is at risk of being hijacked by a hugely successful impersonator.
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The NBA has formed a joint venture with Anschutz Entertainment Group to design and develop multipurpose, NBA-style arenas in major Chinese cities.
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Because of stoves and smoking, the air inside lower-class homes is up to 10 times worse than the gloom outside, researchers say. China is already home to 16 of the planet's 20 most heavily polluted cities -- a noxious consequence of its double-digit economic growth. Now researchers have worse news for the nation's beleaguered lower classes: The air inside their homes is up to 10 times worse than the prevailing gloom outside.
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President Asif Ali Zardari's visit is an effort to reinforce Pakistan's ties with a traditional ally at a time when relations with the United States have come under considerable strain.
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A new exhibition offers further evidence that China has become the most fertile territory on the globe for experimentation by architects.
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Chinese leaders saidthat they would adopt a rural growth policy aimed at vastly increasing the income of China’s hundreds of millions of farmers by the year 2020.
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President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit is an effort to reinforce Pakistan’s ties with a traditional ally at a time when relations with the United States have come under considerable strain.
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Hewlett-Packard will manage a computer factory in Chongqing, China, part of a strategy to strengthen its operations in the country's less affluent Western region.
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If Harlequins continue to respond to their coaching staff as they did at halftime a place in the quarterfinals of this season's Heineken Cup is a realistic aim.
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Fortescue Metals says its quest to become the alternative supplier of iron ore to the Chinese market has been boosted by jostling between rivals Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, and by moves by Brazil's Vale to push up prices.
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After decades of neglect, Chinese authorities have agreed on a package of reforms aimed at the country's backward rural sector. With the financial crisis threatening Chinese exports, Beijing vowed to double farmers' income and spending power by 2020.
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The family of a baby whose death has been blamed on toxic milk filed suit against one of China's largest dairies Monday, while another dairy ensnared in the scandal said it was a victim of unscrupulous subcontractors.
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