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Darkness fell over the last outpost of the Great Wall of China on Friday, where a rare total solar eclipse ended its journey across the earth, delighting skywatchers one week before the Olympics open in Beijing.
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Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
An investigation by...
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Filed under: Food, News, Weird A woman from the Chinese province of Sichuan boiled a man’s head in a soup because she believed it would remedy her...
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Since the imposing of United Nations sanctions against North Korea after its second nuclear test on May 25, everyone has been looking toward China for its...
made popular Jun 29 2009
Out of fear that history might repeat itself, the authoritarian governments of China, Cuba and Burma have been selectively censoring the news this month of Iranian...
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Nothing goes ahead in China before the government’s kick in the rear, as an appreciation to begin. This time the nod of approval is an insightful go-ahead for the...
made popular Jun 25 2009
Any hope that an ever more prosperous China would slowly lead to an opening in the realm of free expression and all the consequences thereof were given a setback this...
made popular Jun 25 2009
Europe and the United States announced last night co-ordinated action against China for busting World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules by restricting exports of essential...
made popular Jun 24 2009
Somehow Mr. Liu became stuck in the machine, his sister Liu Yan recalled during a tearful interview in a village near the factory.
“When we got his body, his whole...
made popular Jun 23 2009
China’s top legislature Monday reviewed for the first time a draft revision to the Law on Guarding State Secrets, underlining the cutoff of Internet or other...
made popular Jun 23 2009
Merchants in China say that American and European orders for the holiday season, for which sweaters are just starting to be knit, have fallen by as much as 30 percent....
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oseph Zen, the former archbishop of Hong Kong, said the Vatican should harden its line towards Beijing and that a planned meeting of China’s officially sanctioned...
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The residents of Guangzhou, one of China’s most affluent cities, are already used to sticking to the country’s strict one-child rule, but a new regulation...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Today is the last day for residents of one of the last surviving ancient cities in China to claim a bonus for agreeing to move out to make way for the wrecking...
made popular Jun 18 2009
The edict, issued from the highest level of China’s government, comes less than six months after China described the short-lived ‘Buy American’ clauses in the US...
made popular Jun 17 2009
I thought it happened only in movies especially Bollywood movies where many a times you see the hero or heroine killing the whole gang of criminals single handedly...
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In his history of the erotic obsession Western men have felt toward “the Orient,” Richard Bernstein begins with what must have been the most inflammatory...
made popular Jun 16 2009
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that it was imperative for all countries to genuinely cooperate with one another and on a global scale to resolutely defeat...
made popular Jun 16 2009
In China’s cities, the fines for having a second child can run up to 200,000 yuan (£20,000). The payment is intended to cover the schooling and healthcare costs...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Recently, researchers in China have investigated an enzyme from the bacterium bacillus cereus DQ01 that has the capability to absorb hydrocarbon n-hexadecane. The...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Fourteen to 16 hours a day, he studied for the college entrance examination, which this year will determine the fate of more than 10 million Chinese students. He took...
made popular Jun 13 2009
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The Great Wall of China is probably one of the most sustainable human constructions ever, without wasting natural resources and using pure human toil. Now China has...
made popular Jul 8 2008
It may sound unbelievable but as per a report, the Great Wall of China might disappear in some twenty years from now. The report also confirms that the Great Wall is...
made popular Aug 30 2007
On 07/07/07 in Lisbon, the names of New Seven Wonders of World announced and the 17th-century love monument ‘Taj Mahal’ has found its own place in the elite...
made popular Jul 9 2007
Italian fashion designer brand Fendi will hold an altogether different fashion show. Owned by LVMH Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, the group has plans to have the fashion...
made popular Jun 25 2007
Many tourists are driven by an uncontrolled urge to leave their mark on the monument or the walls of any place they have visited. In their desire to leave their mark ,...
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This masterpiece of human endeavor and UNESCO World Heritage Site is being pilfered for bricks and stones. Neglect is its second enemy where at many stretches, small...
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Along with the Great Wall of China, the London Eye, Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, and the sunset beaches of Antigua and Jamaica, Ickworth House has been listed...
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