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North Koreans cheered leader Kim Jong Il when he appeared at a Lunar New Year celebration, state-run media said Tuesday, as the regime continued its campaign to quell speculation about the reclusive leader’s health.
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China said a riot that shook the capital of the western Xinjiang region killed 140 people and the government called the ethnic unrest a plot against its power,...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Somehow Mr. Liu became stuck in the machine, his sister Liu Yan recalled during a tearful interview in a village near the factory.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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China’s lunar probe crashed into the moon Sunday in a controlled collision at the end of a 16-month mission, state media reported.
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Like the celebration of Christmas in many western countries, the weeklong Lunar New Year holiday traditionally provides a significant chunk of annual revenue for many...
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Painter Wei Haibin is carefully weighing every purchase as he heads home to Hebei province for China’s biggest family holiday _ a time when the economy typically...
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Nature has always surprised us with its unusual phenomenon. Eclipse is one such happening which manages to attract the same attention every time. From taking holy dips...
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The U.S. space agency said it has selected 11 companies and one university to develop concepts as to how astronauts will live and work on the moon.
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NASA plans on building an outpost on the moon by 2020. While the astronauts will no doubt be dealing with some serious psychosis when stranded on the orbiting...
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The last total lunar eclipse until 2010 occurs Wednesday night, with cameo appearances by Saturn and the bright star Regulus on either side of the veiled full...
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British and U.S. scientists said Friday they were exploring plans for a joint lunar mission that would use an orbiter to fire missile-like penetrators into the...
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China’s space program has defended a photo of the moon’s surface taken by its lunar probe as authentic, dismissing critics who suggested it had been copied...
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After browsing through an array of products aimed at lighting up your house in just the right way, be ready to set your eyes on Lunabrite. Aptly called Lunabrite, this...
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Over a few short months, Japan, China, and India will all have lunar probes orbiting the moon, sparking talk of a new space race in Asia.China, for one, takes exception...
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China was on schedule to launch its first lunar probe Wednesday evening, a space official and state media said.The scheduled launch of the Chang’e 1 orbiter comes...
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The moon is seen under a faint shadow of the earth during a Penumbral eclipse seen from Calcutta, India, Monday, Feb. 9, 2009.
