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After 10 years and spending $100bn, the world celebrated International Space Station’s 10th anniversary yesterday, November 20th 2008. Sixteen countries joined hands to put the bits and pieces together to create the 627,000-pound marvel of hope....
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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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A lot of things are happening in the International Space Station over the past couple of months. Recently, the astronauts are trying to install a solar powered tower in...
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NASA has really elevated to the standards they really fit in. As the deadline comes closer to complete the ISS, NASA is trying everything they are acquainted with....
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Delays after delays, but Discovery gave it a shot and reached its destination i.e. ISS but the real task after the night time launch has just begun. The shuttle docked...
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China’s Shenzhou VII rocket and the country’s first space walk mission scheduled to launch in 2007, has been postponed by six months until 2008. But, what...
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