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In the midst of a growing concern about pollution ahead of the 2008 Olympics, China is coming down heavily on the drug industry after focusing on polluted rivers in July. China’s environmental watchdog has closed down or suspended 649 firms and given...
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Olympian Michael Phelps’ record-setting performance in Beijing has led to multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, but his road to marketing gold was paved years...
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China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said.
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Twenty-three people were trapped in a flooded coal mine in central China, authorities said Sunday.
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Twenty-three people were trapped in a flooded coal mine in central China, authorities said Sunday.
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A state-run news agency says 20 people are trapped after a coal mine flooded in central China.
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This is something that had to take shape and we are actually a tad surprised that it took such a long time for some designer to come up with this idea. While the idea...
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The final medals tally at the last Olympic Games in Beijing does seem to offer not just a mild symbolism as arrow to more contemporary realities. Doesn’t it? After...
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Nearly four months after China’s devastating earthquake, a government scientist acknowledged Thursday that a rush to build schools in recent years likely led to...
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An Asian elephant that became addicted to heroin at the hands of illegal traders will return home after a three-year rehab program, Chinese state media said Thursday.
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A gas explosion inside a mine in northeast China on Thursday killed 24 people and injured six, local authorities and state media said. Three others were trapped...
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London Taxis are as British as bowler hats and Big Ben. But the latest models coming off this new assembly line are unlikely to ever touch an English road.
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A Chinese news agency has reported that 23 people have been killed in a gas explosion in a mine in the country’s northeast.
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China said Thursday a rush to build schools in recent years could have led to construction flaws that caused so many of them to collapse during May’s massive...
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The Hayabusa is the symbol of power and speed and if you love big bikes and are anyone, anywhere above the age of 10 across the planet then you most likely have a...
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A federal jury has convicted a retired University of Tennessee professor of passing secrets from a U.S. Air Force contract to two research assistants from China and...
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Workers reopened a major highway in southwestern China that was destroyed by a massive earthquake in May, speeding up rebuilding efforts, state media said Wednesday.
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Most of the history that happened in Beijing over the past few weeks took place in gyms, in the pool and on the track. But there was also history in the air,...
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In an Aug. 29 story about the reopening of Drepung Monastery in Tibet, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a journalist who visited the region in July and...
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Iraq has approved a $3 billion deal with China to develop the al-Ahdab oil field.
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The U.N. food agency urged donors Tuesday to separate politics from humanitarian aid as it appealed for $60 million to help impoverished North Korea avert its worst...
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China in 1998 has been tagged to be housing seven of the world’s 10 most polluted cities. Blame the country’s rapid development and a consequent increase in...
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Operations at three plants and an expressway are suspended in China. The Chinese environment authority did this for violating the country’s environmental...
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