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The president of China's leading sports university urged the government on Thursday to invest in the physical fitness of Chinese youth or else the youngsters will not be able to fight the Japanese in a future war.

Nine-year-old Chinese girl gives birth

Malcolm Moore Telegraph 04.02.2010
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A nine-year-old schoolgirl has become one of the world's youngest mothers after giving birth to a 6lb baby by caesarian section.


Beijing police cancel China's first gay pageant

Marianne Barriaux AFP 16.01.2010
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BEIJING — Beijing police blocked China's first gay pageant on Friday shortly before it was to start, stopping an event billed as heralding a new Chinese openness about homosexuality.

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BEIJING — Heavy snow has brought more travel chaos to north China, stranding thousands of truckers for two days on a Beijing highway and 1,400 rail passengers in Inner Mongolia, state media said Tuesday.


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Chinese environment officials are rushing to build three temporary barriers on the Yellow river after failing to contain an oil slick in a tributary of the country's second largest waterway.

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BEIJING — Unusually early snow storms in north-central China have claimed 40 lives, caused thousands of buildings to collapse and destroyed almost 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) of winter crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said Friday.


Shenzhen dragnet

Beatrice Siu The Standard 30.09.2009
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A massive sweep by police in Shenzhen during the countdown to National Day celebrations has netted about 30 Hong Kong residents among more than 800 people hauled off the streets and detained.

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BEIJING — China will tout the successes of 60 years of communist rule on Thursday, but the world's most populous nation faces an array of serious challenges as it seeks to sustain fast-paced economic growth.


Farewell my concubine

Bonnie Chen The Standard 16.09.2009
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Concubines and good communists do not go together, members of China's ruling elite are being warned.

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Tight security is in place in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, following protests by thousands of Han Chinese.


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Children exposed to lead at five times the normal limit from a smelter in China may become less intelligent than healthy peers, doctors specializing in the effects of poisons said.

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Medical authorities in central China have discovered more than 1,300 cases of suspected lead poisoning in children, state media said, in the second such incident this month and bringing the total to 2,200.


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BEIJING — More than 1,300 children have been sickened in a lead poisoning case in China's central Hunan province, the second such case involving a large number of children in the past month, state media said Thursday.

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Hundreds of children are receiving treatment for lead poisoning as anger has exploded into violence over pollution from a smelter in northwestern China.


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BEIJING — Authorities killed rats and fleas on Tuesday as they disinfected a town sealed off after three people died of pneumonic plague in a remote farming town in northwestern China, according to the provincial health department.

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Some 13 million abortions are carried out in China each year, in part because there is little education about contraception or disease for the rising numbers of young people who are having sex, state media said on Thursday.


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Donations for the victims of the Urumqi riot July 5 have exceeded 270 million yuan (39.5 million U.S. dollars), local financial authority and charity organizations said Monday.

Missing students safe

Nickkita Lau The Standard 17.07.2009
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A massive rescue operation in a remote mountain holiday resort in Qinghai province for more than 80 university students from Hong Kong and the mainland ended when they were found alive and well late last night.


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The Xinjiang regional government has now said the number of people injured in last week's riots in was 1,680.

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China on Saturday scaled back its initial estimates of the number of people displaced by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in southwestern Yunnan province, saying 250,000 rather than 400,000 people had been left homeless.



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