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China has detained 53 villagers, who were suffering from lead poisoning, after the bus taking them for health checks was stopped by police.

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China has invited countries from the lower Mekong subregion to visit its Jinghong dam in order to counter claims that its dams are causing the extremely low water levels in the region.


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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.

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China opened its annual parliamentary season yesterday with a call from the Communist leadership to keep up economic growth, maintain social stability and tackle a yawning urban- rural income gap.


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According to Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, the Chinese economy might crash in 2010.

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Investigators looking into cyber attacks on Google and numerous other American companies last year have linked the intrusions with computers at Shanghai's prestigious Jiaotong University and another vocational school in eastern China.


China charges tycoon with financial crimes

BEIJING — A Chinese court has charged the founder of home appliance giant GOME -- once the country's richest man -- with bribery, insider trading and illegal business dealings, state media reported.

China target for Thai fruit

Fruitnet 15.02.2010
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As part of a scheme to increase fruit exports to China, Thailand is planning a promotional roadshow ahead of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou later this year.


Chinese court upholds prominent scholar's 11-year punishment

Cara Anna The Washington Post 12.02.2010
Chinese court upholds prominent scholar's 11-year punishment

BEIJING -- A Chinese court upheld Thursday the unprecedented 11-year sentence given to a prominent scholar who had called for political reform, the latest in a string of harsh punishments for dissenters.

China warns of damage from Obama-Dalai meet

BEIJING — China on Friday urged the United States to call off a meeting between President Barack Obama and exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to prevent further damage to already strained ties.


US and EU call for release of well-known Chinese dissident

The US and European Union today renewed calls for the immediate release of high profile dissident Liu Xiaobo, as a Chinese court upheld his 11-year-sentence.

China jails investigator into Sichuan earthquake schools

Tania Branigan The Guardian 09.02.2010
China jails investigator into Sichuan earthquake schools

A Chinese activist who investigated the deaths of children in schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake was today jailed for five years for subversion, his lawyer said.


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A mainland activist who sought to document shoddy construction that contributed to deaths in the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been sentenced to five years in prison for subversion, according to his lawyer.

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.


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BEIJING — China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan spiritual figure, the 19-year-old Panchen Lama, was voted vice president of the nation's Buddhist Association Wednesday, state media reported.

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BEIJING — Google has launched a map search service in China for travellers taking trips during the Lunar New Year holiday season, despite a row over cyberattacks and censorship.


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A Chinese national suspected of embezzling more than 13 million yuan (1.9 million U.S. dollars) has been escorted back from Thailand where he had stayed 11 years, China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said Friday.

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Despite what their PE teachers might have told them, for many of those who competed in a Chinese marathon earlier this month, it was not the taking part but the winning that counted. Almost a third of the runners who finished in the top 100 have s...


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Google Inc., operator of the world’s most-popular Internet search engine, denied media reports that it has decided to shut Google.cn site and close its China office.

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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