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5 min ago | Whidbey News-Times

Memories of a 100-year-old vet: 4-H youths tell Savy Savinelli's story of WWII

In 1941, while President Franklin D. Roosevelt was initiating a full scale support of China in its war with Japan, 29-year-old Achilles "Savy" Savinelli was trying to find a direction in life.

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Sun May 27, 2012

People's Daily Online

Villager charged after 11 males confirmed dead

A man has been arrested on charges that he murdered 11 young men in southwest China's Yunnan Province, police said yesterday.

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World News Report

"Go West" Training Program for Radiologists Launched in Kunming

KOLs from the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, China Institute of Radiologists, the Radiologist Branch of Chinese Medical Doctor Association and Yunnan Medical Doctor Association along with Philips senior executives presided over the launching ceremony.

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Newkerala.com

Services resume on rain-hit S. China railway

Nanning , May 25 : Trains on a major railway in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region began running again late on Friday afternoon, after they were disrupted by torrential rain earlier in the day.

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Rediff.com

China has lost the 'Jade kingdom', India must not

This is the fourth part of a series on India-Myanmar relations, to mark Dr Singh's visit, which begins on Sunday.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, India, Aung San Suu Kyi, Thein Sein, Burma,

Thu May 24, 2012

Free Republic

Lost, but...not forgotten

Nothing James Browne learned in flight school prepared him for 'The Hump,' a perilous, Himalayan no-man's land that became a graveyard for hundreds of fearless WWII-era fliers who battled Japanese fighters, impossible weather and a supply route from hell.

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The Standard

Cannibal horror

Cops fear a cannibal killer has eaten or sold as meat at least 20 missing people, mostly boys, in a gruesome bloodbath in Yunnan province.

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Wed May 23, 2012

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Re-interring Berks' WWII dead

The first Berks County war dead buried abroad arrived in Reading on Oct. 24, 1947, according to Reading Eagle accounts.

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WHIO

China's city code enforcers accused of violence

In this Nov. 20, 2011 photo, officers of the urban management bureau, known as chengguan in Chinese, demand a beggar and his child to leave a street in Guiyang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province.

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Dayton Daily News

China's city code enforcers accused of violence

In this photo taken Thursday, July 19, 2007, personnel from the chengguan confiscate tables and chairs from a restaurant operating illegally in Beijing, China.

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Tue May 22, 2012

People's Daily Online

Scent of success

Counter-clockwise from top: This native species of rose in Bajie is intensely aromatic.

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Fri May 18, 2012

Instapundit

CHINA: Elderly "Rambo" Blocks Developers. A...

A hard-headed pensioner is standing in the way of a A 350million development - by refusing to move out of his one-bed flat.

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Thu May 17, 2012

Daily Mail

Zou Mingcan halts 350m Chinese development by threatening planners with Molotov cocktails

Any developer with plans to build a multi-million-pound scheme in a housing area can expect to encounter the occasional gripe from a concerned local resident.

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INAUTONEWS

Ford's Launched "Level Up" Project to Inspire Management Breakthroughs in China

The project consists of six thought-provoking training sessions aimed at coaching Chinese environmental leaders on how to improve their organizations' management.

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People's Daily Online

CPC delegation leaves for four-nation tour

KUNMING, May 17 -- A delegation of the Communist Party of China left Kunming, capital city of southwestern China's Yunnan Province, on Thursday, for goodwill visits to Sri Lanka, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland.

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Wed May 16, 2012

South China Morning Post

Deadly trade in guns is plied openly on streets

Black market explosives and pistols are advertised openly in the remote, mountainous Yunnan county where a mysterious suicide bomber killed three people and injured 16 last week, the Most advertisers claim they can arrange delivery by car within an hour in central Kunming , the provincial capital, with guns handed over outside supermarkets and post ... (more)

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Tue May 15, 2012

Inventor Spot

Chinese RoboCop Keeps An Electric Eye On Crime

Standing nearly 2 meters tall and covered in dark armor worthy of Optimus Prime's evil twin, Kunming's new RoboCop s are the last thing criminals want to see... because theA formidable-looking street guardians can see them! Actually, human police staffers at the nearest local police station are ones doing the seeing, via closed circuit TV cables ... (more)

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Mon May 14, 2012

Silicon Alley Insider

Luxury Brands Are Struggling To Keep Up With Ridiculous Demands From Chinese Customers

One recent night, the ballroom at Hong Kong's Grand Hyatt hotel was transformed into an elegant Parisian salon.

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Fri May 11, 2012

China Daily

Unhappy tourists write open letter

The tourist administration of Yunnan province is looking into complaints by five tourists who wrote an open letter to a top official complaining about a terrible travel experience in the province.

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TrekEarth

Sculptured fields

Yuanyang is about 300km south west of Kunming at 2000m elevation, offers one of the most scenic spots in Yunnan for the amazing rice-terraces built on the red-soil mountains by the ethnic 'Hani' for generations after generations.

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