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Ar EditorialWHY You Don't Need Health Care Reform
Tonight, in a remote and rural part of west-central China's Qinghai Province, a town of 10,000 mostly Tibetan people is entirely quarantined as officials try to contain an outbreak of pneumonic plague. Comment?
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Heavy rain is expected again today in southern China, after the severest deluge in 200 years in Guangdong claimed 40 lives, with another 10 people missing and 1.37 million affected. Comment?
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University breaks new ground in Sichuan disaster role
Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Sichuan University have jointly established the first Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction in China. Comment?
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On Fleeting Hong Kong Trips, Chinese Make Frugal Fashionable
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... the airport. "Typically, mainland consumers look for cheap goods." Foreign retailers treat Hong Kong as a gateway to China, which is poised to become the world's biggest consumer market in three years, and how mainland tourists shop is big business. ... Comment?
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China: Death sentence for informal lending
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... and journalists speak a language you won't find in any ordinary dictionary. Beijing - A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death in the government's latest crackdown on underground lending that is widely used by entrepreneurs. The ... Comment?
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China asks N Korea to release fishing boat
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... North Korean side had asked for the ransom to be paid by noon Sunday to a company in Dandong, a city in north-eastern China on the North Korean border, or they would confiscate the boat and repatriate the crew. The newspaper didn't mention whether ... Comment?
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At least 12 dead following blast at explosives factory in eastern China
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A massive blast ripped through an explosives factory Monday in eastern China, killing at least 12 people and leaving others buried in the debris, state media reported. Comment?
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China: Gay pride march organiser detained
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Youngsters hold rainbow flags as they march on the street during a gay pride parade in Changsha, central China's Hunan province. Comment?
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AIG Announces Participation in Rights Offering of PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited
... offering, AIG will own 9.9 percent of shares in PICC P&C, a subsidiary of The People's Insurance Company (Group) of China Limited. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities ... Comment?
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Local student receives WMU's top undergraduate honor for 2013
... grant, she was one of eight dance majors selected by her department to study abroad in Taipei, Taiwan, and Chengdu, China, in summer 2012. Mattar has also received scholarships, including the 2012-13 Robert D. Maverick Theatre and Dance Endowed ... Comment?
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... his good intentions, Kerry so far looks like a naive and ham-handed diplomat who has been acting like a bull in the china shop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Or as former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan once put it, he's a good chap in the worst ... Comment?
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Five dead, 20 missing in factory explosion in China's Shandong province
Rescuers work at the site where a blast ripped through an explosives manufacturing plant in Caofan, Zhangqiu city, east China's Shandong province, on Monday. Comment?
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China Red Cross donations in doubt after new figures show discrepancies
... and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao. He has covered Southeast Asia for the Austrian daily Wiener Zeitung and China's relations with Myanmar for the Myanmese magazine The Irrawaddy, reporting from the trenches of the Kachin civil war and Yangon's ... Comment?
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Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older
... flocking to the booming cities to seek work as part of Beijing's urbanisation drive, Qiantun village in northern China's Hebei province has had to pioneer a new model - the old looking after the even older. Surrounded by green wheat fields that ... Comment?
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China urges North Korea to release fishing boat crew
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... but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature. Please read our Legal Terms & Policies China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month ... Comment?
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Gay rights activist arrested after protest in Changsha
... and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao. He has covered Southeast Asia for the Austrian daily Wiener Zeitung and China's relations with Myanmar for the Myanmese magazine The Irrawaddy, reporting from the trenches of the Kachin civil war and Yangon's ... Comment?
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China Trying to Manage Exposure of Corruption Online
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- China's Internet is brimming with disclosures of officials collecting bribes, homes and luxury accessories as casually as they do mistresses. But while the government tolerates such anti-corruption vigilantism, it is also extremely leery of the ... 1 comment
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Placating graduates a work in progress
... February 2012, responsible for the editorial direction and newsroom operations. He started his 20-year career at the China Daily, before moving to the UK, where he gained valuable experience at a number of news organisations, including the BBC ... Comment?
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Chinese Incinerators Spark Public Protests
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Protests against incinerators have taken place in China over the past few years. Comment?
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New probe of Maoming city's massive graft scandal
... scandal, including Zhou, were low-ranking 'small flies', rather than senior, clout-wielding 'big tigers'," Veteran China-watcher Johnny Lau Yui-siu said, adding that not even National Development and Reform Commission deputy director Liu Tienan , ... Comment?
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