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Zimbabwe cargo plane crashes at Shanghai's airport, killing 3
A Zimbabwe cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off Saturday from Shanghai's main international airport, killing three crew members, a government official said.
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Chinese panda couple head for Australia
Staff members transport giant panda Fu Ni at China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Ya'an, city of southwest China's Sichuan Province, Nov.
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11 hrs ago | Shanghai Daily
Rescue team find body of last mine blast victim
In another coal mine blast accident in Xingren County of southwest China's Guizhou Province, rescuers work at the accident site yesterday.
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Forget gold and silver, invest in garlic
If you want to get rich in China , the way to do it this year is to buy and sell garlic.
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20 hrs ago | Shanghai Daily
Plant marks Fiat return to China
Company officials shovel earth during a ground breaking ceremony yesterday for a 5-billion-yuan passenger car plant, equally owned by Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group and Italy's Fiat SpA, in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province.
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China honors outstanding demobilized soldiers
An awarding ceremony was held in Beijing Wednesday to honor 214 outstanding demobilized soldiers in the country.
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China and Brazil will strengthen parliamentary co-op to develop bilateral ties, Jia said.
China and Brazil should and will strengthen parliamentary cooperation to further the development of bilateral ties, top Chinese political adviser Jia Qinglin said Wednesday at a meeting with the president of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, Michel Temer.
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Harper changes tune, will attend climate conference
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has changed course and will attend a United Nations conference next month with some 65 other world leaders after all, despite asserting no global deal on climate change is imminently achievable.
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Garlic is best investment in China
A market vendor, wearing a face mask, stands in front of a large pile of sacks containing garlic at an outdoor food market in Beijing November 25, 2009.[Agencies] The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset this year.
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House church leaders sentenced
A court in northern China has sentenced five leaders of an unauthorised Protestant church to prison terms of up to seven years on charges including illegal assembly, rights groups reported on Thursday.
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Death toll in China mining blast rises to 107
The number of dead in China's worst mining accident in two years rose to 107 Wednesday after three more bodies were pulled out of the coal mine, state media said.
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Chinese magazine reports on secret jails
It read like a muckraking expose: A magazine revealed a system of secret detention centers in Beijing where Chinese citizens are forcibly held and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government.
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Obama to plead US case at global warming summit
Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit, insisting America is ready to tackle global warming despite intense disagreement in Congress.
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UNAIDS: Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China
The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said.
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China Reports 8 Cases of Swine Flu Mutation
China has detected eight cases of swine flu mutation, a health official said Wednesday, amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous form.
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Hong Kong director takes on Mulan with real actors
More than a decade after Disney made a blockbuster animated film out of a folk tale about a young woman in ancient China who takes her father's place on the battlefield, a Hong Kong director is taking on the story of Hua Mulan with real actors.
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Natural gas shortage lingers in Chinese cities
Chinese cities are grappling for a second week with the most serious natural gas shortage in nearly a decade, triggered by unusually early winter weather, and the nation's top economic planner is urging suppliers to meet maximum distribution rates to meet the demand.
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China says it will keep yuan basically stable
China will keep the yuan's exchange rate basically stable at a reasonable and balanced level, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said on Tuesday.
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Yang Xianyi, translator of 'Dream of Red Mansions,' other Chinese classics, dies at age 94
Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died, China's official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.
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China OKs Shanghai Disney park
Customers shop for Walt Disney Co. products at a shopping mall in Shanghai, China earlier this month.
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