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Strong earthquake hits western China

AP News 64 days ago

Strong earthquake jolts western China; no reports of injuries Officials say a strong earthquake has shaken western China but there are no reports of injuries or serious damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-5.4 quake struck at 4:54 p.m. Saturday in ...

China panda population stable: report

AFP Global Edition 64 days ago

China's wild panda population has remained stable despite last year's Sichuan earthquake that damaged key areas of the endangered species' habitat, state press said Saturday. A recent survey in Sichuan province concluded that the deadly May 12 tremor did not lead to ...

China's Ai Weiwei: an artist with politics on his mind

AFP Global Edition 66 days ago

Ai Weiwei, one of China's most controversial artists, may be the son of a poet who was a cultural icon for a new communist China 60 years ago -- but he has nothing but scorn for those in power today. "It's so ...

China's Ai Weiwei: artist with politics on mind

AFP Global Edition 66 days ago

Ai Weiwei, one of China's most controversial artists, may be the son of a poet who was a cultural icon for a new communist China 60 years ago -- but he has nothing but scorn for those in power today. "It's so ...

China denies visas to producers of earthquake film

AP News 81 days ago

China denies visas to producers of documentary that covered school earthquake collapses The producers of a documentary exploring deadly school collapses in last year's Sichuan earthquake and the plight of bereaved parents have been denied Chinese visas to attend a Beijing showing, ...

Witnesses held as China quake activist trial starts

Reuters US Online Report World News 102 days ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - A famous Chinese artist was roughed up and reporters and witnesses detained on Wednesday, the first day of the trial of a Chinese activist who investigated the death toll from last year's devastating Sichuan earthquake. Tan Zuoren is formally ...

China to mark 140th anniversary of giant panda 'discovery'

AFP Global Edition 103 days ago

China is to retrace the steps of the French missionary who made giant pandas known to the West to mark the 140th anniversary of their discovery by the outside world, state media said Tuesday. Pandas were virtually unknown outside China until 1869 ...

Emerging Markets: Irrationally Exuberant?

BusinessWeek 107 days ago

Emerging markets are getting frothy. While developing world equities have advanced just under 50% this year, markets in China [+84%], India [+64%] and Peru [+109%], to name a few, are trading at 52-week highs. In the eyes of some observers, the Chinese ...

People trying to flee China plague town

AFP Global Edition 109 days ago

Residents of a town in northwest China where three people have died from pneumonic plague said Wednesday scared people were trying to leave despite a strict quarantine to contain the virulent disease. A fourth person was near death in Ziketan, a remote ...

People trying to flee China plague town: residents

AFP Asian Edition 109 days ago

Residents of a town in northwest China where three people have died from pneumonic plague said Wednesday scared people were trying to leave despite a strict quarantine to contain the virulent disease. A fourth person was near death in Ziketan, a remote ...

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