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Floods kill 37 in China’s northeast: media (AFP)

info — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:25:32 +0000

AFP – The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as authorities raced to intercept 12 heavy vessels hurtling down a major waterway.

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China says coal mine blast leaves 17 dead (AFP)

info — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:25:28 +0000

AFP – Seventeen people have been killed in a coal mine blast in northern China, the government said Saturday, in the second major industrial accident to hit the country this week.

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Chinese activists speak out for jailed Uighur (AP)

info — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:25:24 +0000

AP – Some of China’s most well-known activists are circulating an open letter protesting the 15-year prison term for a Uighur journalist snared in tensions that followed the country’s worst ethnic rioting in decades.
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Blast hits China tax office in apparent attack (Reuters)

info — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:25:07 +0000

Reuters – A blast rocked a local tax office in central China, killing at least four people and injuring 19, in what police say appeared to be a deliberate attack, the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday.
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Explosion at coal mine kills at least 15 in China (AP)

info — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:24:54 +0000

AP – An explosion ripped through a workers’ dormitory area and killed at least 15 people Saturday at a coal mine in a city in northern China notorious for mining disasters.
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Business : China invests 40 billion dollars in Iran oil, gas

info — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:24:48 +0000

TEHERAN Irans main economic partner China has invested around 40 billion dollars in the Islamic republics oil and gas sector, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday.
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Govt leaders in Zhengzhou ordered to take bus

info — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:54:23 +0000

Authorities in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, have ordered government leaders in the city to use public transport once a week to set an example while trying to solve the city’s traffic problem, Xinhua.net reported on Friday.
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Guangzhou shifts to top gear ahead of 2010 Asian Games

info — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:54:16 +0000

Soldiers of counter-terrorist special troops practise street battle skills at a training field in Dongguan, south China’s Guangdong Province, July 27, 2010. Some 150 soldiers of counter-terrorist special troops attended a six-month anti-terrorism training for the coming 16th Asian Games which will be held in Guangzhou of Guangdong Province.
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China coal mine blast leaves 15 dead: media (AFP)

info — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:22:11 +0000

AFP – Fifteen people have been killed in a coal mine blast in northern China, state media reported Saturday, in the latest accident to hit the notoriously dangerous industry.

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Jury weighs B-2 engineer’s alleged secret-selling (AP)

info — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:22:05 +0000

AP – A federal jury in Hawaii has started deliberating in the trial of a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of selling military secrets to China.
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