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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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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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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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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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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