URUMQI, China (AP): A Chinese Islamic group that has threatened to attack the Beijing Olympics released a new video warning Muslims to avoid being on planes, trains and buses with Chinese at the games, a U.S. group that monitors militant organizations said Thursday.The video was purportedly made by ...
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Jackie Chan (R), with China Central Television anchor Bai Yansong, promotes his album, one of the two solo albums authorized by the Beijing Olympics organizing committee, at the release ceremony in Beijing on August 7, 2008. [Photo: ent.sina.com.cn]One day before the Beijing Olympics opening, Jackie...
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KASHGAR,China (AFP): Chinese authorities moved Tuesday to keep a lid on further information about a deadly assault on police in Kashgar, as a quiet tension gripped this heavily Muslim city a day after the attack.At the hotel directly across from the site of the raid, which left 16 police dead, guest...
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BEIJING: Just over a week before the Beijing Olympics, a militant Islamic group's claims of responsibility for bombings in China have fueled unease about security The government has assured its people and the Olympic community that heavy security will ensure secure games. But its clampdown has s...
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Sichuan : Three more bodies have been found near the second largest quake lake in southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday.The bodies were seen lying near an overturned bulldozer where workers are continuing to drain the dangerous swelling lakes, which pose a threat to surrounding villa...
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BEIJING : The death toll of China's major earthquake increased by 4,520 to 65,080 as of Monday noon, according to the Information Office of the State Council.     And 360,058 people were injured and 23,150 others were missing in the 8.0-magnitude quake that jolted southwester...
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BEIJING :  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturdayhailed ties with huge neighbor China as a key factor in globalsecurity, and said the sometimes uneasy neighbors were determined toboost cooperation even if it unnerved the West. Medvedev, sworn in earlier this month, has inherited a cou...
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Rescue workers havereturned to the Chinese town of Beichuan after the county was orderedto be evacuated amid fears that a lake may burst its banks.      Thousandsof people fled Beichuan in central Sichuan province on Saturday,located near the epicentre of last week's dev...
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The Dalai Lama has lashed out at the "suppression" ofanti-Chinese unrest in Tibet, as he arrived in Germany ahead of theBeijing Olympics."The Chinese political authorities' reaction, as before, wassuppression. So it is very sad," he said after landing in Frankfurt.The Tibetan spiritual leader ca...
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MIANYANG : Fivedays after the devastating southwest China earthquake, psychologicalcounselors are still unable to tell 12-year-old Liu Xiaohua that she'san orphan.Playingin the welfare center in Mianyang, Sichuan Province, the girl has beenwaiting for her parents to collect her and take her home...
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HONG KONG : The images are striking: as rescue workers search forearthquake survivors amidst the ruins of tumbled-down homes and schoolsin towns across China's Sichuan province, a bespectacled old manwatches over them, perched perilously on a precipice. Elsewhere, hailerin hand, he offers words ...
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QINGCHUAN, Sichuan : In one single school inearthquake-hit Sichuan Province 178 students were confirmed dead onWednesday morning.A three-storiedresidential building at the Muyu Middle School in Qingchuan Countycollapsed in the quake, burying 285 students who were taking noon nap.Another 139 students...
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All the giant pandas in captivity in quake-hit Sichuan provinceremained unscathed, the State Forestry Administration (SFA) said onTuesday.So far, none of all the 144 giant pandas in Wolong, Chengdu andneighboring Shaanxi reserve centers have been injured, according to theadministration.A 7.8-magnitu...
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The death toll in the massiveearthquake that rocked southwest China's Sichuan Province roseto 12,012 by 7 PM on Tuesday, with 26,206 people injured, 9,404 peopleburied, and 7,841 missing, according to the Earthquake Disaster Relief Commanding Headquarters of the State Council.Prev...
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China's drug watchdog ordered toestablish a daily report system on Tuesday to ensure food and drugsafety in earthquake-hit areas of Sichuan, Chongqing, Gansu, Shaanxiand Yunnan.The State Food and Drug Administration(SFDA) said local governments should collect information on production,supply, sa...
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China is ready to parachute 100 elite soldiers to the epicenter of Wenchuan for disaster relief.The paratroopers, selected from theairborne special force, have been gathered at a military airport atChengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan.China planned to parachute troops andsupplies into Wenchuan...
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Chinese leader Hu Jintao urged governments at all levels to regardearthquake rescue and relief as the top priority at a high profilemeeting late Monday evening.Hu, state President and General Secretary of the Central Committeeof the Communist Party of China (CPC), presided over the meeting of thePol...
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The Ministry of Railways (MOR) hasimposed a state of emergency for trains linking Sichuan with otherprovinces, following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake on Monday that hasclaimed at least 9,219 lives.Two trains were halted between Beijingand Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, where the quake struck....
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