On November 13, a petrochemical plant in the northeast Chinese city of Jilin experienced a massive explosion which released a reported 100 metric tons of benzene and nitrobenzene in the Songhua River. The blast killed five people and injured 70.
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Shanghai has been booming over the past 3 years with the massive amount of money coming into the country and the influx of people, but the government has been slapping high taxes and curbing lending in the city and now
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An investigation into a skin care products supplier in China has resulted in the revelation that the products contain the skin of executed prisoners. Some of these products may have been sold as a third-party ingredient to other companies as
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A prudent observer of world affairs will likely not find the following report surprising. Simply put, hundreds of attacks on computer networks owned by the U.S. Defense Department and other agencies have been launched from websites in China. From the
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Sometimes it's nice to know that some people are still watching the big countries. In this day and age of watching Iran and North Korea a lot of what you hear about the "big boys" is about trade deficits, economic
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Disturbing news that Ukraine may have sold nuclear capable cruise missiles to Iran and China. Yahoo/AP A senior lawmaker on Wednesday called for Ukraine's prosecutor-general to investigate alleged sales of nuclear-capable cruise missiles to Iran and China in violation of
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I have no idea why they would ban The Sims 2 in China, but it is among 50 games listed that China has recently placed a ban on in the country. Xinhua As part of the effort to protect intellectual
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While it's exciting to see China going into space I still have reservations about them. They seem to have moved more towards capitalism, but there's still the issue of Taiwan and China saying they will crush them recently that gives
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China bowed to the demands of the terrorist group Nuamaan Brigade of the Islamic Resistance and issued a statement that all Chinese should stay out of Iraq. The terrorists said they would free the 8 Chinese hostages if China issued
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Eight Chinese workers in Iraq were taken hostage by an unknown terrorist group calling itself Nuamaan Brigade of the Islamic Resistance. They have threatened to kill the hostages if China does not make its intentions clear within 48 hours. ABC
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China is in the midst of drafting a bill that would legally require Beijing to take military action if Taiwan declares independence. Taiwan, an island nation of 23 million, split from China in 1949. The Age Relations between China and
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The first Hooters opened in China this week. Let me repeat that. The first Hooters opened in China this week. The oxymoron of the century has been implemented in the form of a restaurant chain. Now don't get me
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Well this could be a major breakthrough in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Quite an exciting development for the world. China Daily Two women have been identified as carrying a mutant gene that is immune to HIV/AIDS, the first
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From the Washington Times China's Public Security Ministry is set to dispatch a 130-man "special police" unit to Haiti this month in the first deployment of Chinese forces to the Western Hemisphere, Bush administration officials say. The first advance unit
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