China official says climbers' hopes dim
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There is only a "slim" chance that two Colorado climbers missing since November are still alive in a region of 20,000-foot peaks in China's southwest, an official said Tuesday.
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The Chinese government said in an annual defense policy report issued Monday that relations with Taiwan were &quot;grim&quot; and vowed that it would accelerate military modernization.
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BEIJING - Authorities in Central China are holding out little hope of finding alive the 116 men trapped in a coal mine in Shaanxi province.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Floods in China May Worse This Year: Official" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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The emergence of China's likely next generation of leaders at the Communist Party's just-ended conclave is no cause for celebration yet, the most senior official jailed over the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests said.
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China voiced its disappointment on  Thursday over movie director Steven Spielberg's decision to  quit his Beijing Olympics role because of China's policies in  Sudan and said the Games would be a success regardless.
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The chances of rescuing at least 141 miners trapped inside a coal mine in China after a fierce gas explosion ripped through the underground facility Sunday are bleak, say authorities.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing expressed hope on Friday that a rapprochement with Japan would stay on course, but also mentioned the wartime past that haunts relations.
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Twelve Chinese miners were missing on Friday after an explosion at their pit as hopes faded for 181 miners in an eastern province trapped underground for two weeks, state media said.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 17 December: China's central government has dispatched a team of inspectors to some provinces in an attempt to put a stop to local government land grabs.
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The Bush administration failed to achieve an increase in the ownership ceilings that the Chinese impose on joint ventures with American firms, officials said.
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Enthusing about the Beijing Olympics won't endear you to the ordinary folk of China's rural provinces. And their disdain speaks to a wider problem facing the central government
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Senior officials in Beijing are now grumbling that the megaproject on the Yangtze is turning into an environmental nightmare
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Hopes were fading yesterday for more than 100 coal miners missing after an explosion in a Chinese mine, as toxic fumes hindered rescuers.
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Although rescuers are hoping to be able to enter the mine today, officials believe there is very little hope of finding survivors.
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The death toll from a coal mine disaster in China has risen to 64, and hopes are fading that any survivors will be found among another 84 workers who are missing.
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More than a day and a half after a deadly gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northwest China, rescuers are losing hope of finding 141 people still trapped underground.