Lead poisoning hits China village
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Hundreds of Chinese villagers are hit by lead poisoning caused by pollution from a local plant, reports say.
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More than 100 people have died in  floods and landslides in China where dykes protecting a swollen  river in the east, which has already prompted tens of thousands  to flee their homes, are in danger of being breached.
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At least 23 people were killed in a landslide which hit a mountain village in southwestern China, where the search for missing people has been halted by fears of further slides, state media reported on Saturday.
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At least one man was killed in a protest in China&#39;s southwestern province of Sichuan, a resident said, in the second violent demonstration to hit rural China in the past week.
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At least 56 people were killed in a major coal mine disaster in China today and the toll may rise to 204 with officials nearly giving up hope of finding the missing 148 miners alive in central Henan province.
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SHANGHAI, China  - Villagers in an eastern province dug with farm tools Monday to search for 24 people missing in massive landslides unleashed by Typhoon Rananim, which has already been blamed for 115 deaths and is the worst such storm to hit China in seven years.
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A miner survived is examined at a hospital in Fushun, city of northeast China&#39;s Liangning Province, Oct. 30, 2004. A sudden poisonous gas gushed at an operation platform of the Xilutian Mine of Fushun Coal Industry Corp.
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TONG BUJI, China -- Every few weeks, farmer Long Zhu Xiang walks about 30 minutes down the rubble-strewn path that connects her remote impoverished village in Guizhou Province to a county road and then takes a bus ride into the nearest county town to sell the one precious commodity she has -- her blood.
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Over the past 14 years there have been 114 deaths from cancer in Huangmengying, a village with a population of more than 2,400 in Shenqiu County, Central China&#39;s Henan Province.
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Most people associate lead poisoning with paint chips and toxic dust. But in a case report published last week, doctors identified a more unusual source of exposure, gunshot wounds.
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By ALEXA OLESEN  BEIJING - At least four children among the hundreds of people sickened by emissions from a lead smelter in western China are likely to suffer permanent brain damage, state media said Friday.
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U.S. and Chinese officials agreed on Tuesday to take immediate action to stop the use of lead paint in toys made in China following a spate of recalls that has scared American parents ahead of holiday shopping.
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By AUDRA ANG  BEIJING - Hundreds of people in northwestern China have been hospitalized with lead poisoning that was likely caused by pollution from a nearby smelter, state media and local officials said Wednesday.
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Nearly 100 people, apparently  including many children, have been taken to hospital with  encephalitis B in southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province, Xinhua  news agency reported on Saturday.
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China says 312 million villagers face water shortages or use water contaminated by fluorine, arsenic and organic or industrial pollutants.
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Residents in a southwestern Chinese village are baffled by a local forestry bureau's decision to paint a quarry near their homes entirely green, state media said on Wednesday.
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U.S. and Chinese officials agreed on Tuesday to take immediate steps to stop the use of lead paint in toys made in China following toy recalls that have scared American parents ahead of holiday shopping.