China braces for 155 million rail travelers over holiday
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China's railway system is expected to carry some 155 million people over the upcoming Chinese New Year period, the most ever, as people flood home for the traditional festival, a senior official said on Thursday.
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China orders emergency measures to fight nationwide transport chaos caused by severe weather conditions.
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Millions of Chinese workers, many headed home for the New Year's holiday, face delays amid some of the country's worst weather in the last 50 years.
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Chinese premier Wen Jiabao took a bullhorn in hand to encourage stranded passengers in the snow-bound city of Changsha, as unusually severe winter weather snarled transport throughout the south amidst the country's worst power crisis.
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Troops fanned out across large swathes of China hit by snow storms that have killed about 50 people as Premier Wen Jiabao apologized to stranded railway passengers ahead of a major holiday.
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GUANGZHOU, China  - Tens of thousands of Chinese crammed into a railway station in Guangzhou on Thursday, desperate to get home for a major holiday after days of delay caused by snow and showing signs of losing their patience.
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Millions remained stranded in  China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as  parts of the country suffered their coldest winter in a  century.
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Millions of Chinese workers battled for a precious train ticket home Sunday as authorities flew in emergency supplies to areas stranded by the worst weather in 50 years.
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Many of the millions of Americans making pilgrimages by land, air or sea to visit family and friends this holiday season will invoke a higher power to ensure their safe arrival. -The Washington Post
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GUANGZHOU, China  - China's snow-stricken railways were creaking back into action on Friday, but with power cuts still crippling swathes of the country, President Hu Jintao visited a coal mine and urged workers to boost production.
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Rail passengers are facing longer journeys on New Year's Eve on one of the UK's busiest routes.
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Brutal winter weather has wracked China's central, eastern and southern sections, stranding hundreds of thousands of travelers ahead of next week's Lunar New Year holiday.
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China&#39;s national power agency is warning coal and electricity shortages could make for a long cold winter for tens of millions of people in the developed east.
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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YIWU, China -- After 19 hours on a hard-seat train ride from Beijing, Zhao Taishan stood in the cold drizzle waiting for the mall doors to open.
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Millions of Chinese workers face long delays as they travel back to their factories after the New Year holidays, officials say
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Railway passengers stranded by snow in east China's Zhejiang province are receiving counselling from psychologists in the crowded station waiting hall, state media said on Thursday.