Rats latest target of Beijing clean-up campaign
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China may have just ushered in the Year of the Rat, but the pesky rodents aren't welcome in its capital.
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Beijing determined to clean up all polluted rivers, lakes by 2010  BEIJING, Dec.14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese national capital will endeavor to make all rivers and lakes within the sixth ring road of the city free of pollution by the year 2010.
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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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Beijing responds with a new campaign after at least eight recent violent incidents.
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BEIJING China&#39;s communist leaders, in a fresh effort to eradicate pornography, have focused on the telephone sex industry, the official People&#39;s Daily said on Wednesday.
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Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported 2 billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 12 December: China is to launch its first nationwide investigation into the sources of environmental pollution at the beginning of 2008, according to a top environmental official.
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China's latest weapon against illegal polluters is humans trained to sniff out foul gases, a Chinese paper reports.
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China played down the country's food-safety problems on Tuesday but at the same time showed off room after room of confiscated fakes, indicating the extent of the challenge it faces to clean up the industry.
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Li Peng, the former Chinese prime minister dubbed the &quot;Butcher of Beijing&quot; for his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown, is trying to clear his name with a new essay that shifts some of the blame on to his political master.
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ELYRIA, Ohio - Jennifer Mitchell's apartment is full of rats, and that's exactly how she wants it. Mitchell runs a rat rescue mission, caring for dozens of rats from people who get overwhelmed when their pet rodents have multiple babies.
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BEIJING -- In the downtown Environmental Sanitation Bureau, 100 public toilet cleaners sat at rapt attention in neat rows, red armbands pinned to the sleeves of their immaculate purple jumpsuits.
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China is filthy and needs to spend lots of money to clean up. American companies could get that business.
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A Chinese Communist Party official on Wednesday promised a "clean" 2008 Olympics, one day after the party expelled the Beijing vice mayor in charge of Olympic construction projects, accusing him of bribery and other charges, state media said.
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All pet dogs will be killed in a district of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing as part of an anti-rabies campaign, the government said.
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Spitting, pollution, dirty toilets, text messages advertising weapons and a nationalistic sports media -- Beijing officials admitted on Wednesday they had many problems to face some 500 days before the Olympics open.
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Chinese officials are flouting a pledge made to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which helped to secure the 2008 games for Beijing, by harassing and abusing journalists, Human Rights Watch said Friday.