China's Great Wall? "Just a pile of earth"
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Three people have been detained for digging up part of the Great Wall just days before strict new penalties are introduced to protect China's most famous tourist attraction, Xinhua news agency said.
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XINTAI, China, Aug. 23 -- The first sign of trouble was a stream of water that burst from a wall deep in the mine, Wang Kuitao recalled. Within minutes, he said, the water was everywhere, rushing down the shaft carrying tons of mud. Another disaster was on the way, Wang quickly concluded, one mor...
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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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China is getting hard on porn. Those caught pushing pornographic images either through the Internet, mobile phones or pornography through phone sex, face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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Scientists disagree on whether the region's high subsidence rates are natural or due to human intervention.
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1st Ld-Writethru: "Law of nature" may cause serious floods in China, says official    BEIJING, Feb.
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By Xin Dingding  Experts have urged the government to strengthen efforts to deal with water pollution in the wake of the Wuxi water crisis.  The Wuxi government has stressed that the incident was "an irresistible natural disaster".
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CHONGQING, China  - If you build it, they will come -- except perhaps to China's vast, untapped western frontier.
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China is laying plans for refurbishing the Great Wall but insists that the original appearance be preserved.  The State Council, with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao leading, ratified the plan in principle Wednesday. Guidelines for the project will be drawn up later.
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China should no longer focus on the size of trade growth on its way to becoming a strong trading power. The international balance of payments, rather than blind pursuit of a trade surplus, should become the primary goal.
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PORONG, Indonesia -- For nine months, a gaping hole in the ground has spit out a torrent of hot, black mud, swallowing thousands of houses outside Indonesia's second-largest city and attracting amazed geologists from around the world.
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China's gleaming skyscrapers and big Olympic plans hide the realities of political oppression. Take the case of Chen Guangcheng
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FENGHUA, China  - The enemy of my enemy is my  friend. It is such an enemy that China's communist leaders are  bringing into play as they struggle to counter the drive for  independence by an island it views as a renegade province.
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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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China is discussing what it means to be a major world power and has stopped denying that it intends to become one soon.
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Researchers plan first detailed survey of the Great Wall of China to establish just how long the ancient barricade is.
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NAN REN, China -- The silence in this dusty brick-making town seems idyllic. But the quiet is really the calm after a storm -- one that residents fear will soon return.