China pledges to end hardship for stranded travelers
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GUANGZHOU, China  - Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages on Wednesday and millions more were stranded by snow and ice ahead of what is for many their only family reunion of the year.
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The travails of passengers on a stranded flight showed how strained the system is at times when unpredictable factors like bad weather bring extra stress.
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Wild winter weather across China left  hundreds of thousands of people stranded on Monday and crippled  energy and transport, stoking fears of rising deaths and  economic damage blighting the biggest holiday of the year.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged to help China's impoverished western regions catch up with the booming eastern coastline, saying the country could not call itself fully modernized otherwise.
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China is promising farmers lower taxes and higher subsidies in its latest effort to raise rural incomes and ease burdens that have sparked violent protests.
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SHAOGUAN, China  - Work crews battled on Saturday to restore power to parts of southern China blacked out for over a week by the fiercest snow storms in 50 years as the government warned that worse was to come.
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China issued a severe weather warning on Monday for large swathes of the country already reeling from transport havoc and power shortages caused by the heaviest snowfalls in decades.
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China has turned its battle  against brutal winter weather into a propaganda push to try to  comfort millions of cold, stranded and dismayed citizens, even  as storms threaten to continue lashing many areas.
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GUANGZHOU, China  - Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages on Wednesday and millions more were stranded by snow ahead of what for some is the only holiday of the year.
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KAILI, China  - Railways and highways were returning to normal across China on Tuesday, but millions are likely to spend the biggest holiday of the year without power and water in what for some is the coldest winter in a century.
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China on Sunday ordered urgent steps to fight transport chaos and threats to energy and food supplies caused by brutal winter weather that forecasters said will continue as the nation heads into a major holiday.
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Trains and planes are starting to  return to normal across China, but millions are likely to spend  the biggest holiday of the year without power and water in what  for some is the coldest winter in a century.
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With the weather showing little sign of improving, thousands of Chinese remain stranded and many are without power
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Almost 180,000 people have been stranded in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan by a return of snow and freezing weather which has blocked roads and caused blackouts, state media said on Sunday.
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His eyes nearly in tears from the crush of fellow travelers at Guangzhou's train station, Hong Tao said things were much better today, after days of waiting for a train to his home in Hubei province. A rare winter storm has paralyzed China's transportation system as millions tried to get home to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
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China has been going in for various substantial efforts to rescue the two engineers, who were kidnapped in Pakistan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhang Qiyue tolda regular press conference here Tuesday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Yellow River Thaws in Inner Mongolia Section" - Xinhua headline]  Hohhot, Feb.