Experts Gather in China for Toilet Summit
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BEIJING - Laugh all you want, say public hygiene experts at the World Toilet Summit, but the importance of "loos" you can use is no joke.  The three-day event, which began Wednesday in Beijing, is an international commode conference.
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China&#39;s communists wrap up a key leadership meeting Sunday amid speculation over whether former President Jiang Zemin is giving up his last major post, accelerating a handover of power to his successor, Hu Jintao.
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The Group of Seven industrialized nations invited top Chinese economic officials to a dinner last Friday. It was about time that China was invited to a G-7 meeting.
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Southeast Asian leaders and their dialogue partners from China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, and New Zealand converge today at the opening of
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BEIJING - Beijing hopes the smelly reputation of its public restrooms will be, well, flushed down the toilet soon. City officials will use the 2004 World Toilet Summit, starting Nov. 17, to showcase efforts to transform the capital's lavatories from foul to fragrant, from crude to cultured.
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China, hosting its first major energy summit on Saturday, urged top oil consumers to join together in the face of resurgent producer power and sought to paper over differences on how best to achieve energy security.
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People gather at the gate of No2 Senior Middle School in Ruzhou, near Pingdingshan, in China&#39;s central Henan province. Photograph: Xinhua/Zhu/Reuters.
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Laugh all you want, say public hygiene experts at the World Toilet Summit, but the importance of having loos you can use is no joke.
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An international panel of experts urged Washington on Monday to join other nations in a drive to avert the "ecological time bomb" of global warming.
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At the World Economic Forum, aid to the devolping world took center stage--and China remained a mystery
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China takes the spotlight at the Asia-Pacific leaders forum on Thursday when President Hu Jintao meets President George W. Bush and Australia's prime minister to talk about security, product safety and climate change.
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China is seeking to put technical Internet management issues on the agenda of the next Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting, a U.N.-run forum concerning the development of the Internet.
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The World Health Organization has called a summit meeting of flu vaccine makers and nations for dealing with the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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Corruption, rural issues and the rich-poor divide topped the list of priorities for some delegates to the opening session of China's annual meeting of parliament on Monday.
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REDDELICH, Germany, June 5 -- The protesters, thousands of them, are packed into a soggy tent city next to a potato field. They have spent months honing tactics and discussing strategy, all for a particular goal: to disrupt the summit of the world's biggest economic powers that begins Wednesday.
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China seeks to put technical Internet management issues on the agenda of a U.N.-run forum concerning the development of the Internet.
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Top diplomats from Japan and China are   set to meet in Tokyo at the weekend amid speculation that   Shinzo Abe may hold a summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao   after he becomes Japan's next prime minister.