China Feels the Heat
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Having failed to stop North Korea testing a bomb, Beijing now has to make the diplomatic process produce results
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Chinaâs pollution problem, like the speed and scale of its rise as an economic power, has shattered all precedents.
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TO Zeng Shaotang, a farmer from South China&#39;s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the medical bills he has to pay feels like a mountain on his shoulders.
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Bad weather in China  causes havoc for millions of people as the country battles the heaviest snowstorms in 50 years
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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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Severe weather in several parts of China has killed more than 100 people in the past week, state media say.
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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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China struggled on Sunday with transport havoc and threats to energy and food supplies caused by snows and freezing cold, with forecasters warning of more harsh weather across eastern and central areas in coming days.
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It seemed only Michael Schumacher and red-hot Ferrari could give China a real thrill at the upcoming inaugural Formula one event in Shanghai, an alien territory for one of the most glamorous sports in the world.
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Heat-stroke warnings could be issued in weather forecasts for the 2008 Olympic Games, the Xinhua news agency said, after the temperature in the capital soared to its highest May level in more than 50 years.
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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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Drivers spend hours, sometimes days, waiting in traffic, a small example of the epic scale, and epic inefficiency, of ChinaÂs coal economy.
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On Aug. 8, when the Beijing Olympics begin in promised splendor, a few may reflect on how far or how fast China has come to host this high mark of international prestige.
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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Reaction was overwrought, and China's economy is still hot. But a sudden market slide shows it's time to get real
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China said yesterday that its economy grew at an 11.9 percent annual rate in the second quarter of this year, the fastest pace in more than a decade, reigniting fears the economy is overheating.
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HARBIN, China -- The hands had melted off a delicately entwined couple of ballet dancers crafted by an ice-sculpting team from Vladivostok. Eaves fashioned from packed snow drooped into icicles at the Roast Meat Fire House restaurant. Authorities banned people from approaching the ice-cube tower at...