Chinese leader's hometown shuns the limelight
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TAIZHOU, China  - They were born just a few kilometers from each other, they both rose to the pinnacle of the state, yet as elderly men their pride and ambition keep them coldly distant on China's political stage.
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China's government has tempered this year's commemoration of Japan's notorious wartime massacre of civilians in the city of Nanjing, reflecting a drive to improve relations with Tokyo and avoid inflaming nationalist passions
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The death of China's purged Communist leader Zhao Ziyang gets on limited coverage in the local media.
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A scandal in Shanghai could help China's President consolidate power
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Residents in a southwestern Chinese village are baffled by a local forestry bureau's decision to paint a quarry near their homes entirely green, state media said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING, Jan. 8 -- Government officials from a county in northeastern China's Liaoning province were not pleased by a magazine story criticizing their local Communist Party leader. So they traveled nearly 500 miles to Beijing seeking to arrest the author.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has refuted any suggestion that Beijing was developing a neo-colonialist relationship with Africa in its drive to gain access to the continent's natural resources.
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China is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, its late supreme leader. For most Chinese the diminutive figure was the man who set the country on a pragmatic reformist
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President Hu Jintao has said Western democratic reforms would lead China into a &quot;blind alley&quot; but he also lambasted the country's corrupt officials.
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NANJING, China -- On the street, they are often the target of laughter or cruel whispers. Individually, they have all been denied jobs or their parents' praise.
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In China, a sprawling lakefront is redeveloped with an eye toward the past.
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A rare vote by residents of a  dilapidated neighborhood has thrown the largest demolition  project in Beijing in decades into doubt, a result state media  on Monday described as an embarrassment for the developers.
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Liu Jielian isn't exactly impressed with the facelift the government recently gave her home in central Beijing as it seeks to spruce up the city for the Olympic Games in August.
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YIWU, China - For more than three years, Khaled Rasheed and his family spent the nights huddled in fear as bombs exploded near their home in Baghdad. Like generations of would-be emigrants before him, he dreamed of a better life elsewhere. But where?
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The Chinese government refrained on Monday from saying much about the results of Sunday's elections in Hong Kong, but the country's Communist leaders had reason to be pleased.
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Late Chinese paramount leader Deng  Xiaoping loathed the cult of personality, but on the 100th  anniversary of his birth on Sunday Communist Party leaders  almost deified the diminutive reformer to underscore their  legitimacy.
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The negative publicity comes at a sensitive moment for Beijing as it seeks to burnish its international image.