China ushers in year of the pig
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China marks the arrival of the New Year, with the golden pig year seen as being particularly auspicious.
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Golden hogs are flying off the shelves as China prepares to welcome the Year of the Pig.
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China&#39;s top leaders and representatives from all walks of life gather at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing August 22, 2004 to commemorate the birth centenary of late leader Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of China&#39;s reform and opening-up drive.
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China&#39;s President Hu Jintao is in Macau to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its return to Chinese rule. He is the first Chinese leader to visit Macau, since the-then President Jiang Zemin celebrated the first handover anniversary on December 20th, 2000.
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ZHUANGCUN, China  - Nothing is more important to Yangyang than being with family to ring in China's Lunar New Year, but sometimes she feels the annual reunion is more bitter than sweet.
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Rising oil prices are expected to hit China's growth rate this year.
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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - On a wintery lunchbreak before Lunar New Year, Beijingers in puffy jackets lean over glass cases of gleaming rat figurines and Olympics trinkets at the city's largest gold store.
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As China marks the centenary of the birth of its late supreme leader Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese press lavishes praise on his achievements.
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A World Bank expert said the year 2004 is going to be a good year for China as the country&#39;s economy will grow rapidly with higher-than
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Many endangered species are under threat from growing prosperity in China, where exotic animals are butchered for gourmet banquets, exotic medicines or luxury goods.
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Chinese entertainers in lion costumes perform outside a temple fair to celebrate the coming of spring in Beijing Tuesday. Asians flocked to temples, parks and Disneyland on Sunday to pray, play, eat and celebrate the first day of the Lunar New Year, ushering in the Year of the Pig.
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By Kris Sherman, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 18--Sometime in this new Year of the Pig, which begins today, Tacoma residents will be able to walk the pathways of Chinese Reconciliation Park.
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Aug 20, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A step in the progression of avian influenza considered almost inevitable by experts in view of the widespread and continuing Asian outbreaks this yearâits occurrence in pigsâhas been taken, if a Chinese scientist&#39;s
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China has warned of an increased risk of animal-related health epidemics during its lunar new year holiday and said many local governments were not prepared, state media reported on Wednesday.
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FOSHAN, China -- At first, it was just some of the piglets. The mother gave birth to 13, all of them stillborn. Within a few weeks, however, she and other adult pigs in neighboring stalls became feverish and died. By the end of the summer, all but a handful of the village's 300 pigs had succumbed...
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Research published earlier this year showing that avian influenza had been found in pigs in 2001 and 2003 went unnoticed outside China because the results appeared in Chinese language journals, according to a news item in the journal Nature.
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With China celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Pig, Chinese factories that ordinarily spew a big percentage of the world's pollution are idle for a week. However there's no rest for the Chinese computers that produce a big chunk of the Internet's pollution.