Beijing faces challenge to "civilize" population
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Spitting, pollution, dirty toilets, text messages advertising weapons and a nationalistic sports media -- Beijing officials admitted on Wednesday they had many problems to face some 500 days before the Olympics open.
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Beijing, Sept. 16. (PTI): Facing unprecedented challenges to its authority, China&#39;s ruling Communist Party elites are meeting here from today to chalk out ways to prolong their one-party rule in the world&#39;s most populous nation.
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China mulls new measures in environmental protection    BEIJING, Feb.
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China should have enormous leverage with regimes like those in Khartoum and Pyongyang. But does Beijing have the political will to use it?
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China's Guangzhou city may limit migrant workers because of "social problems" they bring, state media said.
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Some 1.5 million residents of Beijing will be displaced by the time the city hosts the 2008 Olympics, many of them evicted from their homes against their will, a housing rights group said on Tuesday.
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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviably poor reputation.
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China is booming and Beijing is its cosmopolitan heart. What's the platform of choice for the city's new tech and media elite? Well, it's not the Mac. But China's Macophiles are banding together. Hector Mackenzie reports from the Chinese capital.
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For the worldâs Olympians, Beijingâs air is a performance issue. For the cityâs estimated 12 million residents, pollution is an inescapable health and quality-of-life issue.
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BEIJING -- The concrete shells of this city's rising skyscrapers hold more than the promise of being tomorrow's homes and offices -- they're already the abode of hundreds of thousands of China's migrant construction workers.
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Six-party negotiations start Monday in Beijing, in a political landscape altered by the North's test.
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In China, where coal is king, the governmentâs push to increase the use of alternative energies faces obstacles, from bureaucracy to bottlenecks in manufacturing.
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While Beijingâs success in winning the rights to host 2008 Olympics has gained considerable media attention, it also has added impetus to a slew of other developments in the Chinese
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China's progress on protection of human rights was on display at a symposium on Thursday, but dozens of residents and petitioners were left outside, saying they were barred from entering.
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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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China&#39;s population, already the largest in the world, will peak at 1.46 billion in 30 years, straining the country&#39;s healthcare system, putting pressure on jobs, and gobbling up a greater share of the world&#39;s food and energy resources.
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Although the Beijing Olympics is still four years away, the Chinese capital is already gearing up to host the event. The city of over 12 million is refurbishing ancient landmarks in