More than 100 Chinese cities lift 10-year ban on fireworks
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More than 100 Chinese cities have lifted a 10-year ban on fireworks for the Lunar New Year holidays, China's most important holiday.
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SYDNEY : More than a million people are expected to turn out for the annual fireworks show in Sydney on Friday as Australia&#39;s biggest city brings in the New Year in a celebration subdued by tragedy and turned into a fundraiser for tsunami victims.
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Sirens will wail across more than 100  Chinese cities and cars will stop and honk their horns Saturday  to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the start of Japan's  invasion of China, state media said.
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Taiwan and China agreed Saturday to temporarily lift Taiwan's five-decade ban on direct flights between the two rivals &#151; a deal that could reduce tension in one of Asia's most dangerous flash points.
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Beijing will deploy about 80 sniffer dogs to patrol the subway system to sniff out flammable products such as fireworks before the Chinese New Year next month, state media reported on Wednesday.
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China has officially banned The Simpsons and several other   cartoon shows from airing during prime time to provide a boost to the   country's ailing animation industry.
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Hong Kong's red flag was raised into a cloudy blue sky Sunday as the former British colony marked the 10th anniversary of its handover to China and bid farewell to a rocky decade of financial woes, disease outbreaks and economic recovery.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged the European Union Saturday to lift its ban on arms sales to Beijing imposed after the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.
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China has shut down more than 100 websites for copyright violations since a new regulation came into effect in July, state media have said.
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China will start offering 10-year residency permits to "high-level" foreigners who bring in important investments or business skills, exempting them from rules that require most foreigners to renew visas annually, officials said Friday.
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CHINA has raised its interest rates for the first time in nine years to curb inflation and stop its fast-growing economy overheating.
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BEIJING: Sirens wailed across more than 100 Chinese cities and cars stopped and honked their horns yesterday to mark the 73rd anniversary of the start of Japan&#39;s invasion of China, state media reported.
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Whistling rockets streak through the sky each night, and firecrackers still echo through the streets in Venezuela this holiday season despite a long-standing ban and a new effort by authorities to crack down on the tradition.
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Chinese farm products are getting safer, the government said on Tuesday, citing tests of fruit, vegetables, meat and fish in major cities that showed more than 95 percent of products were up to standard.
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Across the globe, people gathered for parties, shot off fireworks and held out hopes for a peaceful and prosperous 2008
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Recall systems for unsafe food products and toys went into effect Friday in China as part of a bid to improve product safety, state media said.
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China has added ghosts, monsters and other things that go bump in the night to its list of banned video and audio content in an intensified crackdown ahead of the Beijing Olympics.