The mole people surface in Macau
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Media hordes descend on the Venice Vegas of the Orient
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mouse,...
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President Hu prepares to mark the fifth anniversary of Macau's return to China by hailing the enclave's special status.
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CHENJIASHAN MINE, China The 141 miners trapped inside a mine in northern China following a gas explosion have no chance of survival and are presumed dead, a local Communist Party secretary said Monday.
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As a clean up operation finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village, some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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By OLIVER DUFF  Imagine the scene: two slightly posh gents camped out in the Mozambique savannah, encountering creepy crawlies, big game and questionable sanitation - in the name of the environment.
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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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By Michael Casey, Associated Press  ZHEN
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 23 September: Chinese scientists will carry out a research expedition to the central area of China's largest uninhabited region in October.
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The biggest corruption trial in Macau's history was set to conclude Wednesday, threatening to expose the murky underworld behind the booming gambling city's gleaming facade.
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International and Thai volunteers, including prison inmates, are still searching for survivors. Locals complain that rescue workers are only looking after tourists.
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YAEDA VALLEY, Tanzania -- One of the last remaining tribes of hunter-gatherers on the planet is on the verge of vanishing into the modern world.
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For the past 30 years scientists have scoured the most inhospitable environments or life. Just about everywhere they look, they find it thriving in microscopic form.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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By Qiu Quanlin  GUANGZHOU: Officials fro
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Glittery Las Vegas gambling has arrived in seedy Macau, promising new charms for China's inveterate players, and this former Portuguese colony may never be the same.
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marking the first time that a commercial American airliner will be landing in the country since the Vietnam War. and businessmen. It will show ties are on track between the old battlefield foes who still spar over human rights and.