WITNESS: Reporting in the dark in icy New Year China
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John Ruwitch is a correspondent for Reuters in south China. He has been studying or reporting on greater China since 1992, and has lived in Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong, where he is currently based. In the following story he describes three days spent in Chenzhou, a city without power for nearly two weeks. It marked his first trip to Hunan, which is known for its piquant cuisine and as the birthplace of Mao Zedong. He hopes to visit again when the lights are back on.
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The thunder of firecrackers  ushered in the Year of the Rat on Thursday, but millions of  Chinese were spending a cold holiday as repair teams battled to  restore power knocked out by the worst snow storms in a  century.
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At dusk on New Year's Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. Sitting on the back seat was a nice Canon digital camera. Gunderson asked the driver which previous passenger might have left it, but the cabbie didn't seem to care. So Gunderson brought it home and showed it to her fiance, Brian Ascher. They decided that the only right thing to do was to find the owner.
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Wild winter weather across China left  hundreds of thousands of people stranded on Monday and crippled  energy and transport, stoking fears of rising deaths and  economic damage blighting the biggest holiday of the year.
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At 6.30 a.m., with the moon still in the sky and the temperature a bone-chilling minus 10 degrees Celsius, 1,040 Chinese are ushered into lines by military police at a university sports ground.
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Chinese weather experts admit the country was not properly prepared for the current severe snow storms.
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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - China rang in its new year with howls of public outrage when film star Zhang Ziyi was accused of lip-synching her way through a gala holiday performance.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Yinchuan, Feb.
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China says it faces serious power shortages as severe winter weather causes unusually high demand.
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DA ANTOU, China -- Chen Xiao'e was home alone and fast asleep, she recalled, when the windows started to shatter for no apparent reason, like a scene out of a horror movie. "I was frightened out of my wits," Chen said.
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China struggled on Sunday with transport havoc and threats to energy and food supplies caused by snows and icy cold, with forecasters warning of more brutal weather across eastern and central areas in coming days.
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Text of report by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Shenyang, 18 Feb (Xinhua) - When the evening lights were lit, there was a rich display of lights and colours.
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As the new year approaches, there is good news and there is bad news for English-language print media in Asia.
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Trains and planes are starting to  return to normal across China, but millions are likely to spend  the biggest holiday of the year without power and water in what  for some is the coldest winter in a century.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, Feb.
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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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China is relaxing decades-old restrictions on foreign reporters, announcing new regulations Friday that will give foreign media greater freedom to travel and report in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Even as the rules were made public, however, a Chinese court affirmed a prison sentence for a Chinese reporter.