In autumn, China's new rich crave the rare hairy crab
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The power meal of a rising urban class is found in one lake near Shanghai.
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Crabs' excretions are among the novel research tools being developed in the UK.
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Look for Chinese imports to be the newest in economy cars
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DURIAN, a heavy, viciously spiky fruit, is said to taste like heaven but to smell like hell. Its aroma hasn't prevented it becoming a favourite of the island's Chinese population - nor the monkeys who inhabit the tropical rain forests where it grows.
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ULANHOT, China  - It is remote, virtually surrounded by desert, and its only claim to fame is as a fleeting player in the founding of Communist China -- but Ulanhot wants its slice of the multi-billion dollar "red tourism" pie.
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A giant global producer, China is expanding its role as a consumer and, in the process, creating threats and opportunity.
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By Photos by Gary Whitney For the Deseret Morning News  When Gary and Susan Whitney went to China this fall, their brains were overwhelmed with images: Rising water in the Yangtze River Gorge. Pandas lazing about in trees. Temples. Pagodas. Soviet-style apartment buildings.
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A fossil of a new crab species reveals the itsy-bitsy crustaceans inhabited towering sponge reefs during the Jurassic Period, where they made tasty snacks for ichthyosaurs and other ancient reptiles.
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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 mous...
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Why trawl through a sweaty illegal wildlife market in Asia when you can shop for rare animals and exotic plants on the Internet?
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A panda in southwest China has given birth to twins, adding to a cub boom that is giving new hope to the endangered species, state media has said.
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GUANGZHOU, China - In southern China, it doesnât matter if an animal is an endangered species. As long as it walks, wriggles or jumps, itâs good enough for the pot.
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GUANGZHOU, China  - In southern China, it doesn't  matter if an animal is an endangered species. As long as it  walks, wriggles or jumps, it's good enough for the pot.
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The Chinese are ecstatic over newly discovered mineral deposits. But they are in Tibet, where the ecology is fragile and human rights even more so
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Shipped halfway across the world to Asia as a seafood delicacy, abalone has become a prized commodity for South African entrepreneurs as well as criminals who have poached the mollusc almost to extinction.
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SHANGHAI, Dec. 13 -- For millions of years, the Chinese river dolphin  basked in the waters of the mighty Yangtze, a gray phantom more than six feet long with a sharp snout and tiny eyes. The endearing creature, which the Chinese call baiji, was the stuff of legend, a goddess to some, and the...
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Asia's fishery industry is awash with growth, opportunity and risk.