New Year bittersweet for China's families
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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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His eyes nearly in tears from the crush of fellow travelers at Guangzhou's train station, Hong Tao said things were much better today, after days of waiting for a train to his home in Hubei province. A rare winter storm has paralyzed China's transportation system as millions tried to get home to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
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China&#39;s recent decision to cancel a military exercise, followed a few days later by a similar announcement from Taiwan, offered the first ray of hope in months that relations were on the mend.
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CHENZHOU, China  - 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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The dignitaries making rounds to express their good wishes in the usual new year's day official exchange paid tribute to the people hit by the natural catastrophe in Asia.
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China's railway system is expected to carry some 155 million people over the upcoming Chinese New Year period, the most ever, as people flood home for the traditional festival, a senior official said on Thursday.
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China's shopping malls in late December leave little doubt that the country has been smitten by Christmas, if not in quite the way devout Christians might hope.
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XINMI, China -- Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards yesterday at the scene of China's worst mining accident this year as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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China has taken the step of asking millions of migrant workers to forego their annual Lunar New Year trip home, saying the worst winter weather in 50 years is expected to pummel the country for at least another three days.
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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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Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages on Wednesday and millions more were stranded by snow that has blanketed parts of central and southern China, raising concerns about their safety.
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China is not yet over the worst of a winter weather crisis that has killed 60 and doomed millions to a cold dark Lunar New Year holiday next week.
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China is preparing to mark Sunday the centenary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, the father of the country's modernization drive, with a flurry of nationalistic and party celebrations.
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China is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, its late supreme leader. For most Chinese the diminutive figure was the man who set the country on a pragmatic reformist
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Brutal winter weather has wracked China's central, eastern and southern sections, stranding hundreds of thousands of travelers ahead of next week's Lunar New Year holiday.
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Watch Chinese state television or read  the main Communist Party newspapers and the whole nation  appears to be pulling together to battle heavy snow which has  stranded millions ahead of the Lunar New Year.
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In a generation, a rough-and-tumble form of capitalism is eclipsing the remnants of socialism in China.