China begins big flood clean-up
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Residents in south-western China begin cleaning up after floods and landslides left 172 people dead.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Floods in China May Worse This Year: Official" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Tens of thousands of people displaced by floods that have inundated the Indonesian capital for almost a week were beginning to leave emergency shelters and start the unpleasant task of cleaning out their mud-filled homes.
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More than 100 people have died in floods and landslides in China where dykes protecting a swollen river in the east, which has already prompted tens of thousands to flee their homes, are in danger of being breached.
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BEIJING - A massive floodcrest passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River yesterday as devastated communities upstream cleaned up from floods that killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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A powerful typhoon triggered landslides and flash floods in northern Taiwan on Wednesday before ploughing into China where hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated.
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China to clean up polluters along Songhua River after repeated chemical spills    BEIJING, Sept.
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China flooded dozens of evacuated  villages on Tuesday to ease pressure from a swollen river after  torrential rains that have killed more than 100 people  nationwide.
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Thousands of residents of the Indonesian capital began returning to their homes on Wednesday as flood waters receded, but they faced a huge task clearing up streets and homes caked in stinking garbage and mud.
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China's flood-hit Sichuan province faced threats from disease on Wednesday while recovering from the worst flooding in a century as villages downstream on the Yangtze River braced for deluges.
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A flood at a mine in southern China trapped 36 workers on Sunday, the government said, the latest in a recent string of disasters in the country's perilous coal mines.
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China's Sichuan province faced the  threat of epidemics on Wednesday after the worst flooding in a  century killed at least 172 people and left scores missing,  while water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam swelled.
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Floods and typhoons in China this year  have killed at least 800 people and caused billions of dollars  in economic losses, state media and government officials said  Wednesday.
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China has put the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydro-electric project, on flood alert, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday after rain and mudslides killed 76 in areas to the west.
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China's most polluted province steps up environmental efforts    TAIYUAN, Sept.
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China's flood-hit Sichuan province  faced threats from disease on Wednesday while recovering from  the worst flooding in a century as villages downstream on the  Yangtze River braced for deluges.
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Hundreds of householders are mopping up or bracing for flooding as heavy rain continues