China Plans Highway on Mount Everest to Speed Olympic Torch
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China plans to build a highway on the side of Mount Everest to ease the Olympic torch's journey to the peak before the 2008 Beijing Games, state media reports.
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China vows to 'blaze a new path to industrialisation' today as it unveils first national plan on climate change.
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On a dusty river bed in the shadow of the Potala Palace, home of Tibet&#39;s exiled Dalai Lama, a bridge is rising that China says will bring prosperity to the Roof of the World.
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Melting glaciers caused by climate change are posing an urgent threat to Mount Everest's unique environment, activists said Wednesday, launching a campaign to protect the Himalayan mountain range and the world's highest peak.
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A British explorer has broken the speed record for reaching the North and South Poles and the summit of Mount Everest, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Saturday.
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The Olympic torch will not pass through Taiwan as it makes its way to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games, officials said Friday, after Taiwanese authorities turned down Chinese proposals on a route because they said it threatened the island's sovereignty.
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China has begun laying a 500-million-dollar fiber optic cable to the United States that will be vital in meeting booming Internet traffic between the two nations, state press reported Tuesday.
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LEAL, Sudan -- On this parched and dusty African plain, China's largest energy company is pumping crude oil, sending it 1,000 miles upcountry through a Chinese-made pipeline to the Red Sea, where tankers wait to ferry it to China's industrial cities. Chinese laborers based in a camp of prefabricated sheds work the wells and lay highways across the flats to ...
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NINGBO, China  - The $1.5 billion, S-shaped bridge that will link Ningbo and Shanghai is graceful testimony to the huge sums that China is investing in infrastructure to keep raising the potential of the world's fourth-largest economy.
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The Olympic torch will not stop in Taiwan en route to the Beijing Games in 2008, Taiwanese officials said on Friday after talks broke down with China which considers the self-ruled island its sovereign territory.
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A Sherpa guide who sprinted up Mount Everest in eight hours and 10 minutes will keep the record for the fastest climb up the world's highest peak, Nepalese mountaineering officials said Thursday.
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China's first plan to confront climate change cites growth as its top priority.
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China, rocked by a brick kiln child slavery scandal, plans to set up a national panel to stop human trafficking, aimed at protecting women and children from forced labor and prostitution, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Work has begun on wind power stations that will provide electricity for next year&#39;s Beijing Olympics and showcase China&#39;s ambitions to become more environment friendly, state press reported Tuesday.
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GUANGZHOU, China  - China's snow-stricken railways were creaking back into action on Friday, but with power cuts still crippling swathes of the country, President Hu Jintao visited a coal mine and urged workers to boost production.
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China's snow-stricken railways  were creaking back into action on Friday, but with power cuts  still crippling swathes of the country, President Hu Jintao  visited a coal mine and urged workers to boost production.
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CHINA intends to make Olympic history by staging part of the 2008 Beijing Games outside its own territory. Top officials have suggested sending Olympians three hours by plane from the Olympic village on the