Deng centenary celebrations reach climax
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BEIJING, Aug. 22. - Chinaâs month-long celebration of the birth centenary of its late leader Deng Xiaoping, chief architect of the countryâs reform and opening up drive, reached its climax today with
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BEIJING -- As police battled to suppress deadly ethnic clashes last week in central China, tens of thousands of rice farmers fighting a dam project staged a huge protest in the western part of the country. The same day, authorities crushed a strike involving 7,000 textile workers.
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ISLAMABAD: The 128th birth anniversary of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was celebrated nationwide including Azad Kashmir with respect and admiration on Saturday.
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Deng Xiaoping, French President Jacques Chirac, in an exclusive interview by PD correspondent Zhang Zhuji stationed in France on August 19, talked about his contacts with Deng Xiaoping, highly
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People welcoming the new year in Cardiff also mark the start of the city's centenary and half-centenary celebrations.
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Bright, deafening explosions and thick  smoke covered China's capital at midnight, as Beijingers  celebrated the beginning of the New Year and the end of a  firework ban in exuberant fashion.
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HUNDREDS of people came together on Sunday to lay wreaths and salute those who lost their lives during the two world wars and other conflicts.
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The ongoing celebration in the Ukrainian capital is beginning to take on a tinge of nostalgia.
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Hundreds of civil rights leaders and others crowded Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday to the celebrate the man and his legacy.
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China was celebrating Sunday the 100th anniversary of the birth of its late supreme leader, Deng Xiaoping, the BBC reported. Deng is widely regarded as the man who set the
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Sirens were due to wail across more  than 100 Chinese cities on Saturday to commemorate the 73rd  anniversary of the start of Japan's invasion of China, state  media said.
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Beijing - China&#39;s top leaders on Friday celebrated the 55th anniversary of communist rule with National Day festivities in Beijing&#39;s Tiananmen Square and other key venues around the capital.
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China finished building the Three Gorges dam across the Yangtze River on Saturday, a key milestone for the world&#039;s largest hydroelectric project.
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Known as the father of a two-decade-long economic boom and crusher of the 1989 pro-democracy movement at Tiananmen Square, Deng Xiaoping has an unlikely new role: pop culture icon.
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Authorities around the Asian region battered by the tragedy that killed more than 100,000 people scaled back or cancelled celebrations today.
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Hu Jintao became China&#39;s undisputed leader yesterday as the world&#39;s most populous nation completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era.
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On the centenary of Deng's birth, memories of his bond with a U.S. President