China crops its history
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Beijing's effort to silence discussion about Zhao Ziyang has landed in the heart of Hong Kong.
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SHANGHAI, China  - China's population, now the world's largest at 1.3 billion, will peak at just under 1.5 billion in about 30 years, the country's head of population planning was quoted on Monday as saying.
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China and the developing world need lots of what the big mining companies can give them.
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Cui Weiping had become an adept cotton farmer and tractor driver in a bleak east China village in 1977 when college entrance exams were restored after the 10-year frenzy of the Cultural Revolution.
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The findings about Peru are evidence that some farming developed in parts of the Americas nearly as early as in the Middle East, considered the birthplace of agriculture.
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Science & environment: Environmental and social impact of producing the crops may be greater than originally thought
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A glance at the newspapers and glossy  magazines jostling for space on China's news stands shows how  much the media has changed since the Communist country embraced  market reforms more than 20 years ago.
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Scientists exploring the western slopes of the Andes in northern Peru have found seeds of domesticated squash from almost 10,000 years ago.
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These sesame seed sized creatures carry a record of hundreds of millions of years of geological history.
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DUOLUN COUNTY, China  - Until giant sand dunes swallowed his home, Deng Baogui was a shepherd and wheat farmer in an Inner Mongolian village where his family had lived for three generations.
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GONGSHAN, China  - When China's communist army razed his church, Jesse's grandfather climbed into the forests stacked up above his valley and carved a hole in the trunk of a tree to hide his bible.
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Follow what the Brits have been doing for over 350 years, the Japanese for 1,200 years and the Chinese for over 5,000 years. Drink tea.
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China has the world's largest population and one of the world's largest economies. Now it will get a massive virtual universe to match.
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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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In recent years, hundreds of multinational companies have set up research laboratories in China.
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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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KUNMING, China -- When Liu Huana was 5 or 6 years old, she learned to help her older sister put goats out to pasture. By the time she was 7, she could take care of 20 goats by herself, often stopping to sneak fresh watermelon from another farmer's fields.