| January 2, 2009 | - Twenty-two Chinese dairy companies involved in the recent profusion of melamine-tainted milk sent a text-message apology to millions of cellular phones. “We are deeply sorry,” read the message, “for the harm caused to the children and the society.”
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BBC
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| November 29, 2008 | - Wo Weihan, a 59-year-old biomedical researcher convicted of espionage by a Chinese court, was executed by a gunshot to the head. “I don't want people to think we hate China,” said his daughter. “We're just really disappointed and shocked by the criminal justice system.”`
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 22, 2008 | -
Quixing Park Zoo panda Yang Yang bit a college student. “I just wanted to cuddle him,” said the 20-year-old, “I didn't expect he would attack.”
| Source:
CNN
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| November 21, 2008 | - The U.S. National Intelligence Council released a report to U.S. policymakers intended to prepare them for a future of waning U.S. influence as countries including China, India, and Russia grow in standing. The report suggests the dollar may be replaced as the world's major currency, and that demand for oil, food, and water “will outstrip easily available supplies” and lead to global conflicts. “Conditions will be ripe for disaffection, growing radicalism... youths into terrorist groups... all current technologies are inadequate. This,” it concluded, “is a story with no clear outcome.”
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BBC
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CNN
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| November 20, 2008 | - A congressional advisory panel found that China has stolen “vast amounts of sensitive information from U.S. computer networks,” including government networks.
| Source:
CBS
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| November 18, 2008 | - A Chinese-born scientist working in Virginia pleaded guilty to selling military secrets to the Chinese for their space program.
| Source:
Information Week
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| November 9, 2008 | -
China announced a $585 billion economic-stimulus plan.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 20, 2008 | - The British Food Standards Agency recalled edible sex toys, including chocolate and strawberry body pens and a chocolate lotion, after the Chinese-made products were discovered to contain trace amounts of melamine, an industrial chemical that can cause kidney failure.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 26, 2008 | -
Chinese
astronauts conducted the country's first-ever spacewalk. “After the Olympics, it's the most exciting thing that enhances our national pride and dignity this year,” said He Haihong, a Beijing sales manager.
| Source:
Boston Globe
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| September 18, 2008 | - Global stock markets lost $3.1 trillion in four days, and American International Group (AIG), the world's biggest insurance company and a leader in the $62 trillion credit-default swap market, was nearly bankrupted. “The private market has screwed itself up,” said Representative Barney Frank (D., Mass.), “and they need the government to come help them unscrew it.” The Federal Reserve loaned AIG $85 billion at 11 percent interest and took control of the company, which was founded in China in 1919 and driven out thirty years later by Mao. AIG was replaced in the Dow Jones Industrial Average by Kraft, the makers of Cheez Whiz.
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Der Spiegel
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The New York Times
Source 3:
The New York Times
Source 4:
Der Spiegel
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Boston Globe
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CNN
Source 7:
Bloomberg
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| September 4, 2008 | - Xiguang, an elephant undergoing treatment on the Chinese island of Hainan, was off heroin and headed home.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| August 29, 2008 | - An Ohioan named China Arnold was convicted of microwaving her one-month-old baby, Paris Talley, to death.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 25, 2008 | - The Beijing
Olympics ended.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 13, 2008 | - Michael Phelps, the American swimmer who won eight gold medals in Beijing, revealed that he consumes more than 12,000 calories a day by eating three egg sandwiches with fried onions, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast, three chocolate-chip pancakes, two ham-and-cheese sandwiches, two pounds of pasta, and an entire pizza.
| Source:
New York Post
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| August 12, 2008 | - The musical designer for the Beijing
Olympics admitted that Lin Miaoke, the nine-year-old Chinese schoolgirl who, suspended on wires, performed “Hymn to the Motherland” at the games' opening ceremony, lip-synched the song after Chinese officials decided that the actual singer, seven-year-old Yang Peiyi, was too ugly and buck-toothed to perform before billions.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| August 11, 2008 | - The Olympics began in Beijing, heralded on television by fake, computer-generated fireworks.
| Source:
All Headline News
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| August 10, 2008 | - President George W. Bush told Bob Costas that China “is a big, important nation...it is important for this country to show respect for the people of the country.”
| Source:
CEP News
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| July 23, 2008 | -
China was paying parents of victims of the recent earthquake in Sichuan province to sign statements to the effect that the Communist Party “mobilized society to help us”; Chinese newspapers were ordered to stop reporting on school collapses; and a poll ranked China as the most optimistic of 24 nations surveyed.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
New York Times
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| July 22, 2008 | - A locust plague in Mongolia threatened to spoil next month's games in Beijing.
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
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| June 30, 2008 | - A federal appeals court ruled that evidence against Hozaifa Parhat, a Chinese
Muslim held at Guantanamo Bay for six years, consisted of nothing more than the reassertion of his guilt in three top-secret documents. “Lewis Carroll notwithstanding,” wrote one judge, quoting “The Hunting of the Snark,” “the fact the government has 'said it thrice' does not make the allegation true.”
| Source:
CNN.com
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| June 10, 2008 | - A corpse-laden “quake lake” in the Sichuan province of China was being drained.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| May 24, 2008 | - Aftershocks in the wake of the Great Sichuan Earthquake toppled thousands of buildings. At least 80,000 people were thought to be dead from the quake, up to 11 million people were homeless, and 69 dams were at risk.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
The International Herald Tribune
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CBCNews.ca
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| May 19, 2008 | - A 7.9-magnitude earthquake centered in Sichuan Province, China, left 50,000 dead and 5,000,000 homeless. Outside Beichuan Middle School, where 1,000 students and teachers died, parents waited for the bodies of their children to be pulled from the rubble, lighting a single firecracker each time a body was found. A married couple lay under their workers' dormitory for 28 hours, their limbs crushed and entwined. “I tried bending my neck against the wall to kill myself,” said the husband after being rescued. Three minutes of silence and three days of mourning were observed throughout the nation, and the Olympic Torch relay was suspended. “Other people who know their relatives have died can call this a memorial day or a funeral,” said a farmer named Wang Hongchen, who wandered the ruins shouting his son's name, “but not me yet.” Predictions of a powerful new earthquake sent tens of thousands of Chengdu residents rushing to the streets in panic.
| Source 1:
Telegraph.co.uk
Source 2:
Nytimes.com
Source 3:
Nytimes.com
Source 4:
Reuters via NYTimes.com
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| May 16, 2008 | - The invasion of tasteless Chinese truffles threatened the primacy of the European Perigord black truffle.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| April 28, 2008 | - A train collision killed 43 passengers in Zibo, China.
| Source:
Express India
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| April 5, 2008 | - The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, a tradition that began in 1936 as a celebration of Nazi ideology, traveled to Dar es Salaam, guarded by China's 30-person paramilitary Sacred Flame Protection Unit; onlookers chanted “Tanzania is a peaceful country” as a police helicopter hovered overhead.
| Source 1:
The Guardian
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The Washington Post
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Times Online
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All Africa
Source 5:
BBC News
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| March 27, 2008 | - It was revealed that a Miami Beach company supplied U.S. allies in Afghanistan with defective, 40-year-old, Chinese-made bullets; the president of the company, 22-year-old Efraim Diveroli of Miami Beach, has been a defense contractor since he was 18. “I'm basically just working,” Diveroli explained on his MySpace page, “and chilling with my boyz.”
| Source 1:
NYT
Source 2:
Miami Herald
Source 3:
MySpace
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| March 17, 2008 | - Tibet's exiled government said that hundreds of Tibetans had died in clashes with the Chinese government in Lhasa, while China put the number of dead at thirteen.
| Source 1:
AFP
Source 2:
The Hindu News Update
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| March 17, 2008 | -
China dismissed as “downright nonsense” the Dalai Lama's claim that China has enacted a “rule of terror” as well as “cultural genocide” in Tibet.
| Source:
Bloomberg
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| February 21, 2008 | - The United States claimed to have successfully shot down a disabled and toxic spy satellite; China and Russia said the action was actually an excuse to test anti-satellite missile systems.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| February 3, 2008 | - In China, where hundreds of thousands of people traveling for the Lunar New Year remained stranded by winter storms, a woman was trampled to death in a stampede to board a train.
| Source:
Storm-hit China calls for 'faith'
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| January 18, 2008 | - President George W. Bush called for $145 billion in tax cuts, describing the measures as a “shot in the arm” for the U.S. economy, which caused stock values to plunge in Australia, Tokyo, Hong Kong, China, and across Europe. “There's something approaching panic in the market,” said an analyst with Bank of America. “The short-term risks,” explained Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, “are to the downside.”
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
New York Times
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| January 9, 2008 | - The World Bank said that the prosperity of China and other emerging markets would help soften the coming global economic downturn.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| January 7, 2008 | - The Chinese government expelled more than five hundred people from the Communist Party for violating the country's one-child policy.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| January 2, 2008 | - Pat Robertson predicted that China will convert to Christianity. “God's going to give us China,” he said. “China will be the largest Christian nation on earth.”
| Source:
Huffington Post
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| December 8, 2007 | - A new National Intelligence Estimate by all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Iran ended its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003, in contrast to a 2005 report that claimed with “high confidence” that such a program was still active. Former CIA officials explained that at the time the earlier report was written the agency's Iran Task Force had been reduced from nearly a hundred analysts and officers to fewer than a dozen, and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, attempting to explain why the earlier report was not “so wrong,” reminded reporters that Iran is “very good at this business of keeping secrets.” “It is all right,” responded Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “It is enough that you are confessing to your mistakes.” In Iowa,
Democratic candidates debated the Iranian nuclear threat as well as the safety of toys made in China. “My toys,” said Senator Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), “are coming from Iowa.” At a dinner in Des Moines, a reporter summarized the Iranian nuclear report for Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who hadn't heard the news. Huckabee, a Southern Baptist preacher, also recalled that he was still learning about the AIDS virus in 1992, when he proposed putting AIDS patients in quarantine.
| Source 1:
WP
Source 2:
White House
Source 3:
LAT
Source 4:
NYT
Source 5:
WP
Source 6:
LAT
Source 7:
Politico
Source 8:
AP via Yahoo
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| December 7, 2007 | - There was talk of breeding the last known female Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle, an 80-year-old displayed behind bulletproof glass at a zoo in Changsha, China, with the last known male, a 100-year-old who lives in Suzhou. “The main problem,” said a herpetologist, “is really to get a viable sperm sample from the old male.” Methods under consideration include a series of electric shocks and manual massage.
| Source:
The Sydney Morning Herald
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| November 12, 2007 | -
Chinese pork provider Pengcheng held a public pig-carcass-shaving to demonstrate that its meat would be sanitary and safe to eat at next year's Olympic Games; rival meat purveyors Qianxihe Group were raising special organic-fed Olympic pigs that are treated with traditional herbal medicines and given two hours of exercise each day.
| Source:
ChinaView.cn
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| November 8, 2007 | - Soon after “Aqua Dots,” a China-made bead toy aimed at children four and older, was named Australia's toy of the year, 4.2 million units were recalled because chemicals in the tiny beads, when metabolized, turn into the date-rape drug GHB.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| October 29, 2007 | -
General Motors announced it would open a new research center into alternative fuels and vehicles in Shanghai.
| Source:
Forbes.com
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| October 20, 2007 | - The Dalai Lama received the Congressional Gold Medal. “We are furious,” said Zhang Qingli, secretary of China's Party Committee of Tibet Autonomous Region. “If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world.”
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
New York Times
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| October 20, 2007 | - The Dalai Lama received the Congressional Gold Medal. “We are furious,” said Zhang Qingli, secretary of China's Party Committee of Tibet Autonomous Region. “If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world.”
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
New York Times
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| October 18, 2007 | - Iranian and Chinese companies won contracts worth $1.1 billion to build power plants in Sadr City, Iraq,.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 18, 2007 | - Iranian and Chinese companies won contracts worth $1.1 billion to build power plants in Sadr City, Iraq,.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 9, 2007 | - The Republican candidates for president gathered in Dearborn, Michigan, for a debate on the economy. Mitt Romney, who was born in Detroit, bemoaned the “one-state recession“ gripping Michigan; Duncan Hunter repeatedly blamed the loss of American manufacturing jobs on free-trade policies with “communist China”; Ron Paul attributed the large profits of hedge-fund managers to a conspiracy among politicians, banks, Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, and the military-industrial complex to inflate or destroy currencies and swindle the middle class; and John McCain advised Paul to read ”The Wealth of Nations." The candidates generally agreed that taxes are too high. “We’re taxed to the max,” said Sam Brownback. Mike Huckabee touted his Fair Tax proposal to abolish the IRS and to tax consumption as a way to shift the tax burden onto drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, and illegal immigrants. Paul and Tom Tancredo refused to pledge to support the Republican nominee in the general election.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 22, 2007 | - Contestants on “American Idol”-style talent shows, said China, must henceforth demonstrate “perseverance, maturity, confidence, and health.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 7, 2007 | - A routine X-ray of a Chinese woman's body uncovered 26 sewing needles, presumably placed there during her infancy by her grandparents, who were disappointed that she was not a boy.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| September 5, 2007 | - A corrupt official in China was caught plagiarizing his trial apology from another corrupt official.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 4, 2007 | - Mattel recalled 11 more Chinese-produced lead-laced toys.
| Source:
RTT news
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| September 3, 2007 | - The British government complained that the Taliban was using weapons that had been made in China,.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| August 30, 2007 | -
China declared its one-child policy an environmental weapon in the fight against global warming.
| Source:
Alertnet.org
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| August 29, 2007 | - Two brothers survived in a collapsed Beijing coal mine for five days by eating coal and drinking their own urine. “You can only take small sips,” said Meng Xianchen, “and when you've finished, you just want to cry.”
| Source:
BBC
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| August 16, 2007 | - Citing America's $1 trillion debt to China, Senator Joe Biden warned, “We have to get off that sucking off of that breast which is China.”
| Source:
Des Moines Register
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| August 16, 2007 | - A couple in China named their baby “@.”
| Source:
AP via SFGate.com
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| August 12, 2007 | -
China Public Security, a U.S.-financed company contracted by the People's Republic, was outfitting the city of Shenzen with 20,000 surveillance cameras and issuing identity cards to record each citizen's name, address, employment status, education, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical-insurance status, reproductive history, and landlord's phone number. “If they do not get the permanent card,” said a China Public Security executive, “they cannot live here, they cannot get government benefits, and that is a way for the government to control the population in the future.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 4, 2007 | -
China declared that Tibet's living Buddhas must seek permission from the government before being reincarnated.
| Source:
Times Online
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| August 2, 2007 | - An online video game that allows players to torture and kill corrupt officials and their children proved so popular in China that the game's website crashed.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
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| July 19, 2007 | - A Beijing
journalist was detained for fabricating a story about street vendors stuffing their dumplings with cardboard.
| Source:
CNN
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| July 16, 2007 | - In China, where flooding has killed hundreds of people this summer, the rampant Yangtze River had caused Dongting Lake to overflow, leading two billion rats to flee to the Hunan countryside, where there are few predators to reduce their numbers, as the snakes have been eaten by southerners and the owls have been used for medicine. Besieged farmers were poisoning the rats, beating them with hammers, and sending them, live, by truckload to restaurants in Guangzhou, where diners pay 136 yuan for a kilogram of ratmeat.
| Source 1:
National Geographic
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ABC News
Source 3:
Sydney Morning Herald
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| July 10, 2007 | -
China executed Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of its State Food and Drug Administration, for taking bribes to approve untested medicines including an antibiotic reported to have killed ten people.
| Source:
NYT
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| July 2, 2007 | -
China sentenced a former official to death for corruption and for approving counterfeit drugs, admitted that nearly 20 percent of the goods it produces are substandard, and announced that it was searching for oil in Sudan.
| Source 1:
BBCnews.com
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
BBCnews.com
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| June 20, 2007 | - One and a half million Thomas the Tank Engine toys produced in China were recalled after they were found to contain lead paint.
- One and a half million Thomas the Tank Engine toys produced in China were recalled after they were found to contain lead paint.
| Source:
IHT
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| June 8, 2007 | - In China, a spike in the price of pork tenderloin and bacon caused people to begin eating more fish.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 7, 2007 | -
China was in the grip of “Web 2.0 madness.”
| Source:
CNET
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| May 31, 2007 | - It was reported that Xiang Xiang, a five-year-old panda bred in captivity and released into the wild, was found dead in February. Wild pandas are suspected.
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 30, 2007 | -
China and India were preparing to race to the moon.
| Source:
Financial Times
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| May 20, 2007 | -
China announced that it would invest $3 billion in the New York‒based private equity group Blackstone.
| Source:
The New York Time
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| April 19, 2007 | - One centimeter of snow accumulated on the drought-stricken Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in what China claimed to be the first artificial snowfall.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| March 29, 2007 | -
China was considering using its vast harvest of rape to create biodiesel. “The government,” said Agriculture Ministry official Wang Shoucong, “should foster research work to nurture high-yield rape.”
| Source:
PTI via Hindu
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| March 21, 2007 | - To test the integrity of ten local hospitals, journalists in Hangzhou, China, replaced their urine samples with tea; six of the hospitals diagnosed the reporters with urinary tract infections.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! Lifestyle
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| March 19, 2007 | - In Beijing, weather officials were now using the word “mai,” meaning “haze,” to denote a denser concentration of pollutants than “wu,” which means “fog.”
| Source:
The Economist
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| March 8, 2007 | -
China accused the United States of trampling on Iraq’s sovereignty and violating the rights of its own citizens.
| Source:
Boston Herald
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| March 1, 2007 | - In a videoconference with Hong Kong investors, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said that America might sink into recession by year's end; a frenzied worldwide sell-off ensued. The Shanghai Composite lost 8.8 percent of its value in a day, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 3.3 percent, its worst drop since September 17, 2001. “Alan Greenspan really needs to sit down,” said one economist, “and be quiet.” Others marveled at the ability of “the Maestro” to cause upheavals even in retirement; Greenspan later held another videoconference, for which he charges fees of $150,000, and said that a recession was ”not probable.”
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New York Times
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AP
Source 3:
NPR
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| February 15, 2007 | -
Chinese authorities sentenced businessman Wang Zhendong to death for his role in duping 10,000 investors out of $390 million in a giant ant-farming scam.
| Source:
BBC
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| February 7, 2007 | - A spokesperson for the Chinese government said the West bore an “unshirkable responsibility” for climate change.
| Source:
Financial Times
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| February 2, 2007 | - A Chinese man whose genitals were eaten by a dog when he was a child was said to be happy with a new penis built from his chest muscles and hip bones.
| Source:
Xinhua
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| January 19, 2007 | -
McDonald's opened its first drive-thru window in China.
| Source:
AP via Breitbart
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| January 18, 2007 | - The coffee chain was challenged by a Chinese state TV personality, who claimed that its presence in Beijing's Forbidden City “trampled over Chinese culture.”
| Source:
BBC
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| January 7, 2007 | - Desperate to protect themselves from crime, many South Africans were attending martial arts classes taught by Bruce Lee's top student, Grandmaster Richard Bustillo. “I was born in 1975 and Bruce died in 1973,” said one pupil. “He was a Chinese guy but maybe he came back as an African?”
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| November 22, 2006 | - The Yellow River turned red for the second time in a month.
| Source:
BBC
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| November 21, 2006 | -
Chinese
scientists revealed that showing pornography to pandas has helped increase the captive panda population; Vassar scientists said that they had successfully mated robot
fish.
| Source 1:
AP via Australian
Source 2:
Xinhua
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| November 15, 2006 | -
Forests were expanding in Spain, Ukraine, Vietnam, and China.
| Source:
Times Online
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| October 30, 2006 | - In Beijing, volunteers giving out free hugs were detained by police. “Embracing is a foreign tradition,” said one citizen. “Chinese are not accustomed to this.”
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| October 26, 2006 | -
Chinese president Hu Jintao was purging disloyal party members.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 23, 2006 | - An “unknown discharge” turned a half-mile section of China's Yellow River “red and smelly.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 16, 2006 | -
China insisted that the U.N. request, rather than require, countries to inspect North Korean cargo. An American expert called the sanctions “kabuki theater,” and North Korea called them a “declaration of war.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 12, 2006 | -
Chinese
Wal-Mart workers unionized.
| Source:
International Herald Tribune
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| October 8, 2006 | - In China's Shanxi and Shaanxi Provinces, families with dead sons complained that corpse brides were in short supply.
| Source:
scotsman.com
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| September 29, 2006 | - Men boxed kangaroos in Shanghai's fourth annual Animal Olympics.
| Source:
Daily Mail
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| September 27, 2006 | - The Chinese organ market remained robust due to a spike in executions. Many prisoners, said an official, had volunteered to give up their organs as a “present to society.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 25, 2006 | -
China announced plans to ship thornless red roses to markets worldwide.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 18, 2006 | - The recipient of a penis transplant in Guangzhou, China, requested doctors remove the organ after he and his wife began experiencing “severe psychological problems.”
| Source:
The Guardian
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| August 30, 2006 | - A woman in Hohhot, China, crashed her car into another vehicle while allowing her dog to drive.
| Source:
Guardian
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| August 29, 2006 | - Researchers warned that countries with unnaturally high male-to-female population ratios, such as China and India, could foster violence, organized crime, and terrorism.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 23, 2006 | -
Chinese law enforcement officials cracked down on striptease performances at funerals in Jiangsu province, arresting five and setting up a hotline where people could report “funeral misdeeds.”
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo News
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| August 1, 2006 | - An epidemic of bird flu among geese in northern China was driving up the price of badminton shuttlecocks.
| Source:
CNN
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| August 1, 2006 | - In China 50,000 dogs died in Yunnan province when government-authorized “killing teams” crept into villages at night and beat the dogs to death.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| July 24, 2006 | -
Chinese scientists were preparing to test an artificial sun.
| Source:
UPI
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| July 21, 2006 | - A school headmaster in China burned down 10 classrooms when the dog
meat he was cooking burst into flames.
| Source:
The Australian
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| July 18, 2006 | - The Chinese government announced that it would begin issuing identity numbers to fresh vegetables.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 3, 2006 | - Floods killed dozens of people in Romania, Pakistan, China, and the northeastern United States.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 26, 2006 | -
China announced that media outlets would be fined up to $12,500 if they reported on any “sudden events” without prior authorization.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 15, 2006 | - It was reported that for two years China has deployed a fleet of Golden Champion “death vans” to allow rural communities to carry out lethal injections.
| Source:
USA Today via AOL
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| June 6, 2006 | -
Donald Rumsfeld, the American secretary of defense, traveled to Vietnam, where he complained that Russia is a bully and China is secretive; he also observed that when Vietnam's first university was founded in 1070 American Indians were still living in mud huts. “That's impressive,” he said.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 5, 2006 | -
Surgeons in Shanghai successfully removed a baby boy's third arm.
| Source:
AP
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| May 31, 2006 | - In China
doctors were trying to determine which left arm to remove from a three-armed baby.
| Source:
BBC
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| May 7, 2006 | -
Chinese
scientists said that the glaciers of the Tibetan plateau were evaporating. "The melting glaciers," said Dong Guangrong, "will ultimately trigger more droughts, expand desertification, and increase sand storms." One such storm recently dumped over 300,000 tons of dust in Beijing; technicians cleaned away some of the dust by firing seven rocket shells filled with silver iodide into the air to produce four-tenths of an inch of rainfall.
| Source 1:
The Independent
Source 2:
China View
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| May 1, 2006 | - A Chinese man used eBay to buy an old MiG fighter jet to decorate his office.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 25, 2006 | -
Chinese
bra producers were offering larger sizes to meet increased demand.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| April 24, 2006 | -
China announced that it would ban heavy snorers from its army.
| Source:
BBC News
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