| 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.
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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
Source 2:
The Washington Post
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Times Online
Source 4:
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
Source 2:
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.”
| Source 1:
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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| April 20, 2006 | -
Chinese President Hu Jintao visited with President Bush in Washington, D.C. A Falun Gong protester interrupted the welcoming ceremony; President Bush apologized to Hu, and also called on Hu to appreciate the value of the yuan.
| Source 1:
AP via Yahoo! News
Source 2:
BBC News
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| April 19, 2006 | -
British
doctors criticized China for harvesting organs for transplant from thousands of executed prisoners.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 6, 2006 | -
Australia agreed to sell uranium to China.
| Source:
The Australian
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| April 5, 2006 | - In China a woman was selected from 70 volunteers to live for seven days in a cage with Internet access and 300 birds.
| Source:
All Headline News
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| April 3, 2006 | -
Chinese
Internet users were spending two billion hours online each week.
| Source:
Forbes
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| March 22, 2006 | -
China announced a new 5 percent tax on disposable chopsticks.
| Source:
ABC News Online
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| March 21, 2006 | - A group of U.S. senators visited China to push for an increased valuation of the yuan; without such a change the Senate plans to vote for tariffs on Chinese imports. "We would like to get an idea from our Chinese hosts," said Senator Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.), "what the future is going to be like."
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 8, 2006 | - The U.S. State Department issued a report criticizing human rights abuses in China, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. It also criticized the rights records of Jordan and Egypt, two countries where the United States has sent detainees to be interrogated. The report noted that the United States' "own journey towards liberty and justice for all has been long and difficult," and is "far from complete."
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
The Independent
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| January 29, 2006 | - A firecracker explosion killed 16 people during a New Year celebration in China.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 25, 2006 | -
Google agreed to censor its Chinese search results to please the Chinese government.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 15, 2006 | -
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il rode an armored train to China, where he toured hi-tech firms.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 13, 2006 | - A soon-to-be revealed world map was offered as evidence that Chinese sailors discovered America; the map is said to be a 1763 copy of the 1418 original made during the reign of Emperor Yongle.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 6, 2006 | - Yao Wenyuan, the final surviving member of the Gang of Four died.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 6, 2006 | - It was reported that street vendors in Shanghai were secretly replacing mutton with cat meat.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 2, 2006 | - Wives in China were suing their husbands' mistresses to reclaim gifts the mistresses had received from the husbands.
| Source:
China Daily
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| December 31, 2005 | - U.S. financial giant Citigroup was attempting to purchase about 85 percent of the state-owned Guangdong Development Bank of China.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 30, 2005 | - A judge ruled that it was illegal for the Bush Administration to continue to imprison several Chinese
Muslims at Guantánamo Bay. Nine months ago a tribunal determined that the prisoners in question were not actually enemy combatants, but U.S. law will not allow them to be sent to China because China persecutes Muslims, and no other country wants the prisoners. The judge also noted that he had no power to enforce his own ruling.
| Source:
Boston.com
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| December 17, 2005 | - It was reported that agents from the Department of Homeland Security visited a college student in New Bedford, Massachusetts, soon after he requested a copy of “Mao's Little Red Book” through interlibrary loan—although many librarians felt the story might be a hoax.
| Source 1:
The Standard-Times
Source 2:
BoingBoing
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| December 9, 2005 | - Police in Guangdong, China, fired into a crowd of demonstrators who were protesting the sale of government land for a wind-power plant; villagers said that at least ten people had been killed.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| November 28, 2005 | -
Earthquakes struck Iran and China.
| Source:
The Arizona Daily Star
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