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Foreigners feel the heat in China
| BUSINESS people in China, especially in Beijing where about 250,000 foreigners live, are facing ever tightening controls as the Olympic Games approach on August 8. | The protests surrounding the int... (photo: AP Photo / Greg Baker)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama with a copy of Tintin in Tibet in Esperanto.
China   Olympics   Photos   Politics   Slideshow   Tibet   		 Reuters 
Dalai Lama says understands anger over Everest torch
Fri May 9, 2008 9:47am ET | | BERLIN (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama says he understands why Tibetan exiles were angry that the Olympic torch reached the top of Mount Everest but had advised them against p... (photo: www.SaveTibet.org / )
KLps1 - December06 - Children - Child - Kid - Kids - Parents Love - Care - Mother - Father - Joy.(ps1)  China Daily 
Young generation combating obesity
(Agencies) | Updated: 2008-05-09 12:47 |   Guan Chen (R), 24, waits after being weighed in at a competition sponsored by a Chinese diet drug company in Beijing in this April 6, 2002 file photo.&#... (photo: WN/Patricia)
Chinese   Health   Medicine   Obesity   Photos  
A standard missile 3 is launched from USS Lake Erie (CG 70) April 26, 2007, during a joint Missile Defense Agency/U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test over the Pacific Ocean. The test was designed to show the capability of the ship and its crew to con  Infowars 
China to modernise nuclear weapons capability
| China is undertaking a dramatic overhaul of its nuclear weapons in an effort to modernise and expand its arsenal. | One of the world's leading arms control experts has said that the Chinese have rea... (photo: US Navy file/MCS2 Maebel Tinoko)
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Investors study stock prices as traders work at a brokerage firm in Hong Kong Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. Hong Kong shares surged Wednesday morning, rebounding with a vengeance from the market's recent plunge as investors welcomed a hefty, surprise interest rate cut overnight by the U.S. Federal Reserve. The blue chip Hang Seng index shot up 7.45 percent, to 23,379.5 points within minutes of opening. It was up 1,179.39 points, or 5.42 percent, to 22,937.02 in midmorning. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) hg3 The Boston Globe
Hong Kong stock index drops 1.5 percent

| HONG KONG—Hong Kong's key stock index dropped its third straight session Friday as investors sold real estate companies. | The blue chip Hang Seng Index fell 386.... (photo: AP / Kin Cheung)
Asia   Business   Market   Photos   Stock  
Panda The Star
Taiwan zoos in fierce competition for China pandas

| TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan zoos are caught up in a ferocious competition to win a pair of pandas from China, now that their country has a new Beijing-friendly president.... (photo: Creative Commons / )
China   Nature   News   Photos   Taiwan  
KLps1 - December06 - Children - Child - Kid - Kids - Parents Love - Care - Mother - Father - Joy.(ps1) Houston Chronicle
US offering to help China in fight against viral infection

TOOLS | BEIJING - The United States is offering to help China in its fight against a viral infection that has killed 34 children, including two reported Friday, and sicke... (photo: WN/Patricia)
China   Disease   Health   Photos   Society  
Rice BBC News
Burma cyclone raises rice prices
| Rice prices have risen for a sixth consecutive day as global supplies continue to be stretched by cyclone damage to crops in Burma. | With worldwide demand also at a re... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Burma   Crops   Photos   Prices   Rice  
A woman looks at a digital stock indicator showing the Hang Seng Index outside a bank in Hong Kong Thursday Sept. 27, 2007. The Hang Seng index closed at 634.86 points or 2.4 percent at 27,065.15, off a low of 26,664.79 and a new all-time-high of 27,166. International Herald Tribune
Hong Kong's key stock index drops 1.5 percent as investors sell real estate companies
| : Hong Kong's key stock index dropped its third straight session Friday as investors sold real estate companies. | The blue-chip Hang Seng Index fell 386.62 points, or ... (photo: AP/Kin Cheung)
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Air China sets up 24-hour command center for Olympics

(Xinhua) | Updated: 2008-05-09 11:13 | Air China, the official airline partner of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, set up Thursday a 24-hour command center to ensure smoot... (photo: Public Domain / Follash)
Aerospace   China   Olympics   Photos   Transport  
U.S. service members externally load humanitarian relief supplies onto a CH-47D Chinook helicopter in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, Dec. 25, 2005. The United States is participating in a Pakistani-led relief operation to aid victims of the devastating earthqua The Australian
US threatens food aid drops on Burma

| A US official has suggested the American military could drop unauthorised food aid over Burma, as the White House expressed outrage at the junta's obstruction of intern... (photo: U.S. Air Force)
Aid   Burma   Military   Photos   US  
Chinese Food Wall Street Journal
The World's Best Chinese Food
Protests, traffic and pollution are three things visitors to Beijing expect to encounter at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. But the city has something else to offer attend... (photo: Creative Commons / Applebee )
China   Food   Olympic   Photos   Pollution  


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Investors study stock prices as traders work at a brokerage firm in Hong Kong Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. Hong Kong shares surged Wednesday morning, rebounding with a vengeance from the market's recent plunge as investors welcomed a hefty, surprise interest rate cut overnight by the U.S. Federal Reserve. The blue chip Hang Seng index shot up 7.45 percent, to 23,379.5 points within minutes of opening. It was up 1,179.39 points, or 5.42 percent, to 22,937.02 in midmorning. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) hg3 Hong Kong stock index drops 1.5 percent The Boston Globe
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A woman looks at a digital stock indicator showing the Hang Seng Index outside a bank in Hong Kong Thursday Sept. 27, 2007. The Hang Seng index closed at 634.86 points or 2.4 percent at 27,065.15, off a low of 26,664.79 and a new all-time-high of 27,166. Hong Kong's key stock index drops 1.5 percent as investors sell real estate companies International Herald Tribune
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Taiwan
Orangutan 067/ntf1 Orangutan moved to wildlife center after 18 years Taipei Times
Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou listens to reporters questions during a press conference after winning the presidential election in Taipei, Taiwan Sunday, March 23, 2008 US turns down visit request from Taiwan's president-elect International Herald Tribune
Mongolia
Olympic Torch reaches Delhi, mass protests begin Jailed Chinese Mongolian dissident claims torture The Star
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