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China coal mine blast kills 17 dead - Daily Times BEIJING: Seventeen people have been killed in a coal mine blast in northern China, the government said Saturday, in the second major industrial accident to hit the country this week. The early morning explosion destroyed ... Posted on 31 July 2010 | 10:52 pm |
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Director Woo joins cast of China epic - Washington Post HONG KONG -- A-list filmmaker John Woo is the first celebrity to join the cast of the second major film in the leading Chinese state film studio's campaign to reform the propaganda genre. Last year, China Film Group Corp ... Posted on 31 July 2010 | 10:37 pm |
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US specialist says China oil spill understated - Boston Globe BEIJING — China’s worst known oil spill is dozens of times larger than the government has reported — bigger than the Exxon Valdez spill two decades ago — and some of the oil was dumped deliberately to ... Posted on 31 July 2010 | 12:00 pm |
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Taiwan urges Beijing to acknowledge existence of "Republic of China" - Investors Business Daily Taipei, July 31 (CNA) - Premier Wu Den-yih urged Beijing Saturday to acknowledge the existence of the Republic of China to allow for the peaceful development of cross-Taiwan Strait relations. Wu rejected a proposal put ... Posted on 31 July 2010 | 11:10 am |
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China Imprisons 3 Men Who Maintained Uighur Web Sites - New York Times BEIJING — Three men accused of “endangering state security” for their roles in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3 to 10 years, according to exile ... Posted on 31 July 2010 | 12:04 am |