Chongqing
(1992 est. pop. 3.8 million). Chongqing, which is the largest city in China's Sichuan Province, is situated where the Jialing River flows into the Chang (Yangtze) River in the southea...
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Beijing (dpa) - New floods and landslides have left dozens more
people dead or missing and destroyed thousands of homes in several
areas of China, the government said on Thu...
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Phnom Penh (dpa) - A Cambodian and a Chinese company have inked a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will see Cambodian land
cultivated to breed silk worms and a factor...
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Beijing (dpa) - At least 1.5 million people around the
south-western Chinese city of Chongqing are suffering from water
shortages because of a drought along the Yangtze Rive...
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Beijing (dpa) - China plans to move another four million people
from vulnerable or unsustainable sites in its Three Gorges reservoir
area, state media said on Friday, in a h...
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China has banned limited-period sales promotions in stores after
three people died in a stampede as they scrambled to buy cut-price
cooking oil, state media reported Tuesday.
The accident ...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE DAM BREAKS (The Washington Post, Washington)
FOR CHINA'S communist leadership, which gathers today for a
major party congress, the gi...
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BEIJING, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The last blocks of flats
standing on land to be engulfed by China's vast Three Gorges
reservoir were razed on Thursday, with one row going up in
smoke at the push of a ...
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Chongqing
Dozens more dead as floods plague many areas of China
