Gansu
(2002 est. pop. 27.1 million). Gansu (Kansu) Province is located in northern China at the upper reaches of the Huang (Yellow) River. In the west, the province borders on Qinghai and Xinjiang, in...
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Western sections of the Great Wall of China are being reduced to "mounds of dirt" by sandstorms and may disappear entirely in 20 years, a report said Wednesday.The reasons for the deterioration are...
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BEIJING, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A Chinese person from a
dirt-poor province has won the country's largest ever
individual lottery prize -- $14 million, a newspaper said on
Wednesday. The unidentified b...
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Beijing (dpa) - The Tibetan and Xinjiang glaciers - the world's
highest, and the chief sources of Asia's biggest rivers - have melted
by up to an alarming 17 percent during ...
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BEIJING, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have been
forcing Tibetans to sign a petition opposing the Dalai Lama's
return, a London-based group said, in apparent retaliation for
the award of a...
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China is forcing nomadic Tibetan herders to settle in towns to clear land for development, leaving many unable to earn a living, a human rights group said in a report issued Sunday.Herders have bee...
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Asians flocked to temples, parks and Disneyland on Sunday to pray, play, eat, and celebrate the first day of the Lunar New Year, ushering in the Year of the Pig.At the Lama Temple and White Cloud T...
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A U.S.-based human rights group said Friday that police in
northwestern China are holding seven ethnic-Tibetan schoolboys in
custody for writing slogans calling for the return of the Dalai La...
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China's environmental watchdog is investigating whether local officials submitted fake pollution data to the central government after failing to meet annual clean air targets, state media said Thur...
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Beijing (dpa) - China will begin building a second natural gas
pipeline from its far western Xinjiang region to affluent southern
and eastern cities next year, and plans to ...
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Half a century after Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward" brought irrigation to the arid grasslands in this remote corner of northwest China, the government is giving up on its attempt to make a bread...
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Gansu
China's Great Wall eroded by sandstorms
