Hubei
(2002 est. pop. 63.3 million). Hubei (Hupei, Hupeh), a central China province that covers an area of 185,900 square kilometers, borders on Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west, on Henan in the north,...
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BEIJING, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Yu Zhengsheng has been named
Communist Party secretary of Shanghai, the top official in
China's financial centre, the official Xinhua news agency said
on Saturday, conf...
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BEIJING, Jan 7 (Reuters) - China's Communist Party has
expelled 500 members in the central province of Hubei for
flouting the country's one-child policy, state media reported on
Monday. For over t...
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Authorities in central China have expelled 500 people from the Communist Party for defying the country's one-child policy, state media said Monday.More than 93,000 people in Hubei province violated...
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BEIJING, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Cold weather and heavy snow have
struck unusually large swathes of central and eastern China,
causing fatal accidents, bringing down power lines and destroying
crops. E...
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BEIJING, Jan 24 (Reuters) - China's broadcast watchdog has
slammed a provincial station for ingoring an order to remove
sexually explicit television programmes from the air, and
demanded better "s...
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Harare (dpa) - Zimbabwe is trying to persuade close ally China to
help construct houses for more than a million people in need, a
newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Beijing (dpa) - A court in central China on Monday sentenced a
computer programmer to four years in prison for creating and
spreading a virus known as "panda burns joss stic...
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Beijing (dpa) - Rescuers on Friday were searching through rubble
that buried a passenger bus in the central Chinese province of Hubei
with little hope for the survival of 30...
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(EDS: ADDING RESCUE TEAM QUOTES)
Thirty-one people are thought to have died after the bus they
were traveling in was buried in a landslide near the Three Gorges Dam
reservoir in central Chin...
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Beijing (dpa) - Rescuers on Friday were searching through rubble
that buried a passenger bus in the central Chinese province of Hubei
with little hope for the survival of 31...
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