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Youngest quake hero decides to go home

China's youngest hero has returned to his hometown in Sichuan Province after a half year in Shanghai, where he enjoyed free medical treatment and schooling but missed his home.

'Olympic Pandas' head for Sichuan home

Eight pandas flown to Beijing last May to add cheer to the Olympics will return to their hometown in southwest China's Sichuan Province upcoming Sunday, a Beijing Zoo official said Tuesday.

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· Youths to raise fund for quake-affected children
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· Vice Premier urges scientific planning in quake zone
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· An elderly man donates his life savings to charity
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· Quake bereaved parents struggling with psychological trauma
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· Quake-hit students see future with college exam
· A wedding that follows a funeral
· A dog-day afternoon
· Controversy doesn't nix promotion of 'police mom'
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At 2:28 PM on May 12, 2008, a 8.0 Richter Scale earthquake pounded Wenchuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

Wenchuan (population 111,800) , 90 km northwest of Sichuan's capital Chengdu, hosts Wolong Nature Reserve, China's leading giant panda research center.
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· All of us around the world share your greif and sadness
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