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Typhoon Imbudo Strikes Guangdong
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| Typhoon Imbudo killed at least four people and injured 16 others when it struck south China's Guangdong Province Thursday. Many coastal dykes and reservoirs were destroyed, and many cities and counties in the western coast were flooded. |
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UK Official: ASEM to Increase Mutual Understanding
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| The United Kingdom (UK) highly values its relationship with China, and hopes to solve its trade disputes through dialogue and negotiation, a senior UK official said in the Asia-Europe High Level Economic Forum. |
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Vice Premier: China Pushes Forward International Cooperation
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| China's speedy development in the past 20 years is closely associated with international cooperation, thus China likes to push forward economic cooperation with ASEM members and other countries, said Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi when addressing the opening ceremony of the fifth ASEM Economic Ministers' Meeting. |
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Quake Killed 16, Injured 584 in SW China
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| As of 1:00 pm Wednesday, the earthquake in Dayao County of Yunnan Province, southwest China, had killed 16 and injured 584, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said. |
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Beijing-Hangzhou Canal Closure Leaves 7,000 Ships Stranded
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| Seven thousand ships were stranded in the Huaian section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in east China's Jiangsu Province Tuesday. Canal regulators said the waterway traffic was not likely to resume within 10 to 15 days.
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Saddam's Two Sons Killed in US Raid
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| Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in a six-hour gunbattle with US troops at a villa in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday after a tip-off from an Iraqi, the US military said. |
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Top Asia-Europe Economic Forum Convenes in Dalian
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| Top officials and entrepreneurs from 25 ASEM member countries attended the Asia-Europe High-level Economic Forum, which convened on Tuesday in Dalian, a costal city in northeast China's Liaoning Province. |
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Chinese Experts: RMB Revaluation Unnecessary
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| China should not bow to pressure from home and abroad to revalue its currency in a move to prop up a sustainable economic growth and prevent speculative hot money from international markets batting the market, warned a group of senior experts and officials. |
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Chinese President Meets British PM
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| Chinese President Hu Jintao said in Beijing Monday evening that China's new leadership attaches great importance to Sino-British ties and will work with the British side to ensure that the overall bilateral partnership achieves even greater progress. |
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More Rain Expected in Flooded Regions
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| The Huaihe River valleys and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River will experience heavy downpours in the next two days, according to the latest weather forecasts from China's Central Meteorological Station. At the same time, a tropical storm is inching towards coastal areas of south China's Guangdong Province. |
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