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Chinese Kung Fu Championship Kicks off
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| The first Chinese Kung Fu Championship opened in Beijing today, aiming to improve the quality of Chinese martial arts in China and promote them elsewhere. The kung fu master will be decided at a grand final on January 7. |
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Bus Upgrade in Time for Beijing Olympics
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| 7,277 old buses will be replaced by new ones that meet higher environmental standards from now until 2008 in a bid to reach the goal of a "green Olympic Games". |
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HK CE: All Parties Should Support Constitutional Proposals
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| "If Legislative Council passes the constitutional development package, Hong Kong will take a big step towards our goal of universal suffrage," Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang said while making a televised speech calling for support of the Fifth Report of the Constitutional Development Task Force. |
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Russia to Get Help with Pollution Slick
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| China will send equipment by Friday to test water for benzene to Russian authorities as the contamination slick in the Songhua River approaches the Russian border. In another development, an official from the State Environmental Protection Administration has warned against eating fish from the Songhua River for at least two months. |
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Mine Blast Update: 150 Dead, 1 Missing
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| As at 9:00 AM Wednesday, the death toll from the coalmine blast in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province was 150. Rescuers are still searching for one miner trapped underground. |
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UNESCO Lists 2 More Oral and Intangible Heritage Pieces
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| Two masterpieces, the Art of Chinese Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam and the Pastoral Song of the Mongolian ethnic group, were added to UNESCO's list of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on Monday. |
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Earthquake Kills 17 in East China
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| Seventeen people were killed and 20 more seriously injured in an earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale on Saturday in a region between Jiujiang and Ruichang in east China's Jiangxi Province. |
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Wen Inspects Water Pollution in Harbin
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| Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday arrived in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, to inspect the water pollution of the Songhua River and the public water supply system. |
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China Celebrates Success of Shenzhou VI Mission
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| Top Chinese leaders attended a gathering Saturday morning in Beijing to celebrate the country's successful manned space flight in mid-October. Taikonauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng were conferred the title of "Hero Taikonaut". |
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US Ends Pending Decisions over Chinese Textile Import Quotas
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| The U.S. government has ended all pending decisions to impose quotas on Chinese textile imports and let go part of the goods blocked at the port, said the official website of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Friday. |
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