| HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's red flag was raised into sky Sunday as the former British colony marked the 10th anniversary of its handover to China and bid farewell to a rocky decade of financial woe |
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| The management of the country's fresh water supplies should now be a major national priority and handled as a "State project", Premier Wen Jiabao said. Wen's comments come after a string o |
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| Relations are rocky between US President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but they began their overnight visit at the Bush family's seaside summer home on Sunday with warm handshakes, lobst |
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| A resolution calling on Japan to officially apologize for pressing thousands of women into sexual servitude in World War Two won strong approval on Tuesday from a US congressional committee. Newsmaker |
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| Chinese lawmakers will Wednesday deliberate a proposal authorizing the State Council to reduce or cancel the tax on interest accrued from deposits, Xinhua News Agency reported. If the proposal is pass |
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| The country's top quality watchdog this weekend strongly disagreed with a warning by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the safety of Chinese toothpaste, saying it was "unscientific, |
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| MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Russia would go back to its Cold War stance of aiming its missiles at Europe if Washington went ahead with a plan to build a missile defence shield near Rus |
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| EIJING - China rejected a warning by the US Food and Drug Administration urging consumers to avoid using Chinese toothpaste because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze. Calling |
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| Three people were confirmed dead and more than 300 injured when an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 hit the region surrounding Pu'er city in Southwest China's Yunnan Province early yesterday morni |
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