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Bible to be available free during Games
2024-08-05Athletes, officials, spectators and tourists can pick up the Bible, or just the New Testament, for free during the Olympic Games next month.Tens of th...
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G8 unlikely to agree on climate deal
2024-05-27Prospects of the G8 reaching a meaningful agreement on how to best fight global warming dimmed as leaders, with a long list of global problems, began ...
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Torch relay flashes by Great Wall
2024-08-06The Olympic torch whisked along the Great Wall for the first time yesterday when torchbearers ran across the six-century-old Jiayu Pass at the western...
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Heroic head strives to rebuild school
2023-12-06Ye Zhiping is not the type of man who waits for others to offer him assistance, he just rolls up his sleeves and gets on with it.The headmaster of San...
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From shadows to Olympic torchlight
2023-12-06In 1954, when Shan Lun arrived in Yangling as a fresh college graduate, he found the place was no more than a backwater village with neither tap water...
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Girl's kin wait for third postmortem
2023-12-06Family members of Li Shufen, the 17-year-old girl whose death late last month sparked violent protests over the weekend in Guizhou province, told repo...
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Lester Blake is happy, but not for any breakthrough in his engineering profession. His source of happiness is a clean and tidy public toilet, with an ...
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Colombian hostages freed in epic rescue
2024-10-02Colombian troops tricked rebels into freeing politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans in a bold but bloodless jungle rescue that dealt a sever...
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Forum wants new rail fare to be 25 yuan
2023-12-06The majority of participants in a public hearing yesterday agreed on the price of a ticket for the new Beijing airport rail - 25 yuan ($3.65).The hear...
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Mongolia declares emergency after riots
2024-10-01The Mongolian government yesterday declared a four-day state of emergency to quell riots over alleged election frauds that have killed at least five p...