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Japan faces crematorium shortage
2024-08-07Japan's rapidly aging society is forecast to lead to shortfalls in young people, workers and tax revenues. But there’s also another shortage...
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US charges China over subsidies
2024-08-07The United States has questioned China's pork subsidies in a letter posted on the website of the World Trade Organization (WTO), reflecting new te...
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Chen Shui-bian denies $31 m bribe accusation
2024-08-07Former Taiwan "president" Chen Shui-bian said yesterday he had done nothing wrong after a prosecutor questioned him for more than four hours...
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Full steam ahead for rail plan
2023-12-06The development of China's railway network will include the construction of 548 railway stations within the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10), ...
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Bank swindlers found guilty in US
2023-12-06A federal jury in Las Vegas convicted two former principals of China's largest bank, of embezzlement and money laundering on Friday in the biggest...
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Hurricane Gustav pounds US coast
2024-10-04Hurricane Gustav sent strong winds and lashing rains into New Orleans early yesterday, but the storm lost some of its power and was expected to move a...
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Panda gives birth to cub
2024-10-04The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base in Sichuan province announced that 11-year-old panda Lun Lun gave birth to a cub in Zoo Atlanta in the ...
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Beijingers debate car restrictions
2023-12-06More than 400,000 Beijingers have joined an online discussion about whether to keep traffic restrictions introduced for the Olympic and Paralympic Gam...
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Quake kills 32, injures over 400
2024-10-04Thirty-two people have died, more than 400 injured and over 100,000 homes destroyed or damaged after an earthquake hit Sichuan and Yunnan provinces ar...
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New Orleans residents flee Gustav's path
2023-12-06Time was running out for New Orleans residents yesterday to escape the fury of Hurricane Gustav, which mayor Ray Nagin has called "the mother of ...