China and France signed a bilateral pact to fight against climate change together.
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China and France to work together on climate change
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Koreas seek peace treaty
Saturday, October 6th, 2007North and South Korea agreed today to press their superpower allies for a peace treaty to end the world’s oldest and bloodiest cold war conflict, as the leaders of the divided peninsula wrapped up only their second summit in more than 50 years.
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China: All news must be good news
Monday, August 20th, 2007China ordered the media only to report on positive developments.
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China enacts controversial citizen tracking program
Thursday, August 16th, 2007China Public Security, a U.S.-financed company contracted by the People’s Republic, was outfitting the city of Shenzen with 20,000 surveillance cameras and issuing identity cards to record each citizen’s name, address, employment status, education, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical-insurance status, reproductive history, and landlord’s phone number. “If they do not get the permanent card,†said a China Public Security executive, “they cannot live here.â€
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China sets goal to chart “every inch” of moon
Friday, August 10th, 2007China decided to chart every inch of the moon’s surface.
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Chinese gov. announces control over living reincarnation
Sunday, August 5th, 2007The Chinese state media announced that Tibetan living Buddhas are no longer allowed to be reincarnated without permission from the atheist Chinese government.
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Chinese government forcefully relocates 250,000 Tibetans
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007The Chinese government forcefully relocated 250,000 Tibetans – nearly one-tenth the population – from scattered rural hamlets to new “socialist villages,” ordering them to build housing largely at their own expense and without their consent. The government calls the more than year-old project the “comfortable housing program.”
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Cardboard buns reporter arrested in China
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Chinese police arrested a television reporter who is accused of fabricating a story claiming that a stall in Beijing had used cardboard as a substitute for pork in steamed buns, state media said on Thursday.
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China to use rockets to chase away the rain
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Weathermen in China decided to fire rockets into the sky to try and disperse rain clouds, so it would be sunnier during the 2008 Olympics.
[bad for business]
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China: home of the cardboard buns
Saturday, July 14th, 2007It was discovered that companies in China were using chopped cardboard, softened in an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavoring, as a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns.
[yummy]
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China executes official for approving fake meds
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007China executed a former director of its food and drug agency Tuesday for approving fake medicine in exchange for cash.
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Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and ate them, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.
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China unveils national plan for climate change
Monday, June 4th, 2007China unveiled its first national plan for climate change.
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Throw away your toothpaste
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007The government warned consumers on Friday to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.
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China, Russia deny Amnesty Report of illegal arms supply to Sudan
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007China and Russia have denied claims by Amnesty International that they are supplying arms to Sudan for use in Darfur, in breach of a UN arms embargo.
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China orders resettlement of thousands of Tibetans
Sunday, May 6th, 2007In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated some 250,000 Tibetans – nearly one-tenth of the population – from scattered rural hamlets to new “socialist villages,” ordering them to build new housing largely at their own expense and without their consent. The government calls the year-old project the “comfortable housing program.”
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China bans pig advertising
Sunday, January 28th, 2007China’s national state-run television networkbanned all images of pigs from advertisements to avoid offending Muslims.
[not cool]
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Chinese scientists discover how to mate pandas; robot fish
Thursday, November 30th, 2006Chinese scientists revealed that showing pornography to pandas has helped increase the captive panda population, and said that they had successfully mated robot fish.
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China to increase Lebanese peacekeeping force to 1,000
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006China pledged to increase its peacekeeping presence in Lebanon to 1,000 troops.
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Women gives dog driving lesson
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China’s Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson.
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