Chongqing gangleader executed, lawmakers sacked
CHONGQING: A notorious gang leader was executed Thursday in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality after being convicted of organizing a crime ring that killed one person and intentionall...
China Daily,
Thu Nov 26 23:58:47 PST 2009
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China tries to fix crumbling health care system
Unable to rely on China's broken health care system, the Ji family was desperate.
AP via Yahoo! News,
Sun Nov 29 11:56:33 PST 2009
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China executes Chongqing gang boss amid crackdown
A top gangster in western China has been executed as part of a major crackdown on organized crime, state media reported Friday.
AP via Yahoo! Asia News,
Fri Nov 27 02:21:00 PST 2009
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Emerging Market IPO Returns Rout Developed Nations
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Initial public offerings in emerging nations are returning about 15 times more than IPOs in developed countries even as companies from China to Brazil flood the marke...
Bloomberg,
Sun Nov 29 14:30:07 PST 2009
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China tries to fix crumbling health care system
Unable to rely on China's broken health care system, the Ji family was desperate. Doctors had taken 15-year-old Ji Xiaoyan off a ventilator and discharged her because her family could no lo...
AP via Yahoo! Finance,
Sun Nov 29 11:56:33 PST 2009
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Is China finally tackling its soccer corruption scourge?
Last week, the police announced they had arrested 16 players, coaches, and minor officials accused of match-fixing and betting scams.
The Christian Science Monitor,
Sun Nov 29 10:13:26 PST 2009
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China tries to fix crumbling health care system
Unable to rely on China's broken health care system, the Ji family was desperate. Doctors had taken 15-year-old Ji Xiaoyan off a ventilator and discharged her because her family could no lo...
San Francisco Chronicle,
Sun Nov 29 10:09:49 PST 2009
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China tries to fix crumbling health care system
China embarks on health care reform after years of neglect pushes many patients to desperation
Newsday,
Sun Nov 29 13:26:15 PST 2009
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China tries to fix crumbling health care system
Doctors had taken 15-year-old Ji Xiaoyan off a ventilator and discharged her because her family could no longer pay her hospital bills.
3news,
Sun Nov 29 13:33:55 PST 2009
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China tries to fix crumbling health care system
Such horror stories prompted the government to launch a three-year, 850-billion-yuan ($124-billion) effort earlier this year to rebuild the crumbling health care system.
MalaysiaNews.net,
Sun Nov 29 14:36:35 PST 2009
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China tries to fix crumbling health care system
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Rocky Mount Telegram,
Sun Nov 29 12:12:25 PST 2009
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China Tries to Fix Health Care System
Doctors had taken 15-year-old Ji Xiaoyan off a ventilator and discharged her because her family could no longer pay her hospital bills. So an uncle cobbled together a makeshift ventilator f...
MalaysiaNews.net,
Sun Nov 29 06:37:35 PST 2009
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(Following Advance for Use Monday, Nov. 30)
(Stations: Please sub the following for the Today in History script send in advance for Monday, Nov. 30. CORRECTS description of Jacques Barzun in Thought for Today -- historian, sted philo...
FOX 11 Tucson,
Sun Nov 29 07:17:51 PST 2009
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Gang leader executed, four lawmakers removed in SW China crime crackdown
A notorious gang leader was executed Thursday in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality after being convicted of organizing a crime ring that killed one person and intentionally injured e...
People's Daily,
Fri Nov 27 02:58:27 PST 2009
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Shell, PetroChina to Develop Shale Gas in Sichuan
China has begun its first joint development project in shale gas, in a bid to tap into an unconventional source of cleaner-burning fuel to meet the nation's rising demand.
Rigzone,
Fri Nov 27 08:57:10 PST 2009
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Girl, 14, on fast track to Peking University
[Photo: Fourteen-year-old Hong Xinge (also below) is besieged by reporters in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on Tuesday after becoming one of the first students in China to be offered a new way in...
AsiaOne,
Fri Nov 27 01:07:43 PST 2009
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Pranab Bardhan: Our corruption, their corruption
Recently, the trial in a case of corruption against a billionaire Party official along with many of his associates and accomplices (public servants, judges, policemen and gangsters) in Chon...
Business Standard India,
Wed Nov 25 11:10:30 PST 2009
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Harper needs to back panda deal
The Toronto Zoo could have a pair of giant pandas within two years if the Stephen Harper government gets on board and shows the Chinese government it supports the endangered animals coming ...
Toronto Sun,
Fri Nov 27 00:05:26 PST 2009
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China urges boost to natural gas output, imports
China has urged its big three energy producers to boost gas imports and output after an ongoing shortfall during an unusually early cold snap forced many cities to cut off supply to busines...
AFP via Yahoo! News,
Wed Nov 25 23:08:56 PST 2009
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