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- Relay and relief efforts come to Wenzhou
The Wenzhou leg of the Olympic torch relay on Saturday morning - the flame's first stop in Zhejiang province - shone a light on relief efforts linked to the Sichuan earthquake as the quake's death toll continued to climb. The relay's opening ceremony
- Canada holds off Sweden, faces Russia for gold
QUEBEC - Facing the reality of a dream final, not to mention a pesky Swedish opponent, Team Canada dug down and gave itself a chance to reverse the curse. Oh, the Swedes didn't go quietly into the bronze medal game. In fact, they forced Canada to come
- Austrian kills wife, child, parents and father-in-law with axe
Journalists gather outside the Vienna apartment block where a 39-year-old has confessed to killing his wife and his seven year-old daughter with an axe in the second-floor flat. The 39-year-old man also killed his parents in Linz and his father-in-law in
- SunTech Medical opens China plant
SunTech Medical has opened a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China, the Morrisville-based company said Monday.The new 18,000-square-foot facility will house 26 employees led by General Manager Peter Zhang.SunTech makes devices that monitor blood
- China Earthquake Shuts Tongjitang Medicines Facility Down
Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Company (NYSE: TCM) of Shenzhen said that Monday's devastating earthquake in China has damaged the water piping system at its Guiyang facility, compromising water quality. As a result, the plant will be shut down until the
- A Chinese oddity
An example is Sanxingdui, a mind-boggling museum of bronze artefacts unearthed in China?s Sichuan province between 1986 and 2001. These remarkable figures look as though they could have come from Mayan sources, or directly out of Star Wars. Their
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Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao
urged rescuers in the southwestern province of Sichuan to race
to save lives, days after the most destructive earthquake to
hit modern China, state media said on Saturday.
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