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Shenzhen -
Local authorities in the southern Chinese town of Shenzhen near Hong Kong said on Tuesday that five people died when a 10 meter (33 feet) wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate.
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Zhangqiu -
34 people were reportedly inside the building at the time of the explosion, of which 12 are dead, several are injured and many missing. The cause of the blast is still unknown.
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Guangan -
A 28-year-old man has arrived back home 23 years after being abducted whilst on his way to kindergarten as a boy. He used Google Maps to help him find his way.
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A Chinese man, who was abducted 23 years ago when only five years old, has used Google maps to track down his home town and has traced his biological family.
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A project, in China, will attempt to analyze the DNA of high-IQ individuals to identify genetic variants related to intelligence. Is this the start of a new eugenics debate?
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Kiruna -
Secretary of State John Kerry was engaged in a different type of Cold War last week as he met with representatives of nations bordering the Arctic at the conclusion of Sweden’s two year chairmanship of the Arctic Council.
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Filipino boxing star Manny Pacquiao remains one of this year's top prize fighters in the world despite successive defeats and long layoff from the sport.
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Digital Journalist Micki Hogan takes to the air as she faces her fears and lives a life-long dream of flying while sitting front seat in a helicopter.
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The Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) launched a commercial for its new Senova D-Series Sedan. This commercial stars Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage.
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In the backdrop of two emerging outbreaks of H7N9 bird flu and the SARS-like novel coronavirus, the H5N1 strain has re-emerged, ushering in a third viral threat to health authorities in several countries.
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A teenage boy turned to the Internet to hire killers to kill his family, because they were putting too much pressure on him over school studies.
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Eight-division world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao and wife Jinkee have emerged victorious in the just-concluded midterm elections in the Philippines which ended 7 p.m. Monday.
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Sydney -
There’s a huge market among Asians for whitening treatments and facial cosmetic surgery. As usual, the public image is wrong. The reasons are much more complex than “looking white”, despite urban myths. Feelings are mixed, and sometimes queasy.
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The Chinese military is reportedly set for the test flight of its first jet-powered Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UACV). Blurry photos believed to be the first shots of the Lijian ("Sharp Sword") at a distance appeared online this week.
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Beijing -
Chinese health officials announced on Monday that four more people have died from the H7N9 bird flu virus. The virus has now killed 31 and infected 131 mostly along China’s eastern coast.
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Beijing -
China's largest state-run bank, the Bank of China, has closed the accounts of the Foreign Trade Bank of North Korea, the country's main foreign exchange bank, and suspended all financial transactions by the bank.
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Boquete -
The US-Food and Drug Administration has completed the phase of public consultation prior to making a decision on allowing commercial production of AquaBounty’s genetically modified salmon and the fish going to market for human consumption.
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As the death toll from the H7N9 bird flu virus climbed to 31 on Monday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assured the public that the current strain does not pose a pandemic threat.
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As the H7N9 bird flu virus continues to spread through China, scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have reported the discovery of a new drug to aid in the treatment of severe influenza infection.
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Kunming -
"Give me back a beautiful Kunming. We want to survive, we want health, get out of Kunming," read banners, as people protested against a planned chemical plant producing paraxylene (PX), a toxic chemical used in fabric production.
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