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In China, High Security For Off-Road Race

Dozens of police officers wearing bulletproof vests and toting assault rifles guard the camp of an international...

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UNESCO Declares China’s Hoh Xil Nature Reserve A Heritage Site

UNESCO on Friday declared the Hoh Xil nature reserve in China's Qinghai Province a natural heritage site in a...

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China Lowers Number of Missing In Landslide To 73

The number of people missing from a huge landslide that buried a mountain village in southwest China last weekend has...

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China Landslide Leaves 120 Missing In Sichuan

More than 120 people are missing after a landslide in Sichuan province in south-western China, state media say. About...

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At Least 120 Missing In China Landslide

More than 120 people are missing after a landslide in Sichuan province in south-western China, state media say. About...

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Drivers Bewildered By Twisting Chinese Interchange

Five suspended levels and cars going in all directions: a new highway interchange is driving motorists to tears, as...

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China Takes Free Trade Zones Up To 11

China takes free trade zones (FTZ) up to 11, with seven new FTZs starting operation on Saturday. After an unveiling...

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China Bans Beards and Veils In Xinjiang

China has introduced new restrictions in the far western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against...

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China Uighurs: Xinjiang Ban On Long Beards and Veils

China has introduced new restrictions in the far western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against...

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China’s Xinjiang Cracks Down On Muslim Practices In…

China has announced bans on beards and burkas in its remote violence-wracked Xinjiang region as part of tighter...

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Tibetan Fashion Hits the Beijing Runway

Face painted yellow and white with long braids draping her shoulders, a model in voluminous grey robes walks down the...

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Bloody Islamic State Video Puts China In Cross-Hairs

Islamic State militants from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers",...

International

China Holds Mass Police Rally In Xinjiang As Hundreds Sent To Anti-Terror ‘frontline’

More than 10,000 armed police in China's western Xinjiang region staged a mass rally in the capital Urumqi, state media...

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China Encourages Industries To Go West, Protect Environment

China will encourage labor-intensive manufacturing industries located along the eastern coast to relocate inland, it...

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Subway Graffiti Take Passengers To Wonderland

A highly imaginative graffiti display in a subway station in Chongqing has taken passengers and tourists into...

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Worlds Highest Road Tunnel Ready For Use

Builders on Thursday finished work on the world’s highest road tunnel on the Sichuan-Tibet highway. Builders on...

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Most Think Tanks Are Ranked Influential Says Report

A growing number of Chinese think tanks have been ranked as “influential” in the world in the past decade,...

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Tibet Less Remote As World’s Highest Road Tunnel Opens

Builders on Thursday finished work on the world’s highest road tunnel on the Sichuan-Tibet highway. The tunnel passes...