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South China tigers teeter on brink of extinction

The South China tigers are verging on the brink on extinction from hunting and deforestation, and these magestic animals are so close to being gone forever."Historically revered as an archetypal Chinese...

created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Snow storm kills dozens in China and $3 bil in damages

The front pages of the Chinese dailies are full of stories describing the disastrous impact of the snow storms during the busiest travel season of the Chinese calendar.The Chinese government has sent in their...

created by cynthia yoo | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Chinese Floods Force Mass Evacuations; Many Dead

Smaller villages throughout southern China have been devastated by storm-fed floods and flood-triggered landslides as over half a million people are forced to flee. Citizen-journalist photos have been relatively slow to come out of China so far, as Flickr is blocked there,...

created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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A cure for tumor: 4 spoonfuls of sand per day

"A sixty-year-old man in east China's Jiangxi Province claims that he has gradually recovered from liposarcoma - malignant tumors found in the tissue of fat cells - and stomach ulcers after eating sand for 18 years. Sheng Shoudong, a cleaner at a food market in Shaxi town,...

created by alaaron | 5 years ago
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Porcelain drums show ancient exchanges between east China and west Asia

"Chinese archaeologists said pieces of newly unearthed porcelain waist drums in East China's Jiangxi Province indicate there were close links between the province and both central and western Asian cou..."