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August 2007
- Deserts Eat Up China's Usable Land
  
  newser | Christian Science Monitor | Aug 16, 07 5:03 PM CDT
  
  With China's deserts spreading another 950 square miles each year, the government is evicting families and replanting farms to stem the tide, the Christian Science Monitor reports from Gansu province. With 20% of the world's population but 7% of its arable land, China's decades-old problem has worsened due to overfarming, deforestation and global warming. More »
  
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  China • climate change • global warming • environment • farming • deforestation • desert
- Deadly Swine Disease Sweeps China
  
  newser | New York Times | Aug 16, 07 1:10 AM CDT
  
  A virulent strain of deadly swine disease is sweeping through Chinese livestock, triggering a pork shortage, rampant inflation and worldwide worries about where the virus will appear next, the New York Times reports. China, one the world's biggest hog exporters, is refusing to cooperate with international health organizations and may already have allowed the disease to spread beyond its borders. More »
  
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  China • food • disease • exports • virus • pig • swine
- China-Made Baby Bibs Contain Lead
  
  newser | New York Times | Aug 15, 07 4:59 PM CDT
  
  Tests by a non-profit agency and the NY Times found made-in-China baby bibs sold at Toys "R" Us contaminated with lead, the paper reported today. After its own recent tests, a government agency did not move to recall the bib; Wal-Mart voluntarily removed bibs made by the same company earlier this year. More »
  
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  China • Wal-Mart • recall • lead poisoning • Chinese toys • lead • Toys 'R' Us • Product recalls
- Don't Even Go There!
  
  newser | Foreign Policy | Aug 15, 07 11:44 AM CDT
  
  Before you pack your bags, check out Foreign Policy's list of the five most overhyped tourist locales: Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt: Famous beach and diving locale actually tacky and overcrowded. Ibiza, Spain: Hippy haven and hedonistic paradise turned into dirty and pricey hole. More »
  
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  China • list • travel • Spain • Egypt • Washington DC • tourism • Iceland
- Mattel Recalls 18M More Toys Made in China
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Aug 14, 07 10:45 AM CDT
  
  Mattel today announced a second, much bigger recall of Chinese-made toys that may be hazardous: 18 million of them worldwide, and 9 million in the US. The recalled items include play sets containing magnets that can be dangerous when swallowed and die-cast cars that contain lead paint. The play sets include Polly Pocket dolls and Batman action figures, the Wall Street Journal reports. The cars include Sarge military jeeps. More »
  
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  China • safety • recall • toys • Mattel • tainted • toxic
- Bridge Collapse Kills 22 in China
  
  newser | Associated Press | Aug 14, 07 7:06 AM CDT
  
  A bridge under construction in Hunan Province collapsed yesterday, killing 22 people and leaving 44 missing. Workers were removing scaffolding from the 880-foot-long span when it crumbled into the Tuo River. Located in the ancient city of Fenghuang and designed as a tourist attraction, the bridge had four decorative stone arches. Most of the workers on the bridge when it fell were local farmers. More »
  
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  China • collapse • bridge collapse • bridge
- China Seeks Oil in Africa
  
  newser | New York Times | Aug 13, 07 10:34 AM CDT
  
  China is exploring the sweltering wilderness of Chad in search of lucrative pockets of oil and other materials, the New York Times reports. Chinese officials tout the strategy as a "win-win" situation as the country develops relationships with African nations to achieve mutual prosperity by capitalizing on natural resources out of the shadow of Western influence. More »
  
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  China • US economy • oil • Africa • poverty • trade • Chad • natural resources
- Chinese Toy Exec Commits Suicide After Recall
  
  newser | Washington Post | Aug 13, 07 7:59 AM CDT
  
  The head of a Chinese company that made a million of the lead-tainted toys recalled by Mattel last month hanged himself in his warehouse this weekend. Zhang Shuhong's suicide followed the announcement Thursday that China banned exports from his company because of the defects. Colleagues reported that Zhang had been sold the tainted paint by his best friend. More »
  
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  China • suicide • exports • recall • toys • Mattel • Chinese toys • tainted • Fisher Price
- Chinese Issue Big Brother ID Cards
  
  newser | New York Times | Aug 13, 07 2:48 AM CDT
  
  The Chinese government is beefing up already stringent surveillance measures, installing 20,000 police security cameras in one city and issuing computer chip identity cards to millions listing work and reproductive history, religion, police records and even landlord phone numbers. The cards will help track citizens for any number of reasons, including enforcement of its policy limiting couples to one child More »
  
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  China • protests • surveillance • computer chip • Communist Party • identity card • Shenzhen
- Great Heights Indeed for Ukraine Giant
  
  newser | Associated Press | Aug 9, 07 7:18 PM CDT
  
  Leonid Stadnik knows how the weather is up there. The 8-foot-5 Ukrainian was declared the planet's tallest man by Guinness World Records yesterday, the AP reports, displacing a 7-9 Mongolian. Stadnik is 6 inches short of the all-time mark, held by an American. More »
  
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  China • human growth hormone • Ukraine • world record • Guinness Book of World Records • growth hormones • height
- Beijing Smog May Postpone Olympic Events
  
  newser | BBC | Aug 8, 07 12:53 PM CDT
  
  The air pollution in Beijing is so bad that some 2008 Olympic events may have to be postponed. IOC president Jacques Rogge is worried about participants in endurance events like cycling because air quality remains dismal despite government efforts, such as shutting down factories, to improve it. Construction for the Games has actually made the problem worse, the BBC reports. More »
  
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  China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • pollution • Beijing • Olympic Games • air pollution • smog • Jacques Rogge
- China to World: Got Milk?
  
  newser | BBC | Aug 8, 07 9:51 AM CDT
  
  Prices of dairy products are likely to rocket in the wake of a massive rise in global demand triggered by new consumer juggernaut China, the BBC reports. China's taste for milk and cheese is outpacing its domestic dairy industry's ability to keep up, and prices in other countries will rise as exporters scramble to satisfy China. More »
  
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  China • food • milk • Wen Jiabao • dairy
- River Dolphin Declared Extinct
  
  newser | BBC | Aug 8, 07 5:54 AM CDT
  
  Calling it a "shocking tragedy," a team of marine scientists have declared the Yangtze river dolphin "likely extinct" after their failure to find a single animal in a recent research expedition. The scientists blamed massive over fishing along the Yangtze as the primary cause of the species' disappearance, the BBC reports. More »
  
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  China • animal • species • dolphin
- China Threatens to Crash Dollar
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Aug 8, 07 5:04 AM CDT
  
  The Chinese government is threatening to crash the American dollar by liquidating its $1.33 trillion in foreign reserves if the US dares impose trade sanctions to force a revaluation of yuan, reports the Telegraph . Two Communist Party officials have given interviews in recent days with stern warnings directed at the US that China is prepared to engage in an economic "nuclear option." More »
  
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  China • US economy • Senate • United States • US dollar • trade • economics • Communist Party • yuan • US • Chinese economy • Capitol Hill • tariffs
- In Countdown to 2008 Olympics, Beijing Besieged
  
  newser | Reuters | Aug 7, 07 6:48 AM CDT
  
  As the one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympics begins tomorrow, activists and Olympic organizers alike have been vocal in their concerns about the host city. The government is under fire for press harassment: journalists were detained for several hours yesterday after a Reporters Without Borders conference, and six Free Tibet activists were arrested recently for unfurling a banner at the Great Wall. More »
  
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  China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • human rights • pollution • Beijing • athlete • Olympic Games • air pollution • Hu Jintao • journalist • food safety
- Rockets Star Yao Marries
  
  newser | People | Aug 7, 07 4:31 AM CDT
  
  Gargantuan Houston Rockets center Yao Ming and his Chinese girlfriend—a hoops star in her own right—got hitched in Shanghai yesterday, People magazine reports. The 7'6" Ming and 6'2" Ye Li held the ceremony and reception at the lush Shangri-La hotel with 70 guests—and close to 100 reporters and photographers camped outside. More »
  
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  basketball • NBA • China • Houston Rockets • Olympic Games • Yao Ming
- McDonald's Plans Raise for Chinese Workers
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Aug 6, 07 7:34 PM CDT
  
  Bowing to pressure from the state labor union and attempting to counter negative publicity, McDonald's will raise wages for its Chinese employees. The fast-food megalith will boost the pay of 45,000 full- and part-time workers by an average of 30%, the Wall Street Journal reports, and issue counter workers new uniforms they chose themselves. More »
  
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  China • McDonald's • fast food • wages • union • minimum wage
- Chinese Official Sorry for Phony Dumpling Story
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Aug 6, 07 7:03 AM CDT
  
  China's top propaganda official has apologized for a TV exposé on cardboard-filled dumplings after it turned out to be full of hot air, the Times reports. A reporter was detained for the fake July segment that showed dumpling vendors replacing meat with cardboard soaked in caustic soda and pork flavoring. More »
  
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  China • propaganda
- Game Over: Mahjong Can Cause Epilepsy
  
  newser | BBC | Aug 4, 07 12:43 PM CDT
  
  Playing the traditional Chinese tile game of mahjong can induce epileptic fits, a new study from Hong Kong shows, and the only remedy is to lay off the tiles. Men were far more susceptible than women, according to the authors, and it wasn't just lack of sleep or gambling stress that provoked the attacks. More »
  
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  China • seizure • epilepsy • game
- New Buddhas Made in China, Bejing Decrees
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Aug 4, 07 7:56 AM CDT
  
  China's office of religious affairs has cracked down on the Tibetan practice of designating "living Buddhas," writes the Telegraph . A notice published yesterday forces Tibetan lamas to obtain Chinese permission before naming reincarnations. The exiled Tibetan government suggests the new rules signal that Beijing will try to name its own successor to the Dalai Lama upon his death. More »
  
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  China • Tibet • Dalai Lama • exile

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