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/ 17 October 2008
Tibet is cutting admission fees to key attractions in an effort to boost tourism to the region after riots led to a dramatic drop in visitor numbers.
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/ 16 October 2008
All eyes will focus on three men when the F1 circus congregates in the paddock in Shanghai ahead of Sunday’s potentially decisive Chinese Grand Prix.
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/ 15 October 2008
Lewis Hamilton is optimistic that he won’t blow his world-title chances in China this weekend and has rebuffed claims that he is arrogant.
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/ 13 October 2008
A dairy ensnared in China’s chemical-tainting scandal said it was a victim of unscrupulous subcontractors who provided raw milk.
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/ 11 October 2008
China looks likely to emerge stronger in the weakened financial system after weathering its own crises of unrest in Tibet and the Sichuan earthquake.
The number of villagers sickened by drinking water contaminated with arsenic in southern China has risen to 200, says the official Xinhua news agency.
China on Tuesday declined to release updated figures revealing how many children have been affected by the tainted milk scandal.
Millions of people will die from respiratory illness and lung cancer in China if nothing is done to reduce smoking and fuel burning indoors.
A Chinese company at the centre of a scare over tainted milk powder had asked for government help to cover up the extent of the problem.
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/ 30 September 2008
Police in China have arrested 27 people in their probe into tainted milk that has sickened 53 000 children, state media reported on Tuesday.
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/ 28 September 2008
China’s first successful spacewalk triggered an outpouring of national pride on Sunday, with ordinary citizens and state-run media hailing it.
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/ 27 September 2008
Astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man to walk in space on Saturday, clambering out of China’s Shenzhou VII spacecraft.
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/ 27 September 2008
China on Saturday scrambled to reassure the public after a toxic-milk scandal, saying nearly 50 brands that had been tested contained no melamine.
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/ 26 September 2008
China’s toxic-milk scandal escalated on Friday as one of the country’s best-known candy brands was pulled off the shelves.
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/ 26 September 2008
China took another stride forward in its space ambitions on Thursday, as it launched a mission expected to include the country’s first space walk.
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/ 25 September 2008
Torrential rains left at least 14 dead in China as Typhoon Hagupit battered the south and another storm pounded quake-hit central Sichuan province.
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/ 24 September 2008
Continuous rain near the epicentre of China’s May 12 earthquake has killed at least eight people and left 38 missing, with thousands left stranded.
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/ 24 September 2008
Hong Kong parents streamed into clinics this week after news that the imported milk they had been feeding their children may be contaminated.
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/ 23 September 2008
China vowed to choke off toxic milk from reaching export markets after an infant-powder scandal that has left thousands of children sick.
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/ 22 September 2008
China will likely sack five officials in connection with a fire at an illegal dance club in southern China, just across the border from Hong Kong.
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/ 22 September 2008
The number of Chinese infants sick in hospital after drinking tainted milk formula has leapt to nearly 13 000.
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/ 21 September 2008
Thirty-seven miners died from gas inhalation in a coal mine in China early on Sunday, in the latest disaster to hit the country’s mining industry.
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/ 20 September 2008
China ordered checks on dairy products and a recall of tainted items as a milk scandal that began with powdered baby formula spread to liquid milk.
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/ 20 September 2008
Beijing was grinding back to its congested normal on Saturday after two months of traffic restrictions and factory closures.
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/ 19 September 2008
Nearly 10% of milk samples from three top Chinese dairy companies was tainted with melamine, the government quality watchdog has found.
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/ 17 September 2008
China said on Wednesday more than 6 000 babies had fallen ill and three died after drinking milk powder contaminated with a toxic chemical.
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/ 17 September 2008
Oscar Pistorius, fresh from winning triple gold at the Paralympics, has set his sights on more track glory, with the 2012 Olympics top of his list.
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/ 17 September 2008
Ernst van Dyk rounded off the Paralympics for South Africa on Wednesday with a bronze medal in the last event of the Games.
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/ 17 September 2008
All dairy producers across China will be tested following a scandal over a chemical placed in milk powder that has killed three babies.
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/ 16 September 2008
Oscar Pistorius blazed to his third gold medal of the Paralympics on Tuesday, adding to three medals won by SA earlier in the day.
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/ 16 September 2008
The death toll from a landslide that engulfed a northern Chinese town grew to 258 on Tuesday with the discovery of four more bodies.
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/ 15 September 2008
Natalie du Toit on Monday said she was eyeing London 2012 after winning five Paralympic golds and competing in the Beijing Olympics.