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H7N9 may mutate 8 times faster than regular flu
The new bird flu could be mutating up to eight times faster than an average flu virus around a protein that binds it to humans, a team of research scientists in Shenzhen says.
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Suicide and silicon: why would anyone want to kill an American engineer in Singapore?
Possible interest from Huawei and the Chinese government has Shane Todd's family crying foul.
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Chinese dinosaur embryo fossils are oldest found so far
With several of the embryos petrified at different stages of development, it offers a rare insight into exactly how dinosaurs developed inside eggs...
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What If U.S. and South Korea Won’t Negotiate With North Korea?
Recently, I mentioned one possible reason North Korea has decided once again to use bellicose language to create tensions with most of East Asia and the United States.
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Hong Kong's Bookstore of Banned Books
An interview with Paul Tang, whose People' Recreation Community has tapped into an intriguing new market.
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North Korea nuclear weapons agreement reached by U.S. and China
The United States and China committed Saturday to a process aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons, with the Obama administration gaining at least the rhetorical support of the only government that can exert significant influence over the reclusive North.
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Scientists Race To Stay Ahead Of New Bird Flu Virus
"The top priority is diagnosis — the capability to be able to pick up this virus, should it emerge outside of China," says virologist John McCauley. Flu researchers are getting started on creating a vaccine, but there are still many unknowns.
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Why Leave Job in Beijing? To Breathe
Soaring levels of pollution are driving expatriates out of Chinese cities, and dissuading others from coming. That is a problem for many multinationals who need to attract executives to China at a time when the Chinese market is central to their global success.
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China breaking UN sanctions to support North Korea
As John Kerry arrives in Beijing, China continues to flout United Nations sanctions in order to prop up Kim Jong-un's regime.
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Why Does China Mess with the Foreign Press?
Beijing's handling of foreign media seems to be backfiring. The latest in an ongoing series of discussions with ChinaFile.
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4-year-old bird flu 'carrier' worries China
Doctors say the discovery of a 4-year-old carrier of the H7N9 bird flu virus who shows no symptoms of the potentially lethal virus is a worrying development that could make the spread of the infection more difficult to monitor.
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Chinese man leaves tap on... Creates worlds largest man made ice fall
It’s quite an extreme way to win a war with property developers who want to build a shopping centre, but you have to admire this flat owner’s ice-cold nerve.
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Ever fancied getting your EYEBALL shaved? A visit to the barber... Chinese-style
Astonishing pictures show a barber running a blade across a customer's eyeball in China, before using a rod to scrape beneath the upper and lower lids.
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China trounces U.S. in green energy investments
China attracts twice as much green energy investment as the United States, in a year when money for clean energy falls.
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China Thinks Its Bird Flu Might Be Spreading from Human to Human
Since the first cases of the deadly H7N9 bird flu strain appeared in Shanghai earlier this month, Chinese health officials told the world not to panic because they couldn't find solid evidence of human-to-human transmission in any of what have grown into 82 reported infections.
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Earthquake in China has claimed 160 lives, with more than 5,700 injured
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in southwestern China has left 160 dead and more than 5,700 people injured. The Chinese army has stepped in to deal with the debris of collapsed houses and public building as death toll continues to rise.
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China criticizes US for its human rights record
China slammed the human rights record of the United States in response to Washington's report on rights around the world, saying that U.S. military operations have infringed on rights abroad and that political donations at home have thwarted the country's democracy.
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Chinese teams reach quake-hit region
Chinese rescue teams have reached some of the most remote areas of Sichuan province hit by Saturday's powerful earthquake, state media report.
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How Hollywood Poured $15.5 Billion Into China's Economy
And supported 909,000 jobs.
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Apple returned 8M shoddy iPhones to Foxconn
Foxconn has apparently botched a batch of iPhones, which Apple returned to the contract manufacturer because they were not fit for sale.
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