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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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Lack of Innovation in China? Blame Internet Censorship
The existence of the Great Firewall hurts China's economy -- but the issue is more complicated than you think.
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H7N9 bird flu: what we know and don't know
The story broke in China on April 1st: a new bird flu strain, called H7N9, had emerged to infect people for the first time. At the time, there were three known patients, two of whom were already dead.
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Chinese Politicians Are Ridiculously Wealthy
China has a major corruption problem.
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China Orders Troops and Tanks to North Korean Border
China is reportedly beefing up its military presence on the North Korean border amid heightening tensions in the region.
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China is plundering the planet’s seas—and it’s doing it 12.5 times more than it’s telling anybody
China might be cracking down on luxury spending in watches, cars, banquets and really foul liquor. But the market for pricey fish parts continues relatively unabated. US border officials recently busted a ring smuggling bladders of an endangered fish used for medicinal Chinese soups (here are some images of these prized bladders).
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The beauty of Guilin, China
Chinese fisherman starting their long day of hard labor.
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Poisoned yogurt kills two girls in China; Authorities suspect rival school responsible
State media says a woman confessed that she injected the yogurt with rat poison and asked a man to place it with notebooks on the road to the rival kindergarten in Pingshan county in Hebei province
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'Appalling irresponsibility': Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus
Experts warn of danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions of people.
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China will not accept N. Korea as 'nuclear-armed state': official
China's chief nuclear envoy has told his South Korean counterpart that Beijing will not accept North Korea as a "nuclear-armed state," a high-ranking Seoul official said Friday, adding that Seoul, Washington and Beijing reached a consensus on the stance.
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China arrests 900 in fake meat scandal
Chinese authorities seize 20,000 tonnes of illegal meat products and detains gang passing off fox, mink and rat as mutton.
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China’s architecture just keeps getting more bizarre
The shape of the new headquarters for the People's Daily, China's official government newspaper, is meant to symbolize earth and sky, or from an aerial view, the Chinese character for the word for people.
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U.S. Turns Up Heat On Costly Commercial Cyber Theft In China
U.S. official displeasure has grown over the problem of Chinese cyber-espionage. The Obama administration has signaled that it will step up the investigation and prosecution of trade-secret theft and has not ruled out punitive measures.
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North Korea asks China to hire idled Kaesong workers
North Korean authorities asked their Chinese counterparts to hire North Korean workers withdrawn from the symbolic inter-Korean joint venture in the Kaesong industrial complex, according to a local government source here.
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Going in deep: China's Counterfeit Condoms
A factory in Fujian province is busted for marketing fake Durex rubbers.
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How do fortune cookie messages get written?
Two of the world's largest producers of baked-in aphorisms don't even have someone on the payroll dedicated to full-time fortune writing.
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Chinese abductee used Google Maps to find his family after 23 years
A man from Sichuan, China, has reportedly been reunited with his family after 23 years, finding his way home thanks partly to Google Maps.
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Chinese tourists’ bad are manners harming country’s reputation,
A vice premiere says Chinese tourists are hurting the country's image.
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Hollowed Out TV Sets Become Miniature Worlds
Have you ever wondered what will happen to all the cathode ray tube televisions now that most people have switched to flatscreens? Chinese artist Zhang Xiangxi has re-purposed a few of them into a diorama like record of some of the rooms from his life- his old workspace in Guangzhou, the workers’ dormitory he once lived in, his parent’s sitting room, and the interior of a train carriage.
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China seeks release of fishing boat seized by North Korea
North Korean forces have seized a Chinese fishing boat, Chinese officials told state-run news agency Xinhua late on Sunday, creating a potential new irritant in ties between the two allies. Chinese counselor to North Korea Jiang Yaxian said North Korea had "grabbed" the private vessel from the northern city of Dalian in waters between China and the Korean peninsula, according to the official news portal.
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