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China says detains 19, seizes weapons after Xinjiang unrest

Posted on 30 May 2013.

Chinese police have detained 19 people and seized homemade explosives and weapons following a bloody clash between residents and officials which killed 21 people last week in the restive region of Xinjiang, state media reported.

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Chinese military cracks down on license plates and corruption

Posted on 28 April 2013.

China's new leadership is seeking to dismantle a system of privilege which has allowed the drivers of military vehicles to do as they please on the roads.

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China's Xinjiang says "terrorist" ax, knife and arson attack kills 21

Posted on 24 April 2013.

A confrontation involving axes, knives, at least one gun and ending with the burning down of a house left 21 people dead in China's troubled far-west region of Xinjiang, a government spokeswoman said on Wednesday, calling it a "terrorist attack".

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China orders military chiefs to serve stints as junior soldiers

Posted on 23 April 2013.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered his top brass to spend two weeks as junior soldiers every few years as a way of boosting military morale - but skeptics doubt the move will do much more than polish his own credentials as commander in chief.

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Rescuers struggle to reach China quake zone as toll climbs

Posted on 22 April 2013.

Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst earthquake in three years climbed to 208 with almost 1,000 serious injuries.

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China says aims to banish superstition, promote knowledge

Posted on 21 April 2013.

China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs about things like sickness and death, the country's top religious affairs official told a state-run newspaper.

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Earthquake kills 157, injures 5,700 in China's Sichuan

Posted on 20 April 2013.

China's worst earthquake in three years on Saturday killed at least 157 people and injured more than 5,700, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said.

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China says bird flu death toll rises to 13

Posted on 14 April 2013.

Two people in the central Chinese province of Henan have been infected by a new strain of avian influenza, the first cases found in the region, while the death toll has risen to 13 from a total of 60 infections after two more deaths in Shanghai.

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First case of new bird flu strain found outside eastern China

Posted on 13 April 2013.

The Chinese capital reported its first case of a new strain of bird flu on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time it has been found in a human outside eastern China.

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China’s Bird Flu Response Shows New Openness

Posted on 11 April 2013.

After a new and lethal strain of bird flu emerged in Shanghai two weeks ago, the government of China‘s bustling financial capital responded with live updates on a Twitter-like microblog. It's a starkly different approach than a decade ago, when Chinese officials silenced reporting as a deadly pneumonia later known as SARS killed dozens in the south.

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