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        <description><![CDATA[Home-News-China]]></description>
        <pubDate>2010-02-09 20:20:03</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Around the Nation]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nearly 5 million people have returned home by train since the 40-day Lunar New Year holiday travel period started on January 30, the Ministry of Railways  reports.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New eviction rules may not tame anger]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The mainland government faces widespread anger about forced evictions, and planned reforms to property confiscation rules do not go far enough to address the potentially destabilising issue, a rights group said on Tuesday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Court to rule on Liu Xiaobo appeal on Thursday]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A court in Beijing is due later this week to announce its verdict in the appeal of leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was jailed for 11 years on subversion charges, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Family has change of heart to let doctors try to save 'Little Hope']]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The family of a 28-day-old girl, who is in a Beijing hospital after being abandoned in a Tianjin  hospice for being born without an anus, took a step towards saving the little girl by agreeing to release her medical files for medical experts to review.
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            <title><![CDATA[In Brief]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Taiwan's High Court ruled  yesterday that former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian  would be held for another two months after his detention order expires late this month.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beijing trains elite journalists to boost media clout  ]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a bid to raise China's voice on the world stage and compete with Western media, Beijing is planning to assign an elite team of 100 specially trained journalists to the staff of leading state-run media outlets. Under a programme that began last year, Beijing Foreign Studies University, the capital's Tsinghua University, Communication University of China and Renmin University, and Shanghai's Fudan University have each enrolled about 20 hand-picked postgraduate students in two-year master of journalism courses that will provide talent for the likes of Xinhua news agency, China Central Television and <I>China Daily</I>.  
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            <title><![CDATA[CCTV blanks big soccer match against Japan]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[State broadcaster China Central Television's influential sports channel pulled the plug on the national team's match against Japan at the weekend, with Chinese soccer still reeling from a widespread corruption scandal.
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            <title><![CDATA[Chinese-born aerospace spy jailed for 15 years in US]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[An aerospace engineer born in China was jailed for more than 15 years on Monday after being convicted of selling technology related to the US space shuttle programme to China, officials said.
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            <title><![CDATA[Seven dead as bus plunges down Guangxi ravine]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A bus collided with a car on Monday and plunged down a mountain ravine in Guangxi province, killing seven people and injuring 50, state media reported.
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            <title><![CDATA[Quake activist jailed for subversion]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A mainland activist whose independent investigation blamed shoddy construction as the cause of school collapses in the massive 2008 Sichuan earthquake was jailed on Tuesday for five years for subversion, his lawyer said.
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            <title><![CDATA[17 held over kidnap scams in Shenzhen]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[At least 51 attempts to swindle families through false claims that their children had been kidnapped were reported in Shenzhen in just 16 days last month, police said yesterday. Seventeen suspects were arrested. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Chiang's book to be published on mainland]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A book penned by the man whose life embodied a large part of China's 20th century history, only to be dubbed the &quot;No.1 public enemy of the Chinese people&quot; by the Communists, will be published on the mainland.
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            <title><![CDATA[Chongqing lawyer's jail term reduced after guilty plea]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Chongqing lawyer jailed for falsifying evidence in a high-profile mob trial had his sentence cut on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to asking his client, a suspected triad boss, to lie about being mistreated in custody.
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            <title><![CDATA[Ex-deputy police chief stands trial]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chongqing's  former deputy police chief sought to distance himself from triad activities at his trial, which opened yesterday, but admitted taking bribes, local media reported.
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            <title><![CDATA[Twelve feared dead after ship sinks in Yangtze]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[At least one person died and 11 others were feared drowned in eastern China after their ship collided with another vessel and sank in the Yangtze River, local maritime authorities said on Tuesday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Building stormed by angry villagers]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[More than 300 villagers from Hengshishui  in Guangdong stormed the town government's building,  demanding the release of five people detained last week after a clash with police over a water diversion project. 
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            <title><![CDATA[3,000 evacuated after leak at chemical plant]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[More than 3,000 scared residents in Guangzhou's Nansha district were evacuated yesterday after a gas leak at a chemical plant resulted in 24 people being taken to hospital.
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            <title><![CDATA[Verdict today on quake activist who cited shoddy schools]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Sichuan court will hand down a verdict today on mainland activist Tan Zuoren, whose independent investigation blamed shoddily constructed school buildings for the deaths of thousands of children in the 2008 earthquake.
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            <title><![CDATA[Shanghai to raise retirement age over pension deficit]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Authorities in Shanghai will raise the city's retirement age to relieve pressure on the pension fund as they struggle to cope with an ageing population and falling birth rates, state media said on Tuesday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Crackdown on internet gambling planned]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mainland authorities plan to crack down on the online gambling industry, including the banks and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement posted on its website.
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            <title><![CDATA[Mainland water pollution levels twice official figure]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new government survey of the mainland’s environmental problems has shown water pollution levels in 2007 were more than twice the government’s official estimate, largely because agricultural waste was ignored.
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