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        <pubDate>2010-03-18 07:40:04</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Taipei wants more flights across strait]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Taiwan hopes to hold talks with the mainland  on increasing cross-strait flights as demand for more air links  grows, an official said yesterday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Ex-EU chief opts to teach at business school]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Former European Commission president and Italian prime minister Romano Prodi  has turned his back on offers of seats on company boards and opted instead to teach on the mainland.
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            <title><![CDATA[Zoo closed amid reports of tiger parts harvest]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A zoo in  in the city of Shenyang  has been shut after a spate of Siberian tiger deaths as reports  yesterday said dozens of the dead animals may have been used to make a virility tonic.
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            <title><![CDATA[Beijing's new missiles cover Taiwan airspace ]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The mainland has completed deployment of a new type of surface-to-air missile capable of covering the entire airspace of northern Taiwan, despite warming cross-strait ties. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Google expected to keep its key operations going]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Internet search giant Google,  despite its much publicised threat to exit China, will probably retain key business operations in the country when its domestic website is shut down, mainland internet analysts say. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Wuhan plans 20b yuan celebration]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wuhan   plans to spend more than 20 billion yuan (HK$22 billion) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai revolution, led by Sun Yat-sen, which overthrew the Qing dynasty in 1911, state media reported yesterday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Delegates question the 'hard-earned recovery']]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[For many sitting in China's parliament and its advisory body, smiles and silence are golden. They know all they can do is rubber-stamp any proposals put forward by the ruling Communist Party. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Around the Nation]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The municipality is investing about 43 million yuan (HK$48.8 million) to improve water quality at two major tourist destinations where algae blooms occur frequently and ruin the scenery, <I>The Beijing News </I> reports.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[US legislators speak up for Falun Gong]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The US House of Representatives  has urged China to end its &quot;persecution&quot; of the Falun Gong  and rejected Beijing's charges that the banned spiritual movement is an &quot;evil cult&quot;.
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            <title><![CDATA[Maglev line not on, says railways official]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[China has no plan to build a maglev train connecting Shanghai and Hangzhou  , Zhejiang , according to a Ministry of Railways official.
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            <title><![CDATA[Chui shrugs off questions about greater democracy in Macau]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Macau Chief Executive Dr Fernando Chui Sai-on sidestepped questions about democratic reforms while stressing the need to improve people's livelihoods as he took questions from legislators yesterday following his first policy address on Tuesday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Smelter victims still dying as cadres turn blind eye]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[People are  still dying of cadmium poisoning in Zhentou, Hunan , despite the nationwide attention the town attracted last year when thousands of residents protested against heavy-metal pollution from a nearby chemical plant. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Millions must brace for shortage of drinking water]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Millions of people face drinking water shortages in the southwestern  region because of a once-a-century drought that has dried up rivers and threatens vast farmlands, state media reported  yesterday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Debt crisis threatens Kaohsiung subway]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[As high-speed rail fever sweeps the mainland and Taiwan's high-speed line counts  its losses, the island's Kaohsiung subway has revealed NT$5 billion (HK$1.22  billion) of losses after  two years of operation.
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