Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops
KUNMING, China - Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential -- rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.
Nations:China Philippines India Argentina Brazil Switzerland People:Wen Jiabao Activities:Global Food Crisis
2008-11-30
Landslides, worst floods in a century kill 51 in China
BEIJING (AFP) - Parts of southwestern China have been hit by their worst floods in more than a century as well as landslides that have cost 51 lives and left 43 missing, local officials and state media said Wednesday.
Nations:China Source:(AFP)
2008-11-04
China quake kills 27, destroys 180,000 homes
BEIJING - Chinese rescue teams carrying tents, quilts and sacks of rice rushed Sunday to reach survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 27 people, turned tens of thousands of homes into rubble and cracked reservoirs.
Nations:China Activities:2008 Panzhihua Earthquake Source:(AP)
2008-08-31
6.1 magnitude quake kills 22 in southwest China
BEIJING - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck China's southwestern Sichuan province Saturday, killing 22 people and injuring more than 100.
Nations:China Activities:2008 Panzhihua Earthquake Source:(Xinhua)
2008-08-30
China city tense after bus blasts
BEIJING - One of China's largest cities remained tense Tuesday after two people were killed in bus explosions, state media reported, with authorities yet to explain who was behind the blasts.
Nations:China Activities:2008 Kunming Bombing Source:(China Daily)
2008-07-22
China says deadly bus blasts, Olympics not linked
BEIJING (AFP) - China said Tuesday that no evidence of an Olympic terror link had been found in a pair of bus explosions that killed two people in a southwestern city.
Nations:China Activities:2008 Kunming Bombing Source:(AFP)
2008-07-22
Remains of vast Neolithic site found in south China
BEIJING - Thousands of ancient artifacts and wooden poles more than 3,000 years old have been unearthed in China's southern Yunnan province, possibly the world's largest site of a Neolithic community, local media reported on Tuesday.
Nations:China Source:(China Daily)
2008-07-22
China: Floods kill 63 this month
GUANGZHOU, China - Soldiers scrambled to shore up soggy levies with sandbags Tuesday in southern China as forecasters warned that more heavy rain in the central region could trigger flooding on the country's second-longest river.
Nations:China Activities:2008 Southern China Flood Source:(AP)
2008-06-17
Southern China flooding kills 57, more rain ahead
GUANGZHOU, China - Massive flooding across a broad stretch of southern China killed almost 60 people and forced 1.3 million others from their homes, state media reported Monday.
Nations:China Activities:2008 Southern China Flood Source:(AP)
2008-06-16
China floods kill 55, 1 million flee
BEIJING - State media are reporting that 55 people have been killed and seven are missing in flooding across a broad stretch of southern China.
Nations:China Activities:2008 Southern China Flood Source:(AP)
2008-06-15
Fresh anti-Western protests rock China
Fresh anti-Western protests broke out in China Sunday with angry demonstrators targeting US broadcaster CNN and French store Carrefour in rows over perceived bias, Tibet and the Beijing Olympics.
Nations:China People:Nicolas Sarkozy Activities:2008 Anti-West in China 2008 Cafferty Racist Remark
2008-04-20
China blasts Pelosi over Tibet remarks
China attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sunday for her recent meeting with the Dalai Lama, accusing her and other "human rights police" of double standards and ignoring the truth about the unrest in Tibet.
Nations:China People:Nancy Pelosi Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics Torch 2008 Tibet Riot China-U.S.
2008-03-23
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