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China's Problem With 'Anti-Pest' Rice: In China, it is illegal to sell genetically modified rice on the open market.

Thousands Rally in Shanghai, Attacking Japanese Consulate: More than 10,000 demonstrators gathered outside the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai on Saturday, attacking it with bottles and rocks as hundreds of police, many of them from special antiriot squads, looked on passively.

Cancer Becomes Top Killer in China: Cancer has become an effective killer not only in northern China's poverty-stricken Cixian county in Hebei Province, but also in Shanghai, China's most developed city, experts revealed on Friday.

Number of Job Seekers Sets Record in Shanghai: A record number of job seekers visited the Shanghai Job Placement Center or its Website during the first quarter of this year, where a record number of employers had set up help wanted ads, according to a recent government employment report.

Digging to China

The Dig to China project is a sculpture in progress(?) by Mike Rathbun.

China sees America. America sees China. Real people in real time.

The hole is a screen and concealed camera with a direct feed that enables the visitor to see through to the other side in real time. Imagine looking down into the ground through the center of the earth and seeing the sky on the other side or waving to someone you would not otherwise encounter.

(Thanks Junie from APC!)

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Bush—China a great nation growing like mad: US President George W. Bush urged once again for China to float its currency so as to protect American producers, and linking China's galloping economy with the rising gasoline prices in the United States.

More Shanghai Couples Have Second Child: Since new family planning laws were enacted in the city of Shanghai one year ago, 4,413 local couples have delivered a second child, 1.7 times the number reported during the previous year.

18 million Chinese adults now obese: China now has some 18 million obese adults, and 64 million adults may be at risk of cardiovascular disease because of poor dietary habits and lack of exercise.

Study Finds Pervasive Chinese Internet Controls: China is the world's leading censor of the Internet, filtering web sites, blogs, e-mail, and online forums for sensitive political content, according to a study released Thursday.

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Rural Chinese Riot as Police Try to Halt Pollution Protest: Thousands of people rioted Sunday in a village in southeastern China, overturning police cars and driving away officers who had tried to stop elderly villagers from protesting against pollution from nearby factories. [NYT, free reg. req.]

Farmers' income up; urban-rural gap widens: Average farmers' per capita income reached 2,936 yuan (US$353.7) in 2004, whilst that of urban residents was 3.21 times more at 9,422 yuan (US$1,135) a slight decrease from 3.23 times more in 2003.

Pictures

Panda Pictures

"Living Ancient Town of A Thousand Years"

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Zhang Ziyi on Time 100 list: Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi made Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people, which hits newsstands on Monday.

White paper illustrates human rights progress: China on Wednesday published a white paper to show the marked progress in its human rights protection efforts in the year 2004.

Local Story

For Chinese adoptees, a cultural link: Every parent faces the identical, crucial question: How do I raise my child to be happy? The query is the same whether the baby was born in a hospital halfway across town or in a hut halfway around the world. So, why are the China parents jittery?

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China Tells Japan Face History: China's premier told Japan to "face up to history" and Japan's trade minister called China "scary" Tuesday as a dispute over Japan's wartime past rumbled on after violent weekend demonstrations. [NYT, free reg. req.]

Rivalry Fuels Anti-Japan Protests in China: Violent weekend protests in which Chinese stoned the Japanese Embassy are just the latest eruption in a decades-old series of disputes rooted in wartime history but fueled by modern rivalry, as the two sides jostle for Asian dominance.

Study Finds Japanese Watch Most TV: . . . At 2 1/2 hours daily each, China and Sweden watched the least amount of television last year. [NYT, free reg. req.]

Tiger Cub Pictures

Quintuplets white tiger cubs: Quintuplets white tiger cubs, born a month ago, play at a zoo in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province April 11, 2005. This is the cubs' first appearance before the public. Their mother Xingta has given birth to 19 babies in the last five years.

Local Story

An emotional journey: Their process began in May 2003. It was a full year later before the completed papers arrived in China. May 19 to be exact. Every date is burned into Rebecca's memory. From there the waiting game began.