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Four giant pandas line up to drink water at Wolong giant panda research and breeding center in Sichuan Province.

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Red tape binds orphans to China: In his two weeks as an Australian, Zhong Snelson has celebrated his first birthday at his new home in Newcastle, started to crawl, and learned to grab furniture and pull himself upright.

Made in China: In A bland five-storey building on Beijing's Baiguang Road, Chinese Government officials are peering closely at photographs of middle-aged Westerners, their eyes darting constantly across to another set of pictures, close-ups of tiny, spiky-haired Chinese babies.

For Napoleon Dynamite Fans

Twin ligers in south China set new record: Photo taken on August 18, 2005 shows liger twins "An An" and "Ping Ping" playing with each other at a zoo in south China's Hainan Province. The liger twins, born on May 2, 2005, have set a new record of survival time in China. There are Eight to 10 ligers in the world at present.

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Guangdong Sausage May Get the Chop: Cantonese style sausage is popular across the country as well as in its home province of Guangdong. But the traditional food might disappear from local restaurants and dinner tables if a new food regulation goes into effect.

China to Develop World-class Science Parks: China will focus on developing two or three world-class science parks in the country's 53 national-level high-tech industrial zones.

China experts say bird flu bigger threat than SARS: Bird flu now poses a bigger and more worrying threat to people than SARS, medical experts in southern China, the region where Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome first surfaced, said on Friday.

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Howell family fulfills dream, opens home to Chinese girl: Mark and Karen Oglesby and their 13-year-old daughter, Taylor, traveled 7,800 miles to Guangzhou, China, to bring home Taylor's adopted baby sister, Madison Li.

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Romans in China stir up controversy: Xie Xiaodong, a life sciences researcher, has finally started the laboratory test he wanted to do 10 years ago. The findings may help establish a genetic link between some villagers in Yongchang County, Northwest China's Gansu Province, and the ancient Romans in the Mediterranean.

Disney probes China labour claims: US media giant Walt Disney has said it will investigate claims that staff at factories in China making books for the firm are working in unsafe conditions.

More Women and Children Smoking: Overall, 7 percent of kids and teenagers aged 6 to 18 smoke: 10.2 percent among boys and 1.8 percent among girls. That was the finding of a survey of Beijing's school students who smoke by the Chinese Association of Tobacco Control, which was released on Thursday.

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Chinese detainees are men without a country: In late 2003, the Pentagon quietly decided that 15 Chinese Muslims detained at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be released. . . . More than 20 months later, the 15 still languish at Guantanamo Bay, imprisoned and sometimes shackled, with most of their families unaware whether they are even alive.

One quarter of China's farmland hit by pests: Rice, the main staple for the majority of China's 1.3 billion people, is under threat with one quarter of the nation's farmland hit by pests and diseases this year.

Featured Blog

Brian Stuy from Research-China.org has started a blog.

Research-China.org has established a "Blog" so that families can learn about China, its orphanages, and other facets of Chinese life. The blogs are designed to inform and educate their readers as to life in China's orphanages, experiences Brian has had while traveling in China, and lessons learned about Chinese culture. The blogs will be wide-ranging in subject, but always informative.

Build a Great Wall

OakridgeHobbies.com sells brick and mortar kits that let kids construct all sorts of famous buildings, including the Great Wall of China.

Experience the pride of building ready-to-display stone replicas of world famous architectural masterpieces, brick by brick! Mix the special mortar in the mini-sized wheelbarrow, then follow the step-by-step instructions for building each structure with real kiln-fired bricks! The special mortar dissolves in water, allowing you to build structures over and over again, plus create structures of your own design. Plus, for schools, since the special mortar dissolves in water,this allows students to create and build more structures of their own design, and teachers to use the kits year after year!

Writing Chinese on your computer

Asa from APC suggests this site to learn more about multilingual computing, including installing Chinese fonts on Windows and Macs.