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Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-09-07T08:18:10+11:00 2008-09-07T08:18:10+11:00 The world's attention has turned again to Beijing where the Paralympics opened last night with a ceremony to rival that of the main Olympics.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2357509.htm2008-09-07T08:18:10+11:00China has launched two satellites which it says would monitor the environment and help reduce natural disasters.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2357391.htm2008-09-06T20:41:59+11:00Thousands of high school students have attacked a county government office in central China, smashing windows and clashing with riot police.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2357301.htm2008-09-06T15:50:07+11:00Thirteen people have been trapped in a coal mine in north China following an explosion, the country's third mining accident in two days.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2357300.htm2008-09-06T15:50:06+11:00China's capital, Beijing has undergone major changes to prepare itself for the Paralympic Games.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2357202.htm2008-09-06T09:06:41+11:00China's top aluminium producer, Chinalco, has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Tibet to explore and smelt mineral resources on the rooftop of the world.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2357117.htm2008-09-05T22:11:26+11:00China's increased involvement in the Pacific will be the subject of talks when a delegation of Pacific Forum members travel to the emerging economic power.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2357046.htm2008-09-05T21:30:40+11:00China, Japan, Russia and South Korea have signed an agreement to set up an 800-nautical-mile joint shipping route around the Sea of Japan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2356965.htm2008-09-05T17:38:34+11:00China hopes a planned super fast train from Beijing to Shanghai will deliver a big boost for the local economy once the service begins in four years.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2356350.htm2008-09-05T11:44:09+11:00An Asian elephant that became addicted to heroin is being returned to a wildlife park in China after a three-year detoxification programme.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2356351.htm2008-09-05T11:44:05+11:00Twenty-four people have been killed and six injured in a gas explosion at a coal mine in China's northeast province of Liaoning.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2355942.htm2008-09-04T22:11:14+11:00Singapore and China have successfully concluded negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2355941.htm2008-09-04T22:11:14+11:00China has conceded that schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake may have been substandard structures hastily built in a construction frenzy.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2355809.htm2008-09-04T21:13:16+11:00US soft drinks giant Coca-Cola says it plans to buy Chinese juice maker Huiyuan Juice Group.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2354670.htm2008-09-03T23:51:02+11:00A Chinese construction company has severely damaged relics dating back more than 3,000 years while building a section of rail linking Beijing and Shanghai.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2353729.htm2008-09-03T04:32:21+11:00A Chinese construction company has severely damaged relics dating back more than three thousand years while building a section of rail linking Beijing and Shanghai.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2353761.htm2008-09-03T04:32:21+11:00China has deployed more than 8,000 soldiers and military reservists to help search and rescue efforts in the south-west after an earthquake on Saturday left 38 people dead.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2352539.htm2008-09-02T04:17:18+11:00The Dalai Lama is to leave a Mumbai hospital on Monday, four days after he was admitted with 'abdominal discomfort'.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2351499.htm2008-09-01T09:29:25+11:00Two Chinese telecoms engineers have gone missing in northwest Pakistan along with their driver and a security guard.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2351268.htm2008-09-01T07:56:09+11:00Australian researchers say the loss of habitat may be forcing flying foxes to react by becoming deadly viral time bombs.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2351266.htm2008-09-01T07:56:09+11:00Rescuers are rushing to the epicentre of a 6.1-magnitude earthquake that struck southwest China leaving at least 25 people dead and over 300 injured.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2351224.htm2008-08-31T17:26:03+11:00An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale has hit southwest China killing 22 people and injuring more than 100.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2351096.htm2008-08-31T10:19:47+11:00A Chinese human rights group says two elderly women have won a reprieve from a sentence to one year in labour camps handed down after they sought permission for a protest during the Beijing Olympics.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2350949.htm2008-08-30T18:12:45+11:00Angry Papua New Guinea landowners say they will continue to halt construction at a Chinese owned nickel mine until they meet with the PNG government next week.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2349743.htm2008-08-29T09:46:01+11:00China has lit the 2008 Paralympic torch in a ceremony at Beijing's ancient Temple of Heaven, marking the start of a domestic relay for the September the 6th Games.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2349521.htm2008-08-28T18:08:00+11:00