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Xinhua News Agency

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Name: Xinhua News Agency

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 41 mins ago - 2 reports

Liu Yunshan

N. Korea agrees to join talks with relevant parties

TOKYO, May 23 (KUNA) -- North Korea agreed on Thursday to accept China's advice by participating in dialogue with relevant parties, after a senior Chinese official met with a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, state-run Xinhua News Agency ... [Published Kuwait News Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: North Korea, Kuna (United States), Korean Peninsula, Liu Yunshan

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 5 reports

David Cameron

Death toll in China blast 'rises to 33'

The death toll from a blast at an explosives plant in eastern China earlier this week rose to 33 Thursday as 20 missing people were declared dead, state media reported.Rescuers look for survivors in damaged buildings after a blast ripped through an explosives ... [Published XinMsn - 1 hour ago]

Entities: China, Homicide, David Cameron, United Kingdom

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 2 reports

Ship Overturns in E China, Killing 6

Beijing, May 23 (QNA) - Six people have been confirmed dead since a ship they were aboard overturned on late Wednesday in east China's Zhejiang Province, local authorities said Thursday.The accident happenedon a river near Siduzhuang village in Yinzhou ... [Published Qatar News Agency - 7 hours ago]

Entities: China, Ningbo, Beijing

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 16 hours ago - 4 reports

North Korean 'special envoy' meets with Chinese party official

BEIJING, May 22 (UPI) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent one of his closest advisers to Beijing Wednesday as a "special envoy" amid signs of a fraying alliance, officials say.Choe Ryong Hae, vice marshal of the Korean People's Army, met with Wang ... [Published I Stock Analyst - 17 hours ago]

Entities: North Korea, Special Envoy, Beijing, Pyongyang

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 16 hours ago - 6 reports

6 charged with blackmail

A COURT in Chongqing has charged six people with working together to blackmail government officials by recording videos of them having sex, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.The six were charged with extortion on Monday, Xinhua said, citing a statement ... [Published Shanghai Daily - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Blackmail, Sex, Lei Zhengfu, microblog, Chongqing

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 5 reports

Mentally ill Chinese hurts kids

BEIJING: A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said today. All seven victims were in stable condition and a suspect was apprehended, ... [Published Himalayan Times - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Maoming, China, Beijing

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 4 reports

China commercial crude stocks tick higher: report

China’s commercial crude-oil stocks rose by 0.14% in April compared with March levels, Xinhua news agency said Wednesday in its fortnightly OGP energy newsletter.Commercial diesel inventories were down 7.66% from a month earlier, while gasoline stocks ... [Published SZEenergy.biz - 23 hours ago]

Entities: China, Crude Oil, Diesel

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 3 reports

Death toll rises to 23 in blast at explosives plant in eastern China

BEIJING—The death toll from a massive blast at an explosives plant in eastern China has risen to 23 with 10 people still missing.The official Xinhua News Agency said 19 others were injured by the explosion, which ripped through the plant in Shandong province ... [Published Canadian Manufacturing - May 22 2013]

Entities: China, DNA, Beijing, Bomb

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 3 reports

China Demands Answers Over Fishermen Held in N.Korea

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday demanded to know how North Korea came to hold 16 Chinese fishermen to ransom and insisted such incidents must not happen again.The Chinese trawler and crew were released by North Korea on Tuesday morning, 16 days ... [Published Digital Chosun - May 22 2013]

Entities: North Korea, China, Chinese Foreign Ministry

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 10 reports

N Korea releases detained Chinese sailors

BEIJING, May 21, (AFP): North Korea released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat Tuesday, Chinese state media said, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage fuelled strains between the neighbours."All the fishermen with the boat ... [Published Financial Express Bangladesh - May 21 2013]

Entities: North Korea, Xinhua (China), Pyongyang, Hostage

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 4 reports

China factory blast leaves 13 dead

Agence France-Presse . BeijingA blast which ripped through an explosives plant in China has left 13 people dead and another 20 missing, an official said Tuesday, compounding the country’s poor industrial safety record.Another 19 people were injured in ... [Published New Age Bangladesh - May 21 2013]

Entities: Jinan, China, Shangqiu (China)

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 3 reports

Crackdown nets 800 suspects in..

Crackdown nets 800 suspects in Mekong region drugs smuggling Beijing - Police from four nations have so far detained more than 800 suspects and shut down several drug rings in a crackdown on gangs operating along the Mekong River, Chinese state media ... [Published The Nation - Thailand - May 21 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Police, Laos

Quotes

"TCM is based on yin and yang, the core factors of traditional Chinese culture and it depends on experience that has been handed down. Some TCM doctors have their own secret prescriptions that have been passed down from generation to generation. On the other hand, Western medicine is based on strict experiments and testing" Wang told the Global Times

Medicine or ideology? [Published Global Times - 1 hour ago]

Hong echoed Chen, adding that "arresting a person without sufficient supporting evidence is unfair and violates one's human rights."

Prosecutors clarify arrest criteria [Published Global Times - 1 hour ago]

"An authoritative coal price index plays an important referential role in setting prices for the product in its trade, and will have a big influence over the commodity's price movement on the international market" said Mao Jinming, an expert in the coal industry

China launches major coal price index [Published Individual.com - 2 hours ago]

"The North Korean side is willing to accept advice from the Chinese side and carry out dialogue with relevant parties" Choe was quoted as telling Liu. (end) mk.sd KUNA 231821 May 13NNNN

N. Korea agrees to join talks with relevant parties [Published Kuwait News Agency - 2 hours ago]

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Wheat harvest in China's Shanxi, Henan [Published Noodls - 7 hours ago]
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Blogs

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Cadmium-Laced Rice Found in China [Published Global Voices Online - May 22 2013] Rice contaminated with high levels of the toxic heavy metal cadmium, dubbed “cadmium rice,” is the latest food scandal in China to trigger public panic and anger among the country's consumers. The Guangzhou Food and Drug Administration revealed [zh] ...
NEWS: China seeks to “act in a positive way” wi... [Published Nunatsiaq News - Online - May 21 2013] China plans to act as “a serious player and peaceful power” and “act in a positive way” as an observer at the Arctic Council, the Chinese ambassador to Finland Huang Xing told the Xinhua news agency.“I am pleased to learn the news that China has been ...
Chinese Fishing Boat, Crew Released by North Korea [Published The China Blog - May 21 2013] (BEIJING) — The owner of a Chinese fishing boat seized for ransom by unidentified North Koreans says the boat and its 16 crew members have been released. Yu Xuejun wrote on a verified microblog Tuesday that his captain called him at 3:50 a.m. Tuesday ...
Chinese Fishing Boat, Crew Released by North Korea [Published The Middle East Blog - TIME.com - May 21 2013] (BEIJING) — The owner of a Chinese fishing boat seized for ransom by unidentified North Koreans says the boat and its 16 crew members have been released. Yu Xuejun wrote on a verified microblog Tuesday that his captain called him at 3:50 a.m. Tuesday ...
North Korea Seizes Chinese Fishing Boat: China ... [Published MaritimeSecurity.Asia - May 20 2013] BEIJING — China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies. Boat owner ...

Audio/Video

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Thousands of pigs found dead in China river [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Mar 13 2013]
China lands jet on first aircraft carrier [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Nov 25 2012]