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		<title>Traditional Laba Festival not so Popular in Guangzhou</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, December 8th on the Lunar Calendar, was China&#8217;s traditional Laba Day, a festival of Buddhist and farming significance. It marks the beginning of the coldest days in China.
Many young Cantonese, however, are not familiar with the festival, which is popular mainly in North China.
Even many immigrant Chinese from the north are unaware of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guangzhou Enjoys New-Year Shopping Craze</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Year Holidays witnessed a citywide shopping craze in Guangzhou, South China, amid the global economic downturn.
The seven major department stores including Grandbuy, Friendship, TeeMall, and Xin Da Xin registered total sales revenue up to 264.4 million Yuan (39 million USD) in the last 3 days. The Grandbuy made 107 million (16 million USD) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guangzhou:Three &#8220;Open&#8221; Designs Favored by the Public for Nanyue Palace Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the planned construction of the Nanyue Royal Palace Museum in downtown Guangzhou, three &#8220;open-style&#8221; designs have won the most votes from the public during an online poll ending on the New Year Day.
The designs (No. 3, 4 and 7) all focus on openly integrating the palace relics with the surrounding environment near the famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guangzhou:Snowy Plum Blossoms Greet New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around the New Year&#8217;s Day, a sea of plum blossoms greet tens of thousands of visitors in Luogang on the eastern outskirt of Guangzhou, South China.
The annual natural scene, like fragrant and beautiful snow, was ever reputed as one of the eight attractions in the city – &#8220;Scented Snow in Luogang&#8221;.
It is located in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guangzhou&#8217;s Highest Building Topped Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guangzhou International Finance Center (also called the &#8216;West Tower&#8217;)
On the morning of December 31, 2008,  the highest building in Guangzhou, South China - the Guangzhou International Finance Center (also called the &#8216;West Tower&#8217;) - was &#8220;topped off&#8221;. Once fully completed, the 103-storey and 432-meter high skyscraper will be one of the ten highest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Introduction to Guangzhou Public Security Bureau</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guangzhou， with a history as long as 2210 years, is one of the 62 National Famous Historic and Cultural Cities designated by the State Council. As recorded in history, as early as in Zhou Dynasty in the 9th century B.C., its residents, Baiyue people had exchanges with people in Chu Kingdom along the Yangtze River. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Information for People from Outside Mainland China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People coming from outside Mainland China including aliens , overseas Chinese and residents from Hong Kong ,  Macao and Taiwan , should , upon arrival in Guangzhou, observe the following regulations and rules for the purpose of protect-ing your life and property. Those regulations and rules are taken from Law of the People&#8217;s Republic of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contradictions in China, and the Rise of a Billionaire Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GUJIA VILLAGE, China — In the 1950s, the Liu family of southwest China’s Sichuan Province was so short of food, they sent one of their youngest sons to be raised by another family.
Today, however, they are one of China’s richest families.
Rising from public scorn during the Cultural Revolution, the four Liu brothers managed to turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China: Dissident Said to Be Held for Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prominent intellectual and dissident who was detained last month is being held in pretrial detention, human-rights activists said Friday. Liu Xiaobo, left, one of the driving forces behind a charter calling for democratic reforms, was taken away by the police on Dec. 8, and his location has been unknown. Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China milk exec faults lack of rules, awaits verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING, China &#8212; The head of major Chinese dairy firm Sanlu Group has argued that the country&#8217;s lack of regulations regarding a toxic chemical contributed to a tainted milk scandal that sickened nearly 300,000 infants, state-run media reported.
 Tian Wenhua, former board chairwoman and general manager of Sanlu, pleaded guilty Wednesday to her role in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption taints every facet of life in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foshan, China &#8212; The last time his parents saw Liao Mengjun alive, he was heading to school to pick up his junior high school diploma.
A few hours later, they were called to the morgue. They found that their lanky 15-year-old son&#8217;s forehead had been bashed in. His right knee jutted through the skin. Both his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong Stocks Rise in Best Opening Day for Year Since 1970</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Hong Kong’s benchmark stock index rose in the best opening day of the year since 1970, led by phone companies and oil producers on earnings outlooks.
China Mobile Ltd., the world’s No. 1 phone company by market value, climbed 2.9 percent after the government said it would proceed with issuing licenses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. parents want answers after China milk scare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Beth Flanders was on her way to China to adopt her 17-month-old daughter in September when she received a warning from her adoption agency: An industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones had been found in Chinese baby formula, and parents should not feed it to their new children.
Flanders&#8217; daughter had no symptoms. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Liu &#8216;under house arrest&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prominent Chinese dissident whose fate has been unknown since he was detained early last month is now reported to be under house arrest.
Liu Xiaobo is under &#8220;residential surveillance&#8221; at a secret location in Beijing, human rights groups say. The measure generally precedes a trial.
Mr Liu was detained the day after he and other dissidents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China dairies offer text apology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese dairy companies involved in the tainted milk scandal have apologised in a New Year text message sent to millions of mobile phone subscribers.
&#8220;We sincerely apologise&#8230;and we beg your forgiveness,&#8221; read the note from 22 dairy firms, led by the now-bankrupt Sanlu, China&#8217;s state news agency said.
At least six babies died and 290,000 became ill [...]]]></description>
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