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China to buy Lada-class subs, Su-35 fighters from Russia

China has signed an agreement with Russia to buy 24 Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets and four Lada-class submarines in its biggest weapons purchase from Moscow in a decade, state media reported.

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President Xi to target energy and raw material supplies on African visit

President Xi Jinping's visit to three resource-rich African countries is part of a strategy to secure valuable supplies of energy and raw materials to fuel China's manufacturing sector.

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Xi Jinping vows co-operation with African nations

Seeking to address concerns that China is exploiting Africa's resources and its market for consumer goods, President Xi Jinping vowed to build a mutually beneficial relationship that benefits...

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First lady Peng Liyuan spurs boom in demand for home-grown labels

First lady Peng Liyuan's choice of home-grown designer brands on her maiden overseas trip with President Xi Jinping has been hailed as a boon for China's fashion industry, yearning for its own "...

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Illegal human embryo clinic busted in Beijing

Police and various regulators in Beijing cracked down on a medical group claiming to be from Hong Kong that had grown almost 300 human embryos a year in test tubes for surrogate mothers without...

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Rights activist sues Anhui police over illegal detention of daughter

Zhang Lin, 49, who was previously jailed for leading student hunger strikes in Anhui in support of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement, lodged his case with provincial prosecutors on Friday...

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Over 1,000 deads ducks found in Sichuan river

The decomposed bodies of more than a thousand ducks have been found on a river in Pengshan county, Sichuan, following the dumping of more than 10,000 pigs in the Huangpu River in Shanghai earlier...

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Southern China braced for second battering by storms

Most parts of southern China should expect another round of downpours, thunderstorms and gusty winds, the National Meteorological Centre said, with hailstorms also possible in several areas.

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Western Guangdong trade fair targets Asean business people

Liu Xiaojie, deputy secretary general of Guangdong's provincial government, told a press conference yesterday that the first national trade fair involving Chinese merchants in Asean countries...

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Illegal Zhejiang pork already in food chain

Just when the scandal surrounding the dumping of dead pigs into a primary drinking water source seemed to be drawing to a close, state-run television station has revealed that illegally processed...

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Former Sex Pistol Lydon tells Chinese fans to 'be perverse' in warm-up to Beijing, Shanghai shows

Former Sex Pistols front man John Lydon told his Chinese fans to “be perverse” Monday ahead of highly-anticipated concerts in China with his band Public Image Ltd.

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Search abandoned for missing woman, 21, who fell down manhole

A two-day city-wide rescue mission to find a woman who had fallen down a drainage hole filled with poisonous marsh gas was abandoned yesterday in Changsha, southern China, the Today Morning...

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Tibetan mother of 4 self-immolates

A US-backed broadcaster says a Tibetan mother of four young children has killed herself in the latest self-immolation protest in western China.

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