China ushers in year of the pig
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China marks the arrival of the New Year, with the golden pig year seen as being particularly auspicious.
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Inaugura la kermesse 'The Year of Italy in China'
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China may have just ushered in the Year of the Rat, but the pesky rodents aren't welcome in its capital.
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Millions of Chinese migrant workers remain separated from families as the Lunar New Year starts.
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China's leaders celebrated the traditional Lunar New Year festival by visiting poor residents in the country's backwoods and claiming their policies have begun to raise people's lives, state media reported on Sunday.
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China has warned of an increased risk of animal-related health epidemics during its lunar new year holiday and said many local governments were not prepared, state media reported on Wednesday.
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Xiao Wang works in a massive factory in southern China that makes Apple iPods. But lately, he's been spending his time preparing for the Lunar New Year, cooking feasts with fatty slices of pork carved from a pig's head.
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Next year, our friends in China will be feting the Year of the Rat. We'll have no such luxury. Here in the USA, it'll be the Year of Getting Real. Or so says a brain trust of marketers, activists and cultural anthropologists who live to dissect our shopping, eating, viewing, networking and lifestyle habits.
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China&#39;s economy grew by 9.5 percent year-on-year in the first nine months of this year, Spokesman Zheng Jingping for the National Bureau of Statistics announced in Beijing Friday.
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China has confirmed reports that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in its pig population. Agriculture ministry officials said two infected pigs had been discovered, one in 2002 and one in 2003.
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Pampered pigs or processed pork? Farm-fresh or greenhouse grown? With China's food supplies under scrutiny following a series of health and safety scares, Chinese officials are taking no chances for the Olympic Games this August.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday sent China his best wishes for the Lunar New Year, predicting that the forthcoming 12 months will be "momentous" for the country.
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China is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, its late supreme leader. For most Chinese the diminutive figure was the man who set the country on a pragmatic reformist
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In the face of new competition, primarily from China, produce farmers have joined forces for the first time.
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In  celebration of the Year of the Boar (or Golden Pig) the Lion dance, right , is performed by members of the Rhode Island Association of Chinese American Kung Fu Club. In the traditional dance, performers mimic the animals movements whilw wearing a lion costume.
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Ever since being awarded the 2008 Olympic Games three years ago, China has seen the event as a sort of coming-out party to the world and an opportunity to showcase the strides it has made.
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BEIJING -- Chinese inflation rose to its highest level in more than two years in May, driven by soaring prices for pork and other food, according to government figures released Tuesday.