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India fishing in troubled waters of Vietnam, warns Chinese daily

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The agreement signed by India with Vietnam to explore oil in the South China Sea is a 'reckless attempt to confront China', said a state-run Chinese daily, warning that Beijing may have to take action

11 Chinese coal miners trapped after gas explosion

Eleven miners were trapped underground on Sunday after a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northwest China, local officials said.

Altogether 21 miners were working underground when the blas

Gas blast in China mine kills 11

A gas blast killed 11 people at a coal mine in northern China on Sunday, state media reported, in the latest accident to hit the country's mining industry.

A total of 21 miners were working undergrou

Fighter jet crashes at China air show: State TV

A fighter jet crashed at an air show in northern China on Friday, state media reported, but it was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties.

China's state-run television CCTV showed im

China, Vietnam sign deal to resolve maritime disputes

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China and Vietnam have signed an agreement on a series of steps to resolve maritime disputes over parts of South China Sea, a source of frequent friction between the two communist nations.

The six-p

Chinese ‘topless traffic conductor’ a hit on Internet

A photograph of a Chinese ‘topless traffic conductor’ has become a hit on the Internet, with netizens praising his actions as ‘kind-hearted’ and ‘moving’.

A Chinese citizen had directed traffic in r

Wall Street protests reveal US 'messy house': China

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China's state news agency Xinhua said Monday that anti-corporate protests in New York had exposed what it called 'fundamental problems' with the US economic and political systems.

The Occupy Wall Str

China's President Hu Jintao urges unification with rival Taiwan

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China's president on Sunday used the centennial of a revolution that ended imperial rule to make an appeal to further relations with Taiwan, saying they should move beyond the history that divides the

Paes-Bhupathi out of China Open

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India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi bowed out of the men's doubles quarterfinals of China Open tennis.

The fourth-seeded Indians went down to Croats Marin Cilic and Ivan Ljubicic 2-6, 3-6.

Cil

Molten iron spill kills 12 in China: Xinhua

Twelve workers were killed at a steel plant in eastern China when molten iron spilled from a furnace, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.

Workers were trying to shut down the plant

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