Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops
KUNMING, China - Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential -- rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.
Nations:China Philippines India Argentina Brazil Switzerland People:Wen Jiabao Activities:Global Food Crisis
2008-11-30
Landslides, worst floods in a century kill 51 in China
BEIJING (AFP) - Parts of southwestern China have been hit by their worst floods in more than a century as well as landslides that have cost 51 lives and left 43 missing, local officials and state media said Wednesday.
Nations:China Source:(AFP)
2008-11-04
China city tense after bus blasts
BEIJING - One of China's largest cities remained tense Tuesday after two people were killed in bus explosions, state media reported, with authorities yet to explain who was behind the blasts.
Nations:China Activities:2008 Kunming Bombing Source:(China Daily)
2008-07-22
China says deadly bus blasts, Olympics not linked
BEIJING (AFP) - China said Tuesday that no evidence of an Olympic terror link had been found in a pair of bus explosions that killed two people in a southwestern city.
Nations:China Activities:2008 Kunming Bombing Source:(AFP)
2008-07-22
Fresh anti-Western protests rock China
Fresh anti-Western protests broke out in China Sunday with angry demonstrators targeting US broadcaster CNN and French store Carrefour in rows over perceived bias, Tibet and the Beijing Olympics.
Nations:China People:Nicolas Sarkozy Activities:2008 Anti-West in China 2008 Cafferty Racist Remark
2008-04-20
China Honors U.S. Pilots Who Fought Japan
BEIJING - China has erected a memorial to the Flying Tigers, a band of U.S. fighter pilots who defended China against Japan during World War II, the government said Tuesday.
Nations:China Activities:China-Japan Military Relations China-U.S. Military Relations Anti-Japan War in China China-U.S.
2005-03-22
China to Raise American WWII-Era Plane
BEIJING - Engineers and divers will use high-tech ocean searching and mapping gear to lift an American fighter plane that crashed into a southwestern Chinese lake during World War II, organizers said Monday.
Nations:China Activities:World War II China-U.S. Military Relations
2003-08-18
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