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World's first high-speed railway for frigid regions starts operation THE world's first high-speed railway in areas with extremely low temperature, which runs through three provinces in northeastern China, started operation today as part of the country's efforts to revitalize the old industrial base. The rail line extending 921 km links the capitals of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces and the port city of Dalian, Liaoning, with designed speeds of up to 350 km per hour. Rudison /the DON/ has added a photo to the pool: All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!! ______________________________ Follow me on Facebook ______________________________ Xi urges care, love for HIV patients VICE President Xi Jinping urged society to avoid discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients during a visit to a clinic in Beijing yesterday. Xi, who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, was talking to HIV carriers, doctors a...

Photo taken on Nov. 28, 2012 shows new houses at Shuangming Village in Huating County, northwest China's Gansu Province. The coal-rich county once suffered from environment degradation due to exploitation of natural resources. Great efforts have been made in recent years to repair the environment, and now the county has turned to be a liveable place with clean air and beautiful gardens. (Xinhua/Zhang Meng) You might also like： A fake Hallstatt in SE China badly damages the ecological environment Long March 2C launches Environment-1C Bamboo-made environment friendly electronic tricycl...

A new expressway linking Wenchuan County and Yingxiu Township, the epicenter of a devastating earthquake in 2008 in southwest China's Sichuan Province, opened to traffic on Thursday afternoon. Expressway linking quake-affected areas opens. The 48.27-km Yingwen Expressway, which began to be built in May, 2009, costs nearly 5 billion yuan (802 million U.S. dollars). The expressway is built to improve the transportation capacity in the quake-affected areas. It will play an important role in post-quake restoration and reconstruction, as the "lifeline" Duwen (Dujiangyan-Wenchuan) Expressway was damaged by the 8.0-magnitude earthquake, and has been closed to traffic after several aftershocks in the following years, said the provincial transportation department. The new road will help reduce the travel time by car from Wenchuan to Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, to an hour and a half from three hours. (Xinhua contributed to this story) Read More @ Source ...

Editor's note: If Elton John was so concerned about censorship, and political dissidents, then why has Elton never spoken up for the American political dissidents locked down, like Mumia Abu Jamal, and Leonard Peltier? Real political dissidents that oppose real fascism. Maybe because Elton is a fascist himself? Along with Ai. Entertainment ought to be entertainment, not a way to sneak in pro-imperialist messages, or promote destabilisation of independent countries. By doing what he did, Elton showed the world his deceptive methods, and pro-imperialist ideologies. It has really come to the point where I no longer have any respect for any western performers because of the dirty track record they have for promoting instability in foreign countries, while ignoring the crimes of their own governments. Take Bjork for example, a classic imperialist. She does a concert in China, and like Elton, makes a political statement at the end, calling for Tibet to split from China. Now I raise t...

A Chinese court on Thursday summoned a defense lawyer involved in an anti-mafia campaign in the southwest city of Chongqing to hear complaints about his jailing. A judge with the Chongqing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court contacted Li Zhuang to hear his opinions on his case. A judge with the Chongqing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court contacted Li Zhuang to hear his opinions on his case. Li presented documents to the court and the judge pledged a fair trial, court officials told Xinhua. Li told reporters that he considers the contact "a start in the process" to address his complaint. "The judge carefully listened to my opinions during the more than one-hour talk," he said. This developed as Li, 51, lodged a complaint with the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) in Beijing last week over his jailing two years ago. An official statement released last Saturday offered no details about the complaint, but said the SPP will handle Li...

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A man in central China was sentenced to death on Friday for keeping six women in a dungeon as sex slaves and his role in the killing of two of them. Li Hao, 35, was convicted on charges of murder, rape, organized prostitution, illegal detention and spreading pornography for profit by the Luoyang Intermediate People's Court in Henan Province. The court said Li dug the dungeon himself under the basement he bought in Luoyang in August 2009 just to lock up women he tricked into coming to his place. The women had been held there for two to 21 months, according to police investigations. The court said Li repeatedly raped the women, forced them to appear in obscene web shows from March to April 2011 and forced them to have sex with customers for a few days from late August to early September last year. Li's secret dungeon was discovered after one of the women fled from the forced prostitution and reported the situation to police. In a twist in the case, three of the wome...

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Sex between men is on the rise as a major cause of new HIV/AIDS infections in China, according to new research by the Ministry of Health (MOH). Volunteers dressed up as panda AIDS patients pose for pictures at Jiangsu University in East China on Nov 28, 2012. [Photo/asianewsphoto] In the first 10 months of 2012, 21.1 percent of all new HIV infections recorded in China came from male homosexual sex. This represented a sharp rise compared with 15 percent attributable to the cause in the same period last year, said a report released by the ministry on Thursday. The report also showed that the number of new infections among young people between 15 and 24 as well as people above 50 years of age are rising year by year. In the first 10 months, the numbers in the two age groups were 9,514 and 16,131, a year-on-year increase of 12.8 percent and 20.2 percent respectively. However, the report said the ratio of mother-to-infant HIV transmission among all HIV infections had dro...

A vendor and his pigeons in Beijing's largest pigeon market in Caihuying Xijie, Fengtai district Photo: Li Hao/GT Aigeleyuan, Beijing's largest pigeon market, is slated for demolition in 30 days and although most store owners have found a new location, many merchants and customers argued they would rather not move. The market is the largest pigeon market in the city and is relatively centrally located, and its loss would be yet another blow to the preservation of Beijing's traditional culture, said an expert in Beijing folk customs. The market, in Caihuying Xijie, Fengtai district, was built in 1997 and currently has over 100 stores, selling everything connected to pigeon fancying, from the birds, to medicine to coops. Many shops have been running for more than 10 years and their owners told the Global Times they simply do not want to move. An anonymous pigeon feed shop owner who comes from Yi county, Hebei Province, told the Global Times he will be homeless aft...

Xi Jinping , general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Thursday visited "The Road Toward Renewal" exhibition in Beijing, pledging to continue targeting the goal of "great renewal of the Chinese nation." Xi Jinping makes a keynote speech when visiting "The Road Toward Renewal" exhibition, along with other members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau including Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli. Xi made the comments as he viewed the exhibition, on display in the National Museum of China, along with other members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau including Li Keqiang , Zhang Dejiang , Yu Zhengsheng , Liu Yunshan , Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli . During his time at the attraction, Xi went through the exhibition halls one by one, carefully examining the exhibits and listening to explanations ...

30 November 2012 Last updated at 03:00 ET Mr Pitsuwan said Beijing's plan was a "serious turn of events" The head of Asean has said China's plan to board ships in disputed areas of the South China Sea could escalate tensions. Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan told Reuters news agency that Beijing's plan was "a very serious turn of events". On Thursday China said that it granted its border patrol police the power to board and search ships in the area. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also claim parts of the region. State media said patrols in the southern island province of Hainan would be able to board foreign ships that stopped in its waters or violated other regulations. The regulation allows police "to board, seize and expel foreign ships illegally entering the province's sea areas," the Global Times newspaper said on Wednesday. These activities include "illegal landing" and "c...

Four Chinese bus drivers working in Singapore have been accused on Thursday of inciting an illegal strike provoking tensions about an influx of immigrants and the treatment of foreign workers in the wealthy southeast Asian country, Xinhua reported. Foreign workers wait for their transportation to work outside their dormitory in Singapore on November 26. Four Chinese bus drivers accused of instigating Singapore's first strike since the 1980s were charged on Thursday with criminal offences that could land them in prison. [File Photo] The four drivers were arrested between Wednesday and Thursday, the police said. Court documents showed that the drivers were all charged with instigating an illegal strike. He Junling, one of the drivers, was also charged with inciting a strike by allegedly posting a message on baidu.com titled "The insults and humiliation suffered by Singapore drivers." The message complains about inequitable pay, poor living conditions and exploitat...