CARA ANNA

Associated Press Writer
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US-China climate statement raises hopes, questions

A joint statement by the U.S. and Chinese presidents on climate change is encouraging as pressure builds in the last few weeks before a 192-nation conference in Copenhagen, but the language leaves a lot unsaid, observers in both countries said Wednesday.

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China blocks unregistered church service again

Followers of an unapproved church in Beijing were again forced by the government to find a new place to worship Sunday, a move one analyst suggested would be a test for President Barack Obama on religious freedom during his first visit to the country.

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Chinese greet 'Oba Mao' with flaming statue, fakes

The Chinese have learned English from his speeches and celebrated the way he rolls up his sleeves. Now President Barack Obama is finally coming, and he's being greeted with "Oba Mao" T-shirts and a statue of him that bursts into flames.

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China protesters plead for help from Obama

A group of protesters pleaded for help Tuesday from President Barack Obama before his visit to China next week, saying anyone seen as a troublemaker is often treated harshly before major events in the capital.

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Activist: Chinese guard at black jail admits rape

A guard at an unofficial jail in the Chinese capital has pleaded guilty to raping a young detainee, an activist said Thursday, in a case that has put a spotlight on "black jails" where a growing number of people seeking justice from the government end up.

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Chinese officials punished for lavish US tour

The Chinese bureaucrats who spent taxpayers' money on a $700-a-night Las Vegas hotel and visits to Hawaiian beaches and a San Francisco sex show might have gotten away with it if someone hadn't lost a bag on the Shanghai subway.

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China denies alleged attack on foreign journalists

Local Chinese officials on Wednesday denied allegations by a Belgian television crew that they had been attacked while trying to report on the HIV epidemic in a hard-hit rural village, state media said.

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US diplomat's ashes now at home in China

He was born in China and wanted to be buried in China. For decades, politics made that impossible.

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Microsoft goes black, making Chinese see red

An anti-piracy tactic by Microsoft Corp. that turns some computer users' screens black has set off a wave of indignation among Chinese consumers, posing renewed problems for the software maker in the huge China market.

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Police killer in China gets death penalty

A young man who drew a surprising amount of sympathy in China after being convicted of killing six policemen in Shanghai will get the death penalty after losing his final appeal Monday.

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Tainted milk, a baby's death and lawsuit in China

Heartbroken at the sudden death of their baby boy, the Yi family struggled to forget what they thought was a tragic twist of fate. They burned his clothes, toys, everything but a single photo and the baby formula he drank.

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Elderly turtle pair fails to produce offspring

She's around 80 years old. He's 100. Breathless scientists watched as the world's most endangered turtles successfully mated.

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Women worry, but many don't breast-feed in China

With one hand, Yang Aiping held her squirming 4-month-old son amid the crowd in the maternity hospital. With the other, she dug through her purse for the near-empty bag of milk powder she worried had sickened him.

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Chinese defend accused police killer

The murder case was supposed to be simple: A jobless man accused of killing six police officers in a rare stabbing rampage in China's largest city.

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Foreign missionaries defy ban during Olympics

Christian groups who flouted a Chinese ban on foreign missionaries are calling their underground evangelizing during the Olympic Games a success.

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Chinese workers land seats in the Bird's Nest

Two bricklayers, a security guard and a cement buyer walked across the vast Olympic Green they helped build, holding some of the games' hottest tickets in their deeply tanned hands.

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Chinese defend Olympic ceremony lip-synch

Chinese officials defended their decision to pass off the voice of a 7-year-old songbird as that of another girl at the Olympic opening ceremony, calling it a simple casting choice. Critics said it was a step too far in China's obsession with the perfect Olympic Games.

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US first lady Bush tours Beijing's Forbidden City

The doors of the Forbidden City hadn't yet opened to tourists Saturday morning when Laura Bush arrived for a tour — one of the highlights of what is expected to be her final official visit to Asia as first lady.

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American protester paints Beijing hotel rooms

An American pastor checked into upscale hotels in the Olympics host city this week, filmed himself painting two of his rooms with slogans like "Beijing 2008 Our world Our nightmare" and then disappeared. Without paying.

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Accused man discusses Canadian model murder

A Chinese man accused of stabbing a Canadian model to death in her apartment building told police in a televised interview the attack began when the woman caught him trying to steal her laptop computer.

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Hundreds of migrant workers riot in eastern China

Hundreds of migrant workers attacked a police station in eastern China after one was allegedly beaten while trying to get a residence permit, highlighting enduring tensions between temporary workers and authorities.

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Flap over fake tiger pix shows divide in China

It all started with a farmer and his claim of sighting a rare tiger, backed up by supposed photos of the animal in the local woods, curled up and staring at the camera.

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Chinese dissident Huang Qi said missing

A Chinese dissident who posted essays on the Internet that criticized communist authorities has disappeared and may have been abducted by the security services, an advocacy group said Friday.

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Honors for Mao Mao the panda killed in China quake

Mao Mao the panda's remains were gently laid in a wooden crate and wheeled to a patch of ground in China's famed Wolong Nature Reserve where a freshly dug grave awaited.

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Sensitive China quake photo removed from exhibit

In a town where parents are grieving for the nearly 300 children killed when last month's earthquake toppled a middle school, a photograph hinting at shoddy school construction has disappeared from a public exhibition.

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