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  China setting milestone as economy passes Japan's (AP)

In this photo taken July 27, 2010, a Chinese man rests by loop of a highway under construction in Beijing, China. China is set to overtake Japan as the world's second largest-economy in a resurgence that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - China is set to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy in a resurgence that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed.

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  China launches new global positioning satellite (Reuters)
Reuters - China took a further step on Sunday toward ending its dependence on U.S. satellites to provide navigation and positioning services.
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  24 remain trapped in flooded coal mine in NE China (AP)
AP - Two dozen workers were trapped in a flooded mine in northeast China on Sunday, the latest accident in the country's notoriously dangerous coal industry.
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  Floods kill 37 in China's northeast: media (AFP)

A general view shows the town of Kouqian in China's Jilin province, on July 28. The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as the country continues to battle the worst floods in a decade.(AFP/File)AFP - The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as authorities raced to intercept 12 heavy vessels hurtling down a major waterway.

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  China says coal mine blast leaves 17 dead (AFP)

This general view shows smog covering the main street of Linfen, in China's Shanxi province. 17 people have been killed in a coal mine blast in near Linfen, according to state media, in the latest accident to hit the notoriously dangerous industry.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Seventeen people have been killed in a coal mine blast in northern China, the government said Saturday, in the second major industrial accident to hit the country this week.

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  Chinese activists speak out for jailed Uighur (AP)
AP - Some of China's most well-known activists are circulating an open letter protesting the 15-year prison term for a Uighur journalist snared in tensions that followed the country's worst ethnic rioting in decades.
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  Blast hits China tax office in apparent attack (Reuters)
Reuters - A blast rocked a local tax office in central China, killing at least four people and injuring 19, in what police say appeared to be a deliberate attack, the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday.
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  Jury weighs B-2 engineer's alleged secret-selling (AP)
AP - A federal jury in Hawaii has started deliberating in the trial of a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of selling military secrets to China.
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  Four dead, 19 hurt in China tax office blast: state media (AFP)

A night view of a part of Changsha city, central China's Hunan province. Four people were killed and 19 injured Friday in a blast at a tax office in central China that police said appeared to be a deliberate attack, state media reported.(AFP/File)AFP - Four people were killed and 19 injured Friday in a blast at a tax office in central China that police said appeared to be a deliberate attack, state media reported.

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  Shanghai journalists attacked after shampoo report (AFP)

A man reads the news at a stall in Shanghai in 2009. Shanghai's National Business Daily said an editor and several journalists were attacked Friday by men claiming to work for a shampoo maker whose products have been alleged to contain toxic chemicals.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Shanghai's National Business Daily said an editor and several journalists were attacked Friday by men claiming to work for a shampoo maker whose products have been alleged to contain toxic chemicals.

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  US expert: China oil spill far bigger than stated (AP)

In this photo taken on Sunday, July 25, 2010, a worker cleans up the oil at the Nantuo Fishing Harbor after the oil spill in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. An American oil spill expert says China's worst-known oil spill is far larger than the government has reported. China's government has said 1,500 tons of oil spilled after an explosion two weeks ago near the northeastern city of Dalian. But Rick Steiner estimates that 60,000 to 90,000 tons spilled into the Yellow Sea. He says the spill is at least as large as the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska. (AP Photo)**CHINA OUT**AP - China's worst known oil spill is dozens of times larger than the government has reported — bigger than the famous Exxon Valdez spill two decades ago — and some of the oil was dumped deliberately to avoid further disaster, an American expert said Friday.

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  China races to recover chemical barrels from river (AFP)

Barrels from a chemical plant float in the Songhua river in Jilin, northeast China's Jilin province. Workers are struggling to recover the hazardous chemicals that were swept into the river in northeast China.(AFP/File)AFP - Workers on Friday struggled to recover 3,000 barrels filled with hazardous chemicals that were swept into a river in northeast China by floods, amid fears some had sunk, state media said.

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  China says convertible yuan the ultimate goal (AFP)

A bank worker counts a stack of US dollars together with stacks of 100 Chinese yuan notes at a bank in Hefei in March. China wants the yuan to be fully convertible and such currencies are generally free-floating, a top central bank official said Friday, six weeks after Beijing pledged to loosen its grip on the yuan.(AFP/File)AFP - China wants the yuan to be fully convertible and such currencies are generally free-floating, a top central bank official said Friday, six weeks after Beijing pledged to loosen its grip on the yuan.

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  China overtakes Japan as No.2 economy: FX chief (Reuters)
Reuters - China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
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  China says it opposes EU sanctions against Iran (AP)
AP - China said Friday that it opposes the sanctions the European Union is imposing on Iran over its disputed nuclear program, saying it supports Iran's renewed efforts to hold talks on a possible swap of nuclear fuel.
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