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This China Man Has Prevented 469 Depressed People From Jumping Off Bridge
Chen wears a red volunteer's uniform with the words "cherish life every day" written in Chinese and patrols the bridge 10 times each day.
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Drought-Hit China Plans To Use Cloud-Seeding To Induce Rain: Report
Authorities in China are trying to induce rainfall in the midst of a catastrophic drought, which is caused by a record-breaking heatwave.
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China Faces Another Month Of Drought As Yangtze Tributary Runs Dry: Report
Residents living near a tributary of the Yangtze river in the southwestern region of Chongqing clambered along the dry riverbed on Thursday amid an unprecedented drought across the region that could last another month.
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China Issues Drought Alert, Fights Forest Fires To Save Crops In Heatwave
China has issued its first national drought alert of the year as authorities battle forest fires and mobilise specialist teams to protect crops from scorching temperatures across the Yangtze river basin.
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"Turn Down The ACs": Record Electricity Demand In China Amid Searing Heat
Power consumption surged in large Chinese provinces north of the Yangtze river amid warmer-than-normal weather, with regions like Henan, China's third-most populous province, challenged by record electricity demand.
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"Let My Daughter Go": China Virus Lockdown Blocks Girl's Cancer Treatment
Hours ticked by on Saturday as 50-year-old Lu Yuejin struggled to get past the police checkpoint on the bridge over the Yangtze river and out of Hubei province, which is on virtual lockdown as China scrambles to control a coronavirus outbreak.
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Viral: Mysterious 65-Foot 'Monster', Spotted In River, Turns Out To Be...
A mysterious black 'creature' was recently spotted in China's Yangtze River. Here is what it actually was.
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Smiling At Danger, China's Finless Porpoise Fights To Survive
In an oxbow lake along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a breathy sigh pierces the surface stillness as one of China's most endangered animals comes up for a gulp of hazy air.
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China Urges Regions To Take Responsibility After Yangtze Smog Surge
China's regional governments need to take more responsibility for local pollution and stop blaming others, a senior environmental official said on Tuesday, following increases in smog in the Yangtze and Pearl river delta regions in January.
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More Than 120 Dead In China Floods
Heavy rain around China's Yangtze river basin has left 128 people dead and scores missing, media said Tuesday, with more damage feared from a typhoon expected to land this week.
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China Blames Weather For Ship Disaster, Captain May Be Prosecuted
A formal inquiry has concluded that freak weather led to the sinking of a Yangtze River cruise ship in June that killed 442 people and recommended that the captain be investigated for possible crimes, media reported.
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Quick-Thinking Bus Driver Saves Woman From Jumping Off Bridge in China
Startling footage of a vigilant bus driver in China saving a woman from committing suicide is being shared across social media.
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China Puts Ship Disaster Survivors at 12, Says All 442 Bodies Found
Just 12 people survived the Yangtze River cruise ship capsizing in which 442 people perished, state media reported, giving a final toll for the disaster and blaming an earlier miscount of the survivors on confusion between government agencies.
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China Gathers "Multitude" of Evidence in Ship Sinking Probe
Chinese investigators looking into last week's deadly capsizing of a packed cruise ship have collected a "multitude of first-hand evidence" and have interviewed many people including the captain, state media said on today.
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Toll in China Ship Tragedy Rises Past 400 as Workers Remember Dead
Salvage and rescue personnel bowed their heads today morning as ship horns blared in tribute to the victims of China's worst shipping disaster in nearly seven decades after the death toll reached 431.
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This China Man Has Prevented 469 Depressed People From Jumping Off Bridge
Chen wears a red volunteer's uniform with the words "cherish life every day" written in Chinese and patrols the bridge 10 times each day.
-
Drought-Hit China Plans To Use Cloud-Seeding To Induce Rain: Report
Authorities in China are trying to induce rainfall in the midst of a catastrophic drought, which is caused by a record-breaking heatwave.
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China Faces Another Month Of Drought As Yangtze Tributary Runs Dry: Report
Residents living near a tributary of the Yangtze river in the southwestern region of Chongqing clambered along the dry riverbed on Thursday amid an unprecedented drought across the region that could last another month.
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China Issues Drought Alert, Fights Forest Fires To Save Crops In Heatwave
China has issued its first national drought alert of the year as authorities battle forest fires and mobilise specialist teams to protect crops from scorching temperatures across the Yangtze river basin.
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"Turn Down The ACs": Record Electricity Demand In China Amid Searing Heat
Power consumption surged in large Chinese provinces north of the Yangtze river amid warmer-than-normal weather, with regions like Henan, China's third-most populous province, challenged by record electricity demand.
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"Let My Daughter Go": China Virus Lockdown Blocks Girl's Cancer Treatment
Hours ticked by on Saturday as 50-year-old Lu Yuejin struggled to get past the police checkpoint on the bridge over the Yangtze river and out of Hubei province, which is on virtual lockdown as China scrambles to control a coronavirus outbreak.
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Viral: Mysterious 65-Foot 'Monster', Spotted In River, Turns Out To Be...
A mysterious black 'creature' was recently spotted in China's Yangtze River. Here is what it actually was.
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Smiling At Danger, China's Finless Porpoise Fights To Survive
In an oxbow lake along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a breathy sigh pierces the surface stillness as one of China's most endangered animals comes up for a gulp of hazy air.
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China Urges Regions To Take Responsibility After Yangtze Smog Surge
China's regional governments need to take more responsibility for local pollution and stop blaming others, a senior environmental official said on Tuesday, following increases in smog in the Yangtze and Pearl river delta regions in January.
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More Than 120 Dead In China Floods
Heavy rain around China's Yangtze river basin has left 128 people dead and scores missing, media said Tuesday, with more damage feared from a typhoon expected to land this week.
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China Blames Weather For Ship Disaster, Captain May Be Prosecuted
A formal inquiry has concluded that freak weather led to the sinking of a Yangtze River cruise ship in June that killed 442 people and recommended that the captain be investigated for possible crimes, media reported.
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Quick-Thinking Bus Driver Saves Woman From Jumping Off Bridge in China
Startling footage of a vigilant bus driver in China saving a woman from committing suicide is being shared across social media.
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China Puts Ship Disaster Survivors at 12, Says All 442 Bodies Found
Just 12 people survived the Yangtze River cruise ship capsizing in which 442 people perished, state media reported, giving a final toll for the disaster and blaming an earlier miscount of the survivors on confusion between government agencies.
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China Gathers "Multitude" of Evidence in Ship Sinking Probe
Chinese investigators looking into last week's deadly capsizing of a packed cruise ship have collected a "multitude of first-hand evidence" and have interviewed many people including the captain, state media said on today.
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Toll in China Ship Tragedy Rises Past 400 as Workers Remember Dead
Salvage and rescue personnel bowed their heads today morning as ship horns blared in tribute to the victims of China's worst shipping disaster in nearly seven decades after the death toll reached 431.
