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      <title>The Latest NewsChina Magazine Issue</title>
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      <description>NEWSCHINA (from Beijing) is the English edition of China Newsweek (Zhong Guo Xin Wen Zhou Kan), one of the 
      most influential news magazines on the Chinese mainland</description>
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      <dc:rights>Copyright 2011</dc:rights>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:42:38 GMT</pubDate>
     

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         <title>Trading Places</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Li Jia
 | The campaign to join the World Trade Organization was the most powerful external force behind China’s unprecedented economic liberalization. But now, with reform losing momentum, has China outgrown WTO influence?]]></description>
         <category>World</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:27 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Commercial Comfort Zone</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | Have dynamic and far-reaching economic reforms, initiated in order to qualify China for entry into the WTO, given way to complacency on all sides? NewsChina investigates.]]></description>
         <category>World</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:23 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Crying Wolf</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Li Jia
 | While openness to both foreign and domestic investment has led to prosperity in many industries in China, the prospect of increased competition still has the power to spook]]></description>
         <category>World</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:05 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Money Talks</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Li Jia
 | While investment may speak louder than politics, the business communities from both China and Europe will have to adapt in order to fill the widening gaps in the eurozone]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:59 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Taking Sides</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by Xue Yumeng,

Xu Zhihui
 | Rioting in the Zhejiang township of Zhili has unnerved the local government, awakening Chinese administrators to the risks of using taxation to drive small-scale businesses out of  the marketplace]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:55 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Psych Revaluation</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Yang Zhenglian
 | A Chongqing man whose employers had declared insane has won a 13-year court battle to have the decision overturned. What consequences will this landmark case have?]]></description>
         <category>Society</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:53 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Mule Logistics</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | Horseback transportation of goods used to dominate ancient China&rsquo;s agricultural society. Today horse-drawn carts remain in use in remote mountain regions.]]></description>
         <category>Visual Report</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:32 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>A Hundred Flowers More</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Yu Xiaodong
 | China’s authorities are attempting to kick-start a cultural renaissance, but culture itself has never been the problem]]></description>
         <category>Politics</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:15 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Hoopes Away From Home</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Tang Lei
 | Higher pay and better competition has recently attracted Taiwanese basketball players across the straits to compete in the mainland CBA]]></description>
         <category>Sports</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:59 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Do We Really Need to Fingerprint 1.3bn People?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | The new biometric ID card scheme needs serious consideration before we impose it on an unprepared nation]]></description>
         <category>Commentary</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:36 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Masterful Mock&#45;ups</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by Yu Hua,

Yi Xiaohe
 | Counterfeiting, driven by booms in speculation and investment, has now become endemic in China’s nascent art market]]></description>
         <category>Culture</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:33 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Safe as Houses?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Yu Xiaodong
 | A year and a half into the government’s housing market regulation scheme, property prices have at last begun to decline, but tensions remain high]]></description>
         <category>Economy</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:27 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Brutal Bazaar</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Sun Zhe
 | Is e-commerce portal Taobao, China’s eBay equivalent, capitalizing on a lack of e-business regulation in China?]]></description>
         <category>Special Report</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:01 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Anti&#45;Monopoly Investigations Should be Conducted Openly and Independently</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | State-owned enterprises have established dominance and enjoyed excessive profits in various industries, often at the cost of public interest.]]></description>
         <category>Editorial</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:53 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Gale&#45;Force Glut</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Li Jia
 | Despite having a virtual monopoly on China’s oversupplied domestic market, attempts by the country’s wind energy companies to compete internationally have brought their lack of maturity into sharp focus]]></description>
         <category>Economy</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:42 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Move Toward Mainstream</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Tang Lei
 | Internet shorts, dubbed “micro-movies,” are growing in popularity, but how long can this fringe genre escape official censorship?]]></description>
         <category>Culture</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:24 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Can You Afford to be an Angry Bird?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Wang Yan
 | The developer of the popular mobile game recently claimed that Chinese piracy has helped his business, but domestic industry hopefuls aren’t so sure]]></description>
         <category>Economy</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:18 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>From Stall to Mall</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Sun Zhe
 | Taobao’s shift towards a business-to-consumer model has come at a cost to small-scale sellers, who are learning some harsh lessons about the cutthroat world of business]]></description>
         <category>Special Report</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:11 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>The New Year That Wasn&#8217;t</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by Huang Wei,

Xie Ying
 | As the Cultural Revolution raged across the country in early 1967, the Chinese Spring Festival holiday was cancelled, cutting through very roots of the nation’s culture and traditional values. NewsChina looks at how the most important date in the Chinese calendar became a day like any other]]></description>
         <category>History</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:11 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>The River Wild</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Wang Yan
 | From its source in Tibet, the Yarlung Tsangpo River meanders 2,900 kilometers and passes through India and Bangladesh. With devastating annual floods and potentially hazardous hydroelectricity projects in the pipeline, there is an urgent need for improved cross-border co-operation]]></description>
         <category>Environment</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:01 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Beauty Means Business</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by Jack Smith
 | Despite its tourist-trap window dressing there’s always something new to discover in the tortuous alleyways of Pingyao, Shanxi]]></description>
         <category>Outside In</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Keeping Beijing&#8217;s Spirits Up</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Sean Silbert
 | A walk through the unlit, labyrinthine hutong at night can easily evoke unsettling thoughts of things that go bump in the night.]]></description>
         <category>Essay</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:25 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Undermining Safety</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | Due to over 60 years of unrestricted heavy mining, Shanxi Province, which boasts China&rsquo;s biggest known coal reserves, has been gradually hollowed out, with related geological disasters such as subsidence and sinkholes causing death and damage in rural communities. Hundreds of villagers have been forced to move out of their homes into abandoned brick kilns or temporary government housing far from their fields. Worse still, many of these &ldquo...]]></description>       
         <category>Media Focus</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:57 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Bold Double Album</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | Increasingly threatened by Internet piracy, many modern musicians are reluctant to release real CD albums. However, Wang Feng, a veteran singer-songwriter with a career spanning one-and-a-half decades, has shown confidence in his fans and the quality of his work by releasing a new double-disc album of 26 songs in mid-November 2011. Unlike many of his contemporaries, whose popularity has faded after one or two albums, Wang&rsquo;s fan base has continued...]]></description>       
         <category>Cultural Listings</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:41 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>A Modern Love Story</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Angelo Matera
 | Released in early November 2011, Love Is Not Blind, a story about the 33 days following a young woman&rsquo;s discovery that her boyfriend is cheating with her best friend, quickly created a buzz among Chinese moviegoers. While love is no new theme, critics argue that the film has captured the young Chinese audience by portraying the ease with which trust and intimate relationships are discarded in the modern world. Directed...]]></description>       
         <category>Cultural Listings</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:40 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>30 Years of Sculpture</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | Start from the Horizon, an exhibition reviewing modern Chinese sculpture since 1978 when China began its policy of Reform and Opening-up, was launched in early November 2011 at Beijing&rsquo;s Si Shang Art Museum. Lasting four months, the exhibition includes more than 100 works from 54 established and up-and-coming artists. Strikingly different from the realist style ubiquitous before 1978, sculptures in the exhibition show a strong tendency toward diversity, with many pieces showing abstract,...]]></description>       
         <category>Cultural Listings</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:36 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Top of the Wave</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Wu Jun
 | A book about the history of communication and the IT industry, Top of the Wave has received glowing reviews from readers and critics. Published in August 2011, it quickly entered many Chinese bookstores&rsquo; bestseller charts. On douban.com, a major cultural portal in China, the book received a score of 9.4 out of 10, as voted for by more than 2,000 readers by mid-November 2011, a higher score than Steve Jobs: A Biography, which...]]></description>       
         <category>Cultural Listings</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:33 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Catwalk Diplomacy</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Jack Smith
 | With China’s 2011 Miss Universe contestant Luo Zilin wooing Manhattan before placing fourth in the pageant, is China experimenting with a new soft power secret weapon – the beauty queen?]]></description>
         <category>Society</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Peasants Need Not Apply</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Sun Zhe
 | China’s residence registration system restricts the ability of rural-born Chinese children to secure a place at college, regardless of academic achievement]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:17 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>King of Burgers</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Jacob Bailes
 | I had almost abandoned my quest to find a “real” hamburger after a series of crushing disappointments.]]></description>
         <category>Outside In</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:17 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Everything is Dangerous</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
Abby Fitzgibbon
 | The extent to which these ayi hover over the children entrusted to them makes me wonder, are they more concerned with the child’s safety, or with simply appearing concerned?]]></description>
         <category>Essay</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Trust Crisis</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | A recent online survey by China&rsquo;s Xinhua News Agency has shown that over 80 percent of respondents believe that popular trust in government and judicial affairs is in &ldquo;urgent need of improvement,&rdquo; with a series of scandals such as toxic milk powder, gutter oil and ongoing forced demolitions bringing government credibility to its lowest ebb since Xinhua began to run opinion polls in the 1990s. The State...]]></description>       
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:15 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Medical Gambling</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | A loosened national loan policy introduced during the 2008 financial crisis has reportedly caused the hoarding of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM), leading to asset bubbles among both retailers and producers of TCM. However, since traditional medicines are priced by the government, producers have failed to turn a profit on the sale of&nbsp; TCM, resulting in the bubble bursting and a 90 percent drop in the autumn of 2010. Now, over 90 percent of...]]></description>       
         <category>Media Focus</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:14 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Edible Bribes</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | As crab season approached in late Autumn, live crabs packed into gold-plated boxes and priced at around 100,000 yuan (US$15,740) became a must-have status symbol or, more commonly, bribe. A trend of giving extravagantly packaged food items as luxurious &ldquo;gifts&rdquo; to employers and officials has seen a resurgence in recent years, with expensive imported gifts such as vintage bottles of Chateau Lafite and Herm&egrave;s bags jostling alongside...]]></description>       
         <category>Media Focus</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Stealing from the Poor?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | The Guangzhou government has launched a new poverty alleviation program, effective from February 2011, aiming to lift eight townships and 305 villages out of poverty by the end of 2012. Controversy surrounding the scheme arose after the government invited nine real estate developers into the program to &ldquo;jointly build public facilities and low cost housing.&rdquo; Despite some achievements in the first 10 months, some developers are suspected of abusing the program for...]]></description>       
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>e&#45;Cartels</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | In late October, China&rsquo;s Ministry of Public Security launched a controversial nationwide campaign against online drug trafficking. A total of 12,125 people were detained and questioned about their participation in drug-related chat on the Internet.

	The campaign was sparked by a case in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, when a detained dealer led police to what they termed an &ldquo;online drug trafficking ring&rdquo; operating via a video sharing website....]]></description>       
         <category>News Brief</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:11 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>PepsiCo Joins The Master</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | PepsiCo, the world&rsquo;s second largest beverage company, declared a &ldquo;strategic alliance&rdquo; with food and beverage giant Master Kong, China&rsquo;s largest domestic soft drink manufacturer.

	According to a joint statement, Master Kong will exchange a 5 percent stake for ownership of PepsiCo&rsquo;s China bottling plant, also acquiring a local franchise extended to all Pepsi&rsquo;s sodas as well as the sports drink Gatorade....]]></description>       
         <category>News Brief</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Another Mission Complete</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by 
News China Magazine
 | Chinese orbiter Shenzhou 8 has landed in Inner Mongolia on November 18 after spending 17 days in orbit and successfully coupling with the Tiangong 1 orbital module 340km above the Earth. Launched on September 29, Tiangong 1 is part of China&rsquo;s development of a manned space lab which, according to scientists, is expected to be operational by 2020.

	China has undertaken a total of eight manned space missions in the last 12 years, completing its first...]]></description>       
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Road Carnage in Guizhou</title>
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News China Magazine
 | At least eight people were killed and over 300 injured in a multi-vehicle explosion in Fuquan, Guizhou.

	Around 11:30 AM, November 1 2011, two cargo trucks loaded with 72 tons of explosives suddenly blew up at an auto repair station near an interprovincial expressway linking Lanzhou, Gansu Province, with the southernmost island province of Hainan.

	Witnesses told State media an &ldquo;earthquake-like&rdquo; blast completely demolished the repair station, shattered windows in nearby homes and...]]></description>       
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:08 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title>Hearing Held for  Auto Warranties</title>
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 | China&rsquo;s State Bureau of Quality Supervision held a hearing on October 26 on the regulation of auto warranties. Some 16 representatives from the auto industry were present, including customers, dealers, repair companies and leading carmakers like Hyundai and Toyota.

	According to media reports, most participants supported the draft regulation which would require carmakers to offer a minimum two-year or 4,000km-warranty on all vehicles, extending a three-year or 6,000km-warranty to any...]]></description>       
         <category>News Brief</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:07 GMT</pubDate>
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