Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
At least 46 people were killed and 11 injured Tuesday when a truck fell off a 300-meter-high cliff in southwestern Bolivian province of Potosi, highway police said. Five of the injured were said to be in serious condition.
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit Peruvian province of Arequipaon Tuesday, but there have been no reports of casualties or damage so far.
The earthquake took place at 04:13 a.m. (09:13 GMT) and several road were blocked by landslides, ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Sanshui District in Foshan, South China's Guangdong Province, was recognized as a "Chinese Longevity Town" by the Gerontological Society of China (GSC) on June 26, 2008.
It is the first "Chinese Longevity Town" in Guangdong Province.
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
China is all set to move in to save the quake-threatened culture of the Qiang people in Sichuan Province.
A protection plan on the construction of cultural protection region for the Qiang nationality will be submitted to the State C ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
A new petrochemical complex was officially inaugurated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's western province of Kermanshah on Thursday, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The Kermanshah Petrochemical Complex is lo ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
One soldier with the U.S.-led Coalition forces was killed in southern Afghan province of Helmand Wednesday morning, said a Coalition statement.
The Coalition forces were conducting combat operations when their vehicle was targeted b ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The Global Music Valley Cultural Industry Park project had officially been contracted to enter the Shushan Economic Development Zone in Hefei, in China's Anhui Province.
According to the plan, the sound collection centre, covering 12 ac ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
An overnight suicide car bomb explosion near a police station in the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, killed two people and wounded more than 70 others, a provincial police source said on Wednesday.
The suicide bomber ...
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