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Cyclists travel on the road on a hazy day in Huaibei, in central China's Anhui province Monday Jan. 14, 2013. Air pollution is a major problem in China due to the country's rapid pace of industrialization, reliance on coal power, explosive growth in car ownership and disregard for environmental laws. (AP Photo)

Chinese officials open up about Beijing's horrendous air pollution

Christopher Bodeen, Gillian Wong The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 14, 2013 - 10:47am

BEIJING -- One of Beijing's worst rounds of air pollution kept schoolchildren indoors and sent coughing residents to hospitals Monday, but this time something was different about the murky haze: the government's transparency in talking about it.

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Sensational China murder trial to end with guilty verdict

Gillian Wong The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 9:16am

HEFEI, China — The wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai lured a British businessman to a hotel in the southwestern mega-city of Chongqing, where she got him drunk and poisoned him, testimony revealed Thursday in one of China’s highest-profile murder trials.

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An image featuring blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is shown by a protester during a rally in front of the Chinese central government's liaison in Hong Kong Friday, May 4, 2012. Chen at the center of a diplomatic standoff between the United States and China said Friday his situation is "dangerous," and that American officials have been blocked from seeing him for two days and friends who have tried to visit have been beaten up. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Deal struck on Chinese activist

Gillian Wong, Matthew Lee The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 4, 2012 - 10:28am

BEIJING -- The U.S. and China forged the outlines of a deal Friday to end a diplomatic standoff over legal activist Chen Guangcheng that would let him travel to the U.S. with his family for a university fellowship.

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(The Associated Press) A coal miner rescued from the Wangjialing Coal Mine in Xiangning county is rushed into a hospital in Hejing town in north China's Shanxi province on Monday.

Scores rescued from flooded coal mine in China

Gillian Wong The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 5, 2010 - 5:55pm

SLIDESHOW: China Mine Flooding

SLIDESHOW: China Mine Rescue

XIANGNING, China -- Rescuers paddled the rafts with their hands in the dark, flooded mine shaft, letting out air so the inflatable vessels could squeeze through tight passages. From deep in the tunnel came the call: "Can you get me out of here?"

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