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We have started to collect the most important news related to China in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
The EU is expected to this week pressure China to allow its currency to strengthen more quickly.
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FranceChina must play its role in framing a new global deal on climate change, France's President Sarkozy says.
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The first images of the Moon's surface taken by China's lunar module are revealed in Beijing.
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FranceFrench industrialists visiting China with President Nicolas Sarkozy finalise trade deals worth billions of euros.
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IranFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy is in China for a visit that is expected to focus on economic links and Iran.
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A Darfur rebel group says that China's peacekeepers should leave the region as 135 Chinese engineers arrive.
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An explosion at a petrol station in the Chinese city of Shanghai kills four people and leaves dozens injured.
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China's state-owned railway builder raises 22.44bn yuan in a share sale on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
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Workers find a bus buried under a landslide near China's Three Gorges dam, with 30 people feared dead.
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China has made "considerable progress" in improving safety of the toys it exports, a European report finds.
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JapanA Chinese warship sets off for Japan, the first such port call since the Communist Party took power in 1949.
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A landslide kills a worker near the Three Gorges dam, amid warnings the project is threatening the environment.
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AfghanistanA Chinese mining company has won a tender to develop one of the world's largest copper mines in Afghanistan.
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Tibet's spiritual leader considers naming his own successor, in an effort to block Chinese interference.
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TaiwanTaiwan blocks China's bid to have its first judge on the WTO's top trade disputes court, citing fears of bias.
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Hong KongPro-Beijing parties, buoyed by the economy, are expected to do well in district council elections in Hong Kong.
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Chinese authorities withdraw loans to 12 firms accused of flouting environment laws, in the first move of its kind.
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United StatesChinese espionage poses "the single greatest risk" to the security of US technology, a panel warns Congress.
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Yahoo agrees to settle a case brought against it by Chinese dissidents, according to court papers.
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China's trade surplus climbs to $27bn in October, hitting a new record, according to official figures.
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FranceThree people are killed and 30 injured in a stampede at a sale in a French-run supermarket in China.
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China suspends exports of a toy coated with a chemical blamed for child health problems in several countries.
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Twenty-nine miners are killed and six are missing after a gas leak at a mine in China's Guizhou province.
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AustraliaThe US and Australia recall Chinese-made toys containing a substance linked to date-rape drug GHB.
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China is on schedule to launch its own small space station by 2020, a leading space expert claims.
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China is set to become to the world's largest consumer of energy by 2010, a report claims.
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United StatesA US congressional panel rebukes internet giant Yahoo over its actions in a Chinese human rights case.
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A Chinese province may sue Mattel for harming its reputation in the recent recall of toys, state press said.
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A lottery will be used to sell the next batch of Beijing Olympics tickets after last week's website breakdown.
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JapanChina's first lunar module has begun orbitting the Moon, a month after a Japan probe achieved the same feat.
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Macau's former construction minister goes on trial in the Chinese gambling enclave's biggest-ever corruption case.
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More than 700 toy factories are banned from exporting as China tries to reassure overseas markets.
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Beijing introduces a new law to raise standards of food production after a series of damaging scandals.
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Organisers of the Beijing Olympics suspend ticket sales until Monday as vast demand crashes their systems.
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The official Olympic website and phone line are both down, as 8m Chinese try to buy tickets for the 2008 Games.
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Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution leads the nominations for the Chinese language Golden Horse Awards.
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China announces plans to clean up a badly-polluted major lake after an algae bloom cut off water supplies.
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IndiaIndian leader Sonia Gandhi hails a "milestone" in India-China relations as she arrives in Beijing on a five-day visit.
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United StatesToy firm Mattel recalls 55,000 Chinese-made toys over lead contamination fears, the US government says.
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South AfricaChina's biggest bank is buying a 20% stake in South Africa's largest lender to become the biggest single shareholder.
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SudanDarfur rebels seize oil workers from a Chinese-run facility in Sudan as the UN threatens some rebels with sanctions.
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Air pollution in Beijing will not significantly improve before next year's Olympic Games, a UN report suggests.
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JapanChina's first lunar probe takes off, in a key step towards Beijing's aim of putting a man on the Moon by 2020.
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United StatesA US congress panel backs legislation which would stop internet firms from co-operating with Chinese authorities.
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An explosion at an unlicensed fireworks workshop in south-west China kills 16 people and injures 15 more.
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Rights groups express concern about reports of clashes in Tibet between Chinese police and Buddhist monks.
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China's top oil firm, PetroChina, expects to raise more than $9bn for its Shanghai market listing.
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China's Communist Party unveils its new leadership line-up, with new faces joining its top decision-making body.
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Some 34 people die in a fire at an illegal shoe factory in eastern China's Fujian province, state media reports.
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China's vice-president is dropped from the Communist Party central committee, as the 17th congress ends.
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