Toy Recall

This is funny because the truth really is that running with scissors is less dangerous than playing with Chinese made goods.

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Pollution turns Chinese river red

At least three tributaries of the Han river - a branch of the Yangtze - have been affected.

State media reported high levels of chemicals in the water.

China is increasingly concerned about its environment. A recent ban on plastic bags has led to the country's largest bag factory shutting down.

The Xinglong, Tianguan and Dongjing rivers were all affected by the pollution, according to the state news agency Xinhua.

A chemical spill is thought be the cause, but the source has not yet been identified and an investigation has been launched.

Gao Qijin, a water company official in Xinguo, Jianli County, told Xinhua that the water in the Dongjing river had become red with large amounts of bubbles.

Mr Gao said the company had detected the pollution on Sunday and immediately stopped drawing water from the river.

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This is significant to China because it gives a graphic example of China's polution is effecting the enviroment, and if this polution spreads to the Yangtze around 500 Millons peoples water supply will be tainted and unuseable to those people, this is a big deal in china and i plan on fallowing up if something big happens

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China to press North Korea

Rice urges China to press N Korea

Ms Rice met President Hu Jintao during her visitUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged Chinese leaders to put pressure on North Korea to move ahead quickly with nuclear disarmament.

She was speaking during a two-day visit to Beijing, her first for over a year.

Ms Rice met President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, and held talks with foreign minister Yang Jiechi.

She also used the visit to raise the issue of human rights and criticise Taiwan's plans to hold a referendum on UN membership.

Ms Rice told reporters that she had held "very good discussions about a number of issues" with her Chinese counterparts.

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Condoleeza Rice met with Hu Jintao to urge China to press N. Korea to stop their nuclear program. This would be a huge step if China agreed to discourage N. Korea's nuclear program. China holds a huge deal of international influence and power and can be the most deadly force in the world if need be.

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Stories China's media could not write

By Michael Bristow BBC News, Beijing

When journalists at China's national broadcaster CCTV log on, one of the first things that pops up on screen is a notice about what not to report.

These notices are often short and seldom say who has authorised them, but they all contain strict instructions about how to report a story.

Journalists were recently warned off a health scandal, told how to report the death of Benazir Bhutto and had to steer clear of a Hollywood film story.

Censorship has been an everyday feature of news reporting in China for as long as the Chinese Communist Party has been in power.

But this wide range of so-called sensitive stories shows that, in China, any story on any subject at any time can still fall foul of the censor's red pen.

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This is very significant to china cause this shows how the communist party jumps in and censors may importaint storys because they don't protray china in a good way.

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China Pollution

China to log its worst polluters

Beijing hopes the survey will give a clear picture of pollution in China. China has begun an ambitious project to survey the country's major sources of pollution.

Factories, farms and other polluters will have to declare how much, and what kind of pollutants, they discharge.

The government admits it will be difficult to get companies to supply accurate data, so it is offering them immunity from fines and prosecution.

But even with this incentive, some say the system has flaws which will make it difficult to get accurate information.

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China is taking the responsibilty of their pollution. This is a very honorable thing for China to do especially after all the controversy about the Olympics and their poisonous dumplings. Maybe this will start a new world trend of logging pollution.

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China thinking of revoking one child rule

Family planning chief Zhao Baige told reporters she wanted an "incremental" change in the policy.

But there are not yet any specific proposals or a timetable for change, and she said some form of population control would remain in place.

Families in China's cities are restricted to one child, and those in rural areas to two children.
But the BBC's Dan Griffiths in Beijing says many wealthy Chinese are having large families and choosing to pay the standard fines for having more than one child.

Ms Zhao said it was common practice for some families in cities to have two or even three children.

And she expressed concern that China faces a huge disparity in numbers of females to males, as families in rural provinces continue to favour boys over girls.

"[In Henan there are] nearly 100 million people, but strongly influenced by the classical way, they want a son, and they are already very fragile environmentally," Reuters quoted her as saying.

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This is very significant to China because if they change the one child rule, one Chinas' population will grow even faster and second that this rule has been around for years as a sign of communism and it shows how they are begging to change there ways

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