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: Fiscal revenue up 33% in first 2 months; China saw a 32.9 percent growth year-on-year in fiscal revenue in the first two months this year due to factors including rising tax revenue following continued economic recovery, the Ministry of Finance announced Sunday.

: CNOOC's JV takes Argentina route; China National Offshore Oil Corp, the country's biggest offshore oil explorer, plans a joint venture with Argentina's Bridas Energy Holdings, paying US$3.1 billion to take a 50 percent stake in a subsidiary, Bridas Corp.

: Rescue for 31 trapped miners halted; Rescue efforts were stopped as 31 miners trapped underground a flooded coal mine in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region were believed to have no chance of survival, a rescue official said Sunday.

World Consumer Rights Day marked in China: World Consumer Rights Day marked in China

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Wokai microloans open up the future for farmers

US NGO Wokai lends small amounts of money to help poor farmers in rural China start their own businesses.

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: Nightmare on Wall Street

News that wages are rising in China is being greeted with dread by admirers of Wall Street's uberguru Alan Greenspan.

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Google China on brink of withdrawing

Google reiterated its threat to pull out of China in protest of censorship over the weekend.

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13 tigers die in 3 months

An investigation has been launched into the deaths of 13 Siberian tigers in the past three months at a zoo in Shenyang.

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30 militants defect to gov't in W. Afghanistan

Thirty Taliban fighters defected to the government in western Afghanistan on Sunday.

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Severe drought hits SW China

A severe drought in southwest China, which local people say is the worst in a century, is forecast to linger till the start of the rainy season in May.