Pet lovers protest cats on the menu in China
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- Pet lovers protest cats on the menu in China
- Villagers evacuated after ground sinking in S.China
- China blocks access to New York Times Web site
- Brief Introduction – Guangdong
- China yuan ends at 6.8465 to US dollar vs 6.8295 in TC trade
Pet lovers protest cats on the menu in China
The Associated Press
The protesters say as many as 5000 cats across the country mostly strays have been caught in the past week by traders and transported to Guangdong province _ to be killed for food. “Cats have a strong flavor. Dogs taste much better but if you really want cat meat I can have it delivered by tomorrow” said the butcher who gave only her surname Huang. It was just this attitude that outraged about 40 cat lovers who unfurled banners in a tearful protest outside the Guangdong government office in Beijing. Many were retirees who care for stray felines they said were being rounded up by dealers.
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Villagers evacuated after ground sinking in S.China
China Daily China
0Villagers evacuated after ground sinking in S. Houses and residential buildings in Xiamao Village in Baiyun District of Guangzhou the provincial capital began to slope at about 4:15 p. Friday forcing 381 people to escape according to Long Xin’an an official with the district emergency office. The ground sinking affected an area of about 5000 square meters where one building collapsed 11 houses cracked and 61 others were under safety monitoring.
China blocks access to New York Times Web site
The Associated Press
Computer users who logged on in Beijing Shanghai and Guangzhou received a message that the site was not available when they tried to connect on Friday morning the paper said. Some users were cut of as early as Thursday evening it said. The Web site remained inaccessible from Beijing Saturday. It was not clear if the move was meant to block specific content on the newspaper’s Web site or if it was a return to stricter censorship of the Internet in general. Beijing loosened some media and Internet controls during the 2008 Summer lympics — gestures that were meant to show the international community that the games had brought greater freedom to the Chinese people.
Brief Introduction – Guangdong
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It was populated by peoples collectively known as the Hundred Yue who may have been Tai-Kadai and related to the Zhuang people in modern Guangxi. Chinese administration in the region began with the Qin Dynasty. After establishing the first unified Chinese empire the Qin expanded southwards and set up Nanhai Commandery at Panyu near what is now part of Guangzhou. It used to be independent as Nanyue between the fall of Qin and the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. The Han Dynasty administered Guangdong Guangxi and northern Vietnam as Jiao Province. Under the Wu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms period Guangdong was made its own province the Guang Province in 226.
China yuan ends at 6.8465 to US dollar vs 6.8295 in TC trade
Forbes NY
8465 against the US dollar on the over-the-counter (TC) market down from 6. n the exchange-traded market the yuan closed at 6. 8290 the previous session a Guangzhou-based trader with a foreign bank said. com:%20China%20yuan%20ends%20at%206.
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