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31/08/2008

15 Killed, 6 Injured in China Fireworks Blast - Voice of America [08/31/08]

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The official Xinhua news agency said Sunday that the blast occurred Saturday at the Xinxin Fireworks Plant in Inner Mongolia, destroying 50 workshops. ...
Complete story: http://voanews.com/english/2008-08-31-voa5.cfm

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Fireworks blast toll in China rises to 15 - Hindustan Times [08/31/08]

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Fifteen people were confirmed dead and six injured in a blast on Saturday in a fireworks factory in north China's Mongolia region, authorities said on ...
Complete story: http://www.hindustantimes.com/redir.aspx?ID=2fa587a4-7a50-400a-82c8-41e614767845

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(in Chinese) Xinjiang Pakistan’s state Hejing County had two times of aftershocks still not to have the personnel casualty report - China news net [08/31/08]

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Zhongxin News Agency Urumqi, August 31 after - (Reporter Zhao Ting) continues in 5.3 magnitude of earthquakes which in August on 30 in the evening occurs, Xinjiang bayan gol Mongolia autonomous prefecture Hejing County on 31st has two times of aftershocks once more, the magnitude respectively be in three six...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://auto.chinanews.com.cn/sh/news/2008/08-31/1365971.shtml

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(in Chinese) Niu Han: My literary arena 诗友 - East net [08/31/08]

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1948 states of the harvest, China greatly marched I to sing the Mongolian long accent: "33 buckwheat 99 棱, remember me the Baotou two sons 瞪"... ... I use north the Jin the rustic accent 土调 loudly to sing, sing very much 尽兴. Ai Qing in the field, said I sing the tunnel, has the length to blend flavors...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://lit.eastday.com/renda/node5661/node5663/node5676/userobject1ai1542041.html

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(in Chinese) The national place finance 13th forum will be held - the Chinese finance network in Dalian [08/31/08]

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Some 40 nationalities, Han Nationality population accounts for 91.9%; The national minority population accounts for 8.1%, by full, Mongolia, returns to, North Korea, the Xibe national minority population are more. The entire province governs 14 places levels city, 14 county level cities, 20 counties, 10 autonomous counties. Provincial capital Shenyang. ...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://active.zgjrw.com/News/2008831/News/546739856100.html

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The whole world in a small book. [08/31/08]

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Can you imagine the Whole World in such a small book?! Actually Whole World published by Barefoot Books is an illustrated version of the popular children's song Whole World children's song that is popular in Christian circles. However, its been slightly modified to take out the religious aspects and the Whole World is quite frankly in the children's hands. If you think about it baring all religious beliefs this world is really in our children's hands. Facing global warming, recessions, global h
Complete story: http://www.sevendogsandababy.com/2008/08/whole-world-in-small-book.html

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Fireworks Explosion Kills 15 in Northern China - FOX News [08/31/08]

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The blast occurred Saturday at the Xinxin Fireworks Plant in Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Xinhua cited a regional work safety official as saying Sunday that the explosion also destroyed about 50 workshops. A preliminary ...
Complete story: http://www.sinolinx.com/frame/?url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,414142,00.html

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15 killed in China fireworks factory blast (Moldova.org) [08/31/08]

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A Chinese fireworks factory explosion killed 15 workers and injured six others in Inner Mongolia, officials said Sunday.The blast happened Saturday at the Xinxin Fireworks Plant in Hohhot, the capital of northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. Fourteen of the dead were locals between the ages of 25 and 68, while another victim from ...
Complete story: http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/146492/

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Fireworks blast toll in China rises to 15 (New Kerala) [08/31/08]

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Hohhot (China), Aug 31 : Fifteen people were confirmed dead and six injured in a blast Saturday in a fireworks factory in north China's Mongolia region, authorities said Sunday.
Complete story: http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-16984.html

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Government bans use of coal to make oil in bid to save fuel [08/31/08]

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China has ordered a halt to projects that use coal to make oil as the nation seeks to conserve its supplies of the fuel for power generation. All coal-to-fuel projects must suspend operations, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Development and Reform Commission said in a statement on its Website. Shenhua Group Corp’s plants in Inner Mongolia and Ningxia are exceptions, the regional agency quoted a document from the National Development and Reform Commission as saying. Chinese coal companies a
Complete story: http://www.chinatradeinformation.net/china-trade-news/government-bans-use-of-coal-to-make-oil-in-bid-to-save-fuel.html

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Osh - Osh, Kyrgyzstan [08/31/08]

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Osh, Kyrgyzstan We are happily in the bosom of mulberry,apricot, apple and peach trees swelling with ripe fruit.We are happily in the crotch of raspberry, black currant, red currant and cherry bushes. And are dreamily drowning in bowls of the most divine apricot, raspberry and black currant jams topped with udders of fresh cream. We are in a land of bounty for sure. We just finished a six day horse trek up into the mountains, over wild rocky passes, pa
Complete story: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/bird_dream/1/1219910160.html

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Fireworks plant blast kills 15 in northern China - International Herald Tribune [08/31/08]

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BEIJING : State media say an explosion at a fireworks plant in northern China has killed 15 people and injured six others. The official Xinhua News Agency says the blast occurred Saturday at the Xinxin Fireworks Plant in Inner Mongolia. Xinhua cited ...
Complete story: http://www.sinolinx.com/frame/?url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/31/news/China-Fireworks-Blast.php

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Foreign Policy Experience: What Americans don’t know about Sarah Palin [08/31/08]

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Foreign Policy Experience: What Americans don’t know about Sarah Palin Posted by admin at August 31, 2008 I often hear “never left the US” or “no foreign relations experience”. Commander and Chief Sarah Palin visiting her troops in the Middle East: http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/20… Foreign Relations: -Iraq/Kuwait/Afganistan/Kosovo (her troops get sent there, she gets briefed constantly on their mission, well being, and what is going on in that country that could affect he
Complete story: http://www.AudacityofHypocrisy.com/2008/08/31/foreign-policy-experience-what-americans-dont-know-about-sarah-palin/

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China firework plant blast kills 15 (Channel 4) [08/31/08]

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An explosion at a fireworks plant in northern China has killed 15 people and injured six others, according to state-run media. The official Xinhua News Agency said the blast occurred on Saturday at the Xinxin Fireworks Plant in Inner Mongolia.
Complete story: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/china+firework+plant+blast+kills+15/2439202

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Palin foreign relations experience [08/31/08]

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Some comments I dug up that I feel are worth sharing. If you find more accomplishments ... Please post them!! Quote: alaskan soldier wrote: I often hear "never left the US" or "no foreign relations experience". Commander and Chief Sarah Palin visiting her troops in the Middle East: http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-kuwait-gallery/ Foreign Relations: Iraq/Kuwait/Afganistan/Kosovo (her troops get sent there, she gets briefed constantly on thei
Complete story: http://www.xdtalk.com/forums/political-view/82095-palin-foreign-relations-experience.html

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Fifteen dead in N. China fireworks plant blast (China Daily) [08/31/08]

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HOHHOT -- Local authorities in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Sunday confirmed 15 people died and six were injured in an explosion at a fireworks plant on Saturday.
Complete story: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-08/31/content_6984542.htm

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Positivity: Woman without hands or legs discovers ‘true joy’ after converting to Catholicism [08/31/08]

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From Ulan Bator, Mongolia (YouTube video is also here and at link) Aug 20, 2008 / 09:03 pm - Lucia Otgongerel was born in Mongolia 30 years ago without hands or legs. She lived in a deep depression until 2002 when she converted to Catholicism and, as she explains, discovered “true joy.” Today she works in the capital city of Mongolia, Ulan Bator, as a teacher for seven children with special needs. Now Lucia claims, “I could not live without my faith.” She overcomes the challenges of her ph
Complete story: http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/08/31/positivity-woman-without-hands-or-legs-discovers-%e2%80%98true-joy%e2%80%99-after-converting-to-catholicism/

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15 Killed, 6 Injured in China Fireworks Blast [08/31/08]

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Official Xinhua news agency said Sunday that the blast occurred Saturday at the Xinxin Fireworks Plant in Inner Mongolia, destroying 50 workshops
Complete story: http://www.sinolinx.com/frame/?url=http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-25-voa15.cfm?rss=china

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Lake Hovsgol - Ulan Bator, Mongolia [08/31/08]

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Ulan Bator, Mongolia On the morning of the 16th of August we were all set to go on our second 9 day tour, but this time we would be heading north west and then to north then back again to UB. we were all packed and waiting for our vechicle and driver to turn up I was really excited because last tour we had a very rickety russian jeep and there was no way it could possibley be worse, but this is mongolia and anything can happen so when an old russi
Complete story: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/hwhiteland/1/1219294860.html

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15 Killed, 6 Injured in China Fireworks Blast (Voice of America) [08/31/08]

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Chinese state media say an explosion at a fireworks plant in northern China has killed 15 people and injured six. The official Xinhua news agency said Sunday that the blast occurred Saturday at the Xinxin Fireworks Plant in Inner Mongolia, destroying 50 workshops.
Complete story: http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-31-voa5.cfm

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Fireworks plant blast kills 15 in China [08/31/08]

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BEIJING, China (CNN) — An explosion at a fireworks plant killed 15 people and wounded six others in northern China, state media reported Sunday. The deadly explosion occurred Saturday at a plant in Sijiazi Township in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Xinhua news agency said. On Sunday, rescue workers found two bodies buried in the rubble, bringing the total to 15, Xinhua said. The blast may have been set off after workers at the plant did not follow regulations while weighing and
Complete story: http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/31/fireworks-plant-blast-kills-15-in-china/

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China fireworks factory blast kills 15 (The West Australian) [08/31/08]

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Fifteen people were killed and six injured when a blast rocked a fireworks factory in northern China, state press reports. The explosion occurred on Saturday morning in Inner Mongolia's Sijiazi township, destroying 50 workshops at the Xinxin Fireworks Plant, Xinhua news agency said.
Complete story: http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=511000

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(in Russian) WAR In SOUTH OSETIA SHOWED THE VULNERABILITY OF GEORGIAN CONDUITS - president.org.ua [08/30/08]

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Actually the project TRASEKA, by participants in which besides the countries of Transcaucasia and central Asia steel the Ukraine, Moldavia, Mongolia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Turkey, it was directed toward their economic detachment from Russia and weakening of its political and economic influence in the region. A key participant in this financed by the European Union project furthermore became Georgia, through territory of which are passed the basic railroad, automobile and sea main lines, which connect the countries of Black Sea- Caspian region...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://president.org.ua/news/news-205388/

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(in Russian) Efflorescent and fashionable city - Inform the policy [08/30/08]

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On the left shore with the entrance into the city it became beautiful: is very originally by colors everything they designed, monument "hospitable Of buryatiya" they will there transfer. - streets became more beautifully: is much color, roads are improved. Tram lines made better, became more than marshrutok. City became more cleanly. The stores of clothing it became more. - became less wooden structures, they are substituted by contemporary. Occurs repair it is expensive. Appeared many good stores, in which excellent maintenance. - people in our city change to the best side: steel...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.infpol.ru/newspaper/number.php?ELEMENT_ID=11289

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(in Russian) The partners of Russia in SHOS were careful in the estimations of its last actions in the Caucasus - oasis [08/30/08]

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Into the Shanghai organization of collaboration together with Russia enter Kazakhstan, China, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan and Uzbekistan. The four additional countries - India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan - have status of observer. The prospects for so eclectic a formation, such as is SHOS, the skepticism is caused in many. However, the unanimous pragmatism of participants in the dushanbinskogo summit in the estimation of Russian-Georgian conflict - this that how thus far cannot brag the countries of western block.
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.ca-oasis.info/news/?c=1&id=33856

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(in Russian) In China passes the relay race of the fire OF XIII Paralimpiady - To rosbalt..RU [08/30/08]

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Route Sian6-Huch-Xoto-Canwa- Nanking -Lo4n - presents the way Of paralimpiady around the earliest cities of China. Modern China present 5 it is municipal Shen'chzhen', Ukhan', Shanghai, Tsindao, Dalyan', tientsin. Today was completed the sequential stage of the relay race of the fire Of paralimpiady in Shen'chzhene (South China) and in Huch -Xoto (Chinese province, autonomous region internal Mongolia). In both cities the participation in the relay race accepted 70 fakelonostsev. Celebrations on occasion of the ignition of the fire Of paralimpiady in Shen'chzhene took place in the park "excellent...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.rosbalt.ru/2008/8/30/518823.html

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The latest ‘great game’ involves Indian Ocean - Los Angeles Times [08/31/08]

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... in part to monitor Chinese movements, Bedi noted. It also has an air base in Kazakhstan and a space monitoring post in Mongolia -- both China's neighbors.
Complete story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-energy31plr-2008aug31,0,4491132.story

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Auditor-General: Mysterious Missing Funds of Chinese Regime … - The Epoch Times [08/31/08]

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Warehouse 836 in Inner Mongolia has been completed for 10 years. Yet it has never been used to store any goods or materials. The audit also investigated ...
Complete story: http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/missing-funds-china-3579.html

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Community service takes her far abroad - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com [08/31/08]

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And this year after returning from Mongolia, she went to England to study Latin and architecture at Oxford University as part of the Oxbridge Academic ...
Complete story: http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base//library-154/1220161435139690.xml&coll=1

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Chris Marker, the best-known author of unknown movies - Boston Globe [08/31/08]

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That's what Marker told Thomson, anyway - and if he wasn't born in Mongolia, he might as well have been. How else to account for an ability to see so much ...
Complete story: http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/08/31/chris_marker_the_best_known_author_of_unknown_movies

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Debut ‘World’ proves Le Carre’s son on bold path - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review [08/31/08]

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There are people who definitely do, the Rough Guiders and the Lonely Planeteers who go to Mongolia and tell you wonderful things. But the majority of people ...
Complete story: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/books/s_585362.html

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Babylon AD Review - 411mania.com [08/31/08]

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Picking up the package in Mongolia and an ass-kicking nun named Sister Rebecca (Yeoh) in the process, Toorop starts to lead the duo on a perilous journey ...
Complete story: http://www.411mania.com/movies/film_reviews/84127/Babylon-A.D.-Review.htm

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Fireworks factory explosion in China kills 13 - elEconomista.es [08/31/08]

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BEIJING (Reuters) - An explosion at a fireworks factory in northern China's Inner Mongolia region has killed 13 people and injured six, according to state ...
Complete story: http://www.eleconomista.es/mundo/noticias/727415/08/08/Fireworks-factory-explosion-in-China-kills-13.html

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Fireworks factory explosion in China kills 13 - U.S. Daily [08/31/08]

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By Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - An explosion at a fireworks factory in northern China's Inner Mongolia region has killed 13 people and injured six, ...
Complete story: http://theusdaily.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=501931&type=home

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Building team players - Malaysia Star [08/31/08]

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The college currently has 1300 students, including 110 foreign students, mainly from China, Thailand, Indonesia, Mongolia and the Middle East. ...
Complete story: http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?file=/2008/8/31/education/1784225&sec=education

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Geologist to use Benguet traditional mining practices - Inquirer.net [08/31/08]

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He has done research on small-scale mining for the past 10 years in Mongolia, Tanzania, Mali and Sudan. While some small-scale miners do not use any ...
Complete story: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080831-157805/Geologist-to-use-Benguet-traditional-mining-practices

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