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Turkmenistan's President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov (L) celebrates by touching his champagne glass with that of Chinese President Hu Jintao after a signing ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing November 23, 2011. Berdymukhamedov is in China on an official visit from November 22 to 25.

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BEIJING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 23: Japan's Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (L) shakes hands with his counterpart Yang Jiechi during their meeting November 23, 2011in Beijing. Gemba is in Beijing to discuss the avoidance of conflict over disputed waters of the East China Sea gas fields and disputed islands, whcih are known as the Senkaku in Japanese and the Diaoyu in Chinese.

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Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of Taiwan's main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), displays an official document after registering as the DPP presidential candidate at the Central Elections Committee in Taipei on November 23, 2011. A poll carried out last week showed that Ma's lead over his main challenger, Tsai Ing-wen of the anti-China Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was just five percentage points.

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A security guard stands outside the cooling towers for a coal-powered power plant in the suburbs of Beijing on November 22, 2011. China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, said it will push at the UN climate talks in Durban for an extension of the Kyoto Protocol, which requires rich nations to reduce their emissions.

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Residents stand on both sides of a street during a protest in Wukan village of Lufeng, Guangdong province November 22, 2011. Thousands of villagers who are angry that officials had failed to address their grievances following riots two months ago marched to a government office in southern China to demand the return of land they say was illegally seized, witnesses and the media said. The banner reads: "Selling the farmland of Wukan people is selling the interests of the Wukan people".

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A Buddha tooth relic from China is seen in a glass cage as it is carried at the Maha Pasana Cave in Yangon November 22, 2011. The relic has been brought to Myanmar three times before, and on this 48-day trip, it is being taken around the country to Naypyitaw, Yangon and Mandalay.

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This image from video footage released by Students For A Free Tibet via APTN purports to show Buddhist nun Palden Choetso engulfed in flames in her self-immolation protest against Chinese rule on a street in Tawu, Tibetan Ganzi prefecture, in China's Sichuan Province Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011.

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Photo taken on Nov. 24, 2011 shows blast site of the Futian Chemical Company in Wenbian Village of Panyu District in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. An explosion ripped through a warehouse at a chemical plant in Guangzhou on Thursday, forcing the evacuation of about 6,000 residents, the local government said. (Xinhua/Zheng Hengpeng)

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A total of 36 children, most standing without seat belts in a van for 11 people, are counted by a policeman in Xiangyang, Central China’s Hubei province, Nov 23, 2011. Drivers found to be overloading vehicles can be fined up to 2,000 yuan and suspended from driving on the road. [Photo/CFP]

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Students hang from the rear of several motor tricycles taking them home, in Tongyang town, East China’s Anhui province, Nov 21, 2011. The vehicles, with just four seats, are run by private people to pick up students from school. [Photo/CFP]

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Every day millions of children across China make the vital journey from home to school to receive an education. For some it is a perilous journey crammed into the back of an overloaded van with no safety precautions.

On Nov 16 in Gansu province, 21 people, including 19 children, died after their nine-seat bus carrying 64 people collided head-on with a coal truck. The Ministry of Education urged schools and kindergartens nationwide to conduct safety checks on their school buses.

The crackdown has begun, but as seen in these shocking images, the lessons from the Gansu tragedy have gone unheeded. In different cities across China, dozens of little kids - some standing and without seat belts - are still jammed into shoddy vehicles.

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Bai Shuyan (R), a 25-year-old primary school teacher, chats with students who are queuing up to get on the school bus in Deqing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 22, 2011. Bai's job is to take care of the children on the bus. Local government of Deqing County has invested 20 million yuan (3.14 million U.S. dollars) to order 79 school buses, which are specially designed for children with smaller seats and seat belts as well as bright yellow color to have better warning function. Among the 79 buses, 14 ones have truck-style front ends, and this appearance like a long nose can effectively reduce the impact force and better protect children's safety. Drivers of such kind of school buses are required not to exceed 60 kilometers per hour. Nearly 6,000 children from 25 primary schools have benefited from the operation of this kind of school bus in Deqing County. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

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Drivers check the school buses in Deqing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, in the early morning of Nov. 22, 2011. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

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Fu Xunyu, an eight-year-old primary school student, writes down her name on the window of a school bus in Deqing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 22, 2011.？ (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

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Driver Tang Zhiqiang cleans the school bus in Deqing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 21, 2011, before departing for schools on 3 p.m. to receive children. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

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NANCHANG, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- A fire that broke out Thursday morning in an old town part of Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, killed five people and injured another two.

The fire was controlled in an hour after it started at 3:24 a.m., forcing an evacuation of 150 residents from the neighborhood in Shitou Street in the Xihu District, the local fire department said.

Firefighters are continuing the search and rescue activities in the debris.

The fire engulfed an area of about 500 square meters before the firefighters completely put it out at around 6 a.m.

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BEIJING, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- With special inspection teams set up at all provincial-level governments, school bus safety checks have started across the country just days after a collision claimed the lives of 19 preschoolers on an overloaded bus, according to the Ministry of Education.

In an initial safety check, Beijing's municipal education commission found that some private schools' and kindergartens' buses were overloaded, and many private cars swarming to pick up children after school could also result in traffic disorders outside schools, according to a statement released Tuesday by the ministry.

Beijing has ordered its schools and kindergartens to keep clear records of safety inspections for all their buses and to arrange safety training courses for school bus drivers.

Twenty-one people, including 19 preschoolers and two adults, died and 43 others were injured last Wednesday morning when a nine-seat school bus illegally carrying 64 people collided head-on with a coal truck in northwest China's Gansu province.

In Shanghai, a total of 2,300 school buses will undergo comprehensive checks, including vehicle sanitation and control equipment inspections, by Nov. 25. So far, 15 buses have been found to be operating illegally, and they have been ordered to rectify their illegal operations, said the statement.

In addition to regular safety checks, eastern Jiangsu province held meetings for school bus drivers to exchange experiences on driving children.

Meanwhile, the education commission of southwestern Chongqing Municipality arranged for special personnel to anonymously spot-check school bus operations at middle and elementary schools.

In the statement, the ministry also urged education bureaus at all levels as well as all schools and kindergartens to map out emergency plans against traffic accidents.

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Driver Tang Zhiqiang checks the tyre of a school bus in Deqing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, in the early morning of Nov. 22, 2011. Tang drives the school bus to set out on 6 a.m. every day to receive children in different stations. Local government of Deqing County has invested 20 million yuan (3.14 million U.S. dollars) to order 79 school buses, which are specially designed for children with smaller seats and seat belts as well as bright yellow color to have better warning function. Among the 79 buses, 14 ones have truck-style front ends, and this appearance like a long nose can effectively reduce the impact force and better protect children's safety. Drivers of such kind of school buses are required not to exceed 60 kilometers per hour. Nearly 6,000 children from 25 primary schools have benefited from the operation of this kind of school bus in Deqing County.

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Guo Qian, Chairman and CEO of Chery Quantum Auto Co, speaks during the presentation of the Qoros car in Shanghai November 28, 2011. Chery Quantum Auto Co. , a joint venture between Chery Automobile and investment firm Israel Corp, on Monday unveiled the design of its first car, which it hopes will allow it to reverse a trend and export made-in-China cars to Western Europe. The 50-50 joint venture between Israel Corp and Chery Automobile was set up in 2007. The new brand, called Qoros, is targeting sales in 2013.

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Workers go about their chores at a construction site for new shops in Beijing on November 28, 2011. China will maintain restrictions on the property market, Vice Premier Li Keqiang has said, despite growing speculation that curbs could be eased to prevent a damaging slump in prices, as real estate sales and prices have been falling nationwide due to tough restrictions on purchases and bank lending, fuelling fears that the market could collapse and send debt-laden property developers to the wall.

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Candidates check for their names as they make their way to sit for the Chinese civil service examinations, where nationwide 133 million candidates sit for the exam to qualify for some 18,000 job vacancies in the government, in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on November 27, 2011.

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Candidates prepare to take the Chinese civil service examinations, where nationwide 133 million candidates sit for the exam to qualify for some 18,000 job vacancies in the government, in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on November 27, 2011.

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People walk by a newly built Western style commercial architecture buildings in Beijing, China, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011.

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Chinese merchants protest in front of Madrid's City hall at Cibeles square in Madrid on November 28, 2011. Hundreds of Chinese shopkeepers demonstrated in Madrid Monday to demand the right to sell beer and wine, in what Spanish media said was the first public protest by the community.

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Chinese merchants show a banner 'I pay my taxes, I want the second license' during a protest in front of Madrid's City hall at Cibeles square in Madrid on November 28, 2011.

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Cheng-Yu Tung, Honorary Chairman of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Co. smiles as he takes questions from the press at the Chow Tai Fook investors' lunch in Hong Kong on November 28, 2011. Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Co. told investors that it is seeking to raise up to 2.8 billion USD in an initial public offering that would create a new publicly listed giant in luxury goods.

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Three thousand Chuanbei Prison inmates are escourted by armed police and prison guards as they are relocated to a new prison in Mianyang in Sichuan Province, southwest China on Nov. 24, 2011.[Photo/Chinanews.com]

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Ariel Lin, a Taiwanese actress and singer, who won Best Leading Actress in a Television Series at the 43rd Golden Bell Awards, poses for a group of sexy photos. [Photo/Sina]

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The "Yuanwang I" Space Tracking Ship moors at the World Expo Park in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 27, 2011. "Yuanwang I", China's first vessel for tracking and controlling rockets and spacecraft that was retired in 2010 after 32 years on service, was moved to Shanghai's World Expo Park on Saturday. The vessel will serve as a museum for scientific eduction. [Xinhua/Guo Changyao]

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Survivors from a deadly road accident that occurred in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) two days ago get off a coach at an immigration checkpoint in Dandong, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Nov. 28, 2011. Twenty-three tourists, including three from the Netherlands, returned to China by road from the DPRK on Monday after a deadly road accident in which seven Chinese were killed and another ten Chinese injured in the DPRK on Nov. 26. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

PYONGYANG, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Thirty-one Chinese citizens returned to China on Monday after their buses were involved in traffic accidents near Pyongyang that killed seven people and seriously injured three others, said the Chinese embassy in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Chinese ambassador to the DPRK Liu Hongcai, Choe Chang Sik, chairman of the Korea-China Friendship Association, and other DPRK officials went to the Pyongyang Railway Station and Pyongyang Airport to see them off.

It was reported that family members of the seven road accident victims would arrive in Pyongyang by train later in the day.

The seven Chinese citizens were killed in two traffic accidents near Pyongyang on Saturday.

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Don't get me wrong, I can see you're caring for the victims in such a tragedy, but don't you think your comments a little bit too condescending?

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Photo taken on Nov. 29, 2011 shows the burnt vehicles in Yuanzhou district in the city of Guyuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region. The accident occurred at 8:30 a.m. as a van rear-ended a fuel tank truck loaded with 20 tonnes of crude benzene after failing to brake on an icy road, which caused an explosion, local police said. Two people were killed in the road accident. (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)

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A man runs away from the site of an explosion on the highway in Yuanzhou District of Guyuan City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Nov. 29, 2011. An explosion happened as a cargo vehicle collided with an oil truck in the morning on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)

YINCHUAN, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Villagers were evacuated due to a poisonous chemical leak following a road crash Tuesday morning in northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, according to local authorities.

The accident occurred at 8:30 a.m. in Yuanzhou district in the city of Guyuan when a truck rear-ended a fuel tank truck loaded with 20 tonnes of crude benzene which caused an explosion, local police said. The gas from the incomplete combustion of the crude benzene was poisonous to humans, local police said.

The amount of casualties is not known, and the cause of the accident is under investigation.

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Staff members wearing masks handle the site of a road accident in Yuanzhou district in the city of Guyuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Nov. 29, 2011.

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NOV, 29th 2011. Beijing ...A total of 500 police motorcycles were purchased by the Public Security Bureau of Beijing to prevent crimes and enhance the patrolling force on congested roads

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NOV, 29th 2011...The Taiyuan Wusu International Airport was shut down temporarily due to heavy snowfall on Tuesday afternoon, affecting altogether 117 flights. It was estimated to resume operation at 6 a.m. on Wednesday.

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SHENYANG, CHINA - NOVEMBER 28: (CHINA OUT) Actress Zhang Jingchu attends Emporio Armani Commercial Event on November 28, 2011 in Shenyang, China. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)

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In this picture taken on November 28, 2011, workers spread fake snow as they prepare Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium to be transformed into a snowy winter wonderland for tourists in Beijing. The 526-million-USD national stadium better known as the Bird's Nest, hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will turn into a snow carnival for two months. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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bd popeye said:

I don't feel superior to anyone. We are all equal on this planet... as far as I'm concerned. I don't know how you get that I'm posting in a condescending manner.

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