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Excavators work at the spot of landslide in Yunlong County of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 18, 2011. The landslide, which occurred at 7:50 p.m. Saturday, has blocked the Bijiang River and formed a barrier lake, threatening hundreds of people. Authorities in Yunlong county are rushing to evacuate local residents and divert water from the river.

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Giant pandas Xingya (top) and Xingrong reach for a piece of apple at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province December 21, 2011. China will begin sending pandas bred in captivity into a controlled wilderness area in southwestern Sichuan province next month. The first six pandas selected from 108 raised by the Chengdu Giant Panda Rehabilitation Project will be released to a protected natural area covering more than 2,000 acres (780 ha).

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China's Vice President Xi Jinping (R, front) walks with General Tan Cuong while leaving the mausoleum of late Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh after a wreath-laying ceremony in Hanoi December 21, 2011. Xi is in Hanoi for a three-day visit from December 20 to 22.

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China's Vice President Xi Jinping (C) follows a soldier carrying a wreath during a wreath-laying ceremony at the mausoleum of late Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi December 21, 2011. Xi is in Hanoi for a three-day visit from December 20 to 22.

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Villagers listen to a speech by village leader Lin Zulian at a rally after he met with a senior government official and reached an agreement over illegal land grabs and the death in custody of a local leader in Wukan, Guangdong Province on December 21, 2011. Chinese authorities have agreed to release three villagers detained for leading September protests against land grabs, a community spokesman said December 21 after meeting a senior official.

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Chinese paramilitary police officers stand guard at the Chinese border post on the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge along the Yalu River in the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeastern Liaoning province on December 21, 2011. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and other senior leaders on December 21 visited the North Korean embassy in Beijing to offer their condolences on the death of Kim Jong-Il, the official Xinhua news agency said.

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Health workers pack dead chicken at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong December 21, 2011. Workers began culling 17,000 chickens at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong on Wednesday after a dead chicken there tested positive for the deadly H5N1 avian virus, a government spokesman said.

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A passenger shows her real-name train ticket at the Nanjing Railway Station in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua

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BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The real-name system, to be applied in at least 29 train stations in and around Beijing and Shanghai from January 2012, is meant to crack down on rampant ticket scalping that typically booms during the holiday travel rush, railway officials said Wednesday.

Railways, the most popular transportation in China, are expected to carry 235 million passengers during the 40-day peak season, as people travel home for new year family reunions. The Chinese New Year, the first day on traditional lunar calendar, falls on Jan. 23, 2012.

A valid ID card permits the purchase of one ticket per route on any date, but a maximum of five tickets can be purchased if the buyer possesses the valid ID cards of five individuals, according to the new rule issued by the Beijing Railway Bureau

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Yang Yimin was brought to court on Wednesday morning. Yang Yimin, who used to be a deputy head of both the Chinese Football Association (CFA) and the Chinese Football Administrative Center, stood trial in the Intermediate People's Court of Tieling in Liaoning Province.

Some of China's top footballing officials, referees and club managers are brought to court in the northeastern Chinese city of Tieling, on charges of "taking bribes as non-state staff." [Photo/Chinanews.com][Photo/Chinanews.com]

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Equation said:

Yikes, centuries of deforestation can do numbers on the local environment (reason for so many landslide).

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BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 22: Chinese shoppers walk past Christmas decorations at the Solana shopping on December 22, 2011 in Beijing, China. Christmas continues to gain popularity in Chinese consumer culture year after year.

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Villagers gather to protest Friday Dec. 23, 2011 in Haimen, China. Riot police in the southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas at protesters Friday on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to a demonstrator's account and TV footage. A crowd of protesters were locked in a standoff with police near the entrance to a highway in the town of Haimen, demanding authorities release an unknown number of demonstrators, a man surnamed Lin told The Associated Press.

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Police block villagers after a large crowd formed at the scene of environmental protests over the past few days in the town of Haimen, Guangdong Province on December 22, 2011. Demonstrations over a power plant in southern China turned violent for a second straight day on December 21 when police fired tear-gas and beat protesters, witnesses said. At least six people were said to have been injured in the clashes with police in Haimen, a town in Guangdong province where residents are protesting against a coal-fired power plant that they say is a health hazard.

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Riot police march on Friday Dec. 23, 2011 in Haimen, China. Riot police in the southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas at protesters Friday .

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Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra shares a toast with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) during a signing ceremony between Thailand and China at the Government House in Bangkok, December 22, 2011. Xi is on a three-day official visit to Thailand.

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Police officers stand in a line as they try to maintain order after a model of a new housing estate was smashed by some owners at a sales centre of a residential complex in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, December 23, 2011. The owners were unhappy because the new price of the complex was dropped by nearly 4000 yuan ($631) per square metre, local media reported. As China's private real estate market, a main driver of the country's growth, cools under a two-year-long tightening campaign, investors are starting to worry about home prices falling too sharply and too quickly.

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A Mitsubishi L200, belonging to China's Zhou Yuande and Pan Hongyu which will take part in the Dakar 2012 Argentina-Chile-Peru Rally is seen parked at the Zarate docks, 102 km (63 miles) north of Buenos Aires, December 22, 2011. The South American edition of the Dakar 2012 starting January 1 includes a total of 14 stages across Argentina, Chile and Peru.

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YIBIN, CHINA - DECEMBER 21: Rescuers(?) work at a coal mine after explosion on December 21, 2011 in Yibin, China. The explosion occurred at around 7:50 p.m. in Xunsi township of Junlian county in Yibin city on Tuesday, killing 4, injuring 12 and causing a three-story house to collapse. The reason is under investigation.

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Citizens attend an open day activity in Rong'an County of Liuzhou City, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Dec. 22, 2011. Local police force in Rong'an County organized an open day acitivity on Thursday, showing police equipment.

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One person is missing and another one is hospitalized after a gas well exploded in the southwestern province of Sichuan early Thursday morning. The accident occurred at a gas well owned by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in Dayi county in the city of Chengdu, the provincial capital, around 3:30 a.m. during a drilling operation. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Models poses near Vespa GTV 300 on display during the 2012 Taipei International Auto Show at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011.

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Models pose by Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Roadster on display during the 2012 Taipei International Auto Show at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011.

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Cosplayers pose for photos at the 10th Asia Game Show 2011 in Hong Kong on December 23, 2011. Video game lovers started lining up for the game show two nights prior to its opening day in order to buy limited editions of games and other gaming paraphernalia.

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A veteran Chinese referee has admitted in court to taking bribes to fix local and international matches, including making sure a local team won the toss in a friendly involving Manchester United, state media has reported.

The case of Huang Junjie, a referee for more than 20 years who has been nominated as one of the country's best, is one of a number of hearings under way following a probe into Chinese football corruption.

He accepted $245,000 of bribes to fix two international friendlies and taking 20 bribes from six Chinese clubs between 2005 and 2009, Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday.

The international matches included a 2007 exhibition match between the English Premier League's Manchester United and China's Shenzhen. Huang took 100,000 Hong Kong dollars ($13,000) in bribes to let Shenzhen win the coin toss, Xinhua said. Manchester United went on to win the game 6-0.

The other international match was a 2009 fixture between Shanghai Shenhua and Australian club Sydney.

Huang, who was nominated as China's referee of the year in 2009, also took bribes from his colleague, referee Zhou Weixin, to sway results, Xinhua said. Zhou is charged with corruption and bribing civil servants.

Their trials in northeast China are part of a crackdown on Chinese football corruption that has implicated players and top officials including the former head of the Chinese Football Association.

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Huang took 100,000 Hong Kong dollars ($13,000) in bribes to let Shenzhen win the coin toss, Xinhua said. Manchester United went on to win the game 6-0.

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Geographer said:

Why would a gambling syndicate pay so much money to have Shenzhen win the coin toss? That has no bearing on the winner. Do people really bet on coin tosses? Also, how do you fix a coin toss with everyone watching?

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