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The subway operation in Kaohsiung is suspended due to the earthquake in Pingtung, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 26, 2012. A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan's Pingtung at 10:34 Beijing Time (02:34 GMT) on Sunday, said the China Earthquake Network Center (CENC). Taiwan's meteorological authorities said the epicenter of the quake, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, was 30.4 km northeast of Pingtung County. The quakes could be felt in Taipei. (Xinhua)

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Photo taken on Feb. 24, 2012 shows the "heavenly road" along the waist of the Taihang Mountains in Pingshun County, north China's Shanxi Province. The 1,526-meter-long road, which spirals up along the 1,100-meter-high Taihang Mountains is a shortcut to the Jingdi Village at the mountain foot. Local villagers spent 15 years to build the road and they call it "heavenly road." [Xinhua]

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Zaandam, a luxury cruise ship owned by Holland America, arrives at the Tianjin International Cruise Home Port in Tianjin, north China, Feb. 25, 2012. A total of 1,100 passengers and 646 ship crew boarding Zaandam arrived in Tianjin from Hong Kong on Saturday morning. [Xinhua]

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Photos taken on Feb. 24, 2012 shows the chemical plant after an explosion in Jiangbei District of Chongqing, southwest China. An acetylene-burning blast happened at 3:30 a.m. Friday at a workshop of Fangxin Fine Chemical Co. Ltd. in Chongqing. No casualties have been reported so far. The cause of the accident is under investigation. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)

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Jeremy Lin of New York Knicks attends a training session for the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge game during the NBA All-Star weekend in Orlando, the United States, Feb. 24, 2012. (Xinhua/Song Qiong)

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Job seekers browse employment information before a notice board at the 2012 spring job fair in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 25, 2012. More than 1,100 enterprises and institutions offered over 20,000 posts at the job fair. (Xinhua/Shi Jianxue)

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A Long March-3C carrier rocket sets off at Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest Sichuan Province, Feb. 25, 2012. China successfully launched a satellite into space Saturday, the 11th one of its indigenous global navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system. (Xinhua/Fan Jun)

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Equation said:

You got some mighty high bar as far as looks for women. p

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Equation said:

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LOL...check out the guy on the left with the cigarette and the daily news on horse racing. You think after the protest he would head out straight to the horse betting place?

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LOL...check out the guy on the left with the cigarette and the daily news on horse racing. You think after the protest he would head out straight to the horse betting place?

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bladerunner said:

He's got his prioritys right. Back in my high school days, a good buddy of mine (Chinese) always had the "Best Bets" (nz racing book) handy. He was always studying it b4 school between classes, after school with a transitor radio held to his ear when we werewalking home He went on to become the nations toppest/ besttest, most brilliantist, Number onenist scholar. But he never smoked . Maybe that made the difference. Hey maybe it was a "cheatsheat" written in code.

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bd popeye said:

When I first saw that photo It reminded me of those Chinese guys that would hang around the China Fleet Club in Hong Kong to give sailors a "special" taxi ride...back in the day...

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Equation said:

LOL...the one who smokes are probably hard on their luck or just not a very good gambler!

LOL...his looks reminds me of one of my distant uncle, usually my mom side of the family (and my dad let her know it, to her embarrassment and despise of course), that's very hard working, but sometimes they wasted all their earnings in gambling.

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Hong Kong, Men gathered in a park playing mahjong. December 2011

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Attendants help World Bank President Robert Zoellick (C) to take off his coat as he arrives for an economy conference in Beijing February 27, 2012. China must relax its grip on industry and move towards a free-market economy, the World Bank said on Monday in a report that forecast the country would become the world's largest economy before 2030.

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Elderly men rest outside a window of a state-owned commercial bank in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012.

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Chinese tourists pose for photos in front of a portrait of the late Chairman Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on February 27, 2012.

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Police cars parked outside the Great Hall of the People as China prepares for its annual National Party Congress meetings starting this weekend, in Beijing on February 27, 2012. With approx 3000 members attending, it is the largest parliament in the world and gathers each year along with the People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

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A security guard stands in front of the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Court in Shanghai in this February 22, 2012 file photo. Yang Long-san, Apple's nemesis in a battle over the iPad trademark in China, once strutted the expo halls with dreams of market dominance. His company, Proview, may now be in ruins and his most valuable asset a disputed trademark, but those dreams remain intact.

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A protester wearing a mask of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang sits outside the government house during a protest in Hong Kong Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. Several hundred people took to the street in Hong Kong against the chief executive who is involved in conflict of interest in accepting favors from tycoons.

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Pedestrians walk along a street in a busy shopping district of Hong Kong on February 25, 2012.

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Fire fighters hose down fire at a leather product market in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, Feb. 27, 2012. The fire has been put under control. No casualties have been reported so far. (Xinhua/Li Bo)

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Pupils queue up to get lunch at the classroom of Neixue Primary School in Baishan Township of Mashan County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 23, 2012. Local government of the poverty-stricken county has input 9.71 million yuan (1.54 million U.S. dollars) since May last year to build or improve dining halls in 117 primary and secondary schools. Companies and charity organizations also joined in the program to offer free lunch to rural students in Mashan. Altogether about 1.16 million primary and secondary school students in 40 counties and districts of Guangxi have benefited from the government subsidies and received free lunch since Autumn last year. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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Students in costumes took part in the spring sacrificing ceremony of the Confucius Temple in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 26, 2012.

Nearly 1,000 people attended the ancient-style ceremony, which is held annually to encourage students to set clear goals and study hard in the beginning of a year.

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A worker injured in an explosion at the Hebei Zhaoxian Kerr Chemical Co. plant, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Zhaoxian county in north China's Hebei province Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Officials and state media said Tuesday's blast flattened a workshop at the chemical plant and shattered windows in surrounding villages. (AP Photo)

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Twelve people were confirmed dead following an explosion at a chemical plant in north China's Hebei Province Tuesday morning, Feb. 28, 2012. More than 40 injured people were taken to hospital for treatment. [Photo/Xinhua]

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SHIJIAZHUANG, CHINA - FEBRUARY 28: Rescuers work at the accident site after an explosion occured at Hebei Keeper Chemical Industries Co. , Ltd on February 28, 2012 in Shijiazhuang, China. At least 12 were killed and more than 40 injured, after one of the factory's workshops exploded at around 9 am on Tuesday. Officials and state media said Tuesday's blast flattened a workshop at the the plant and shattered windows in surrounding villages. (AP Photo)

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People walk past sculptures of cartoon figures at a government-invested industrial park aimed at attracting cartoon animation companies at Binhai New Area, a new economic development zone in Tianjin, China, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012.

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Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan at a forum before being mobbed by reporters questioning his involvement in the recent Wang Lijun arrest case that also involved Chongqing Communist Party secretary Bo Xilai, in Beijing on February 28, 2012. Former police chief Wang Lijun whose recent visit to a US consulate sparked rumours he was trying to defect, flew to Beijing with a top state security officer after meeting American officials in southwest China. Wang, is famed as one of China's top graft-busters after leading a crackdown that led to scores of senior officials being jailed in the southwestern city of 30 million people.

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A worker sells meat in a market in Shanghai on February 28, 2012.

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Women carry coffee across a road in Shanghai on February 28, 2012.

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Protester Du Jianguo (L) wrestles with an official after disrupting a press conference by the World Bank President Robert Zoellick in Beijing on February 28, 2012. China could face an economic crisis in the next 20 years if Beijing does not quickly overhaul its development model, World Bank and Chinese government researchers warned. The world's second-largest economy was at a 'turning point' and the need for deep reforms was urgent, the analysts said in a report forecasting China's economic growth would nearly halve in the next two decades.

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World Bank's President Robert Zoellick, right, is followed by a Chinese officer out from a conference room after a news conference at the World Bank office in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. A Chinese protester denounced World Bank policy prescriptions as poison and briefly disrupted the press conference, highlighting tensions over its call for Beijing to reduce the dominance of state companies.

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A guide introduces city planning details for a group of visitors at a model of a planned new city zone to be developed by 2020 at the Tianjin Planning Exhibition Hall in Tianjin, China, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012.

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ZHENGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 27: Firefighters battle a leather product market fire on February 27, 2012 in Zhengzhou, China. The fire has been put under control. No casualties have been reported so far. The fire broke out at 3 pm and was extinguished two hours later without any reports of casualties.

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A customer tries out Apple's iPad 2 at a retail shop in Chongqing, China, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. The Taiwan-based maker Proview Electronics said Monday it is now seeking to regain worldwide rights to the iPad name and is suing Apple Inc. for alleged fraud and unfair competition.

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Chinese actress Gao Yuanyuan attends Giorgio Armani 2012 Autumn/Winter collection during Milan Fashion Week in Milan February 27, 2012.

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Chairman of the Chinese company Asus, Jonney Shih presents the Padfone during a press conference in Barcelona on February 27, 2012 on the opening day of the Mobile World congress. The 2012 Mobile World Congress, the world's biggest mobile fair, will be held from February 27 to March 1 in Barcelona.

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Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi arrives at the 20th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party in West Hollywood, California February 26, 2012.

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Customers look at a Range Rover Evoque car outside a dealership in Beijing February 17, 2012. Chinese consumers bought 2.1 million sport utility vehicles (SUVs) last year, up 25.3 percent from 2010 and representing 11.6 percent of light vehicle sales, according to J.D. Power and LMC Automotive. That is about half of the 4.1 million SUVs sold in the U.S. , where SUVs were 32 percent of the light vehicle market. Picture taken February 17, 2012.

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A father carries his son in Shanghai on February 28, 2012. China is ordering local officials to stop using threatening slogans to enforce its strict 'one-child' policy, state media has reported.

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A worker serves dumpling in a restaurant in Shanghai on February 28, 2012.

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Workers build water pipeline at Luxi County in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 27, 2012. A drought in Yunnan Province has left 3.19 million people and 1.58 million livestock short of drinking water, the provincial government said Monday. (Xinhua/Hu Yanhui)

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Local people carry water delivered by a truck at Luxi County in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 27, 2012. A drought in Yunnan Province has left 3.19 million people and 1.58 million livestock short of drinking water, the provincial government said Monday. (Xinhua/Hu Yanhui)

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A tea farmer of Dong ethnic group picks spring tea in Buyang Village of Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 27, 2012. A total of 1,000 women of Dong ethnic group attended an opening ceremony for spring tea picking in the county Monday. (Xinhua/Liang Kechuan)

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Chinese state media says 12 people have died in riots near the north-western city of Kashgar in Xinjiang province.

Xinhua news agency reported that rioters killed 10 people, while police shot dead two of the rioters.

The report gives no detail as to what might have triggered the violence.

Security has been high in the north-western province since riots in 2009 in the capital Urumqi between the Muslim Uighurs, who are the largest ethnic group, and Han Chinese migrants.

Nearly 200 people were killed in that unrest, most of them Han, according to officials.

Tuesday's violence took place just after 18:00 in a market in Yecheng county, about 250km south-east of Kashgar, according to Xinhua.

The report said that police were still searching for the rest of the "violent mob", who the report said had been armed with knives.

One local newspaper called the attackers ''terrorists'', saying that they were engaged in criminal activities, reports the BBC's Michael Bristow in Beijing.

A report in the state-controlled Global Times cited a local taxi driver as saying ''the city remained calm''.

A spokesman for the World Uighur Congress, a German-based exile group, said 84 people had been detained and authorities had closed off all exits and entries to Yecheng, citing local sources.

The search terms Yecheng and Kashgar appeared to have been blocked on China's twitter-like weibo microblogs.
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Almost half of Xinjiang's residents are Uighurs, Turkic-speaking Muslims with cultural and ethnic links to Central Asia.
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Many complain that large-scale migration of Han Chinese workers from the east has cost them jobs and is eroding their culture.

China has invested heavily in Xinjiang and the region's rich oil and gas deposits are vital to its booming economy.

Uighur allegations of discrimination and marginalisation have been behind anti-Han and separatist sentiment in Xinjiang since the 1990s.

Further violence broke out in July 2011 and left 32 people dead.

A hostage-taking incident in December led to the death of seven kidnappers - part of a "terror gang", according to Chinese state media.

China claims it faces an organized terrorist threat from radical Muslims in Xinjiang, but Uighur activists say citizens are angry at Beijing's heavy-handed rule in the region.

Authorities announced earlier this month that 8,000 policemen will be recruited for the region in a bid to increase security. The plan would be to station at least one officer in each village.

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People past Chinese sculptures at the 798 Art Complex in Beijing on February 29, 2012. Global art auction sales surged to a record US$11.5 billion (8.7 billion euros) last year despite the weak world economy, with China cementing its spot as the top market, research showed Wednesday. A report by Artprice, the France-based world leader in art market data, said auction revenues had risen 21 percent last year and for the first time exceeded the US$10 billion mark.

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A Chinese fitness instructor (L) with models as she conducts a demonstration during a sports promotion event at the 798 Art Complex in Beijing on February 29, 2012. Dedicated slimming centres have sprung up across China over the past decade to take advantage of soaring obesity rates, as newly wealthy young Chinese swap rice bowls for burgers and bicycles for cars. Around one in five young urban Chinese is now overweight meaning more than 300 million of the country's 1.3 billion people are overweight, 120 million of them obese.

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A woman rides her tricycle loaded with polystyrene boxes on a street in Shanghai on February 29, 2012.

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Customers test out Apple iPads in an Apple Store in downtown Shanghai February 29, 2012

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Villagers watch candidates in Wukan's village committee election give electoral stump speeches in another progressive electoral development of the southern Chinese fishing village in Guangdong province February 29, 2012. Hundreds of Chinese clapped and cheered their favourite candidates on Wednesday ahead of the election of a new village committee, creating a front line of democratic activism after a violent standoff over corrupt land grabs.

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Mainland Chinese tourists walk near The Venetian hotel and casino resort in Macau on February 29, 2012. The economy of Macau, a former Portugese colony, is heavily dependent on tourism and gambling.

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A Pakistani police officer looks at the dead body of a Chinese woman at a hospital in Peshawar on February 28, 2012. A Chinese woman was shot dead with a male companion on February 28 in the Pakistani city Peshawar, which borders the tribal belt stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants, police said. They were killed by gunmen on motorbikes while walking in the Kohati bazaar in the historic centre of the northwestern city, police said.

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