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A child blows bubbles on a sunny afternoon in Hong Kong on April 9, 2011. Hong Kong's travel sector and shopping malls said they were expecting a windfall this Easter with tourists avoiding quake-hit Japan as it battles a nuclear crisis.

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A model promotes a car at an auto show in Yantai of east China's Shandong Province, April 8, 2011. A total of 700 automobiles from 69 brands were displayed in the exhibition.[Xinhua/Chu Yang]

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A Hong Kong fireman rescues a woman from a high-rise apartment building 08 April where a blaze killed seven people and injured 28. The fire broke out on the sixth floor of the 18-storey building, one of 60 identical blocks in Lai Chi Kok, western Kowloon. In January, at least 17 people died in a fire at a Kowloon Karaoke bar, and 40 were killed when a blaze engulfed the 16-storey Garley Commercial Building last November.

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Hebe (L) and Ella from the Taiwan music group S.H.E. receive the award for Best Musical Group during the first Global Chinese Golden Chart awards in Taipei April 9, 2011.

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New York Mets Hu Chin-lung, of Taiwan, hits a sacrifice bunt against the Washington Nationals during the seventh inning of their MLB National League baseball game at Citi Field in New York April 8, 2011.

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Jia Qinglin (L), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, meets with Australia's Governor-General Quentin Bryce, in Canberra, Australia, April 8, 2011. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)

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Rescue members work in the site of the Hetaoyu coal mine accident in Zhengning County of Qingyang City, northwest China's Gansu Province, April 6, 2011. Six people were trapped underground in the Hetaoyu coal mine in Zhengning where a construction accident occured on Tuesday afternoon. Rescue efforts were still going on. (Xinhua)

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A nurse at the Pingliang Hospital in Pingliang city, Northwest China's Gansu province, puts an intravenous drip into a toddler who is suffering from food poisoning, on Friday. [Photo/Xinhua]

BEIJING - Three babies died and 35 other people, mostly children, were left ill in a Northwest China city by an outbreak of food poisoning believed to be linked to tainted milk, the local government said on Friday.

A preliminary investigation showed victims in Pingliang city, Northwest China's Gansu province, suffered from nitrite poisoning after drinking milk, a local government statement said.

Nitrite is a chemical used to make dyes and to preserve meats.

According to the statement, two dairy farms have been shut down and the managers are being investigated.

A publicity official from the city government, who requested anonymity, told China Daily that local police have detained a suspect in his 40s, surnamed Ma, who is believed to have supplied the tainted milk to the victims.

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A staff member shows off ASUS' new PC slate "EeePad Transformer" on the 2011 Taipei spring IT show in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, April 7, 2011. With the Android 3.0 operating system, the PC slate features a detachable keyboard and equips with a 10.1-inch display and 16G of memory. The IT fair kicked off here Thursday. (Xinhua/Gong Bing)

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An overturned tanker is seen at the site of a road accident in Kaili, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 8, 2011. A tanker failed to negotiate a curve and overturned on the No. 308 provincial highway in Kaili Thursday night, before hitting a minivan and crashing into a government office building. Two were killed and three others were wounded. [Xinhua/Chen Peiliang]

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Li Xu, a 22-year-old university student, has designed a clover-leaf-shaped interchange to hopefully solve traffic jams in cities. [Provided to China Daily]

"I know many people laughed at me because they thought the plan was unrealistic," said Li, who studies traffic engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, Shandong province.

"But I always encourage myself with the story of the Wright brothers, who were laughed at by others before putting the first ever plane into the sky."

Keep that traffic rolling

Li's intersection design proposes several swerve lanes, which help cars move ahead or turn in any direction without running into each other.

It also shortens the distance needed to make a U-turn and the traffic lights usually seen at intersections are removed, saving waiting time

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I think this could be a potential crash spot, cars in neither lanes (the U-turn lane and the left turn lane) can see each other since the left turn is actually a ramp.

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Singer Fish Leong of Malaysia poses after winning Malaysia My FM Choice award at the first Global Chinese Golden Chart awards in Taipei April 9, 2011. The show is jointly hosted by 11 Mandarin-speaking radio stations from Taiwan, China, Canada, the U.S. , Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.

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Taiwan singer Kenji Wu performs during the first Global Chinese Golden Chart awards in Taipei April 9, 2011.

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Winners of the Miss Tourism Queen International China Final 2011 Central Contest Yuan Yaxuan (C), Yang Ziwei (L) and Shen Baojuan pose for photo in Wuyuan, east China's Jiangxi Province, April 7, 2011. Xinhua photo

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A contestant displays the evening dress at the Miss Tourism Queen International China Final 2011 Central Contest in Wuyuan, east China's Jiangxi Province, April 8, 2011. Xinhua photo

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A contestant displays the swimwear at the Miss Tourism Queen International China Final 2011 Central Contest in Wuyuan, east China's Jiangxi Province, April 8, 2011. Xinhua photo

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I think this could be a potential crash spot, cars in neither lanes (the U-turn lane and the left turn lane) can see each other since the left turn is actually a ramp.

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BEIJING – Beijing police on Sunday detained dozens of worshippers from an unapproved Christian church who were trying to hold services in a public space after they were evicted from their usual place of worship, a parishioner said.

Leaders of the unregistered Shouwang church had told members to gather at an open-air venue in Beijing for Sunday morning services, but police, apparently alerted to their plans, taped off the area and took away people who showed up to take part.

China's Communist government allows worship only in state-approved churches, but many Christians belong to unregistered congregations. Such "house churches" are subjected to varying degrees of harassment by authorities.

More than 60 million Christians are believed to worship in China's independent churches, compared with about 20 million who worship in the state church, according to scholars and church activists.

A church member who went to the gathering spot for services and managed to evade police told The Associated Press that about 200 people were taken away and were being held at a local school. Their cellphones were confiscated, said the man, who would give only his English name, Kane, for fear of police reprisals.

An AP videographer saw about a dozen people escorted by police onto an empty city bus and driven away.

Shouwang pastor Yuan Ling said by telephone that he was unable to go to the venue because police had put him under house arrest Saturday night. Yuan said he knew of at least six other church members who were also under house arrest.

Yuan said fellow parishioners also told him that many worshippers were being held at a school in Beijing's Haidian district, though he wasn't sure of the exact number.

Shouwang had been holding services at a Beijing restaurant until last week, when they were evicted.

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A Long March-3A carrier rocket lifts off at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Apr. 10, 2010. China successfully launched into space a eighth orbiter for its independent satellite navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass System here Saturday. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)

XICHANG, Sichuan, April 10 (Xinhua) -- China early Sunday morning successfully launched its eighth orbiter which will form part of its indigenous satellite-navigation and -positioning network.

A Long March-3A carrier rocket carrying the "Beidou," or Compass, navigation satellite took off at 4:47 a.m. Sunday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

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Massive fire outbroke in the textile building at a large department store in Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, on April 9, 2011. [Hou Deqiang/Xinhua]

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XINING, CHINA - APRIL 09: Firefighters rescue trapped people from a burning building on April 9, 2011 in Xining, Qinghai Province of China. According to local authorities, one woman was killed after a fire broke out at a large shopping mall at about 3 p.m. on Saturday in downtown Xining City. Another 15 people were rescued and sent to the hospital.

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Police officers use a fire extinguisher & barricades as pro-democracy protesters demanding the release of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei burn a leaflet outside China's liaision office in Hong Kong April 10, 2011.

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Marquis Teague (6), of Indianapolis, In. , steals the ball from the the World Team's Guo Ailun, of China, in the second half during the Nike Hoop Summit basketball game Saturday, April 9, 2011, in Portland, Ore. The U.S. Junior National Team defeated the World Team 92-80.

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Chinese workers at an electronic factory queue up for lunch in Hefei, in eastern China's Anhui province on April 9, 2011. Electronics and auto makers in China are facing a severe shortage of components after Japan's twin disasters disrupted production, but the full impact will not be felt for weeks.

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U.S born Taiwanese singer Leehom Wang performs at the 1st Global Chinese Golden Chart in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, April 9, 2011. Wang won the Best Composer, the Best Male Vocalist, the Hit FM Choice and the Best Top 20 Song. The Global Chinese Golden Chart is a new Chinese-language pop music world's annual events hosted by 11 Mandarin-speaking radio stations in the world.

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Taiwan singer Cyndi Wang attends the first Global Chinese Golden Chart awards in Taipei April 9, 2011. The show is jointly hosted by 11 Mandarin-speaking radio stations from Taiwan, China, Canada, the U.S. , Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.

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Yoga followers take part in a 'Yogathon' event in Hong Kong on April 10, 2011. The eight-hour non-stop event aimed to raise money for the Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation (HKBCF) and promote public knowledge of the disease. Yoga is a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation. AFP PHOTO / ED JONES (Photo credit should read Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)

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By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press

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Milk poisoning victims are being treated at a local hospital in Pingliang, Gansu

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PINGLIANG - Milk poisoning that left three children dead and 36 people sickened in northwest China has been confirmed as an intentional food poisoning case, local authorities said Sunday.

Thirty nine people in Pingliang city, Gansu province were sent to hospital after drinking nitrite-tainted milk on Thursday. Three children younger than two years old died, the youngest being 36 days old.

Suspects have been apprehended and interrogations and a continuing investigation is under way, said Zhu Lemin, an official in Pingliang Public Security Bureau.

Nineteen people have since been discharged from hospital as of Sunday, and the remaining 17 who are hospitalized are in stable condition, according to a statement form the Pingliang municipal government.

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