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Find a news regarding to China or Taiwan happened in the last 6 months. It could be anything related to economy, politics, culture, agriculture, people, sports, etc. No entertainments, homicide, or tabloids, please. Your news should include:
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This is due April 25. Remember to save your images on your local computer first. Please do not use a new that has been posted by the other authors or change other author's content.

"As live fish and turtles sealed in small key rings have become an increasingly popular trinkets sold at subway entrances and train stations, animal protection groups are advocating an immediate ban, calling the item an example of "pure animal abuse." However, there is no existing animal protection law that would prevent their sales, explain animal rights groups. At the Sihui subway station C entrance, one vendor hawked such rings. Filled with colored water, each 7centimeterlong key ring encapsulated either one Brazil turtle or two small kingfish. "The water in the key ring has 'nutrients'," claimed the vendor. "They can live for months inside there."" "According to Mary Peng, cofounder of the International Center for Veterinary Services, fish and turtles wouldn't survive very long in a sealed plastic bag. "They would run out of oxygen," Peng said."
 * News 1 **
 * Author: Danny Cushey **
 * Topic: Living Keychains **
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 * Summary:** In some parts of China, vendors have started selling key rings with live animals inside of them. The company that makes them claims that the animals can survive months in the colored water that is supposedly filled with 'nutrients', but they would run out of air much sooner. Although this is not illegal, it's still morally wrong and grotesque.
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 * Source: http://en.huanqiu.com/beijing/society/2011-03/634155.html **


 * News 2 **
 * Author: Justin Carr **
 * Topic: Inflation is Rising **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Excerpt : " **<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">CHINA'S consumer price index, the main gauge of inflation, will rise between 4.9 and 5.1 percent year on year in the second quarter, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission said yesterday.

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">The CPI will rise to about 5 percent in the first half of the year and move slightly lower in the second, Xu Lianzhong, director with the NDRC's Analysis and Prediction Office said at the 5th China Derivatives Analyst Forum 2011 in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province."

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Summary <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">The Chinese price index is rising. This is not a good economic factor because it lowers the value of the RMB. <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">The RMB is already a relativley low valued currency, and this will not help it regain value. If this continues it could <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">make the RMB much like the japanese Yen. <span style="font-family: Sylfaen,serif;">**http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/24/taxing-americans-to-punish-china/**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Pictures/Video:[[image:chinese-yuan1.jpeg]] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Source: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/Business/2011/04/25/Inflation%2Bto%2Breach%2B51%2Bhigh/ **

Nearly 57 percent of the country's intertidal wetland has disappeared, and the wetlands of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea have lost 30 to 90 percent of their natural functions, it said. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Wetlands function as a valuable means of controlling floods and of filtering water. They also provide a livelihood for millions of people who live within and near them.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">News 3 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Author: Shay Gill － 吴限 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Topic: China's Ecosystems **<span style="font-family: Sylfaen,serif;">**Polluted**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Excerpt : - **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">BEIJING - China's fragile coastal ecosystems are severely threatened by human activities, and pollution and environmental degradation have created a "grave situation", according to a report released by the State Oceanic Administration.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Summary - Because of the large increase in Beijing's population, many of the animals and plants near the city are being wiped out by construction and expansion. Also, the toxic fumes from the expanding population are hurting the ecosystem.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Source: [] **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">News 4 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Author: Gao fei **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Topic:drug problems in china **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Excerpt : Over the past few months drug related crimes have been on the rise. Throughout china drug traffickers have started to smuggle drugs in more elaborate ways. The drug trade in china is thought to now be held on a international scale. However the Chinese government has started to promote drug free communities which will teach people the dangers and consequences for drug dealing. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Pictures/Video:[[image:M_Id_159697_China_drug_policy.jpg]]police burning drugs **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Source:http://ijo.sagepub.com/content/51/1/98.abstract **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://static.indianexpress.com/m-images/Sat%2520Jun%252026%25202010,%252013:59%2520hrs/M_Id_159697_China_drug_policy.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/more-foreigners-found-drug-trafficking-in-ch/638819/&usg=__JnHnucWnRIZPTiMYO9l9VFE4MFc=&h=200&w=300&sz=86&hl=en&start=0&sig2=rJY00JzFMEx6JM16mEL6Kw&zoom=1&tbnid=QeODOzR9ESDmhM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=200&ei=sDTDTeWZJsSbtwei8-y1BQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddrug%2Bin%2Bchina%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1913%26bih%3D1080%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=1352&vpy=282&dur=5862&hovh=160&hovw=240&tx=98&ty=80&page=1&ndsp=56&ved=1t:429,r:16,s:0 **

<span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">**<span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Excerpt :** In China a recent Census had showed that the population of Beijing has risen to 19.6 million and counting. <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Beijing's yearly average population growth is 3.8 percent. Over the past 10 years it has outpaced the national average of 0.57 percent. <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">The number of Beijing's permanent residents is now 19.612 million people, this was increased by 44.5 percent or 6.043 million people from ten years ago. The Beijing muncipal bureau of statistics has also stated that China's mainland population is now 1.34 billion people 79.9 million more people than ten years ago. The statement also said that migrants who haves settled from other provinces to Beijing are the main contributors to Beijing's population growth.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">News 5 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Author: Trey Fleming **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Topic: Beijing Population grown by 50% **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Pictures/Video: [[image:http://topnews.in/law/files/Beijing-population.jpg width="428" height="280"]] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Source: [] [] **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">News 6 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Author: Hunter Wasser **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Topic: Mao's Legacy in China **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Excerpt : **<span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Mao Zedong, the famous Chines leader, has been dead over 35 years, yet his legacy lives on today in China. His body lies in the beautiful Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, which ironically is in Tienamen Square. Every years, hundreds of Chinese people line up to get a glimpse of his dead body. Many people still treat Mao like a hero, even though his radical political ideas killed almost 2 million people in China. Mao was the man who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949, and his legacy grows more controversial everyday. Many government official in China believe that it would be very difficult to launch a political reform, due to Mao's lasting legacy. Many people in China like Mao, and then there are aslo many who think that he was the worst leader of all time. His legacy will be debated over the rest of time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Pictures/Video: [[image:http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/images-2/mao-zedong.jpg width="300" height="314"]] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Source: [] **
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">﻿News 7 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Author: TJ Bobinsky **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Topic: Cracking down on Drunk Driving **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Excerpt : **<span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Beijing Police are making more of an effort to prevent citizens of China from driving under the influence. To do this police officers are equipped with the usual handcuffs, a side arm, health kits, and now tear gass. Tear gass will prevent the citizen from becoming violent. The punishment for drunk driving is the driver will have there license taken away and have to wait five years toapply for a new one. They also have to face a six month detention period that is supervised under the law.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Pictures/Video[[image:3063252646_430702ae36_z.jpg width="434" height="344"]] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Source: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=beijing+police&view=detail&id=6A63E0808FF7025CD3516A63E0808FF7025CD351&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR&adlt=strict **
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<span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">**<span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Excerpt :** T**he hijacked 24 Chinese sailors on a Panama-registered bulk cargo ship have been rescued, the Ministry of Transport said in a report on its website Friday.** **The vessel, Full City, was rescued at 23:25 on Thursday by the US marine and Turkish rescue team, the ministry said, citing the China Sea Rescue Center. The Chinese sailors are safe and in good condition, the report said.** **Pirates** **attacked the vessel Thursday noon some 450 nautical miles off the coast of India's Mumbai and 750 nautical miles east of the area where the Chinese Navy convoy fleet was assembled, the center said Thursday.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">News 8 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Author: Tom Foster **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Topic: Hijacked Chinese Saliors Rescued **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Pictures/Video:[[image:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20110506/0023ae606e660f2d8ea801.jpg align="middle" caption="Hijacked Chinese sailors rescued"]] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-05/06/content_12455982.htm **

An investigation in Hunan has revealed that officals have taking children from there parents if they have more than one child and can not pay the child tax, and sold the children to adoption agencies for overseas adoption. From the children were allegedly listed as orphans and adopted by foreigners for fees of about $3,000 each. Some victims were actually a family’s first child, the report said.“They mistook my daughter for being illegal when my wife and I were working in Shenzhen,” Yang Libing, a local migrant worker, told the magazine, adding that their 7-year-old child has been found living in the US.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">News 9 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Author: [Wang ke] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Topic: Sink hole **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Excerpt :Last week a giant sink hole opened in the middle of a busy street in Beijing.The hole swallowed a big moving truck and injured the driver. Though the cause of the sink hole is currently unknown there are a few factors that might have led up to the problem. The hole opened up right above a tunnel where Chinese engineers had been digging a new subway route. There also been talk that water leakage and underground pressure in that part of the road could have also led up to the problem. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Pictures/Video:[[image:http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/352/cache/china-highway-sinkhole-night_35249_600x450.jpg]] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Source:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/pictures/110503-china-sinkhole-highway-world/ **
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">﻿ News 10 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Author: [Mao De] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Topic: Chinese Babies Confiscated **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Excerpt : **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Pictures/Video:[[image:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSiGvH7sw2-DAYQ-pg7i6fL3t4i5xPxkQbhmc3FJxzt-VV6qpUSgQ width="347" height="241"]] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Source: http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/05/chinese-babies-confiscated-for-overseas-adoption/ **


 * News 11 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">John Stringer **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Taiwanese students take 2nd at Asian Physics competition **

"The eight Taiwan students competing in the 12th Asian Physics Olympiad won three golds, four silvers and one bronze to finish second overall at the event held in Israel over the past week, the Ministry of Education said May 8. Officials said students who won an award in Israel would be guaranteed or recommended for admission to a university department of their choice. "

Taiwan has always done well in the event, and in has upheld its reputation for exceeding expectations.


 * http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=163160&ctNode=445**

<span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">**News 12** <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">**<span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Kostas Parrish ** <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">**<span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">Chinese Badminton team defeats India and moves on tto face South Korea ** <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">**<span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"> The Chinese badminton team is doing very well this year in the Sudirman Cup. Recently earlier on Thursday, the team went to face one of the world renowned teams, India. After a being upset bin the first match, the team did not give up another point and one with a final score of 3 games to 1. Also that same day, South Korea had a very exciting match with the team from Malaysia. The match was very clsoe, but South Korea came out, winning 3 matches to 2. Now, the two teams will face off in what is said to be the Badminton match of the century. ** <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"> [] <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';"> [] <span style="font-family: 'Sylfaen','serif';">
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