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Beijing spring days

Spring in Beijing: a photo.

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Reward for informing on one child policy violaters

Beijing TimesSpring is coming back to town, with yesterday’s temperature reached 29.9 °C, but the warm weather only lasted for one day.

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Strong wind: clear air again in Beijing

A strong wind dispersed the pollution hovering above Beijing’s sky and made yesterday a “first grade day” of superb air quality.

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China could have superpowers

This morning, the insightful headline story on Xinhua and the China Daily read: “Opening ceremony could be rain-free.” The article explains “the chance of rain during the opening ceremony is slimmer than reported earlier, but thunderstorms, high temperatures and muggy skies still pose a threat to the Beijing Olympics.”

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80,000 Peking ducks killed in tornado

The Beijing News (新京报): A tornado-like wind struck Beijing’s suburban Shunyi County in July 4. A poultry farm suffered heavy losses with about eighty thousand of its ducks killed when their pens collapsed.

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Xinhua: 15,000 dead in Burmese cyclone

Xinhua: 15,000 death toll from cyclone

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Danwei Picks: the storms and their aftermath

Winter 2008: storms and combatting emergency situations

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