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Travelers lined up Wednesday to buy train tickets in Changsha, China, as the country’s railway stations began to sell tickets for travel during the country’s 2012 Spring Festival, which starts Jan. 8.
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Travelers lined up Wednesday to buy train tickets in Changsha, China, as the country’s railway stations began to sell tickets for travel during the country’s 2012 Spring Festival, which starts Jan. 8.
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More than a thousand students took mid-term examinations on the playground of Sihuang Middle School Thursday in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
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A combination photo shows six of the finalists of the men’s 10-meter platform diving competing at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) August 24, 2010. The finalists shown are (top row l-r) Canada’s Marc Sabourin-Germain, Venezuela’s Robert Paez and Ukraine’s Oleksandr Bondar and (bottom row l-r) China’s Qiu Bo, Malaysia’s Ooi Tze Liang and Germany’s Tim Pyritz.
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Inmates listened to a speech at a prison in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China, Wednesday. The speech was considered to be educational, officials said.
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Students held toy guns before a parade for students visiting from Hong Kong at Jiangtaiwa primary school in Beijing Tuesday.
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A worker inspected lettuce growing under artificial light and in a liquid solution at China’s first computer-controlled greenhouse seedling factory located on the outskirts of Beijing Friday.
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Water gushed from the Xiaolangdi Dam in Jiyuan, Henan province, China, Monday.
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Under varied lighting, jellyfish swam at the Blue Zoo Aquarium in Beijing. First opened in 1997, the aquarium remains a popular tourist attraction with more than a million visitors each year.
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A rescue member of the People’s Liberation Army held a sign that read “Follow me” during a demonstration Friday near Beijing to show the role of China’s army in international humanitarian missions.
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A boy cooled himself off in a river covered with duckweed in Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province, China. Duckweed, prevalent now due to hot weather, has blanketed many rivers in Jiaxing.
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A woman held a Winnie the Pooh and Tigger fan in front of her house in Beijing Friday.
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A watermelon vendor looked at yuan banknotes at a market in Changzhi, Shanxi province, China, Monday. After China decided over the weekend to end the yuan’s de facto peg to the dollar, the yuan soared to close at its highest level against the U.S. currency since its July 2005 revaluation.
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Tourists took a ride on a rooftop cablecar, the biggest attraction at the Swiss Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo, Thursday.
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A Chinese man, wearing traditional attire, smoked a cigarette outside his shop in an alley in Beijing.
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A Chinese couple watches a live broadcast of the World Cup soccer match between South Africa and Mexico, outside a grocery store in a hutong of Beijing, China, Friday, June 11, 2010.
