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...Number of confirmed bird-flu deaths in China in 2005, after the virus killed a 41-year-old woman in Fujian province last month
...HUANG JINGAO, 53, Communist Party whistleblower who exposed graft in local government; to life in prison on charges of taking $715,000 in bribes; in Fuzhou, China. Huang gained widespread popular support in August 2004, when the People's Daily website posted a letter from him describing corruption in Fujian province. Huang's supporters claim the conviction is part of an effort to discredit...
FREED. EIGHT CHINESE MEN, abducted by Islamic militants after traveling to Iraq from their native Fujian province in search of work; in Iraq. In a tape broadcast by Arabic news channel al-Jazeera, a group calling itself the Islamic Resistance Movement threatened to execute the hostages unless Beijing "clarified its position" on the Iraq war; a second communiqu? demanded China agree to a state ban on travel to Iraq in exchange for "merciful" treatment of the hostages. After China advised its citizens to stay out of Iraq, the insurgents released the men, reportedly unharmed...
MAJOR PROJECTS: The nation's biggest wind farm will be built in Fujian province. Most wind farms currently provide electricity for villages in far west Xinjiang, also home to the country's largest solar-power station. When fully operational, the new wind farm will provide electricity for more than 10,000 local farmers. Although scientists say China has the potential to meet a significant portion of its electricity needs through wind power harnessed in the western deserts, making such an enterprise commercially and practically viable is a huge challenge...
...people to create a fund that rotates credit to all participants, who use the cash for anything from weddings to starting small businesses. Huis loosely resemble microfinance schemes of the kind made famous by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, and millions of people participate in Zhejiang and neighboring Fujian province. Because the pressure to repay derives from social networks that are as strong as rebar in Confucian China, borrowers rarely default. In the past, Xu has used his hui money to invest in a relative's clothing store and to redecorate his $12-per-night...