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Heavy rains, snow kill 40 in Yunnan

Date: 2008-11-4 20:02:00 by craig Tags: Yunnan

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Severe flooding and snowstorms have claimed 40 lives in the western regions of China, as weather authorities warned residents to brace for more rainfall and snow

Flooding claimed five more lives on Tuesday, increasing the death toll from Monday's 35, and left 43 people missing in Yunnan province, the local civil affairs office announced last night.

More than 60,000

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Poles point to Yunnan Neolithic age site

Date: 2008-7-23 4:33:00 by jasmine Tags: Yunnan

Poles point to Yunnan Neolithic age site

DALI, Yunnan: More than 2,000 wooden poles recently unearthed at a site in Jianchuan county, have been found to be more than 3,000 years old.

The poles, still standing, were dug 4.5 m into the ground.

Archaeologists said carbon tests showed the poles were from the Neolithic age, and were probably the foundations for a structure built by a community that existed at

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