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The Chinese government says three people have died after receiving herbal ginseng injections in Yunnan province.

Police arrested 12 more people Thursday as the Chinese government expands a crackdown in a scandal involving tainted milk powder.

The tainted milk formula has killed four babies and sickened 6,200.

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IOC president applauds organization of Summer Games, says there was no deal with Chinese government to restrict journalists' Internet access.

While the Chinese government promised that the foreign media would be free to cover more than just the Olympics while in China, Internet censorship will still be in place, which has outraged human rights and media groups.

NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports.

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The Chinese government is training 300,000 cheerleaders in the hopes that their peppy slogans will drown out any embarrassing lapses in sportsmanship at the Beijing Olympics.

Still, such conformist cheerleading invites comparison to China's mass campaigns of the past.

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Oil prices fell nearly $3 Thursday amid reports that the Chinese government is lifting subsidies on gasoline and diesel in a move that could curb demand from the country's rapidly growing economy.

Hosts Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne have the latest developments on this week's earthquake in China.

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The Chinese government announced this week that it had arrested more people related to the recent protests in Tibet.

But much of the conflict has been centered in remote mountainous areas that are ethnically Tibetan surrounding Tibet proper.

The people of this area are known for their fiercely independent ways, and for leading the failed uprising against Beijing in 1959.

Reuters - A U.S.