The discovery was made in the Yunnan Province, China, and is being considered as major breakthrough in the study of insect evolution.
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On Thursday, the Yunnan Province of China was hit by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake with over 250 injured a few dozen people found dead in the rubble.
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Among the 26 additions for 2012 were the Lakes of Ounianga in Chad, Africa, the Chengjiang fossil site in the Yunnan province of China, the decorated farmhouses of Halsingland in Sweden and the Margravial Opera House at Bayreuth in Germany.
The recent high-profile trial of a Shan drug lord, Naw Kham, in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, demonstrates how seriously the Chinese authorities take this threat, and how influential they have become in the region.
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"China should urgently change course and provide temporary protection for the refugees in Yunnan Province, " said Bill Frelick, the group's refugee program director.
They operate a casino in Mong La, across from the Chinese province of Yunnan, and were building another near Thailand until the Thai army shut down a border pass.
Now Chinese artists are discovering the southwestern province of Yunnan as a place where they can work close to nature and far from the cultural commissars in the capital.
Three weeks later another riot erupted, this time in the neighbouring province of Yunnan.
Eventually, ACLEDA might even hop over the Myanmar border into Yunnan province in southern China.
So far, all the known executions by lethal injection in China have taken place in the southwestern province of Yunnan, bordering Southeast Asia.
This time Mr Thant's travels take him to Myanmar's hill country, near the Chinese border, to the other side of the frontier, in Yunnan province, and to Assam and Manipur in north-east India, on Myanmar's other flank.
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But in the days that followed, we ventured beyond the modern city, into Yunnan Province.
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There are plans to deport another 4, 000 from makeshift camps in Yunnan province, the US-based group said.
Home to many of China's 56 ethnic minorities, the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan is known for its diversity in food, dress, language and geography.
Mandalay in particular is where one feels the depth of China's demographic penetration into Myanmar, owing not only to recent decades of commercial expansion from gems trading to real estate but also centuries of seasonal migrations across the rugged natural border with Yunnan province.
The hero who is celebrated varies by region: the romantic poet Qu Yuan is venerated in Hubei and Hunan Provinces, Wu Zixu (an old man said to have died while slaying a dragon in Guizhou Province) in South China, and Yan Hongwo in Yunnan Province among the Dai community.
China's Yunnan province is halting the use of so-called re-education-through-labor camps, which are commonly used to stifle dissent.
Last month a university student was detained after being accused of posting a fake news story about a man killing eight village chiefs in the south-western province of Yunnan.
Sun Dahong, the police chief who heads Yunnan's anti-drug enforcement, says that the province is the first to set up a special force of 13, 000 armed police, soldiers and customs guards to stop drugs getting in or, once in, from getting out.
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Both species grow exclusively in Yunnan province -- now the focus of an extensive re-planting campaign organized by FFI.
And I have eaten a delicate turtle soup while watching dancers from the Dai ethnic group, of subtropical Yunnan province, flutter mothlike to an ancient melody wafting forth from a battered cassette player.
Southwest Yunnan province has suspended approvals of the controversial laojiao re-education through labour system.
The landslide hit the Tiantou Primary School and nearby houses in Yunnan province, southern China, on Thursday.
He managed to stop the cutting of virgin forest (and the destruction of golden monkey habitat) in Yunnan province.
The birds in Xizhou, a charming town in Yunnan Province in extreme southwestern China, had no such restraints.
Officials realized that the Net would prove "invaluable" for lifting the economy and education of a landlocked province like Yunnan, Hedin says.
"We learn to exchange e-mail, make our own Web pages and, best of all, improve our English, " says Yang Yimei, who is from the town of Simao, in China's southwestern Yunnan province.
Mr. Ye, who was born in Kunming, Yunnan province, and studied oil painting at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, knew he had to renovate his Dali house, but the question was what to touch and what not to touch and what Bai traditions to honor.
Li last visited the hospital in summer 2007, and he stayed in his hometown in Yunnan province.
China's Xinhua news agency quoted officials in Yunnan as saying 6, 650 houses had been destroyed in the province and 430, 000 others damaged.
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