In the mid-1990s I found myself the only non-North Korean in a class studying Chinese in northeast China.

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The plant in northeast China's Jilin province was still burning as of noon local time, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing local sources.

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The fossils were found in northeast China earlier this year, embedded in rock dating back 160 million years, and have been called "Darwinopterus" after the renowned naturalist Charles Darwin.

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In 1959, a vast new oil field in the grasslands of northeast China, in Manchuria, was discovered.

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Ms. Lu, a graduate student, was from the rust belt city of Shenyang in China's northeast.

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Com (NYSE:SINA), gold-shaped mooncake discs are available at a shop in Shenyang, Liaoning province of Northeast China.

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The owner of the boat, Yu Xuejun, said the fishermen were captured on May 6 while operating in Chinese territorial waters off China's northeast coast.

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China has reemerged as the dominant strategic power among states in Northeast Asia.

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China has indeed reemerged as the dominant strategic power among states in Northeast Asia.

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That concern is especially pronounced in Northeast Asia, the industrial heartland of the new global economy, because countries like China can afford to buy the latest military hardware.

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