In the southern China boom town of Shenzhen last month, four young women started up their own reporting team for a "shanzhai television station" that spoofs local news and uses a camera tripod fashioned from a fan stand and a toilet plunger.
Government officials in Myanmar (Burma) said that they had held peace talks with ethnic-Kachin rebels and that China had helped mediate the meeting, which took place across the border in southern China.
The State Grid Corporation of China covers 25 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, while the China Southern Power Grid Co.
With the bulk of its manufacturing facilities in southern China, the company delivered record revenues and profit in 2012, boosted by strong sales of power tools and floor care products in the U.S. and European markets.
The four BRIC countries agreed to include South Africa in the mix last year during the summit in southern China.
The southern belt of China, which is rich by local standards, but not by global ones, conforms to this model.
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Over the past decade, Hong Kong clothing makers have moved much of their operations across the border to southern China, where workers are plentiful and wages low.
In green energy news, this week Lockheed Martin announced plans to construct the world's largest ocean thermal energy conversion plant off the southern coast of China.
Dim sum as we know it developed in Guangzhou, the cultural and commercial center of southern China, in the 18th and 19th centuries, said Maria Tam, an anthropologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
In 2007 the BBC visited the small hamlet of Shangba in southern China where one scientist was studying the cause and effects of pollution on the village.
They focus instead on the island's 100km (60 miles) of sandy, mostly undeveloped, shoreline, hoping it has the same pulling power as the beaches of Hainan, a (much larger) tropical island off the southern coast that has become the playground of China's rich.
Meanwhile Chinese state media also reported that the country's navy has visited the southern-most shoal it claims in the South China Sea.
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The state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted sources in China's embassy confirming the men were from China's southern province of Fujian who were in Iraq to help rebuild an Iraqi plant.
Members of the American Chamber of Commerce in southern China said in a survey of their members that companies will be investing even more in China in the years ahead.
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The leaf eating monkeys are found in Vietnam and southern China and it is thought less than 2, 500 remain in the wild.
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The state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted sources in China's embassy confirming the men were construction workers from China's southern province of Fujian who were in Iraq to help rebuild an Iraqi plant.
With demand from textile factories in southern China plunging, the province's cotton growers had to seek government subsidies in 2008.
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Buyers in Hong Kong who a year ago drove over the border to buy clothing in southern China now take flights to Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Police later seized control of the area, which is in southern China's manufacturing heartland and is home to migrants working in a number of textile factories.
Last month, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates visited Shenzhen in southern China to unveil the company's "Venus project, " software and hardware that allows VCD players and other consumer devices to display Chinese Internet content on TVs.
Meanwhile, the WHO and world health community watch, anxiously, recalling how swiftly the SARS outbreak that started in southern China in December 2002 exploded a month later across Asia, Canada, and on, eventually hitting 30 countries.
The carrier said late on Monday that it had signed a preliminary cargo joint-venture agreement with China Southern Airlines, a stepping stone into the Asian market.
The Owston's civet is an endangered species found in the forests of Vietnam, Laos and southern China.
China mediated talks in the southern Chinese town of Ruili amid ongoing fighting between the army and rebels.
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His parents had traveled from Guangdong Province in southern China and settled in the capital city Antananarivo (and eventually owned several restaurants).
The situation, he said, reminded him of the occasional cellphone-service outages where he used to live, on the outskirts of a small city in southern China.
It has already made one dramatic change: in the 1980s manufacturers moved their factories into southern China while Hong Kong itself was transformed into a service economy.
They said China Southern likely will be the worst hit among the three because of its larger domestic market presence.
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