Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops KUNMING, China - Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential -- rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. Landslides, worst floods in a century kill 51 in China BEIJING (AFP) - Parts of southwestern China have been hit by their worst floods in more than a century as well as landslides that have cost 51 lives and left 43 missing, local officials and state media said Wednesday. China city tense after bus blasts BEIJING - One of China's largest cities remained tense Tuesday after two people were killed in bus explosions, state media reported, with authorities yet to explain who was behind the blasts.
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