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Fewer than 50 wild tigers left in China

Siberian tiger cubs are seen at the Dalian Forest Zoo in Dalian, Liaoning province on 7 February 2010. China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilise one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist said on 8 February.

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BEIJING, China, 8 February 2010 (Reuters) — China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilise one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist said on Monday. Their population has dropped due to habitat destruction and poaching for tiger products to use in traditional medicine.

Zheng Shuzhen, left, holds a portrait of her deceased grand-daughter Zhou Mengxin while grieving outside the Complaints Department of the Ministry of Health in Beijing on 8 May 2009. Tainted milk powder still on China market

BEIJING, China, 8 February 2010 (AFP) — China is hunting for nearly 100 tonnes of tainted milk powder that was supposed to have been destroyed after a 2008 scandal.

Nepalese police arrest a Tibetan protesting against a visiting Chinese delegation in Kathmandu on 2 September 2009. Five Tibetans, who had fled from Tibet to India via Nepal to hear the Dalai Lama's teachings in Bodh Gaya last month, had been arrested by Nepalese police on 4 February when they were found to be without any travel documents. Five Tibetan pilgrims arrested in Nepal

KATHMANDU, Nepal, 6 February 2010 (TNN) — Five Tibetans, who had fled from Tibet to India via Nepal to hear the Dalai Lama's teachings in Bodh Gaya, had been arrested by Nepal police.

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