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                 China Cancels Waste Project Following Protest

   by VOA News

   Chinese officials have scrapped plans for an industrial waste project
   after more than 1,000 protesters in the coastal city of Qidong took to
   the streets where they overturned cars and invaded government offices.
   Local authorities released a statement on Saturday saying the project
   had been canceled after protesters clashed with police who eventually
   quelled the unrest.
   The pipeline would have emptied industrial waste from a nearby paper
   factory into the sea.
   Protests against environmental degradation have increased in China,
   where three decades of rapid and unregulated industrial expansion have
   resulted in several instances of mass poisonings and health scares.
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