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Giant panda "Bing Xing" (Star of Ice) walks around in his enclosure at the Madrid zoo
19 Sep 2007
Source: Reuters
 
Giant panda "Bing Xing" (Star of Ice) walks around in his enclosure at the Madrid zoo September 19, 2007. Two giant pandas, "Bing Xing" and "Hua Zui Ba",which arrived in Spain on September 8 on a goodwill gesture loan from China, are housed in an air-conditioned pagoda and garden specially built for them at the zoo.
REUTERS/PAUL HANNA


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A cataract patient waits to be examined inside a hospital in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia September 21, 2007. Cataract is a major cause of blindness around the world. There are at least 1 million new cataract cases each year in China. The total number of cases could balloon to 167 million by 2020 because of an ageing population, according to ORBIS, a group that aims to treat and prevent blindness in developing countries. Picture taken September 21, 2007. To match feature HEALTH-CHINA/CATARACTS



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