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07 Jul 08
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Chinese president leaves for G8 summit outreach session Chinese President Hu Jintao left Beijing on Monday afternoon for Japan to attend the Outreach Session of the Group of Eight (G8) Summit, at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
Hu's entourage included Ling Jihua, ... |
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07 Jul 08
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More than 8,000 people in China's largest Muslim region pay pilgrimage to Mecca A total of 8,288 Muslims in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the largest Muslim region in the country, have made the pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam's holiest site in Saudi Arabia, a religious official said.
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07 Jul 08
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Magnitude-4.6 quake jolts NE China A magnitude-4.6 earthquake rocked Longjiang County of northeast Heilongjiang Province at 2:32 p.m. Monday, according to the China National Seismological Network.
The epicenter was located at 47.1 degrees north latitude and 123.0 deg ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Chinese youths to take on challenge of fundraising for quake-affected children The China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation launched on Sunday a fundraising project for May 12 earthquake-affected students, which will mainly be carried out by young volunteers.
The New Great Wall Project, launched by the foundat ... |
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07 Jul 08
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China's senior legislator meets Kenyan parliament members Chen Zhili, vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), met with a delegation from the Kenyan National Assembly on Monday.
The delegation, invited by the NPC Foreign Affairs Committee, is l ... |
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07 Jul 08
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China to exempt quake regions from some gov't funding over next 3 years China's Ministry of Finance announced on Monday it would exempt or cut down some government fund collecting from regions devastated by the May 12 earthquake over the next three years.
The grace period started July 1 and runs to June ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Revenge cited as cause of stabbing spree that killed 6 Shanghai police A stabbing spree that killed six police and injured another four in Shanghai last week was revenge for a lengthy interrogation last year, the local police authority said on Monday.
Yang Jia, an unemployed 28-year-old from Beijing, w ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Sichuan quake death toll remains unchanged at 69,196 The death toll of China's major earthquake still stood at Friday's 69,196 as of Monday noon, the State Council Information Office said in a statement.
The number of the injured and the missing also stood at 374,176and 18,379 respect ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Chinese shares gain 4.59% on strong banking, airliner stocks Chinese shares rose 4.59 percent on Monday, boosted by market optimism that the country's banking sector maintained thriving.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 4.59 percent, or 122.51 points to end at 2,792.40 points. The ... |
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07 Jul 08
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COSL offers to acquire Norway's oil service company for 19.5 bln HKD China Oilfield Services Ltd. (COSL),a listed subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation, announced Monday that it would offer to acquire all the issued and outstanding shares of Norway's Awilco Offshore ASA for 130.4 Hong Kong do ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Total assets from foreign banks in China hit 193 bln U.S. dollars As of the end of March this year, assets from foreign banks in China amounted to 193.094 billion U.S. dollars, up 55.39% over the same period last year, making up 2.44% of total assets from financial institutions in China's banking industry ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Parking apron built at top of CCTV's new site Construction of a parking apron for helicopters used for news coverage, at the top of CCTV's leaning tower, is underway. The parking apron is a 2,000- square meter, round platform with a 27-meter diameter, according to the China State Const ... |
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07 Jul 08
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China deploys Hongqi 7 missile launchers to protect Bird's Nest Along with the approaching Olympic Games, the Chinese government's steps to ensure the success of the Olympic Games has become a global focal point. A few days ago, AFP, Reuters and other major foreign media witnessed the deployment of surf ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Beijing Lost and Found service platform launched On July 6, the electronic "Lost and Found services platform with Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau" has officially opened.
Physical registration and claims have been replaced by a system to report and inquire about lost items thro ... |
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07 Jul 08
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China's business climate index continues to drop in Q2 China's business climate index, a key gauge of corporate performance, continued to drop year on year in the second quarter despite a slight recovery from the first quarter, Monday official figures showed.
The index, based on a surve ... |
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07 Jul 08
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China finds big gold mine, reserves of over 20 tonnes China National Gold Group Corporation (CNGGC) said on Monday it had found a new vein with an estimated 15 tonnes of gold at one of its mines.
The Na Neng gold mine in the northwest Guangxi Province was previously thought to have a p ... |
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07 Jul 08
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2000 bank outlets in Beijing can exchange currency As of the end of June, there are over 2000 bank outlets in Beijing that are qualified to exchange foreign currencies. Of these, 295 are located in the areas near Olympic Games events and are fully qualified and equipped to exchange foreign ... |
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07 Jul 08
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China CITIC Bank forecasts H1 profit to surge 150% China CITIC Bank said Monday its net profit in the first half this year would surge 150 percent from 3.2 billion yuan (457 million U.S. dollars) in the same period last year.
"The company had a good business run in the first half, w ... |
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07 Jul 08
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China to issue special 10-yuan notes to mark Olympics The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, is to issue a commemorative bank note with a face value of 10 yuan ($1.46) from Tuesday to mark the Beijing Olympic Games, the bank said in a statement on Sunday.
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07 Jul 08
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Chinese bank expects inflation to peak in 2009 China's inflation is to peak in 2009 and then fall, according to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in a report on Monday.
The report by China's largest lender said the assets prices would gradually rise in the next ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Urban relocation best for rural quake victims: Official Policies should be devised to help resettle millions of earthquake-hit residents from rural areas to cities, a senior official said yesterday.
Creating employment in urban areas is an effective way of successfully relocating rural quake ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Heroic head strives to rebuild school Ye Zhiping is not the type of man who waits for others to offer him assistance, he just rolls up his sleeves and gets on with it.
The headmaster of Sangzao Middle School in Anxian county, Mianyang city, one of the worst-hit areas in the ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Brain death awareness to be raised A debate over the merits of raising awareness of brain death has broken out as China suffers from a dearth of organ donations.
About 2 million Chinese need organ transplants each year, but many die waiting as an inadequate total of just ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Millions Watch Olympic-Themed Movies More than 800 residents from 24 villages in Huairou in suburban Beijing gathered at a plaza to watch two Olympic-themed films on Saturday.
At the same time, nearly 10 million moviegoers nationwide watched the same two films, includi ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Story behind Olympic dancing man's seal of approval One year after Beijing won the rights to host the Games, organizers launched a contest in a bid to find a special logo for China's largest public event.
Seasoned advertising man, Guo Chunning, beat 1,300 other professionals with his ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Why we're staying The number of expats in China has soared in the lead-up to the Olympics. But with the Games set to begin a month from tomorrow, the question is: Is it true that what goes up must - or at least, in this case, will - come down?
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07 Jul 08
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One more Chinese property added to World Heritage List One more Chinese property was inscribed on the UNESCO's World Heritage List Sunday during the 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee that is taking place in this eastern Canadian city.
The 21 members of the committee agreed to ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Senior CPC official concludes four-nation tour He Guoqiang, top anti-graft official of the Communist Party of China (CPC), returned to Beijing Sunday evening after his four-nation tour.
He, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Chinese vice president praises Hong Kong people for their Olympic spirit Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said Sunday he is glad to see that the Olympic spirit has won common acknowledgment among the general public in Hong Kong.
He made the remarks when meeting with delegates of Hong Kong athletes and v ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Chinese vice president inspects Olympic equestrian events venues in HK Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping inspected the equestrian events venues for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Paralympics Sunday afternoon in Hong Kong to get firsthand information about Hong Kong's preparations for the Games.
Xi inspected ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Chinese Premier underscores fast, steady economic development Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said the country will step up efforts to keep economic development fast and steady despite challenges from home and abroad this year.
Wen made the remarks during a three-day research trip to the easter ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Death toll rises to 21 in north China coal mine accident At least 21 miners have died after a coal mine accident in north China's Shanxi Province on Saturday morning, local authority said on Sunday.
All the victims had been poisoned by carbon monoxide at around 11:20 a.m. at Wujiu Coal Mi ... |
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07 Jul 08
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China quake death toll remains unchanged at 69,196 The death toll of China's major earthquake still stood at Saturday's figure of 69,196 as of Sunday noon, the State Council Information Office said in a statement.
The number of the injured were 374,176 and people reported missing we ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Nepali daily: Tibet on the way to prosperity Great changes have taken place in Tibet since the abolition of feudal serfdom in the 1950s, and China's sovereignty over Tibet is indisputable, according to an article published by Nepal's official English language daily The Rising Nepal on ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Chinese mainland tourists start sightseeing in Taiwan The first group of 680 tourists from the Chinese mainland have started their sightseeing in Taiwan after taking historic cross-Strait weekend charter flights to arrive in the island Friday.
Many of them first visited the Sun Moon La ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Rainstorm continues ravaging China, claiming more deaths At least 18 people have been killed in the rainstorms that have soaked large parts of China since last week.
The casualties were reported by local authorities after the rainstorms and flooding killed 252 people across China in June. ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Feeble shock hit eastern China's Jiangsu A 3.6-magnitude earthquake hit Jurong city of east China's Jiangsu province at 6:43 p.m. Sunday, according to the provincial seismological bureau.
The epicenter was at 32.2 degrees north latitude and 119.1 degrees east longitude.
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07 Jul 08
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Official: Moderate earthquake in east China results no big damage The 4.4-magnitude earthquake that jolted east China's Fujian Province on Saturday resulted no big damage, said local authorities on Sunday.
The provincial earthquake bureau dispatched four teams of seismologist to townships and vill ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Chinese official urges Dalai Lama to respond with sincerity after recent contact It's the time for the Dalai Lama to respond with sincerity and prove it by deeds after the Chinese central government had communicated goodwill to him during the meeting with his private representatives, a spokesman of the United Front Work ... |
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07 Jul 08
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China Eastern Airlines to set up Taiwan office The Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines has become the first mainland aviation company approved to set up an office in Taipei, handling cross-Strait charter flights services, a company official said Sunday.
Cao Jianxiong, general ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Overseas-funded banks in China own $193 bln in assets The total assets of overseas-funded banks in the Chinese mainland stood at some 193 billion U.S. dollars by the end of March, up 55 percent year on year, the China Banking Association (CBA) said Sunday.
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07 Jul 08
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Guo Guo survived quake, now gives birth to twins The May 12 earthquake forced Guo Guo to leave the Wolong nature reserve but it could not stop her from giving birth to twins in Chengdu.
Yesterday, she became the first giant panda to give birth anywhere in the world this year.
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07 Jul 08
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China almost done with map of moon surface China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1 lunar probe has said.
The lunar probe, lau ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Bible to be available free during Games Athletes, officials, spectators and tourists can pick up the Bible or just the New Testament for free during the Olympic Games next month.
Tens of thousands of copies of the Bible, the New Testament and booklets with just the four Gospel ... |
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07 Jul 08
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Xi visits HK equestrian venues Vice-President Xi Jinping yesterday urged the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), the host city of the equestrian events of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, to do all it can to ensure a "safe Olympics for all".
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06 Jul 08
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First panda birth this year in China's quake zone Giant panda Guo Guo, an evacuee from the southwest China earthquake, gave birth to twins on Sunday, becoming the first panda to bear cubs since the disaster in Sichuan Province on May 12.
She is also the first panda to give birth ar ... |
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06 Jul 08
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Death toll rises to three in east China boat sinking Rescuers have recovered another two bodies in the East China Sea, bringing the death toll from a boat sinking of Friday to three, with one person still missing.
A body was found at 11:55 p.m. on Saturday and another at 9:07 a.m. on ... |
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06 Jul 08
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Flood-damaged railway reopens after eight-day suspension A railway trunk in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reopened to traffic on Sunday morning after an eight-day suspension triggered by floods, local authorities said.
The railway, a west to east line linking Jining with ... |
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06 Jul 08
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Beijing overhauls Olympics-related ads, bans non-sponsoring drinks at Olympic venues Beijing is to overhaul advertisements in the city to ban any unauthorized use of Olympics logos in ads.
Chen Feng, a marketing official with the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG), was quoted by the People's D ... |
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06 Jul 08
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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping meets with HKSAR chief executive Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met with Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Donald Tsang here Sunday morning.
Xi arrived in Hong Kong Sunday morning from Shenzhen on a three-day inspection tour. ... |
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