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China seeks skinny on trans fat
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| China is evaluating the risks of trans fat used by the food industry, a spokesman with the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. |
Aging population could bring vital changes to family planning policy
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| In the face of an aging population in this coastal city, the government should improve the social welfare system and encourage more eligible couples to have a second child, a political adviser suggested. |
Richest man gives to monastery restoration
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| The richest property tycoon in China promised to donate 1 billion yuan ($150 million) for the restoration of a Buddhist monastery complex in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province on Monday. |
High cotton price hits cost of clothing
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| Hu Xiaoyue has to turn a blind eye to the newly launched range of winter clothing at shopping malls and boutique stores. She has been trimming her shopping list lately under growing inflationary pressure and clothes have been hit hardest by her budget cuts. |
Starbucks brews up a link with China's largest LBS
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| Almost 200 Starbucks outlets in East China are now linked to Jiepang, China's biggest location-based service (LBS). |
Agricultural logistics center sprouts
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| An agricultural logistics center is fast taking shape in the city of Tieling, in Liaoning province, Northeast China. |
Farmers' remedies pose risk to human health
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| Zheng Lin was not looking forward to filing the results of his quality survey this month. As a researcher for Dongying's ocean and fisheries department, he discovered two of nine sample sea cucumbers had excessive levels of antibiotics. |
China issues media awards
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| A top Party official urged the Chinese press on Monday to put greater emphasis on the development of Internet media to better report news at home and abroad. |
Water transfer system to end Xinjiang drought
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| China may consider to divert seawater from its eastern regions along thousands of kilometers of pipeline made of glass-reinforced plastic to the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in response to its decades-long drought, experts said. |
Care to be subsidized for hard-up elderly
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| The country will set up a system to subsidize the provision of elderly care to support disadvantaged senior citizens, which is considered an important part of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Sunday. |
China Drafting law on climate change
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| A senior legislator on Saturday said China is drafting a law to combat climate change, a move that signals the country's proactive role in honoring its commitment to curtailing emissions, among other measures. |
Tighter standards mulled for rare earths
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| Chinese authorities are considering tightening pollution standards for rare earth mining, according to sources at a rare earth production base in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. |
Coca-Cola Co sees fizz in China
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| Hohhot - While many foreign businesses are complaining about China's investment environment and considering transferring their factories elsewhere, others, notably The Coca-Cola Company, are not only staying put but expanding. |
UN group sees potential funds for climate projects
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| A financing report by UN's High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing has summarized potential sources for the possibility of raising $100 billion a year to help developing countries to deal with the effects of climate change. |
Mid-term elections are almost near
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How convenient: The vending machine that sells you anything
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| A network cable, an electricity supply and a vending machine - those are all the things forming a small terminal through which you can either book a ticket or search for a restaurant, besides buying a can of cola. All you need to do is to push the button, swipe your card and enter a password. |
Tiny village becomes hub
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| Taobao changed residents' lives to a focus on online business and getting rich. Xu Junqian found out how they run stores in Qingyanliu, Zhejiang province. |
Movie makers get more focused
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| The film All's Well Ends Well 2010 produced by Wong Bak-ming, a Hong Kong producer and actor, picked up box office takings of 56 million yuan ($8.42million) when it was released at the beginning of the year, to the surprise of many industry insiders. |
The lure of the silver screen looms ever larger
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| Decorated with lanterns and colored ribbons, Shanghai's Xuyuan, or beautiful park, in the 1890s was the place to go to enjoy dancing, singing and other amusements at a time of peace and prosperity. |
Full steam ahead with reform
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| Reform is a profound revolution. Earth-shaking changes in China over the past more than 30 years were based precisely on the new mechanisms constantly breaking through the old ones, which were hindering economic and social development. Reform must be advanced with greater resolve and courage in a comprehensive manner in all fields. |
Nobel Peace Prize not international community voice
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Thorbjorn Jagland, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and some other Western critics, recently published articles trying to justify the Committee's decision to award this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo. However, instead of providing answers, many of their opinions provoke more questions. |
Urbanization concept
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| More than 70 million people visited the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, which closed on Sunday, a new record for the number of visitors to an expo. Yet, rather than this record, the ideas it presented for cities and urban life should be its greatest heritage to both the host city and country. |
Prize winner is anti-China
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, who is now serving a term of imprisonment in China. |
Finding her way around most of China
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| She didn't know it at the time, but 10 years as an airforce doctor would launch Dr Robyn Searl into what has become her life's work. |
Down Under in Dali
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| David Shaw's decision to settle down and open a guesthouse was not quite the well-thoughtout strategy of most first-time business owners. In fact, Shaw says, at the time he was simply "stopping by" a scenic spot in Yunnan province. But Dali struck a chord for the Australian backpacker-turned-entrepreneur and, two years later, he is operating the Jade Emu and the Jade Roo, two of Dali's best-known foreign-owned guesthouses. "I was on my way to Lijiang, to consider settling there — but I never made it," he said. |
Entrepreneur will get your stuff here
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| Leaving the nest is often a figure of speech for children growing up and leaving home. For William James Heathershaw, this meant flying a long way. |
'Every click was special'
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| Back in 1993, while on an assignment in Cuba, Alberto Garca Alix, one of Europe's most acclaimed photographers, came across a fortune teller at an outdoor market, who told him he had been born in China in a previous life. |
Cultural Connections
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| Shirley Young and the Committee of 100 are using the arts to build bridges between China and the US. Guo Shuhan reports |
Print services pressing on Printer, copier industry betting on nascent Chinese market to expand
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| A well-established market is a must-go for companies, but one not yet up to speed is also being favored by many. China's printer and copier industry is betting on managed print services (MPS), rather than traditional hardware sales, as the next big thing. |
Chinese ties a key to success for a global city
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| Kasim Reed, the mayor of Atlanta, knows his city cannot become a truly international capital without a strong relationship with China. |
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