Breakthroughs will be made in steel and coal sectors in reforms of traditional industries, along with China's efforts to cultivate new growth engines, the Chinese premier said on Wednesday. It is crucial to make a good start for the 13th ...
With oil product stocks at moderate levels, Shandong's teapot refineries have kept refinery run rates relatively high, which is supporting demand for feedstock crudes, sources said this week. Regular importer Beifang Asphalt Fuel in ...
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China's production of 10 major non-ferrous metals in November grew at a slower pace than a year ago, the top economic planner said Sunday. Output of non-ferrous metals grew 1.4 percent year on year in November, down by 6.5 percentage ...
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Thanks to tireless promotion by top Chinese leaders, the country's railway industry has seen another year of good harvest in overseas markets in 2015, culminating in the launch of a railway project in Asia and the start of another in Europe ...
A growing number of people in Hong Kong's music industry are said to be looking for ways to change their business model, in an attempt to make the once-booming industry flourish again in the city. Hong Kong's music scene saw its golden ...
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Thanks to a powerful new gene-editing technique, scientists have overcome a major hurdle for humans to receive life-saving organ transplants from pigs. In a paper in the U.S. journal Science this week, the researchers described using the ...
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A group of British marine scientists are digging into the ocean's "twilight zone" to understand the processes involved in carbon transport in the oceans. As CRI's Victor Ning reports, the scientists are hoping that the research will lead ...
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Opportunistic bacterial pathogens, including those linked to inflammations or skin irritations, have been found living on the International Space Station, according to a study conducted by the U.S. space agency NASA. "Where there are ...
NASA has documented a solar storm blasting away Mars' atmosphere. The event provides an important clue as to how water disappeared from the planet. NASA said on Thursday its Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft caught such a storm on March 8. ...
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Australian scientists have identified a network of nine genes that play a key role in the onset of Alzheimer's Disease. The discovery could help researchers develop new treatments to delay the onset of the chronic brain disease, which ...
Chinese scientists have found that sediment transport in Yellow River was reduced mainly due to anthropogenic changes. The Yellow River was once the world's largest carrier of fluvial sediment, with 90 percent coming from the Loess ...
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Ford Motor has issued three safety recalls and one safety compliance recall for about 317,000 vehicles. The biggest recall is on the Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis sedan models, manufactured between 2003 and 2005, over ...
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On Christmas Eve, U.S. embassy in China issued security warnings for Westerners in Beijing's Sanlitun area, a popular Beijing diplomatic and entertainment district. Thanks to special forces dispatched by the Chinese government, no incidents ...
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Chinese legislators on Thursday urged intensified efforts to keep local government debt under control, warning against potential default in the future. Legislators made the comments when attending a panel discussion of the ongoing ...
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December 21, 2015 The top predictions for cocktail drinking trends amongst Australians in 2016 has been released by global spirit producer Brown-Forman Corporation. Brown-Forman owns a number of spirit brands including Jack ...
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