China has experienced less serious desertification over the past decade with data revealing that desertified areas have been shrinking, the forestry authority said on Tuesday. By the end of 2014, there was 2.61 million square kilometers ...
Tags: Desertification, Reversed
Beijing's Zhongguancun, one of the country's leading technology hubs, plans to upgrade its core 7.2-km-long street area into one serving innovation and business start-ups, they announced Sunday. Under the plan, the area will cover key ...
Tags: Zhongguancun, Serving Innovation, Start-UPS
Local police in Shenzhen have taken compulsory measures against 12 people connected to this month's deadly landslide in the city. The 12 include executives of the company running the dump site where a massive mountain of mud and ...
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A Russian space capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, bringing home a three-person crew from the International Space Station, including a record-breaking Russian cosmonaut. Russia's Gennady Padalka, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space ...
Tags: World Record, Total Days in Space
China and Finland have set up a fund that will pool money from Chinese and Finnish enterprises to invest in innovative startups and joint tech projects. The 40-million-euro fund, agreed at a forum in Beijing technology hub Zhongguancun on ...
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Young Masamba Issa has just clocked 13 years. The girl who almost lost her battle against malaria in 2008, is now a healthy five feet two inches tall form two student at Boko secondary school in Dar es Salaam. "I had given up when medical ...
Tags: Anti-Malaria Drug, Tanzania
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 ...
Tags: Marine Scientists, Twilight Zone
Crude prices have gone down nearly 30 percent this year, and analysts expect oil prices to remain low for even longer. Boon for consumers Lower oil prices are generally good for US consumers and the economy, said Jason Bordoff, ...
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Finnish disposable packaging manufacturer Huhtamki has agreed to acquire Fiomo, a multi-layer flexible packaging foils producer in Czech Republic. The transaction, which is expected to be finalized in early 2016, is valued at around 28m. ...
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 ...
Tags: Fighting Terrorism, Anti-terrorism
International industry experts say China's property market needs more government support if excess stock in the housing sector is to be reduced. Experts say much residential housing has left empty over the past few years, creating a major ...
Tags: Property Sector, Excessive Supply
China is set to cut benchmark on-grid price of electricity generated by onshore wind power and photovoltaic power to promote a sound environment for the green-energy industry, the country’s top economic planner said on Thursday. The ...
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China has realized universal power access when the last remote group of 39,800 people became able to light their homes with electricity. The light came on Wednesday in Gomang and Changjiang villages in the northwestern Qinghai province, ...
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L.L.Bean will open its third store in Virginia in spring of 2016 at Lynnhaven Mall in Virgina Beach. The 16,700-square-foot store will feature an assortment of active and casual apparel and footwear, as well as outdoor lifestyle gear ...
Tags: L.L.Bean, third store, Sporting Goods
DFS-owned contemporary furniture retailer dwell continues the second phase of its nationwide expansion with the opening of a new concept store in Oxford over the Boxing Day weekend. Creating nine new jobs in the area, the 5500 sqft space ...
Tags: DFS-owned contemporary, furniture