The Party chief and president of China Telecom is being investigated for possible "serious violations of discipline", the euphemism for graft, the top anti-corruption authority said yesterday. The Communist Party of China Central ...
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The Chinese government's leading think-tank has released a new study downplaying concerns about the level of debt being held by local governments, suggesting that more spending needs to take place to cope with social issues. On the heels ...
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Chinese researchers say H1N1 swine flu viruses, which have circulated in pig populations since 1979, have obtained the ability to infect humans and may "pose the highest pandemic threat" among flu viruses currently in the animal population. ...
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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 ...
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2015 opened in Budapest on Monday with keynote addresses by ITU Secretary-General Zhao Houlin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Zhao underlined that small and ...
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China on Tuesday launched its most sophisticated observation satellite, Gaofen-4, as part of the country's high-definition (HD) earth observation project. Gaofen-4 was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern ...
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 ...
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Chinese researchers on Monday announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of adzuki bean, an important source of starch, digestible protein, mineral elements and vitamins for at least a billion people worldwide. "Adzuki bean ...
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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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Chile's ALMA observatory says it is joining forces with other space observatories around the world to create a virtual earth-sized telescope capable of visualizing objects on the moon. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ...
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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 ...
More details have been revealed about a price fixing case which involves eight international ocean freight shipping companies operating in China. The companies include Japan's NYK Line and "K" Line, and Chile's CSAV. The eight companies ...
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China's new counter-terrorism law has made it legal for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to participate in counterterror missions overseas. The PLA and the country's armed police forces may carry out such operations with the approval ...
China has announced it's setting up a new Strategic Emerging Industry Board to attract domestic innovators to seek funding in Chinese exchanges instead of going abroad. Fang Haixing, a deputy chairman of the China Securities Regulatory ...
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China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) made public the country's first software package tailored to its own nuclear power technology on Thursday, a crucial step for exporting nuclear construction. "This package covers the design, ...
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