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The Chinese government will allocate almost four billion yuan (533 million U.S dollars) to "culture centers" in poor rural areas for the 11th five-year plan period ending 2010, said State Councilor Chen Zhili on Thursday. The fund would be used to build or expand 26,700 rural ...
Chinese Ambassador Wang Guangya urged developing countries on Wednesday to strengthen cooperation in addressing the many challenges ahead. "In today's world, the expansion of economic globalization and dramatic progress in science and technology has created rare opportunities for ...
The chairman of Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party Yu Shyi-kun announced his resignation on Thursday morning, days after he was charged with corruption and forgery. Yu promised he would resign after he was indicted last week, saying he would formally resign after the ...
China is looking to enhance cooperation with Russia in ensuring its products meet quality control standards, an official with the country's top quality watchdog said on Tuesday. "We need to build a mechanism with Russia so that we can cooperate well on any possible problem ...
The Chinese government has no problem with too much foreign investment and will continue to attract foreign investment actively, said a senior commerce official on Tuesday. "China needs to attract more investment, not only to get more funds, but to obtain the competitive strength ...
Sixty-two percent of Chinese suppliers are increasing spending on quality control, according to a recent survey of more than 200 manufacturers by Global Sources, a global business-to-business (B2B) media company. Chinese suppliers are responding to foreign buyers' increased ...
BEIJING-- Scientists in east China said that they had succeeded in copying some genes of the bamboo plant, a development that they said could lead to better food supplies for people. Genetic material extracted last week from bamboo plants could delay the flowering and seeding ...
More than 150,000 Chinese have settled in Canada from 2001 to 2006, making China the largest source of new immigrants to the North American country. According to the 2006 Canada census, Chinese comprise 14 percent of the 1,110,000 foreigners who settled in the country between ...
Bali - Chinese delegate Su Wei to the UN climate change conference, which is opened in Bali Monday, said the tasks of adaptation is especially urgent for developing countries who are most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. The future arrangement should focus ...
BEIJING - China and Japan will continue to cooperate and improve their product quality and food safety systems, said a press communique issued by the two countries after their first high-level economic dialogue. In the communique, the two countries agreed to solve issues of ...
BEIJING - China's top leaders gathered in Beijing Monday to determine economic policies for 2008 amid efforts to prevent the economy from overheating and to curb inflation. The Central Economic Work Conference, an annual event initiated more than a decade ago, has served as a ...
BRUSSELS -- It is safe for European parents to buy Chinese-made toys for Christmas despite a spate of recall dramas involving Chinese products earlier this year, head of the European Union (EU) toy industry said. Xinhua correspondents interviewed Bryan Ellis, chairman of Toy ...
China's energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) dropped three percent year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2007, a senior economic planning official said on Thursday. The emission of main pollutants -- sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand (COD) -- ...
China's State Council, or cabinet, has ordered all central government bodies to use "economic, energy-saving, environmentally friendly and domestically manufactured" automobiles and ban the private use of official cars. "All units should tighten the regulation of cars and cut ...
BEIJING - Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on Saturday urged local commerce bureaus to set up and improve early warning system amid efforts to stabilize domestic oil supplies. Many filling stations across the country are experiencing shortages. Experts have said that the ...
President Hu Jintao reiterated the central government's "all-out support" for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Friday when he met its Chief Executive Donald Tsang on his annual duty visit. Hu spoke highly of the HKSAR government's achievements and asked that ...
SINGAPORE: Premier Wen Jiabao and his Japanese counterpart Yasuo Fukuda agreed Tuesday to work together to further develop the "strategic relationship of mutual benefit" between the two countries. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda shake hands ...
SINGAPORE: China's economy is expected to grow 11.5 percent this year, Premier Wen Jiabao said Tuesday. Wen, in Singapore on a four-day official visit and to attend a series of Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings, made the forecast when meeting embassy staff and ...
ZHENGZHOU: Despite two-digit economic growth in the third quarter, both air and water pollution dropped for the first time thanks to intensified environmental protection efforts. The latest figures from the environmental watchdog show that in the first nine months, emissions of ...
Premier Wen Jiabao is likely to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on the sidelines of high-level East Asian meetings, scheduled for next week in Singapore, Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei said Wednesday. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is pictured here during a visit ...
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Dollar trades at lower 102 yen level in early Tokyo deals
Dollar trades at lower 102 yen level in early Tokyo deals
TOKYO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar traded at the lower 102 ...