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Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:54
China launched a campaign Thursday to improve the lives of the country's 242 million migrant workers and ensure their rights and interests.
The campaign aims to "create an atmosphere of understanding, respecting and caring for migrant workers" and to improve public services for them,according to an official document jointly issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Agriculture, among other departments.
The document requests government departments to ...
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Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:48
China on Thursday condemned a bombing in Jerusalem that killed one person and wounded more than 30 others, and called on all relevant parties to exercise restraint and stop the situation from worsening.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu made the remarks in response to a question posed during a regular press briefing in Beijing.
"China always opposes any terrorist violence that targets civilians," Jiang said, adding China believes that curbing violence with violence can only agg ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:41
Shanghai plans to spend 500 million yuan in the next five years renovating a number of old parks and building emergency response facilities in 16 parks to enhance its capability to cope with sudden disasters.
The Shanghai Municipal Landscape and City Appearance Administration said on March 23 that Shanghai’s parks with emergency response facilities will be divided into three levels. Command centers will be deployed at the first-level parks, and medical stations will be deployed at second-l ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:40
A survey on scientific literacy of citizens conducted by the China Association for Science and Technology in 2010 shows that only 3 percent of Guangdong citizens possess basic scientific literacy, 0.03 percentage points higher than the national average level.
This figure is equivalent to the level of major developed countries and regions 20 years ago, according to the fifth full-committee meeting of the Seventh Session of the Guangdong Association of Science and Technology on March 23.
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Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:36
In the hope of raising more money from private persons, the Red Cross Society of China has launched the country's first-ever donor database, which will let donors track the use of their gifts and relay their opinions to the charity.
The database will be used exclusively for private donors, from whom less than 30 percent of all charitable donations in the Chinese mainland are collected, according to official statistics. The rest come from corporations.
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Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:35
Refusing to help a dying man is against Buddhist doctrines and such a behavior is a shame, several Living Buddhas said at a seminar days after a young Tibetan monk died from serious burns in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Rigzin Phuntsog, a 16-year-old monk at Kirti Monastery in Aba County of the Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, died on March 17, more than 10 hours after setting himself on fire.
A county government spokesman blamed Rigzin Phuntsog's death on treatment delays. ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:35
Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, is building 35 emergency shelter areas that will be able hold 1.1 million people in case of disasters.
The city has a population of over 10 million.
The new emergency shelter areas will be located in squares, parks, sports grounds, public green areas, schools and other public open spaces in downtown areas as well as the suburbs of Chengdu, said Liu Changming, a disaster relief official with the city's civil affairs bureau.
Each she ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:23
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&$Staff members work at a desk in a shopping mall that advertises the rebate in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 27, 2010. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)&$
&$Staff members work at a desk in a shopping mall that advertises the rebate in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 27, 2010. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)&$
Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:19
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&$The concrete pump donated by China's Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. to support Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Station is unloaded off the ship "Suzhou" at the port in Osaka, Japan at 9:10 a.m. on March 24, 2011. (Photo by Yu Qing, People's Daily Online)&$
&$The concrete pump donated by China's Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. to support Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Station is unloaded off the ship "Suzhou" at the port in Osaka, Japan at 9:10 a.m. on March 24, 2011. (Photo by Yu Qing, People's Daily Online)&$
Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:12
China has always affirmed the significance of tourism to Tibet's development and has never imposed special restrictions on foreign tourists to Tibet, said experts from the China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC), on March 23.
Zhou Wei, director of the Social and Economic Research Institute under the CTRC, and Du Yongbin, researcher at the Contemporary Research Institute under the CTRC, made the remarks during a symposium for domestic and foreign reporters hosted by the Chinese Journalists Ass ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 14:08
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&$Picture shows patients registering for an operation at the Chitungwiza Central Hospital in the suburbs of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe on March 21. The Chinese medical team arrived at Harare by charter flight on March18 to start the one-week medical treatment. Their mission is to conduct the eyesight restoration operations on 500 cataractous Zimbabweans for free. This is the second time that the Chinese doctors have ...
&$Picture shows patients registering for an operation at the Chitungwiza Central Hospital in the suburbs of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe on March 21. The Chinese medical team arrived at Harare by charter flight on March18 to start the one-week medical treatment. Their mission is to conduct the eyesight restoration operations on 500 cataractous Zimbabweans for free. This is the second time that the Chinese doctors have ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011 13:57
The Government of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has decided to suspend food imports from Japan's Chiba, Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures that are being affected by the radiation leakage in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear plant crisis, the Macao Post Daily reported on Thursday.
The newspaper quoted a statement by Macao's Food Safety Co-ordination Group as saying that Macao currently has no food imported from the five prefectures, but residents and tourists are wa ...
&$Rescuers work in a crashed bus in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, March 24, 2011. The bus collided with a passenger train Thursday morning, causing at least 5 people dead and dozens injured. Rescue and investigation are still underway. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)&$
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