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HK US block food from Japan as fears rise

Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:25 Written by People Daily

China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Food and Drug Administration of the United States, have ordered a ban in imports of food from the area of Japan where the most disastrous radiation leakage in 25 years is happening. Hong Kong will ban dairy products, vegetables and fruit from Japan's Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma and Fukushima prefectures from today, after excessive radiation elements have been detected in three vegetable samples there. Director of Food and Environ ...

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China vows to further tighten public spending on overseas junkets receptions cars

Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:17 Written by People Daily

The Chinese central government will continue to tighten budgets for overseas junkets, receptions and cars to fight against extravagance in 2011, according to a cabinet meeting held on Wednesday. The government will report the final spending accounts to the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, in June, and make the accounts available for public supervision, according to a statement issued after the executive meeting of the State Council, or the Cabinet, presided over by P ...

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China remains unaffected by radioactive leaks in Japan

Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:14 Written by People Daily

China will remain unaffected by radioactivity from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant over the next three days, according to the latest analysis on Wednesday. China's National Nuclear Emergency Coordination Committee said in a statement that the accident has not had any impact on China's environment or the Chinese public's health. As radioactive materials spread towards the waters east of Fukushima, then reach southeast Pacific waters, China will not be affected over the next th ...

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China did not turn away Japanese cargo plane officials

Thursday, 24 March 2011 08:12 Written by People Daily

A northeast China port did not turn away a Japanese cargo plane over radiation concerns and the aircraft left on its own, provincial authorities said Wednesday. Earlier media reports said a Japanese cargo plane of All Nippon Airways arrived at Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, on March 16 from an airport near Tokyo. But it was denied entry due to excessive radiation detected from its cargo. A spokesman with Liaoning Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau said ...

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Kids feign thirst for World Water Day

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:16 Written by People Daily

&$ Yesterday, March 22, was the 19th World Water Day. A kindergarten in Dongying District of Dongying City in Shandong Province organized its kids to take part in an educational activity with the theme "Leading a low-carbon life and saving water" on March 19. The aim of the event was to teach children the importance of water by imitating a situation where water is in short supply as well as to cultivate awareness of wat ...

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Ministry of Health to ban smoking at indoor public areas

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:15 Written by People Daily

The Ministry of Health released the revised "Health Management Ordinance Implementing Regulations for Public Places" on March 22, and new regulations, such as prohibiting smoking in indoor public places, were added. Xie Yang, director of the Environmental Health Office of the Supervision Bureau under the Ministry of Health, said China is one of State Parties of the "Framework Convention on Tobacco Control." The amendment to the regulations shows the determination of the Ministry of Health to ...

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46-billion-USD creative fashion center to land in Beijing

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:00 Written by People Daily

A national creative fashion center known as the Beijing (Songzhuang) Creative Fashion Industrial Park will land in Beijing with investments of more than 30 billion yuan, according to the agreement signed recently between the Beijing Municipal Government and the China Hi-Tech Group Corporation. The center is of great significance within contemporary cultural and creative industry projects in Beijing's "12th Five-Year Plan." The launch of the project will drive 20 billion yuan of relevant in ...

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Average monthly income of migrant workers reaches 1 690 yuan

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:57 Written by People Daily

The total number of migrant workers in China reached more than 242.2 million in 2010, and the average monthly income of migrant workers reached 1,690 yuan, which is 273 yuan higher than in 2009 or an increase of more than 19 percent, according to a conference regarding the national migrant worker situation on March 22. The income of migrant workers has significantly increased in recent years and has become the main means by which farmers increase their incomes. From 2005 to 2010, the average ...

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China becomes Thailands 2nd largest trade partner

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:54 Written by People Daily

China was Thailand's second largest trade partner after Japan at the end of January 2011, according to the China-ASEAN Expo Secretariat. China has become Thailand's second largest export market and its second largest source of imports. Statistical data from the China-ASEAN Expo Secretariat shows that the "zero tariff" preferential policies related to the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) have effectively boosted the trade between China and Thailand. In 2010, the bilateral trade valu ...

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Survey Most Chinese oppose costly image projects

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:54 Written by People Daily

A majority of Chinese are opposed to "image projects," which refer to projects that have high cost but little practical value, according to a survey conducted by the China Youth Daily Social Survey Center. The survey shows that nearly 98 percent of the total 1,620 respondents believe image projects exist around them and 50 percent respondents believe there are a lot of image projects around them. Some 70 percent of respondents in the current survey clearly expressed their opposition against t ...

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Job fair attracts 10 000 college students in Shandong

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:19 Written by People Daily

&$Students queue up for inquires at employers' stands at a recruitment fair held at Shandong Normal University on March 22, 2011. A total of 512 companies offered about 10,000 jobs at the fair, which attracted nearly 10,000 college students from Shandong and other provinces. (Xinhua/Zhou Qingxian)&$&$ &$

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Chinese Red Cross sets up first domestic donor database

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:19 Written by People Daily

The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) had officially set up the Donor Database Center, which is the first such database in China, on March 22. A Red Cross official said the establishment of the center would be convenient for providing follow-up services fto donors. From now on, some citizens will soon receive "Charity" letters autographed by Hai Qing, a famous actress and also the charity ambassador of Red Cross and be invited to join the donor database so they can keep up with the latest new ...

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Another 10-megawatt solar plant built in Tibet

Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:12 Written by People Daily

The construction of a 10-megawatt solar power plant in Sangri County, Tibet funded by Suntech Power Holdings Corporation is now in progress, and it will be completed by the end of June 2011. This is another major solar power application project after the construction of a 10-megawatt solar power station kicked off in Shigatse last month. The solar power plant is located in Chikang Village, Sangri County 18 kilometers away from the county town. Suntech Power said after the completion o ...

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