The first batch of A/H1N1 vaccines, comprising 100,000 doses, purchased by the government of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) were Saturday transported to Macao by air, and local health authorities will soon start the inoculation of these vaccines.
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Experts agree the e-book market has huge potential in China but is being undermined by rampant pirate operations.
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Huang Tingxin, the Chinese mainland's last veteran of the D-Day campaign to end the Nazi domination of Europe in 1944 has died. He was 91.
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Webchats with foreign envoys in China.
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A 107-year-old woman shocked her neighbors in Yichuan county, Henan province, when she recently started teething again.
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China's consumer price index dipped 0.5 percent year on year in Oct, a decline 0.3 percentage points lower than that in Septemper. Foreign Trade Drops 10.7%
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China's yuan is expected to play a bigger role in regional trade with the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) becoming effective on Jan 1, 2010.
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Education Minister Yuan Guiren warned that China's record number of 6.3 million college graduates next year would pose "severe challenges" to the job market.
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China will issue 15 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) of short-term treasury bonds next week, the Ministry of Finance said in Beijing Friday.
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Google on Friday agreed to provide a list of Chinese books it had scanned to put up in its digital library, but it still refused to admit having "infringed" upon copyright laws.
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While recession-hit consumers in the United States and Europe are scaling back on showy purchases, Chinese consumers are flocking to domestic retailers.
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China's total premium income of 2008 reached 978.41 billion yuan ($143 billion), making it the sixth largest country in terms of premium income.
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US Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans.
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Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with "global warming" and "9/11" topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghan president for the second term on Thursday.
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College students ditched class, employees skipped work and some huddled in the cold overnight just to make sure they get an orange wristband that would let them meet Sarah Palin.
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The Japanese foreign ministry has found documents proving the existence of a secret Japan-US pact that allows US military vessels or aircraft carrying nuclear weapons to enter Japanese territory, local media reported Sunday, citing ministry sources.
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World soccer governing body FIFA announced its decision on Friday to suspend the Iraq from playing international matches for the sake of "government interference".
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Jenson Button faces the toughest challenge of his Formula One career when he joins Lewis Hamilton at McLaren next season and he knows it.
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Fit-again Alessandro del Piero is keen to get his campaign underway after playing just 10 minutes with Juventus so far this season but the captain may have to take up an unfamiliar role to get back into the team.
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Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will step on board the riverboat to the ATP World Tour Finals on Sunday with the world No 1 ranking in their sights.
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Alex Rodriguez grabbed the World Series trophy and wouldn't let go.
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The struggling Shanghai Sharks basketball club received a much-needed boost yesterday when it was confirmed captain Liu Wei had chosen to stay with the team instead of transferring to Bayi.
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Robert Pattinson has spent less than a day at his home in 2009, and said leaving his friends and family after such a short period was the hardest thing he had to do this year.
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Zac Efron's 'High School Musical' fans are so obsessed with him they even travelled to the Isle of Man, where he was shooting new movie 'Me and Orson Welles', to try and catch a glimpse of their idol.
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Eva Longoria says she and husband Tony Parker only have sex at weekends because their careers keep them apart during the week.
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Avril Lavigne has been spotted out with American actor Wilmer Valderrama, who has previously dated Lindsay Lohan, Mandy Moore and Hilary Duff.
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Irina Shabayeva won the sixth season of the fashion reality show "Project Runway" on Thursday in the conclusion of the hit cable series which was delayed for months by legal wrangling.
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An oil painting of a Peking Opera character is featured at the 12th annual West Lake Art Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, November 19, 2009.
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Ashton Kutcher, the executive producer of new TV show 'The Beautiful Life' starring Mischa Barton, ''can't wait'' for people to see how strong Mischa's performance is.
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From the merely unpleasant to the borderline criminal, ugly buildings somehow manage to pop up even in the prettiest cities.
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A second auction of art and furniture once owned by fashion guru Yves Saint Laurent has raised 8.9 million euros ($13.22 million), up to three times the estimated amount, auctioneers Christie's said on Friday.
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New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday.
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While the United States president's maiden China visit is now history, restaurants across Beijing still have Barack Obama fever. Chefs have rustled up a feast fit for the president to mark the event.
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Low-carb and high-carb diets work equally well for maintaining weight loss, Australian researchers report.
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For decades, Newcastle upon Tyne was blackened by coal dust and known around the world for its clanking shipyards and smoke-belching factories.
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Treatments for erectile dysfunction such as the hugely popular drug Viagra do not appear to pose long-term damage to men's sight, a new study has shown.
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