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Chinese tycoon's charity foundation focuses on education

Chen Fashu, one of the richest men in China, said Tuesday that his multi-billion-yuan charity foundation would focus on building schools in underdeveloped areas and offering scholarships for college students from impoverished families.

Protectionism, yuan pressure 'unfair': Wen

Premier Wen Jiabao rejected "unfair" calls from European countries for faster reform of China's currency policies, despite lobbying from EU financial chiefs.Bloc may nail duties for 15 more months China urges EU to cut more carbon Mutual understanding urged

Younger officials on the rise

Two 46-year-old officials yesterday became China's youngest provincial-level Party chiefs as the country announced major leadership reshuffles ahead of the 18th Party Congress in 2012.

China spends 15b yuan on land census

China has put in nearly 15 billion yuan ($2.19 billion) and dispatched more than 200,000 personnel in its second nationwide land census that started in June, 2007.

China lifts import ban on US, Canada, Mexico pork

Economic indices at peaks, signal rosy outlook

Harbin shopping mall fire suspicious

Cutting off criminal channels

China Mobile fights porn criticism

'Missing' cultural sites number 23,600

Bottler refutes tainted claim

Experts on trail of palace's lost relics head to US

Government & Policy

China to review anti-dumping on chloroform imports

China would launch a review of the anti-dumping measures against chloroform imports from the European Union, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States on Monday.

Mainland, Taiwan to hold talks in mid or late December

Negotiators from the Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) will meet in Taiwan's Taizhong in mid or late December for a new round of talks between the two organizations.

Foreign & Military Affairs

Chinese premier meets EU officials

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with European Union leaders in East China's Nanjing city on Sunday afternoon ahead of the 12th China-EU summit.

China signs series of trade deals with France

Visiting Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde oversaw the signing of more than 40 contracts between a Chinese business delegation and French enterprises in Paris on Friday.

Economy

China to keep stable economic policy in 2010

China's government will continue the proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy next year, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee agreed Friday.

Efforts underway to cool hot money flow

After several countries began to target the flow of short-term speculative capital, many experts believe China will step up its efforts to control the flow of so-called hot money.

Society

Doctors fired for fixing steel plate in wrong leg

Two doctors in Tongcheng county, Hubei province, have been fired after they "accidentally" fitted a steel plate in the left leg of an 84-year-old patient, who had a fracture in his right leg, last week.

Moderate quake jolts southwest China's Sichuan

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted southwest China's Sichuan Province at 00:04 a.m. Saturday, the national seismological network said.

Odd News

Man gets heart attack after thief steals cash

An old man who was robbed of all his cash had a heart attack inside a toilet of a railway station in Xiongyue, a county of Liaoning province, on Wednesday.

Surfing Internet affects sperm count: Survey

Surfing the Internet for too long is a major reason more than 50 percent of male university students in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have a low sperm count, a survey has found.

Opinion

Latest signs on road to economic recovery

Owing to the effective implementation of a series of macroeconomic policies and stimulus packages aimed at tackling the global financial crisis, positive changes have emerged in China's economic landscape.