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It will be a tough mission to forcefully rescue the Chinese bulk carrier hijacked by Somali pirates ship, and diplomatic efforts may be needed. Ship arrives off Somalia
China's consumer goods sales value amounted to 8.97 trillion yuan ($1.31 trillion) in the first nine months of 2009, up 15.1 percent year-on-year, chinanews.com.cn reported, citing data released today by the National Bureau of Statistics.
My friend Xu Haoyuan sent me two emails within a month about problems she encountered in news media coverage. Each illustrates how far some journalists nowadays have strayed from accuracy and truthfulness.
"Shenzhen mom dies during childbirth in a Hong Kong hospital!" screams a newspaper headline. But if this was intended as a warning to mainland women planning to have their children in the special administration region, it has fallen on deaf ears.
India and China yesterday signed a broad agreement to work together in fighting climate change and the nations underlined their shared position on contentious talks seeking a new global climate deal.
President Hu Jintao is upbeat about the prospects for a positive outcome at the Copenhagen climate change summit in December.
A $120 billion fund that will offer loans to Southeast Asian countries in economic straits will be ready as early as the end of the year, Chinese officials said in Beijing yesterday.
China would like to take the opportunity of the upcoming meetings of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to enhance its cooperation with the ASEAN countries, a senior Chinese diplomat said Wednesday.
China's Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has ordered prisons nationwide to strengthen security and supervision measures after four criminals killed a jail guard and escaped last Saturday.
Australian state government and industry officials Wednesday extended invitation to Chinese investment in the mining sector, but their remarks didn't help dispel concerns of Chinese mining companies.
The Chinese mainland reported 2,092 confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 influenza in the 48 hours ending at 3 pm Wednesday, bringing the total number of the disease's victims to more than 31,000, the Ministry of Health said here Wednesday.
China's economic and social development was better than expected, benefiting from a "consolidated" economic recovery, the government said Wednesday.
