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Top News

New central committee elected
The Communist Party of China (CPC) elected a new central leadership and endorsed a political declaration to chart the country's development as it closed the 17th national congress yesterday.

Intra-Party democracy progresses

Super success secrets shared

Scientific Outlook on Development enshrined

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Top News

Govt gives TCM shot in the arm
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) will play a key role in realizing the national goal of providing every Chinese citizen with access to basic medical care, a senior health official said yesterday.

Action urged to safeguard global financial stability

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Insight

Envoy strives to strengthen relations
Costa Rica and China will sign nine deals on cooperation in investment, trade and tourism during Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez's state visit this week, said the country's ambassador to China ahead of the visit.

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Comment

Equal treatment for all economic sectors
In his report delivered at the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) last Monday, General Secretary Hu Jintao stressed that China will unwaveringly consolidate and develop the public sector of the economy, and unswervingly encourage, support and guide the development of the non-public sector, ensure equal protection of property rights, and create a new situation in which all economic sectors compete on an equal footing and reinforce each other.

Cartoon

Pursuing right path

Taking undue risks

Scientific approach

Safeguard global growth

Looking after our heroes

Closing the income gap

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Democracy should begin at grassroots level
China's political reform should focus on the development of grassroots democracy. It should first be tried at the grassroots level and then pushed upward, an influential Party scholar has said.

Officials punished for child labor crimes

Minister feels the heat of climate diplomacy

Foreign press accessible during Beijing Olympics

Haier CEO: Party congress report encourages companies to go global

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Grain price hikes set to continue
Grain prices will continue to edge upwards next year despite a turbulent 12 months in which costs soared, according to a leading agricultural policy maker.

Vox Populi

Nation attaches importance to global warming

Multilateralism a preferred path for diplomatic work, expert says

Sound Bites

In the press

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No mountain high enough for Dr Ge
Doctor Ge Rili and his students were hiking up the 6,178 m Yuzhu Peak, Northwest China's Qinghai Province, on a scientific mission to find out more about altitude sickness.

Number of candidates rises dramatically

Socialism with a green approach

Members of the 17th CPC Central Committee

Amendment tradition continues

Alternate members of 17th CPC Central Committee

Members of CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

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17th Party Congress

A happy ending

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International

Crisis talks called after rebel attacks
Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers and wounded 16 others in an ambush yesterday, prompting Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to call crisis talks to consider a military strike against rebel bases in Iraq.

Power of twins faces test in snap election

Ex-chief negotiator to attend Rome talks

US strikes kill 49 in Baghdad, including 2 toddlers: Witness

Soyuz off course, makes safe return

Across the world: UNITED NATIONS

Across the world: GERMANY

Across the world: FRANCE

Across the world: SOUTH KOREA

Across the world: NIGERIA

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Life

Papa bear
WOLONG, Sichuan: Zhang Hemin is a gentle and simple bespectacled man of few words. He lets his work do the talking. In fact, he impresses first-time visitors to the panda reserve because of amusing similarity with a giant panda. An advocate of reviving the population of one of the world's most endangered and adored species, he was once seriously injured by a panda cub.

A giant 9-million-year history revealed in black and white

Throwing caution to the wind

Stretching his sea legs

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Sports

British fans trudge home, defeated but proud
LONDON: England fans trudged home from Paris yesterday after their team's defeat in the rugby World Cup final, bitterly disappointed but with heads held high after a widely-praised England display.

Kenyon man wins, but local women dominate Beijing Marathon

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