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CHINA DAILY - Thursday December 4,2008
MAIN SECTION
The government yesterday unveiled a raft of measures to encourage lending by financial institutions to infrastructure projects, small businesses and potential home and car buyers.
Strategic Economic Dialogue
The steep fall of the yuan this week does not signal a major shift in the country's foreign exchange policy or its long-term currency revaluation trend, analysts said.
Nation
The Ministry of Land and Resources will do all it can to ensure the government's 4-trillion-yuan ($580 billion) stimulus package does not lead to misuse of the country's dwindling land banks, a senior official said yesterday.
China Scene
Truck crash killer helped by victim's widow
Insight
When 45-year-old Wang Xiuzhi fractured her knees working in the fields, she was faced with the daunting option of traveling at least three hours by bus to hospitals in the city. Treatment there was guaranteed to be expensive for farmers like her.
Comment
The fifth round of Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) between China and the United States is to be held in Beijing today. Being the last round of talks between the two countries during the outgoing Bush administration, it has evoked a particular interest as to whether the dialogue mechanism will be carried forward into the new US administration.
Opinion
I have long been forecasting that it was only a matter of time before the United States' housing bubble - which began in the early days of this decade, supported by a flood of liquidity and lax regulation - would pop. The longer the bubble expanded, the larger the explosion and the greater (and more global) the resulting downturn would be.
International
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Pakistan yesterday to cooperate "fully and transparently" in investigations into the Mumbai attacks that have upset India-Pakistan relations.
Special Supplement
SHENZHEN: The government of Futian district, home to the city's central business district (CBD), is planning for construction of eight world-standard industrial zones to ensure future development.
Business
Construction of a 60-billion-yuan nuclear power plant in Jiangxi province is expected to begin soon, a move in line with China's policy to boost the domestic demand.
Business
Microsemi Corp Chief Executive Officer James Peterson and Broadcom Corp Senior Vice-President Vahid Manian, who both serve on the board of STEC Inc, claim to have earned degrees that their schools can't verify.
Life
It's hard to believe a 24-year-old woman football fan could be so serious and rational. But 2005 Supergirl Zhang Liangying, better known as Jane Zhang, seems to be.
Sports
NEW YORK: Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig would like to tinker with the World Series schedule but is adamant the Fall Classic will not be moved away from hometown fans.
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