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CHINA DAILY - Thursday December 11,2008
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The country's top leadership pledged to take steps to ensure a "stable and relatively fast" economic growth next year as it wrapped up the three-day Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) in Beijing yesterday.
Nation
A food additive - Benzoperoxide - used to bleach flour may soon be banned as another measure to ensure consumers' safety, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced yesterday.
Nation
Government officials in Henan who fail to implement policies to control the disproportionate sex ratio at birth will be ineligible for promotion and could be demoted, a spokesman for the provincial population and family planning commission said yesterday.
China Scene
Illegal shotgun-making gang caught in Tianjin
Insight
It is another day at the China-Vietnam border, with the hot and heavy air typical of the sub-tropics in November.
Comment
China has managed to overcome the adverse impact of several destructive natural calamities and the international financial crisis this year and maintain a steady economic growth.
Opinion
The past few days have seen world leaders mobilize in order to bring about much needed confidence and coordination so as to confront the challenges posed by a financial crisis which has rapidly spread evenly affecting developed as well as developing economies.
International
Sony Corp's much delayed virtual community for owners of its PlayStation 3 game console will start worldwide today, but it's unlikely to attract many newcomers to the machine, company officials said.
Business
China's wholesale inflation fell to a 31-month low in November, giving the government more room to roll out measures to bolster the economy.
Special Supplement
Along the beautiful coastline of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region a new landscape is emerging to become the next front in China's development.
Business
Rio Tinto Group will eliminate 14,000 jobs and slash $5 billion in spending as the global recession curbs demand for metals, scaling back operations less than a month after BHP Billiton Ltd dropped a hostile bid.
Life
Ma Yunchang looked around the packed theater. Hundreds of his peers were chanting passionately, tears welling up in their eyes. At last, 40 years later, they could celebrate the days of the zhiqing.
Sports
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian striker Ronaldo has agreed to join Sao Paulo-based Corinthians after recovering from a serious knee injury suffered last February.
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