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CHINA DAILY - Thursday December 18,2008
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The government yesterday waived business tax on real estate sales and relaxed mortgage policies for second-home buyers in the latest attempt to buoy the sluggish property market.
Nation
About 340 million people exercised regularly last year, with 250 million of them spending an average of 593 yuan ($88) on sport or sport-related activities.
The Reform Years
In 1974, 25-year-old Sun Hongchun married Chu Wenfa, the 10th child in an extended family of some 60 members in Shandong province. Sun would hear her mother-in-law - whose generation of women had an average of 12 births - complain about how hard her life was with so many children.
Comment
This year, our country marks the 30th anniversary of the reform and opening up process that has had a profound impact not just on China, but also on the rest of the world .
Opinion
There is a silver lining for developing nations in the present crisis, for they will emerge with a much bigger say in the institutions that govern economic globalization.
International
Researchers have reproduced images of things people were looking at by analyzing brain scans, opening the way for people to communicate directly from their mind.
Business
Chinese shipbuilders have taken a bigger hit than their foreign competitors from the global economic downturn, and the outlook is even gloomier for the next two years.
Business
FedEx Corp stunned investors a week ago by slashing its annual profit forecast, sending the stock down the most in 21 years. Job cuts may be next at the shipper, a proxy for the US economy.
Life
From Yellow Children, her first album, to United Nations goodwill ambassador, Zhu Zheqin has come a long way.
Sports
BERLIN: Bundesliga newcomers Hoffenheim have already left their mark in their debut season and hope to become a major force in German football after being crowned "winter champions" last week.
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