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Passengers' relatives asked to return home

Malaysia Airlines on Thursday advised relatives of passengers on missing flight MH370 to leave the hotels where they have been staying and receive updates "within the comfort of their own homes, with the support and care of their families and friends".

Telecom operators dial up cooperation

Three telecom operators are researching the possibility of setting up a telecom infrastructure company that would be responsible for construction of base stations for mobile networks.

Manufacturing produces small increase in April

Manufacturing growth experienced a small increase in April while new export orders fell sharply, official data showed on Thursday.

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'Efforts needed to meet growth target,' Li says

China introduced a row of measures on Wednesday to support trade growth as the world's second-largest economy slowed considerably in the first three months of this year.

Blast goes off at Urumqi rail station

An explosion occurred at a railway station in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Wednesday evening.

Malaysia will issue report on missing jet

Malaysia will release a preliminary report on Thursday on the disappearance of flight MH370 nearly two months after it went missing, according to a Transport Ministry official.

Li thanks Abbott, re-avows commitment

Premier Li Keqiang told Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday that China will continue to do its best in the search for the missing Malaysia Airline Flight MH370.

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Quotable

"But the trouble with that is that almost all of it is borrowed technology."

The Number

20,464 batches of fake goods