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[2014-11-07 07:51]

Outbound trips, mainly to Southeast Asia, have risen by almost 40 percent."

The Three Gorges Power Plant, the world's largest hydropower project, had generated more than 800 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity as of Tuesday since its first turbine generator was put into operation in 2003.

On the web

[2014-11-07 07:51]

Photo: Three young men from Henan province who started building robots for fun modeled after characters from the Hollywood blockbuster Transformers have been cashing in on their work. Their first creation, a 3-meter-high robot made from recycled auto parts, sold for 10,000 yuan ($1,600).

Around China

[2014-11-06 07:55]

Premier Li Keqiang will attend a series of ASEAN leaders' meetings from Nov 12 to 14 in Myanmar, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Wednesday.

Quotable

[2014-11-06 07:55]

As the last governor of Britain's colonial rule of Hong Kong, he should have awareness of his role and get a clear understanding of the change of time."

The number

[2014-11-06 07:55]

China's largest oil tanker, with vessel displacement seven times that of the country's only aircraft carrier, Liaoning, has a dead weight of 320,000 metric tons. It was delivered in Guangzhou on Wednesday.

On the web

[2014-11-06 07:55]

Bilingual news: Of all the great lines, in all the films, it all had to come down to a plastic spaceman. According to a new poll, the greatest line in movie history is Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase: "To infinity ... and beyond!" The vote saw the line spoken by a toy astronaut in Disney's 1995 animated film Toy Story come out on top by just one vote.

Around China

[2014-11-05 07:57]

A 27-year-old father was sentenced to five years in prison for selling his illegitimate son for 80,000 yuan ($13,000) to a woman surnamed Wang, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Tuesday.

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[2014-11-05 07:57]

"I love ships. I have been working as a crew member for more than 20 years. I have gotten used to this dreary life. A crew member gets 2,000 to 3,000 yuan ($327 to $490) a month and eats meat only once or twice a week. Young people won't come if they have any other options."

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[2014-11-05 07:57]

Since April of this year, China, the first foreign country to provide assistance to Ebola-hit West African countries, has so far offered aid worth $122 million in four packages of emergency relief materials to the countries, Vice-Minister of Commerce Fang Aiqing said on Monday.