This week the British Heart Foundation launches "On Your Feet Britain", a campaign to encourage office workers to simply stand up more regularly, walk around, and embrace ideas such as standing meetings, standing desks, or taking a lunchtime stroll.
Item from April 20, 1989, in China Daily: The first diesel locomotive equipped with a micro-computer control system in China rolled out of the Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works recently ... The Dongfeng 6 can attain speeds of 118 kilometers per hour. Equipped with the most advanced electronic control technology from the United States, the new locomotive reaches world standards.
"The world is so big and I want to have a look," wrote a Henan province middle school teacher in her resignation letter, which was leaked online and has since gone viral in the past week.
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The decline of home prices eased across China's cities in March, deterred by an interest rate cut at the end of February and a housing sales boost in March.
Police in South Africa detained more than 30 people overnight as xenophobic violence simmered around the economic hub of Johannesburg, officials said on Saturday.
China and theUnited States are expected to exchange negative lists "this month or next month", which could pave the way for substantial progress on the negotiations of a Bilateral Investment Treaty, China's Vice-Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said on Friday.
Chinese currency ismoving toward equilibrium while China's external position is strengthening, an IMF official said in Washington on Friday.
The number of wild pandas in Northwest China's Gansu province increased 15 percent to 132 between 2001 and the end of last year, according to official survey results released on Friday.
Former NBA star Stephon Marbury, who left a $20 million NBA contract behind six years ago to play basketball in Beijing, has applied for a Chinese "green card".
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