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Spread of MERS is low, thanks to disease controls

[2015-06-05 07:40]

With tight disease control, the risk of MERS - Middle East respiratory syndrome - being spread in China remains low, although the outbreak in South Korea has been rapidly worsening in the past two weeks, according to the Guangdong provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Opposition lawmakers wooed to keep reform on track; 5 votes needed

[2015-06-05 07:40]

Hong Kong's chief executive and constitutional affairs officials have stepped up attempts to gain the support of a handful of opposition lawmakers needed to ensure that the city's constitutional reform process stays on track.

Test centers set stage for smooth gaokao

[2015-06-05 07:40]

Measures are being taken across the country to ensure that students taking the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, have an appropriate environment for the test that determines university placement for 9.42 million students across China.

Healthcare heroes on front line in latest fight

[2015-06-05 07:40]

A news conference in a meeting room in Huizhou Central Hospital on Thursday afternoon might seem boring and routine for reporters who have been keeping an eye of the first MERS case in China and coming to the hospital daily for updates about the patient's condition.

IN BRIEF (Page 4)

[2015-06-05 07:40]

The General Administration of Customs said it has confiscated frozen meat with an estimated value of more than 3 billion yuan ($484 million) in a nationwide anti-smuggling operation.

Tank maker seeks to increase exports on land armaments

[2015-06-05 07:40]

In an effort to increase sales of its tanks in the face of declining global demand, China North Industries Group Corp, the country's biggest developer and maker of land armaments, is turning to a popular smartphone social networking app.

Expo's Beijing Week closes with bid promotion for 2022 Winter Olympics

[2015-06-05 07:40]

Beijing Week at Italy's world exposition, Expo Milano 2015, closed on Wednesday with the promotion of Beijing's candidacy for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Chinese visitors become second-biggest group of foreign spenders on trips to US

[2015-06-05 07:40]

The approximately 2.2 million Chinese travelers who visited the United States last year spent more than $23 billion, making China the second-biggest source of foreign-tourist spending within the US, a new report says.

The great escape

[2015-06-05 07:40]

The dramatic story of how Chinese guerillas rescued Donald Kerr, a young US pilot shot down over wartime Hong Kong, will soon be released as a movie. Zhao Xu met with Kerr's son to hear about his father's dangerous journey home.

Economy will suffer if reform fails, tycoon says

[2015-06-04 07:55]

Hong Kong's economy will suffer if opposition lawmakers fail to support the government's constitutional reform proposal, tycoon Li Ka-shing warned on Wednesday.

Gaokao cheats targeted nationwide

[2015-06-04 07:55]

Provinces and cities are using a variety of new measures, including drones, to prevent cheating as one of the most important exams in China - the annual gaokao, or national college entrance exam - approaches.

Five-year plan 'to offer ecological boost'

[2015-06-04 07:55]

China will make more innovative efforts to push forward guidelines on ecological development, and offer more specifics in the nation's upcoming five-year plan, an economic think tank said on Wednesday.

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