A report by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer has said there is enough evidence to rank processed meats - such as ham, bacon and sausages - as "group 1 carcinogens", because of their causal link with bowel cancer. Processed meats are meats that have been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, and other processes to enhance flavor or improve preservation.
Singles Day, celebrated on Nov 11, has become not only China's answer to Cyber Monday in the United States but also the world's biggest shopping spree.
Not surprisingly, the "freedom of navigation" operations conducted by the United States in the South China Sea featured in the meetings between high-ranking Chinese military officers and Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the US Pacific Command, in Beijing on Tuesday.
China's e-commerce giants are enthusiastically flooding domestic media with lavish commercials aimed at warming up consumers for the annual online shopping binge on Nov 11. However, they have still not paid enough attention to their Achilles' heel, namely the widespread sale of shoddy or counterfeit goods by online retailers.
THE UNITED STATES Navy reportedly plans to conduct "freedom of navigation" operations in the waters around China's built-up islands and reefs in the South China Sea about twice every three months. It comes a week after the guided missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed near China's Zhubi Reef without the permission of the Chinese government. Comments:
THE FIRST DOMESTICALLY designed and manufactured airliner, the C919, made its debut in Shanghai on Monday. Does that signify a breakthrough in domestic aviation technology? Comments:
THE NEW POLICY that all couples will be allowed to have two children in principle has met with a lukewarm response, with many couples saying they can't afford to raise a second child. Comments:
According to the communiqué issued after the recently concluded Fifth Plenum of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee, the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) should help make China "moderately prosperous", with "medium to rapid" growth continuing, further reduction in poverty, and better social welfare, governance and environmental protection.
Just a month after President Xi Jinping concluded his first state visit to the United States, US guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen entered the waters around China's Zhubi Reef in the South China Sea on Oct 27 without the permission of the Chinese government.
President Xi Jinping's upcoming state visit to Vietnam on Thursday and Friday will be his first to the neighboring country since assuming office. It will also be the first visit by a Chinese president to Vietnam in a decade.
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