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Item from Dec 3, 1998, in China Daily: Forestry officials rescue ring-necked pheasants from cramped cages outside a restaurant in Beijing yesterday. The birds are under municipal protection. ... The restaurant, called Guifuyuan, is located west of the Kunlun Hotel in Chaoyang district.

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Smartphone "mobile wallet" apps for online financial transactions are becoming more popular.

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Ministry critical of media bias

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A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused a French journalist on Wednesday of political bias for her reporting on Beijing's efforts to fight terrorism in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

3 attempts to smuggle drugs from Myanmar thwarted in 4 months

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Customs officers in Yunnan province confiscated more than 56 kilograms of illegal drugs as they thwarted three attempts to smuggle drugs across the border in the last four months, authorities said on Wednesday.

Analysis: Diabetes, weight loss, high on list of health concerns

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Weight loss, diabetes, cancer, nutrition and traditional Chinese medicine are among the most popular topics with Chinese people who habitually follow health news and information online, according to data analysis by Toutiao.com.

Academy proposes retirement age timeline

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China should gradually increase the retirement age as part of a solution to fill a possible future pension fund gap, according to a green book on population and labor released on Wednesday.

IN BRIEF (Page 5)

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Patent infringement may soon lead to fines of up to 5 million yuan ($782,000), under a draft amendment released on Wednesday.

Looking to land a new future

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Chaohu Lake has provided a living for generations of fishermen, but now China's fifth-largest freshwater body, in Hefei, capital of Anhui province, is being deserted as a growing number of fishermen take advantage of a wider range of employment options and turn their backs on the traditional occupation.

Auditor wages war on costs

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Chen Yujin, a senior auditor for the People's Liberation Army for the past 28 years, uses his economics expertise and financial savvy on a different kind of battlefield: the project sites where the military spends billions of yuan on construction.

Chinese carbon-capture grass cited as tool against climate change

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A hardy, fast-growing grass known as lyu xin (green heart) is being hailed as a new addition to the world's arsenal in the fight against climate change.

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