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&$ Pakistani flood victims wait for medical care at a mobile hospital set up by a Chinese rescue and relief team in Thatta, one of the worst-hit regions in Pakistan, on Aug. 31, 2010. The Chinese team has received 1,451 patients up to Monday night. (Xinhua/Yuan Man)&$&$
The Chinese rescue team had received 1,451 patients up to Monday night in the worst flood-hit district in sou ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 21:22:25) |
| Floods and landslides have left 3,185 people dead and more than 1,060 missing in China this year, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) said Tuesday.
Heavy rains have hit many Chinese provinces, including Gansu, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jilin, Jiangxi and Hubei, this year.
As of Tuesday, about 230 million Chinese had been affected.
Nearly 15.2 million people had been evacuated and 16.5 million hectares of crops had been affected.
Direct economic losses stood at more than 350 billion yuan... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 21:08:57) |
| China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Ministry of Civil Affairs Tuesday allocated 2.01 billion yuan (294.85 million U.S. dollars) for natural disaster relief work.
Serious flooding and mud-rock flows have hit Liaoning, Jilin, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces recently, said a statement on the MOF website.
The funds will be used to help relocate disaster-affected residents, rebuild destroyed homes and compensate bereft families, said the statement.
Floods,... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 21:08:12) |
| The death toll from the massive mudslides in Zhouqu County, in northwest China's Gansu Province, had risen to 1,467 as of Monday, with 298 others still missing, rescue headquarters said.
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| After cleaning up the mess left by the flooding of their schools this summer, students in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region began the new school semester Tuesday.
Longshan Primary School in Fengshan County, Hechi City, was inundated with floodwaters for more than ten days after downpours hit the area from June 28 to July 10.
The floodwaters reached as high as the second floor of buildings of one school that sits in a low-lying area surrounded by mountains, said Li Zhengcai,... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 21:06:46) |
| Six people are missing after a French oil tanker collided with a Chinese cargo vessel off the coast of east China's Zhejiang Province Tuesday, local authorities said.
All seven people aboard the Chinese vessel fell into water after the collision that took place at about 11:10 a.m. near Ningbo City, and one was rescued, a spokesman with the Zhejiang Maritime Safety Administration said.
No oil spill was reported as the French vessel "FLANDRE" was not carrying oil when the accident happened.... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 21:05:54) |
 | Composer Pete Wyer 'dismayed' at action by British Council and English National Ballet A British composer says he is "deeply disappointed and dismayed" by the British Council's decision to cancel a performance of his ballet in China because it was dedicated to the people of Tibet. Pete Wyer's The Far Shore was created for the Shanghai Expo and was to be premiered next week as the highlight of the event's "UK National Day". But the British Council and English National Ballet cancelled the... (Guardian Unlimited, 2010-08-31 20:52:50) |
| A well-known Chinese philanthropists Chen Guangbiao, also the CEO of a resources recycling company in east Jiangsu Province, donated one million yuan (146,821 U.S. dollars) to Pakistani flood victims on Tuesday.
"Pakistan is a friendly neighbor of China and I want to help the Pakistani people get through the disaster," said Chen at the donation ceremony.
"I hope other entrepreneurs, in China and abroad, could also lend a helping hand to the suffering Pakistani people," Chen said.
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| An 82-year-old former Chinese "comfort woman" is going to appeal to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in September to pressure the Japanese government to issue an apology to her and other women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.
Wan Aihua is the first woman to use her real name when accusing Japanese occupiers of crimes during the war. However, she lost three earlier lawsuits in Japan since her first appeal in 1992.
During t ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 20:49:41) |
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&$ Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R) shakes hands with Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Henry Ajumogobia in Beijing, Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)&$&$
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang met with Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Odien Ajumogobia in Beijing Tuesday, with the two sides pledging to boost bilateral ties.
China and Nigeria have a long history of frie ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 20:48:35) |
| Liechtenstein Monday recognized China's full market economy status, as Liechtenstein's Crown Prince Alois von und zu Liechtenstein and Prime Minister Klaus Tchutscher visit China.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and the two Liechtensteiner leaders attended the signing ceremony for the relevant documents Monday.
Xi hailed the 60-year diplomatic relationship between China and Liechtenstein when meeting with the two leaders, adding that China hopes to work with Liechtenstein to enhance... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 20:46:39) |
| The first unit of a Chinese army corps set off Tuesday evening to join anti-terrorism drills in Kazakhstan under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
A train carrying the unit and weapons departed around 7 p.m. from the railway station of the town of Zhurihe, Inner Mongolia, where a military training base is located.
The unit is scheduled to arrive at the drilling area in Kazakhstan on Sept. 7.
The unit is among about 1,000 personnel from the land and air... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 20:45:59) |
| China's top trade union leader Wang Zhaoguo pledged here Tuesday to advance exchange and cooperation with Singaporean trade unions to better protect the rights and interests of their respective union members.
Wang, chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), made the remarks when meeting with Lim Swee Say, secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress of Singapore. &$
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| The 6th Tokyo-Beijing Forum, which concluded its two-day sessions on Tuesday, was hailed as a platform facilitating the communication between China and Japan.
At a press conference after the meeting, Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Zhao Qizheng said the forum served as the role of public diplomacy which got expanded every year since its launching in 2005, when the ties of the two countries were strained. The panel... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 20:44:12) |
| Senior Chinese party official Liu Yunshan met with the Albanian president and prime minister, with both sides vowing to strengthen relations between the two countries.
In his talks with President Bamir Topi and Prime Minister Sali Berisha on Monday, Liu, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said China and Albania enjoy a traditional friendship and have a solid foundation to further relations between the two countries.
Liu, al ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 20:43:42) |
| Liao Meizhi one of many wrongly detained in psychiatric institutions for clashing with local bureaucrats, say researchers They snatched Liao Meizhi on her birthday, dragging her off the street and into a dirty blue van as others held back her husband. It was only two months later, when a stranger knocked on the door, that her family learned where she had been taken. The man said he had just been discharged from a nearby mental hospital – and that Liao was being held there against her will.... (Guardian Unlimited, 2010-08-31 20:42:53) |
| New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said Tuesday there are great potential for New Zealand-China trade and the two countries' leaders have agreed to double two-way trade to 20 billion NZ dollars by 2015.
Key made the remarks in his "New Zealand in the World" speech to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.
Key said the trade volume between New Zealand and China has increased significantly since the two countries signed free trade agreement in 2008. The two-way trade stood at ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 20:41:42) |
| China's National People's Congress (NPC) and South Korea's National Assembly wrapped up their fifth meeting under a parliamentary exchange mechanism in Seoul Monday with an agreement to further deepen inter-parliamentary exchanges and cooperation.
At the invitation of the South Korea's National Assembly, a NPC delegation, headed by NPC Standing Committee Vice-Chairwoman Chen Zhili, held talks with vice speaker of South Korean parliament Chung Eui-hwa late Monday.
During the meeting, Chen... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 20:37:45) |
 | IBM is deploying technology in a group of Chinese hospitals that will help them use patient records to make statistical analyses of traditional Chinese medicine treatments. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-08-31 19:51:01) |
 | SHANGHAI'S anti-smoking campaign is gradually working, local health authorities said yesterday, with fewer people smoking in tobacco-free areas compared with six months ago, when the city enacted its public-venue... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 19:49:33) |
| TYPHOON Kompasu is unlikely to hit Shanghai but will probably make its impact felt on the city today with severe rain and gales, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau said yesterday.
Classes are suspended today in... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 19:48:36) |
| TAIWAN officials issued land and sea warnings yesterday for a severe tropical storm, the island's first this year, with heavy rain and wind gusts up to 90 kilometers per hour expected before it heads to China's mainland.
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| WORKERS are expected to be scrambling today to protect deteriorating Ever-Spring Hall from today's possibly severe weather conditions, as the neglected city landmark shows signs of more damage.
Seven days ago,... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 19:47:55) |
| Sony Ericsson CEO Nordberg expects smartphone use in China to expand to half of all mobile-phone users in the country within five years. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-08-31 19:38:49) |
| Microsoft is looking for a Chinese partner to help make the U.S. company a major player in China's Internet-search market. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-08-31 19:29:45) |
 | The beating of an exposer of fraud highlights recent attacks against members of the Chinese media. (Radio Free Asia, 2010-08-31 19:18:21) |
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China's special envoy for Korean peninsula affairs Wu Dawei (R front) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo, capital of Japan, on Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng) &$
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China's special envoy for Korean peninsula affairs Wu Dawei(L) meets with Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku in Tokyo, capital of Japan, on Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)
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A girl walks in rainstorm in Jiangtian Township of Changle City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Aug. 31, 2010. As Typhoon Kompasu and tropical storms Namtheun and Lionrock approaching, the coastal areas of southeast China will be hit by heavy rainstorms and gales. The central observatory of China has issued orange warning signal to inform local citizens and governments of pot ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 18:43:14) |
| THE technologies used in the multimedia show of the painting "Along the River During Qingming Festival" in the China Pavilion are expected to be revealed by its designers at the 5th Shanghai Design Biennial between... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 18:00:00) |
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