Beijing - Chinese experts have inspected and declared safe the military-use nuclear facilities in the earthquake-devastated south-western province of Sichuan, a military official said Sunday.
“I could say in a responsible manner that all these facilities are safe and secure,” Ma Jian, deputy director of the People`s Liberation Army (PLA) combat department, told reporters in Sichuan.
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Reuters - The most devastating earthquake to hit China in three decades has killed up to 5,000 people and left as many as 10,000 injured, toppling eight schools and at least one hospital, state media said.
SHANGHAI, May 9 - China intends to strengthen its supervision and control of cross-border capital flows in order to protect stability in the financial system, Vice Premier Wang Qishan said on...
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s surging inflation and rapid economic growth have eased slightly amid government efforts to end food shortages and cool an investment boom, according to data reported Wednesday.
Consumer prices rose 8.3 percent in March compared with the same month last year, down slightly from February’s 8.7 percent rate, the highest in nearly 12 [...]
United States likes to act like the big brother of the world and the human races. It periodically issued a list of violation of human rights in other countries. Indeed it said nothing of its own possible violation. Surely they are not God and they also can commit some violations or the other. China has decided to follow this strategy, if you can't beat them, join them. So they joined the US and
While claiming that it attaches high importance to quality standards, China has claimed it bears no responsibility in assuring quality for pharma products leaving its shores. As many as 400 illnesses and 21 deaths have been linked to tainted heparin produced in China. The FDA went to China only after the news of contamination broke, [...]
China says breast cancer on rise in Beijing, Shanghai(Reuters)Reuters - Breast cancer has risen sharply inChina's capital and its top financial centre during the lastdecade due to unhealthy diets, a poor environment and increasedstress at work, state media reported on Tuesday.
Pediatricians'Group Issues New Autism Guidelines(HealthDay)HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) — In an effort to make it easier forpediatricians to spot and begin early treatment for children with autismspectrum disorders, the American Academy of Pediatrics has released twonew reports with recommendations for identifying and managing theseconditions.
Doctors test hot sauce for pain relief(AP)
AP - Devil's Revenge. Spontaneous Combustion. Hot sauces have names like that for a reason. Now scientists are testing if the stuff that makes the sauces so savage can tame the pain of surgery.
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China Says Consumer Inflation Jumped to 5.6 Percent in July
BEIJING (AP) — China’s inflation rate accelerated to the highest monthly rate in a decade — driven by a 15.4 percent surge in politically sensitive food prices over the year-earlier period, according to data released Monday.
Prices of pork and other meat surged 45.2 percent and eggs 30.6 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics reported.
July’s inflation rate of 5.6 percent — was the highest monthly rate since February 1997, and an increase over June’s 4.4 percent rate. The next-highest monthly rate was 5.3 percent in August 2004.
Chinese leaders are worried that a boom that saw the economy grow 11.9 percent in the latest quarter might ignite inflation. They have tried to cool the boom by raising interest rates three times in the past six months, and economists expect one to two more increases this year.
A statistics bureau spokesman tried to quell fears of a pickup in overall inflation, s
It is incredibly interesting to watch the profound changes that have taken place in China over the last decade. They have embarked upon a market economy and have now passed laws protecting private property rights. And the protection of private property is the basis of all capitalism. Of course there is a real tendency to dig in the heels by the life long socialists in the country. On average most people do not like change especially such a sweeping and revolutionary change. And in a case of immense irony the socialists are playing the role of conservatives and resisting massive change while the capitalist free market thinkers are pushing for change. So the way I see it we have one of two scenarrios running now:1) The current government realizes their citizens will starve and their country will vanish into the dust bin of history if they don't adopt the changes to move to a full fledged market economy or...2) They think they can manage a limited free marketplace but still have the unde
From RIA NovostiBEIJING, March 12 (RIA Novosti) - China's stock market fluctuations do not reflect any macroeconomic problems, the country's chief banker said Monday.World stocks have recovered some of the ground lost in the drastic sell-off of global equities that began February 27 when China's Shanghai Composite, the country's main stock index, plunged nearly 9 percent."I personally believe that there are no problems at the macroeconomic level and stock market price fluctuations will not lead to any substantial change in trends," Zhou Xiaochuan told a press conference on China's monetary policy.At the same time, Xiaochuan declined to answer directly whether the global sell-off was triggered by a sharp fall in China's stocks."Initially China believed that its share market was comparatively small and at a nascent stage in its development. But economic globalization has created a close relationship between fluctuations on various stocks markets. This is a testament that we must ac
{mosgoogle right}BEIJING (AP) -- China's food exports to Japan, a key market, plunged 30 percent in February, hurt by a scare over poisoned Chinese-made dumplings, according to data reported Friday.Japan is the third-largest market for Chinese exporters of fish, dumplings and other processed food, and the drop in sales is a severe blow to the fast-growing industry.China's food exports to Japan in February totaled 186,000 tons, down 30 percent from the same month in 2007, [...]
