The Beijing Municipal Administration of Industry and Commerce and the Beijing Communications Management Bureau together yesterday organized a public hearing to discuss the telecom network access contracts that consumers sign when buying various telecom services.
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More than 30 complaints about fireworks displays at Disneyland have been received by the Islands District Council from Discovery Bay residents.
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Migrant workers in Beijing owed thousands in unpaid wages will get a legal helping hand to recover what they are owed.
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25 United Airlines flight attendants protested at the Hong Kong Airport yesterday over the termination of United Airlines' pension plan.
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China has officially selected its first group of 35 women to be trained as astronauts.
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China's China Huaneng Group (CHNG) has acquired part of interest of a large Australian coal project. CHNG on Thursday entered into the Monto Coal Joint Venture - Sale Agreement with Australia's Macarthur Coal Limited (Macarthur Coal) in Brisbane, capital city of the state of Queensland, where the signing ceremony was held.
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China's rapid development is an opportunity rather than a threat to the world, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday, seeking to stem a rising tide of anti-Beijing sentiment in the United States.
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The United States will join India, China and Australia in announcing a new pact to limit greenhouse gases as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol, Australia's environment minister said Wednesday.
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Dragon Venture, a holding company of high-tech companies in China, announced today that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire 51% of Beijing Dejiqingyuan Environment Technology Company, Limited. On July 25, 2005, Dragon Venture signed a letter of intent to acquire 51% of Shanghai Dejiqingyuan Environment Technology Company, Limited ("Dejiqingyuan").
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An earthquake measured 5.1-magnitude on the Ritcher scale shook a Northeast China city Monday night, leaving one person dead and 12 others injured.
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China should be admitted to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development one day because of its increasing impact on the world economy, the head of the 30-country free-market organisation says.
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Six-party talks aimed at defusing a three-year-old crisis over North Korea's nuclear ambitions opened in Beijing on Tuesday, one day after Pyongyang and Washington held a rare one-on-one meeting.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Chinese leader Hu Jintao signed an agreement on economic cooperation on Tuesday, building on ties at a time the debt-laden, isolated African state is seeking new sources of aid.
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The China Daily reports that each year an additional 2.5 million to 3.5 million Chinese unsuccessfully attempt suicide, which stood as the fifth major cause of death among the country's 1.3 billion people.
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Xinhua reports that the Chinese Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture are closely monitoring the swine virus infection that took place in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The ministries have reported the infection to the World Health Organization, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization and health authorities of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, said the Health Ministry Monday.
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