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$730b infrastructure plan on table
2023-12-06The transport ministry is considering a plan to spend 5 trillion yuan ($730 billion) on road and port infrastructure projects over the next three to f...
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Govt foots shoe firm's wage bill
2023-12-06Public funds have been used to cover the 7 million yuan ($1 million) owed in back pay to employees of the collapsed Dongguan Weixu Shoe Company, a spo...
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Change has come
2023-12-06Barack Obama rode a wave of voter discontent to an historic White House victory, promising change as the first black US president but facing enormous ...
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Britain cuts interest rate from 4.5% to 3%
2023-12-06The Bank of England (BOE) shocked the country and the rest of the world yesterday by slashing 1.5 percentage points off interest rates as part of its ...
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Rare animals, plants boost ties
2023-12-06The Chinese mainland and Taiwan exchanged rare animals and plants yesterday in a sign of warmer cross-Straits ties.Top negotiators from both sides ann...
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Hard times for Guangdong migrants
2023-12-06Thousands of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta are packing up and heading home, as jobs and decent wages in the region become increasingly hard...
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Obama gets down to staff business
2023-12-06US president-elect Barack Obama, who will inherit the worst financial crisis in decades on January 20, is expected to name his Treasury Secretary soon...
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President Hu Jintao has praised US president-elect Barack Obama for emphasizing the importance of China-US relations and calling for strengthening bil...
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Economy gets $586b power dose
2023-12-06The government has cleared a 4 trillion-yuan ($586 billion) investment package until 2010 to spur domestic demand and boost the slowing economy.A Stat...
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Net abuse not just 'bad habit'
2023-12-06Internet addiction is now considered a clinical disorder rather than a bad habit, a new Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) diagnostic manual approved o...