日期:2009-06-12 More middle school students are undergoing cosmetic surgery this summer vacation. But such procedures are extremely inadvisable, experts said, because these youngsters are still growing, the local Nanfang Daily reported yesterday. Young adults under... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 China opposes any activities that violate its sovereignty and jurisdiction over the South China Sea, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said yesterday. He made the remarks at a regular press briefing after being asked to comment on the oil expl... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Singapore is considering legalizing kidney trading to help meet demand for kidney transplants, the city-state's health minister said yesterday. The Health Ministry will examine the feasibility of providing payments to unrelated donors to augment the... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 British athletes and officials should seize the opportunity of staying in the Olympic Village to gorge on Peking Duck. For back in the UK the dish could be off restaurants' menu owing to a European Union (EU) ban on the ovens traditionally used to m... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Two persons were killed and 14 injured when explosions ripped through two buses an hour apart on a busy Kunming street in Yunnan province Monday morning. The first blast went off at 7:05 am on a bus on route 54, killing one passenger and injuring 10... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Nepal's lawmakers picked the country's first president yesterday, rejecting a candidate backed by former Maoist rebels in a move that could plunge the Himalayan nation's nascent republic into more political turmoil. Ram Baran Yadav, an ethnic Madhes... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed 19 people and injured another eight, while six remain missing after the typhoon started lashing Taiwan last Thursday, an official from the island's fire agency said yesterday. Most of the deaths occurred at the central an... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 An immediate surprise for new arrivals at the Beijing Capital International Airport comes this week. They're being met by robotic versions of the Olympic mascots, the Fuwas, who answer questions in many different languages and added to the space-age... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Russia will soon return 174 sq km of territory on the northeast border to China, ending more than 40 years of negotiations. The two countries will sign an agreement to this effect during Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's two-day visit to Beij... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Beijing yesterday inched a step closer to realizing a green Olympics by enforcing a series of measures to ease traffic jams and reduce pollution. Vehicles with even and odd plates are hitting the roads on alternate days, which effectively means just... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Tang Lei has been busy during the first half of the year, but he is able to find time to enjoy his achievements as the leading salesman in his company, New Beijing Star Automobile Service Co Ltd, a Mercedes-Benz dealer. I sold almost 60 Benz vehicle... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 In a shock move, the China Football Association (CFA) yesterday sacked Ratomir Dujkovic, the once highly regarded men's Olympic soccer coach, just three weeks before the opening match of the Beijing Games. CFA vice-president Xie Yalong announced the... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 A Beijing man on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the city's municipal public security bureau for refusing to tell him how the money he paid every year to register his dogs was spent, the Beijing News reported yesterday. Chen Yuhua, a 65-year-old r... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Li Hao, a high school graduate from Wenchuan, risked his life to save others during the quake, and almost won an honorary title that would have secured him a college place. But due to an administrative mix-up, it was not Li Hao, but a little-known t... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Yang Jinggui, a teacher at Wudian Middle School, Anhui province, was ordered to pay 100,000 yuan in compensation to the family of a student who died in a fight with another student. Wuhan Morning Post reported Yang was found to be responsible for no... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Children had the time of their life with President Hu Jintao at Zhongnanhai compound yesterday. As the 88 students from the quake-hit provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu crowded around Hu, he approached one. She glanced up and said: Do you still... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 Eleven police officers, including deputy chief of the Shenyang public security bureau, have been prosecuted for acting as protection umbrellas for three major gangs in Liaoning province, Beijing News reported yesterday. One case, involving gang lead... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 A woman from Trinidad who lied to adopt 11 disabled children, whom authorities say she abused while she raked in more than $1 million in subsidies, was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly 11 years in prison. US District Judge Richard M. Berman said Judit... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 The chance of rain during the opening ceremony is slimmer than reported earlier, but thunderstorms, high temperatures and muggy skies still pose a threat to the Beijing Olympics. An analysis of weather data from 1975 to 2007 from the Haidian distric... 阅读全文>> 日期:2009-06-12 The central government has asked all county heads to try to redress residents' grievances and help solve their problems. The unprecedented move is in response to recent public protests and shows the central leadership is paying more attention to pub... 阅读全文>> |
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