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Later hotel check-out time gets mixed reception |
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Some city hotels have agreed to later check-out time from this week, while others are worried the practice may adversely affect arriving guests. |
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Newly employed in urban areas hit 7.57 mln |
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New employment positions filled in China's urban areas hit 7.57 million in the first eight months of 2009, Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security, said Wednesday. |
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Chinese VP underscores steady rural development |
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Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has urged more efforts to ensure grain production and improve rural livelihoods to ensure fast and steady rural development. |
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China to continue birth control policy: VP |
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Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang stressed Monday the importance of continuing the family-planning policy and keeping a low fertility rate in order to ensure economic development and people's livelihood. |
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CPC Central Committee to convene key plenary session in mid-Sept. |
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The Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is to be held from Sept. 15 to 18 this year, according to a statement issued Tuesday after a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. |
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China training police officers as helicopter pilots |
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Thirteen public security officers have entered a training camp at the Tianjin-based Civil Aviation University of China to learn to fly helicopters. |
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Central gov't to issue RMB treasury bonds in HK |
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China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Tuesday that it planned to issue 6 billion yuan (US$878.5 million) worth of Renminbi (RMB) treasury bonds in Hong Kong on Sept. 28. |
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China issues 1st warrant for A/H1N1 flu vaccination |
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China has issued its first warrant for mass inoculation with domestic A/H1N1 flu vaccine, the first country in the world to do so, Health Minister Chen Zhu said Tuesday. |
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China stresses A/H1N1 prevention, control |
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China vows to strengthen the prevention and control of the A/H1N1 flu virus in the run-up to the National Day celebrations, amid fears that the situation will worsen through autumn. |
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China puts US$146b on environment |
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China has spent nearly 1 trillion yuan (146 billion U.S. dollars) on ecological conservation and environmental protection over the past decade, a senior official told an international seminar on ecological compensation held Sunday in northwest China. |
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Wen calls on teachers to do a good job |
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Ahead of the 25th Teacher's Day which falls on September 10, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called on teachers across the country to enhance their teaching standards and do a good job. |
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China builds security 'moat' around capital |
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China will launch a project joined by seven municipalities, provinces and an autonomous region to build a security "moat" to keep its capital city safe during the People's Republic's 60th National Day celebrations. |
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China targets bribers in fight against corruption |
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China's judiciary agencies have extended focus of corruption targets to bribe givers, as prosecutors expanded a blacklist of bribers to all industries to uproot corruption. |
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Vice premier stresses coal mine supervision, work safety |
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Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang has said efforts should be made to improve work safety nationwide, in a move to create a stable work safety environment for the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China and relatively fast and steady economic development. |
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7.3 mln doses of A/H1N1 vaccine ordered for home use |
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The Chinese government Friday ordered 7.3 million doses of A(H1N1) flu vaccine from domestic pharmaceutical companies Sinovac and Hualan, the first firms to receive production licenses. |