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A worker hammers the ground beside the bronze statue of Lin Zexu on the Lin Zexu Square under project of overall renovation, in the downtown of Fuzhou City, southeast China’s Fujian Province, Nov. 21, 2009.(Xinhua/Zheng Shuai)
 

A masked protester makes a point as more than 1,000 residents demonstrate outside the Guangzhou government building yesterday. The sign reads: “Oppose garbage burning, protect green Panyu.” China Daily
GUANGZHOU: More than 1,000 residents in this southern metropolis raised a stink yesterday over plans to build a massive garbage incinerator in the heart of the Pearl [...]

A newly report shows that the number of China鈥檚 scientific papers rose sharply, second only to U.S. in quantity, according to Reuters.
The report said that China has a noticeable improvement in scientific research and it may surpass the US in the coming 10 years.
The report said Chinese researchers had published 20,000 scientific papers in 1998 [...]

China’s largest biogas project, the 20,000 cubic meter Minhe biogas project in Shandong, has recently been successfully connected to the grid. This is the first Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project which has been registered in Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board, United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, with the annual revenue 6.3 million yuan.
It is [...]

Illinois’s Governor Pat Quinn signed a measure into law on Friday to capture additional money from the U.S. federal government to pay down the state’s massive backlog of health care bills.
The legislation is one piece of a larger package that the state hopes ultimately will bring in an additional 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in the [...]

Malaysia has approved a commercial bank license to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC), China’s largest commercial bank, the Malaysian central bank said here on Friday.
Bank Negara Malaysia, or Malaysia’s central bank, said in a statement issued here on Friday that the Malaysian Finance Ministry had approved the issuance of a commercial [...]

China’s top political advisor, Jia Qinglin, met with French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia Adolphe Colrat on Friday.
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Jia Qinglin(1st L), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, is welcomed by French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia Adolphe Colrat (C) and French Polynesia President Oscar [...]

The long-time announcer of the Los Angeles Clippers and his partner were suspended Friday for a game comments about Grizzlies Iranian center Hamed Haddadi during Wednesday’s telecast from Memphis.
Ralph Lawler, in his 31st season as the voice of the Clippers, and analyst Mike Smith were suspended by Fox Sports Prime Ticket for Friday’s game against [...]

Many Latin American countries on Friday launched different political, cultural, sports and entertainment activities to mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
At an official ceremony, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said her government has a policy of providing support for children from the poorest families, by offering them free [...]

Output value of China’s food industry is expected to grow 16.7 percent year on year, according to China National Food Industry Association (CNFIA).
Liu Zhi, CNFIA executive vice chairman, told the Seventh China Food Safety Annual Meeting held here on Saturday, that output value of the country’s food industry was expected to top 4.9 trillion yuan [...]