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Foreigners like China better after the Olympic Games but still hold negative views about some behaviors of Chinese, a new survey has shown.Foreigners&...
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Doctors and teachers may now face bribery charges if they receive monetary and other forms of reward in exchange for favors made through their work, t...
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Buddha 'relic' found in Nanjing
2023-12-06Archeologists on Saturday removed a 1,000-year-old miniature pagoda, believed to hold the top part of Buddha's skull, from an iron case found at a...
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Obama focuses on job creation
2023-12-06US president-elect Barack Obama turned his focus to the teetering US economy as he outlined a plan to create 2.5 million jobs, and transition official...
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Tax cut to attract more homebuyers
2023-12-06Homebuyers in Beijing will have their contract tax halved if the price is below a certain level from today.The Beijing municipal construction committe...
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In Somali pirate bases, business is booming
2023-12-06As dawn breaks over the Indian Ocean each morning, elders in Somali pirate bases sip strong coffee and clutch mobile phones to their ears, eager to he...
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Migrants bear brunt of crisis
2023-12-06To go home, or not to go home: that is the question for Huang Bingnan. The 31-year-old and his wife lost their jobs in a machinery factory in Dongguan...
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Jobs outlook turns grim
2023-12-06The already bleak employment situation may take a turn for the worse early next year as the global financial crisis takes a toll on the national econo...
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Service with smile - and scrambled English
2023-12-06"Wai Er Keng Mu!" Yang Tingting called out loudly to three foreigners making their way to her shoe shop in Lady Street, one of Beijing's...
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Researchers have sequenced the gene map of a long-extinct, mummified woolly mammoth, using DNA taken from its hair.The sequence shows that mammoths we...