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Cop killer denied 2nd psychiatric test
2023-12-06Shanghai's high court rejected a request to give Yang Jia, the unemployed Beijing man who killed six Shanghai policemen and injured four others on...
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Stock markets soar after last week's rout
2023-12-06Global stock markets rebounded strongly yesterday after last week's historic sell-off as governments from Europe to Australia to the US intensifie...
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Farmers' income to be doubled
2023-12-06The nation has set a goal of doubling the per capita disposable income of rural residents by 2020 from the 2008 level, top decision-makers announced i...
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World on brink of 'financial meltdown'
2023-12-06The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the world's financial system was near a meltdown, amid France promising that a meeting of Eu...
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DPRK set to resume nuclear disablement
2023-12-06The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or the DPRK) said Sunday it would resume disabling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United ...
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Chinese scientists have worked out the first genome draft map of the giant panda to figure out exactly what makes the endangered species tick."By...
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France's Le Clezio wins Nobel in literature
2023-12-06France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday for works characterized by "poetic adventure and sensu...
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Targeting climate change in Himalayas
2023-12-06The Ministry of Science and Technology and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) jointly launched a three-year program yesterday to address ...
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Markets shrug off rate cuts
2023-12-06An emergency round of interest rate cuts and governments' support for ailing banks won only muted market support, as most bourses worldwide contin...
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China must use graphic picture warnings and expand health messages on cigarette packs to alert more people to the dangers of smoking, according to hea...