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The flight next year will see two astronauts orbit earth for five days, said China Daily.
Qiang Wei, the head of Beijing Olympic Security Co-ordination Group, said the 2008 Olympics security budget would be unveiled shortly
The police recovered drugs worth $120,000 from the gang, led by a 47-year-old woman named Tan Guiqin.
China's Lenovo Group won the crucial security clearance from the United States to acquire IBM's personal computer business, which was opposed by some American lawmakers, the state media reported on Wednesday.
China will reform its foreign exchange system in an orderly way and will not bend to pressure from the US to float the yuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan has asserted.
Four volunteers were injected with a SARS vaccine at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing on Saturday.
Global auto giant, General Motors Daewoo has sued a Chinese car-maker for allegedly copying the design of Matiz, one of its small car and is demanding a compensation of nearly $10 million.
Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian invited China's President Hu Jintao to visit the island, saying it would help clear misunderstandings.
The Stilwell Road, connecting China's Yunnan province to Myanmar and India, was built during World War II.
Some proposals by the archives division in east China's Zhejiang province are expected to set standards for the clothing, language and overall behaviour of female civil servants during working hours.
'People have been infected. They are responsible for it internationally.' 'They only admitted in February that it is infectious. This proves our case.'
'Open conflict would be a disaster for both China and India.'
Guangzhou, the provincial capital, which recorded temperatures above 38 degree only thrice between 1951 and 2003, has already witnessed mercury rising above 38 degrees three times in this month alone.
Chinese economy slowed down to 6.9 per cent last year.
Real Madrid's lacklustre show and the absence of David Beckham may have cost the team some of its fans in China.
The next manned space flight is scheduled for 2005 and will have more than one astronaut aboard.
Toxic waste from a copper plant in Liaoning province is suspected to have leaked into a well used by the locals.
Notwithstanding the high growth rate China is witnessing, the Communist nation is likely to set a gross domestic product target of less than eight per cent in 2005 to enable a soft landing.
Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, 50, and Chen Dong, 37, were blasted off into space by Shenzhou-11 (heavenly vessel) spacecraft.
China's economy is expected to grow 9.4 per cent this year and plummet to 8.9 per cent next year, a government think-tank has forecast.
Other structures which can be seen from space include the Pyramids of Egypt, airports, highways - and even Beijing's Third Ring Road, said China Daily.
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A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while a reading below 50 reflects contraction.
16 firefighters were among those injured in the fire, which gutted the market in Hunan province Tuesday.
16 athletes from nine sporting disciplines failed doping tests in 2003.
Some 445 people have been arrested and 1,125 websites shut down in China with the help of public tips since July, the ministry of public security said.
It was the first Chinese city to carry out the opening up policy in the late 1970s.
Xi will attend the second informal meeting with Modi at Mahabalipuram near Chennai from October 11 to 12 and pay a state visit to Nepal on October 13, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying announced on Wednesday.
China on Saturday said it is close to implementing a key bilateral trade arrangement with India to accord each other preferential tariffs on a range of products that would further boost booming trade ties.\n\n\n\n
Hao Lulu, who has begun to undergo six months of plastic surgery on her entire body, hopes her new looks will lead to a career in films.
China is willing to encourage Chinese companies to invest in Indian industrial parks to produce personal computers, Internet equipments, cell phones and televisions.
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