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China holds largest exercise of oil spill control |
| QINHUANGDAO, Hebei -- Chinese emergency services carried out their largest ever exercise on Tuesday to tackle an oil spill in the Bohai Sea to test their ability to protect the ocean environment. |
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Environmentalists praise new plan
Environmentalists marked World Environment Day yesterday by praising the new National Action Plan on Climate Change, describing it as an active way to mitigate global warming. |
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Central bank mulls monetary policy
The central bank might consider using monetary policy to cope with the recent surge in food prices and maintain the stability of the currency, central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said yesterday. |
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China's Ping An eyes financials, infrastructure
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. , China's second-largest life insurer, plans to broaden its overseas investment portfolio into the foreign financial sector and overseas infrastructure, once it gets approval from Beijing, a top executive said on Friday. |
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Nokia to ship 3G phones to China in 2008
HELSINKI - The world's top cell phone maker Nokia expects to start selling phones for China's 3G mobile technology TD-SCDMA in the first half of next year, when the network is up and running, a company official said. |
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Food recall system to be set up
China will release the country's first regulation on food recall by the end of this year as part of efforts to improve food safety, a senior official has said. |
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Zhou: China to increase yuan flexibility
People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, under pressure from American officials and lawmakers to reduce his country's record trade surplus, said China plans to further increase flexibility in the yuan's exchange rate. |
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