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BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The average wholesale price of pork from Aug. 13 to 19 saw a week-on-week drop of 1.4 percent, according to the Ministry of Commerce. It was the second consecutive drop in...
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BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC) on Thursday reported a 61.4 percent year-on-year increase in its first-half profit after tax. For the Jan-June peri...
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Weighing up the value of students’ gratitude
2019-04-08Five needy college students in Central China's Hubei Province are being denied further financial aid because they never expressed their thanks to the benefactors who helped them pay their bills last y...
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’Good news travels fast’
2019-04-08Nowadays residents in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province don't need to worry being caught without an umbrella in public areas when rain starts falling. That's because the “Love and Care Umbrell...
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Stock index leaps over 5000 mark
2019-04-08An investor shows his open hand signalling five at a stock brokerage in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 23, 2007. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index surpassed the 5,000 mark for ...
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Stocks up despite interest rate rise
2019-04-08BEIJING, Aug. 23 --The Shanghai stock market edged up yesterday despite the unexpected announcement of an interest rate hike by the central bank late on Tuesday. The People's Bank of China raised the ...
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Forest fires rage in Greece, killing 37
2019-04-08Acar is burned on a roadin southern Peloponnese peninsula,Greece, Aug. 24, 2007.The number of people who have died in two violent fires raging in the Peloponnese has risen to 37, after the discovery o...
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41 killed as wildfires ravage Greece
2019-04-08A helicopter drops water on a fire at Mount Taygete in the Peloponnese in southern Greece, 24 Aug. 2007. Forty-one people were killed and an undetermined number of people missing in ...
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U.S. troops kill at least 10 in N Baghdad
2019-04-08Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq A man grieves after a relative was killed during clashes between U.S. forces and suspected insurgents in Baghdad's Shula distr...
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BEIJING, Aug. 23 -- Foreign food importers will be able to tell certified Chinese food products from fake ones thanks to a “CIQ“ mark that all legal food exports are required to carry on their pac...