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China starts first national oil reserve base
2019-04-08BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- China said Wednesday its first national oil reserve base has been filled with crude oil, one day after it announced the setting up of a national oil reserve center. Locate...
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Opposition Grand National Party (GNP) presidential candidate Lee Myung-Bak gestures to supporters.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)The presidential elections was kicked off in South Korea nationwide at 6 a.m. Wednes...
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S Korean presidential election begins
2019-04-08The presidential elections kicked off in South Korea nationwide at 6 a.m. Wednesday (2100 GMT Tuesday).A total of 13,178 polling stations nationwide will be opened to 37.65 million eligible voters fro...
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BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- China Investment Corp. (CIC), the nation's state-owned forex investment firm, said late Wednesday that it has agreed to invest 5 billion U.S. dollars in the No. 2 U.S. inv...
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BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese share prices closed sharply higher Wednesday with bargain hunting, ending two consecutive days of decline. Analysts said the rebound also came after a report that ...
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New Pentagon report touts progress in Iraq
2019-04-08A new report released here Tuesday by the Pentagon touted “across-the-board“ progress in Iraq, including “significant improvement“ in the security, economy, government services and political r...
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A passenger train packed with holiday travelers derailed in southern Pakistan early Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and injuring many others, according to local media.The train was traveling fro...
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Corp. (GM) Tuesday announced a price adjustment on most of its 2008 model year vehicles to partially recover increasing steel and commodity costs. The price...
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The United States is seeing a sharp increase of online shopping for this holiday season, an Internet information provider said Tuesday. ComScore, a leader in measuring the...
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This handout picture, released by the Japanese Defence Ministry, shows a Japanese Maritime Defence Force's destroyer Kongo launching a missile off Hawaii, in the Pacific Ocean. A Standard Missile 3 (S...