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A news exchange delegation visited People’s Daily on Thursday morning, headed by Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman Chiang Pin-kung. Zhang Yannong, president of People’s Daily warmly welcomed the delegation.
Zhang said news media is the bridge linking the mainland and Taiwan as well as a pioneer in promoting cross-Strait interaction.
For a long time, cross-Strait [...]

Tags: cooperation, Daily, increasing

A member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau on Friday pledged that the campaign against organized crime would continue until criminal gangs were eradicated.
Greater efforts should be made to uncover major criminal cases and try to change criminal zones into economically developed safe areas, said Zhou [...]

Tags: crime, economically

Wang finishes 2nd in 50km walk
Wang Hao, the silver medalist at the Berlin World Championships, failed to wrap up the men’s 50-kilometer walk gold on Monday by finishing second.
Zhao Chengliang of Yunnan staged a tenacious late run to cross the line first in 3 hours 40 minutes and 33 seconds.
Wang, 20, followed the winner in [...]

Tags: 105-kilogram, October 27

Hebei’s Li Yanxi broke the triple jump Asian record at the 11th Chinese National Games in Jinan on Monday.
Li jumped a distance of 17.59 meters in the early rounds, breaking the Asian record of 17.35 meters and refreshing the national record of 17.34 meters, both of which were set by Zou Zhenxian at the 3rd [...]

Tags: record, years later

China’s top political advisor Jia Qinglin on Friday said the non-public sector of economy should play a bigger role in countering the global financial crisis and maintaining a steady and relatively fast economic development.
Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), made the remarks during an awarding ceremony in [...]

Tags: development, financial, socialism

Foreign air force chiefs attending a Beijing forum Friday called for more cooperation and dialogue in maintaining airspace security.
They responded positively to Chinese President Hu Jintao’s pledge of peaceful exploitation of airspace and his call for cooperation while meeting with them before an international military forum on peace and development held to mark the 60th [...]

Tags: airspace, exploitation, separatism

In a statement, his family said: “We are immensely proud of James, the person he was and the job that he did.
“He was a true friend, loving son, grandson, brother and boyfriend, who will be dearly missed and never forgotten.”
His commanding officer in the counter-IED task force, Lt Col Gareth Bex, also paid tribute to [...]

Tags: leader'

A proposed system for selling off States-owned properties in Jersey is “unequal”, according to the scrutiny panel examining it.
The panel has been looking at the island’s social housing plan, which includes selling homes to tenants.
It has raised doubts about the valuation process and the selection of houses and tenants.
If approved, between 800 and 900 homes [...]

Tags: Fears

The first mobile phones to be loaded with Google’s Android software for mobile phones have gone on show.
About a dozen companies such as ARM, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm showed off prototype handsets at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The free software system was launched in November 2007 and is being developed by an [...]

Tags: make

The leaders of the DUP and SDLP have welcomed proposed emergency changes to MPs’ expenses.
They were proposed by speaker Michael Martin on Tuesday, after announcing he would quit over the row.
Party leaders agreed to proposals for a £1,250-a-month cap on rent and mortgage interest payments and a ban on “flipping” second homes in 2009/10.
Peter Robinson [...]

Tags: expenses