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CHANGSHA, June 25 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese people generally love munching on chicken feet — fengzhao, as they are known — but Beijing-based editor Han Jing recently found the delicacy a little bit nauseating. Han had been a huge fan of the tasty snack until chicken feet became the center of a food scare. In China’s […]
Read MoreCHENGDU, June 25 (NsNewsWire) — Biologists have found a strain of duckweed that can effectively purify polluted water and transform nitric oxide into biological fertilizer, a researcher told Xinhua on Wednesday. A research team lead by Zhao Hai, with the Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, identified the duckweed species from […]
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BEIJING, June 24 (NsNewsWire) — Beijing is encouraging the public to express their views or proposals on the city’s development plan for 2016-2020 to make it more practical and scientific, said city planning officials. More than 17,000 people have participated in symposiums and 4,000 proposals have been received, according to the Beijing Municipal Development and […]
Read MoreBEIJING, June 24 (NsNewsWire) — Xinhua News Agency officially unveiled its global social media presence on Sunday, after rebranding its Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts under the unified name “New China.” From March 1, following a year of testing, Xinhua will share China and world news around the clock on its social media accounts, reports Xinhua. […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, June 24 (Xinhua) — China’s Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said Tuesday that the United States should take on more responsibilities to boost global economic recovery in accordance with its capacity as the world’s largest economy. “Currently China contributes about 30 percent of the global economic growth, while the United States contributes about 10 percent. […]
Read MoreBEIJING, June 23 (Xinhuanet) — China has unveiled its development plan for civil-use construction projects on its islands in the South China Sea. According to a statement released by the National Development and Reform Commission- China’s top economic and development planner- a batch of facilities for telecommunication, navigation, environmental monitoring, disaster relief, transportation and production, […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, June 23 (NsNewsWire) — The upcoming annual China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) in Washington, D.C., is expected to expand economic and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest economies, seek coordination in the international financial system and enhance overall bilateral relations more steadily, U.S. experts said. GLOBAL ECONOMY & MACRO-ECONOMIC POLICY Concerns about […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 22 (NsNewsWire) — The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) [an autonomous body under Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India] has issued a Notification inviting applications for Netaji Subhas – ICAR International Fellowships (ICAR-IFs) for the year 2015-16. 2. ICAR-IFs are available for pursuing doctoral degree […]
Read MorePakistanis cool off themselves in a canal during heat wave in eastern Pakistan’s Lahore on June 21, 2015. Xinhua photo
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