Government Updates
China shows recovery signs, US job loss slows
Improved manufacturing data from China on Wednesday suggested its downturn may be bottoming out and US employment figures were not quite as bad as forecast, but crisis-hit Russia's sovereign debt rating was cut.
Read moreChina to subsidize use of energy-efficient vehicles in public sector
China is to promote the use of energy-efficient and new-energy vehicles in public sector in 13 cities, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said here Monday.
Read moreChina's oil product use up 12% in 2008
China's oil product consumption rose 11.9 percent last year to 215 million tonnes, the China Petroleum and Chemical Association said Tuesday.
Read moreChina expresses mixed feelings over WTO ruling on IPR protection
China said Tuesday it "welcomed" a World Trade Organization verdict involving its dispute on intellectual property rights with the United States while "regretted" part of the ruling related to copyright.
Read moreChina orders immediate stop in use of death-causing diabetes drug
China's Ministry of Health issued an urgent notice Friday calling for medical institutions nationwide to immediately stop using a diabetes drug branded "TangZhi Ning Jiao Nang" after finding it killed patients.
Read moreChina passes new medical reform plan
China's State Council, or Cabinet, passed a long awaited medical reform plan which promised to spend 850 billion yuan (123 billion U.S. dollars) by 2011 to provide universal medical service to the country's 1.3 billion population.
Read moreAirbus to set up joint venture for A350 in NE China
The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has sealed a deal with European aircraft maker Airbus to build a factory in northeast China to jointly produce composite material parts and components for the new wide-body A350 aircraft.
Read moreChinese tourists in another U.S. bus crash
Another tourist group from Shanghai has been involved in a bus accident in the United States, just days after six Chinese tourists were killed in a bus crash in Arizona.
Read more7 Chinese tourists confirmed dead in bus crash near Las Vegas: official
Seven Chinese tourists have been killed in a tour bus accident near the Hoover Dam in Arizona, with at least seven others seriously injured, a spokesman of the Chinese Consulate here confirmed Saturday.
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