China’s third unmanned space vehicle was successfully recovered in Inner Mongolia after orbiting the globe 108 times, China Daily said. A senior official of the country’s space programme told the newspaper that the Shenzhou III mission laid a solid basis for manned space flight and that, after further unmanned tests, China would send astronauts into […]
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Officials in Shenyang who refuse to work unless they are bribed will face penalties, the city mayor told local cadres in a speech reported by Liaoning Daily. The mayor, Chen Zhenggao, who was appointed after several former leaders were convicted on corruption charges, said that his anti-graft campaign had been so effective that officials who […]
Two separate outbreaks of protests by workers demanding unpaid salaries and welfare benefits occurred in southern China during April, according to the US-based group China Labor Watch. In Dongguan, Guangzhou province, workers sacked from a privately-owned toy plant swarmed into the factory compound to demand pay arrears. Around 10 of them were injured […]
The China Youth Development Foundation, which oversees Project Hope, said that it would hire international accounting firms to audit its books, Xinhua reported. The announcement followed recent allegations by former members of staff that the foundation, a charity that helps children from poverty-stricken families to obtain education, had misused donations. Project Hope said that it […]
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World Bank loan to fight TB
The World Bank has agreed to provide a US$104m loan to help China treat people suffering from infectious TB and to support the country’s National TB Control Programme. The UK Department for International Development is also giving China a US$41m grant to enable the money to be lent on to the provinces at a concessional […]