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Suicide Becomes Fifth Killer to Chinese
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| China's first ever national survey on suicide revealed an annual suicide rate of 287,000. Suicides account for 3.6 percent of the total deaths in China each year, the fifth major killer, after cranial vascular disease, bronchitis, liver cancer and pneumonia. |
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Tycoon Yang Arrested on Suspicion of Criminal Activities
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| China will deal with the case of Yang Bin according to the country's laws, even though he holds a Dutch passport, Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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Migration Helps Reduce Poverty
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| Since 2001, about 418,000 people across China have shaken off poverty by relocating their lives to places with better natural conditions. They have not only solved the problems of food and clothing, but also found new ways to get rich. |
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Jiang Zemin Meets UN Under-secretary
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| China fully supports the work of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and will host the organization's 60th annual session in Shanghai in 2004, President Jiang Zemin said in Beijing Wednesday. |
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Chinese, Finnish Presidents Confer in Beijing
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| China regards Finland as a reliable and friendly partner, and they should continue to strengthen political consultation and cooperation at all levels, Chinese President Jiang Zemin said Tuesday at talks with visiting Finnish President Tarja Halonen. |
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South Korean Airport Has Responsibility for Air China Crash
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| South Korea's Kimhae Airport has inescapable responsibility for an Air China plane crash on April 15, although there were also problems with the Air China flight crew, said a chief Chinese investigator on Tuesday. |
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Tanker Collision Forms Bohai Sea Oil Spill
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| A collision between a Maltese oil tanker, the Tasman Sea, and a Chinese ship, the Shunkai No.1, Saturday morning, has contaminated the Bohai Sea off the coast of Tianjin in north China.
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US Destroyer Visits PLA Navy in Qingdao
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| The USS Paul F. Foster, a US Navy destroyer, arrived in Qingdao, an east China seaport city, Sunday for a five-day visit. The North China Sea Fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy held a ceremony welcoming the naval vessel, the first time a US military ship has docked in a mainland port since a mid-air collision between a US plane and a Chinese fighter off China's southern coast in April 2001. |
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Chinese Government Fully Supports Shanghai's Bid for World Expo 2010
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| The Chinese government will spare no effort in supporting Shanghai's bid to host the World Expo 2010 and provide extensive assistance in financing, human resources and customs clearance, says an editorial by the People's Daily on Monday. |
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First AIDS Patient Getting Married
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| An AIDS-infected Chinese female and her healthy fiance were approved for marriage recently, the first marriage between a healthy man and an AIDS-infected woman in China. |
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