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BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — Xinhua Monday ran the full text of the Report on the Work of the Government delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao at the Third Session of the Eleventh National People’s Congress on March 5, 2010 and adopted on March 14, 2010.
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — After attending a 20-minute public hearing, Li Shuanglin, from Suzhou City of southeast Jiangsu Province, learned why his law suit to sue his friend over a property dispute was not accepted by the local district court.
The public hearing helped Li save more than 20,000 yuan in legal expenses. Instead of going through costly formal legal proceedings, Canglang District People’s Court helped Li to solve his problem through negotiation.
By Xinhua writer Yan Hao
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has launched a program to train talented high school students as pilots, military sources said Monday.
The Air Force had begun a special class in Baoding No. 1 High School, in Hebei Province, to train selected students, Wu Mou, director of the Air Force’s bureau responsible for pilot recruitment, told Xinhua.
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — China shut down or blocked more than 140,000 mobile WAP sites offering pornography for mobile phone users in a five-month crackdown, an official said Monday.
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — China is looking to change its economic development model away from one characterized by excessive dependence on exports, cheap labor and high energy consumption.
SHENYANG, March 15 (Xinhua) — Workers of the zoo where 13 Siberian tigers died over the last three months in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, finally got paid after an 18-month delay, said zoo workers.
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — China’s restaurant diners are entitled to refuse to pay charges for disinfected eating utensils, a lawyer with China Consumers’ Association (CAA) said Monday, World Consumer Rights Day.
by Xinhua writer Wang Aihua
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — After almost two decades on the Chinese mainland, Taiwan businessman Lee Rie-ho owns a well-known tea group that runs more than 1,000 outlets across the country.
However, his Ten Fu Group still only holds around 3 percent of the total mainland market. “The market here is amazingly large,” says Lee, 75.
CHENGDU, March 15 (Xinhua) — Mei Lan, a giant panda born in the United States, greeted the Chinese public Monday, almost 40 days after her arrival at a breeding base in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
SHANGHAI, March 15 (Xinhua) — Lawyers and legal advisors will be on hand at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai from May 1 to Oct. 31 to handle consumer complaints, the city’s consumers’ rights authority announced Monday.
HOHHOT, March 15 (Xinhua) — More than 100 workers are strengthening a section of embankment on the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as thawing ice raises the flood risk.
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — China’s anti-corruption chief He Guoqiang has urged cadres of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to refrain from abusing their authority for illicit gain and to win public trust through clean governance.
NANNING, March 15 (Xinhua) — Twelve of the 14 cities in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are affected by drought, the regional flood-control and drought relief authority announced Monday.
WUHAN, March 15 (Xinhua) — Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu Monday urged local governments to support spring ploughing so as to guarantee a good harvest for this year’s grain production.
FINANCE & BUSINESS
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — Chinese equities retreated Monday, driving the benchmark Shanghai stock index down below the psychologically-important 3,000-point level, on concerns over government moves to cool economic growth and squash inflation.
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — China’s Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang Monday called for stronger management of social security funds and more efforts to maintain and increase the value of the funds.
HANGZHOU, March 15 (Xinhua)– Chinese consumers are becoming more aware of their rights, as a recent joint complaint filed against U.S. computer giant Hewlett-Packard shows.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has received an official complaint filed by a lawyer representing 60 consumers, said an administration spokesman Sunday.
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) — Beijing police have detained a man and a woman over a mercury poisoning case wrongly blamed on a can of Sprite last year.
