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’Childrens do learn,’ Bush tells school kids
2019-04-08NEW YORK - Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, US President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: “Childrens do learn.“US President...
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Government shuts 253 small power units
2019-04-08BEIJING, Sept. 28 -- In the past eight months, China has shut down 253 small coal-fired generating units that were heavy energy consumers and emitters, and replaced them with high-efficiency generator...
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Foreign, private companies top output
2019-04-08BEIJING, Sept. 28 -- Foreign and private investors now contribute more than half of China's industrial output, the statistics bureau said yesterday.Relaxed ownership rules in the manufacturing sector ...
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YANGON, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar people and monks kept on staging demonstrations in the country's biggest city of Yangon Thursday afternoon, the second day after the imposition of a curfew and a b...
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The World Bank Group pledged on Thursday that it will contribute a record 3.5 billion dollars from its income to provide grants and credits for the world's poorest countries.The pledge, which will be ...
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Beckham rushes home to see sick dad
2019-04-08After touching down in London, David was driven directly to see his father in hospital [Daily Mail]Soccer ace David Beckham has jetted back to Britain from the U.S. to be by the side of his father who...
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When it comes to what pays on U.S. television, talk doesn't come cheap -- nor apparently does a loud mouth.Financial magazine Forbes on Thursday published a list of the highest-paid TV celebrities, wi...
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Pedestrians walk past the NASDAQ Market site in Times Square in New York Sept. 20, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)Photo Gallery>>>BEIJING, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Following the New ...
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China Enterprises Index gains 2.24%
2019-04-08HONG KONG, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index went up 373.45 points, or 2.24 percent, to close Friday's trading at 17,017.94. The H-shares index, initiated in August 1994 and r...
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An injured victim of a collapsed bridge receives treatment at the 121 military hospital in Vietnam's Mekong Delta's Can Tho city September 27, 2007. Rescue workers found eight more bodies on Thursday ...