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SEPA has instituted a “green insurance system.” What’s so "green" about industrial accident insurance? In fact, this insurance product could, perversely, lead to less corporate focus on environmental compliance in China.

Wild China, the joint venture between the BBC and CCTV aired earlier this evening on BBC 2, and it was spectacular!

The draft of the social insurance law was discussed by the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress, China’s top legislature at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on December 22. One of the provisions in the proposed law is for the state to establish a standard social security number system nationwide using each citizen's current identification card number.

British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China's appalling human rights record – or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.

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Benda Pharmaceutical Capitalizes on Accelerated Healthcare Spending in China and Growing Opportunities for Gendicine® Cancer Treatment

BEIJING, China (Al'Reuters) -- China and Russia plan to launch a joint mission to Mars in 2009 to scoop up rocks from the red planet and one of its moons, a Chinese scientist said on Wednesday.

China and India held their joint military exercises, on December 6-12, in Belgium district, then their second Annual Defence Dialogue (ADD) in New Delhi on December 15.

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China set two more ambitious goals for its space program this week, announcing it will launch an unmanned lunar orbiter in the second half of 2007 and a probe to Mars by 2009, according to reports from the Xinhua news agency.

The lunar orbiter, scheduled to launch later this year, will take 3-D images of the moon's surface. If successful, it will pave the way for a lunar landing mission, Xinhua quoted National Space Administration director Sun Laiyan as saying Sunday in a speech at Beijing Jiaotong University.