Half of Chinese speak national language
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More than half of all Chinese surveyed by the Ministry of Education said they can speak to each other in the country's national language, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
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The Chinese government deploys almost half a million troops to help people hit by the worst snow in decades.
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China remained an attractive destination for foreign investors who poured in 43.6 billion dollars during the first eight months of the year, 18.8 percent more than the same period last year, the government said.
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President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s ( é³æ°´æ ) Double Ten National Day speech has received mixed reviews at home and abroad. In a diverse international community and a complex domestic environment, it is difficult
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Wikipedia said the Chinese government is permitting access to most of the Chinese-language version of its online encyclopedia.
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Half the 60 seats are chosen by popular vote, but the rest are decided by special interest groups that tend to support the Beijing-backed government.
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China's economy grew by 9.5 percent in the first three quarters of 2004 compared to the same period last year, China's National Bureau of Statistics announced.
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China is expected to have more than 600 million cell phone users by 2010, state media said Wednesday.  The Xinhua News Agency, citing the Ministry of Information Industry, said the number of users this year should reach 520 million.
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Latest statistics from the Ministry of Information Industry show that China exported more than four million Chinese-brand mobile phones from January to September, far exceeding last year&#39;s total of 2.06 million.
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Up to 75 percent of all urban Chinese suffer from ill health, and life expectancies are declining for skilled and educated workers as modern lifestyles exact a deadly toll, according to a study by the Chinese Red Cross.
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China is the only country in the world where suicides among women outnumber those of men, with rural suicides more common than those in the city, state media said on Tuesday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The government is pumping another &#36;750 million into official languages when internal polls show its vision of a bilingual Canada has its strongest support among 12-year-olds. The importance of bilingualism to one's sense of Canadian identity declines sharply after childhood, according to a federally commissioned survey that further frays the country's bilingual ideal.
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Children of Chinese origin are the best-performing ethnic group in England's education system, government statistics have shown.
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A Chinese survey shows up to 75 percent of the country&#39;s city-dwellers suffer from poor health, and well-educated people die 10 years earlier than others.
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Police in China, where most of the 1.3 billion people share just 100 surnames, are considering rules which would combine both parents' family names to prevent so much duplication, state media said on Tuesday.
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The Chinese Red Cross says its survey of 16 Chinese cities with populations over one (m) million found that 75 percent of Beijing residents were in poor health, along with 73 percent of those in Shanghai.
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The number of obese people in China doubled to 60 million people in the 10 years to 2002. China&#39;s first comprehensive national survey on diet, nutrition and diseases found that seven per cent of Chinese adults