Beijing is ready for extend H1N1 vaccination program which will open to everyone who has a Beijing hukou.
On Friday, the health officials said that the program will begin on Nov 16.
The program means the capital is the first city in China who is going to inoculate all of its registered permanent residents, some 12 million people. Read more…
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Morgan Stanley, global financial services giant, is still trying to sell its entire holdings in China International Capital Corp (CICC), the country’s first and most profitable investment bank, confirmed by both the US-based financial advisor and CICC on Nov. 4, 2009.
Citing people familiar with the situation, the report in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday pointed that Morgan Stanley had asked potential buyers to submit indicative first-round bids for its 34.3 percent stake in CICC. Read more…
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Invitation for Bid
Date: November 4, 2009
Loan: 2428-PRC: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project
Contract No. and Title: 0701-092000030032: Xushui Wastewater Treatment Plant
Subproject: Procurement of the Goods and Related Services. Read more…
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According to several speakers at the First China Overseas Investment Fair on November 4, 2009, China’s tremendous overseas investment helps the global economy, especially the economies of developing countries to recover from the world’s financial crisis.
Chinese officials pressed for foreign countries to create a convenient and fair environment to make it easier for Chinese investors to continue to invest.
Comparing with the traditional big spenders, including the United States Read more…
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On November 3rd, 2009, the biggest universal search engine Google Inc launched a Chinese language voice search service, which expected to attract users from domestic rival Baidu Inc in the world’s largest mobile market.
The new service is aimed to help Chinese users use Google’s existing search services like Web search and Google Maps via cell phones.
Till now the Chinese version voice search provided by Google can only be used for Nokia’s S60 series, which includes 46 models of handsets. Read more…
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Nearly 3.8 million people in China have already been vaccinated to prevent the potentially fatal H1N1 influenza virus.
Comparing with the 390 million people within the country who are considered at high risk of the disease, the vaccine supply is limited, Liang Wannian, deputy director of the emergency response office of the Ministry of Health, said on Nov 1.
So far, almost 52.9 million doses of the vaccine, which produced by eight domestic manufacturers, have been approved by the top drug authority. According to the ministry’s plans, 65 million people will be inoculated by the end of the year.
Now total cases and fatalities are both increasing sharply, it considered as the pandemic peaked in the Read more…
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Invitation for Bids (IFB)
Agriculture Technology Transfer Project
Loan / credit number: 4773-CHA
Bid No.: 0620-0910N112B156
1. This Invitation for Bids follows the General Procurement Notice for this Project that appeared in Development Business, issue no. 664 of Oct. 16, 2005.
2. The People’s Republic of China has received a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development toward the cost of Agriculture Technology Transfer Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to Read more…
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That was an awesome Halloween, the time to get away from monotony and pressure of everyday work to embrace the fun recipes of Jack O’Lantern.
There is an old warehouse along Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, things here go bump at night, decapitated ghouls and Nosferatu float around in creepy darkness. It’s a night full of shrieks in a house full of hair-raising, heart-throbbing creatures and gadgets.
They call it “Shanghai Read more…
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