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More 80-plus seniors now getting subsidies

[img]http://www.people.com.cnhttp://english.peopledaily.com.cn/mediafile/pic/20110706/12/10430316795414879924.jpg[/img] Police officers present flowers and birthday gifts to 109-year-old Luo Wushi on Tuesday. Luo lives in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, and receives a monthly subsidy from the government. (Source: China Daily) In an attempt to improve the welfare of China\'s rapidly aging population, the government is now paying monthly subsidies to 8 million of the nation\'s...

Oil spill impacts

Judging from what we have heard from the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), the China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) may be correct in claiming that the scope and impacts of the spill at Penglai 19-3 oilfield in the Bohai Sea are incomparable with the notorious Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster, yet they appear much bigger than it claimed. A spill of 2,000 square meters, which is the size the CNOOC previously said, is in stark contrast with media reports of one that is \"3 kilometers long...

Hard-hit area battered by heavy rain and mudslides

[img]http://www.people.com.cnhttp://english.peopledaily.com.cn/mediafile/pic/20110706/28/4185710990275919892.jpg[/img] Part of a bridge in Yingxiu, Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, remains while another section has been washed out by mudslides triggered by torrential rain. Many people were trapped on the bridge on Monday. (Xinhua Photo) Rescuers have been battling to help people affected by mudslides brought about by intense rain in Yingxiu, Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, but...

Fudan dishes dirt on rival university

Fudan University has handed a dossier of dirty tricks by a rival Shanghai university to \"educational authorities,\" a spokesman announced on Shanghai Television on Monday. \"Fudan will leave it to the authorities to decide,\" Fudan spokesman Fang Ming said on Tuesday. The spat between the rival universities kicked off on Friday with an announcement on the official Fudan microblog on sina.com warning excellent out-of-town candidates against being duped by \"some Shanghai...

Woman who saved falling baby hailed, but child remains in comma

The woman whose efforts cushioned the fall of a two-year-old girl who plummeted 10 floors from an apartment has been hailed the \"most beautiful mother\" by China\'s netizens. The toddler, nicknamed Niu Niu, fell around midday Saturday after being left unattended at home in east China\'s Zhejiang Province. Thirty-one year old Wu Juping, herself the mother of a seven-month-old child, reached the falling child in time to break the toddler\'s fall, preventing the girl from hitting the ground at...

Police in central China hunting for two robbers

Police in east China\'s Nanjing city are pursuing two runaway suspects who allegedly robbed a woman of a huge amount of money, local police said Wednesday. The robbery happened at about 9 a.m. outside a branch of China Merchants Bank in Gulou district in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province. The female citizen, whose identity was not disclosed, was tailed and robbed by the two suspects after she withdrew 500,000 yuan (77,000 U.S. dollars) in cash from the bank, according to the police. The...

China\’s old-age subsidies benefits 8 mln people

Chinese Minister of Civil Affairs Li Liguo said Monday the country\'s old-age subsidies system has expanded to 14 provincial-level regions, benefitting 8 million citizens aged above 80. Last year only six provincial-level regions introduced the system, said Li, while addressing a civil affairs work meeting held in Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Li said the ministry will continue to push other provincial-level regions to establish such system, so as to better support...

China has 7.3 mln hectares of reserve farmland

China has 7.34 million hectares of \"reserve land\" that can be developed into arable land, the Ministry of Land and Resources said in a research report published Monday. The reserve land mainly lies in dry areas in the northern and western parts of the country, according to the report. But Yan Zhiyao, head of the arable land protection department of the ministry, said it would be a mistake for China to rely on large-scale development of the reserve land. China should improve the quality of...

Registration for charitable NGOs to become simplified: official

Charitable non-government organizations (NGOs) will have an easier time registering with Chinese municipal governments with the arrival of new regulations, an official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Wednesday. Charity and social welfare NGOs in Beijing, east China\'s Anhui Province and the southern city of Shenzhen will be able to directly register with civil affairs bureaus in those areas, the official said. Current regulations concerning NGO registration stipulate that social...

Coal mine fire traps at least 36 in E China

A coal mine fire that occurred Wednesday night left at least 36 people trapped underground in east China\'s Shandong Province, according to State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) early Thursday. An air compression device at a parking lot 225 meters underground caught fire around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, trapping 36 miners working in the area, according to initial investigation. The mine belongs to Zaozhuang Fangbei Coal Mine Co. Ltd. in Shangdong Province. An experts team headed by SAWS...