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Deng Qini was admitted to hospital with acute hepatic failure on April 22. Without an immediate liver transplant, she was likely to die within a week. The 21-year-old English major at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, from Zhanjiang city, was wheeled into surgery the following day to undergo a liver transplant but she died 16 [...]

With the authorization from the State Council, China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the People’s Bank of China and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange decided to bring in a new investment of 50 billion U.S. dollars under its Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) system and a new investment of 50 billion yuan from RMB Qualified [...]

A new round of price increases announced recently by major makers of cooking oil, milk powder and shampoo won't have a big impact on consumer inflation in China for several months to come, several economists said. "The increases will put pressure on prices in the second half of the year," said Wang Xiaru, an economics [...]

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has expressed gratitude to Iran for its successful rescue of a hijacked Chinese freighter and the 28 Chinese crew members on board. In a letter delivered Saturday to his Iranian counterpart Ali-Akbar Salehi, Yang said that China is ready to work with Iran to further promote the development of their [...]

Foreign ministers from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea vowed on Sunday to do their best to cool tensions as Pyongyang prepares a satellite launch. The move was welcomed by Chinese experts who said that the vow seemed to indicate that Tokyo and Seoul are unwilling to resort to military force in response to [...]