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A set of measures will be further strengthened to better manage foreign experts in China, according to the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. “Of the 540,000 foreign experts coming to China every year, the vast majority are high-quality talents with outstanding work records,” Xia Bing, director of the administration’s cultural and educational experts department, [...]

TAIWAN sent four coast guard and naval vessels to strengthen patrols in waters near the Philippines yesterday following public outrage over the shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards. “The government is determined to protect our fishermen,” government spokeswoman Cheng Li-wen said in a statement as a frigate and coast guard vessels set [...]

China is firmly opposed to any punitive duties set by the European Union targeting Chinese solar companies, and the government will defend the rights of domestic companies, a senior Chinese official said on Thursday. “China expects the EU to be cautious in taking any sort of measures,” said Yao Jian, a spokesman for the Ministry [...]

SHANGHAI police plan to establish an intercept system with telecommunications authorities to block fraudulent text messages to curb phone fraud cases in the city, the Shanghai Politics and Law Commission said yesterday. Telecom fraud has been a prominent problem in Shanghai and the country in recent years. Through the first three months of this year, [...]

 China saw fast increases in foreign trade with emerging economies and developing countries last year, shaping a better world trade layout, the country’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Thursday. The ministry’s data showed that foreign trade between China and emerging economies and developing countries took a larger share in 2012, 6.2 percentage points more [...]

CHINA’S consumer price index rose 2.4 percent in April from a year earlier, but analysts expect the figures to ease again as poultry and pork prices declined sharply amid the bird flu scare. The index gained from March’s 2.1 percent and was also higher than the market’s average expectation of 2.2 percent growth, data from [...]