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BEIJING - Lost in his Cadillac SLS on a foggy night on the outskirts of Chengdu, Sichuan province, a driver surnamed Cao desperately needed help finding his way home.
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China overtook Japan as the world's second-largest producer of manufacturing output, trailing behind only the United States, says a report released in Vienna on Wednesday by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

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The highly anticipated Beijing-Shanghai bullet train, with a speed of 218 mph, is expected to be put into use by 2012, said an official with the Railways Ministry, the Beijing News reported Friday.

"The high-speed train will not travel nonstop between Beijing and Shanghai. It will stop in Ji'nan, Hefei, Nanjing and Xuzhou," said Yang Shaoqing, deputy chief of the Ministry's Transportation Bureau.
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SINGAPORE - Investors should buy Asian stocks outside Japan after valuations dropped and before sentiment strengthens further, Goldman Sachs Group Inc said.

"By the time all the lights turn green, the race will already be well under way," Goldman Sachs analysts led by Timothy Moe wrote in a note on Thursday. "Sentiment and valuation will improve as the year progresses, and we would prefer to be early."
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Scientists have found the "mother," or origin, of all skin cells and say their discovery could dramatically improve skin treatments for victims of serious wounds and burns.

Hans Clevers and a team of Dutch and Swedish researchers conducted a study in mice and found that the stem cell that gives produces all the different cells of the skin actually lives in hair follicles.
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BEIJING - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday called for efforts toward balanced, coordinated and sustainable development in the transformation of its economic growth pattern.

Hu made the remarks when joining a panel discussion on Premier Wen Jiabao's government work report with deputies to the National People's Congress, the top legislature, from the eastern province of Jiangsu.
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One of the world's largest studies of the contraceptive pill has found that women who have taken it can expect longer lives and are less likely to die from any cause, including cancer and heart disease.

British researchers said their study, which should reassure many millions of women across the world who have taken oral birth control pills, found no link between the drugs and an increased long-term risk of dying sooner.
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BEIJING - State Oceanic Administration announced Thursday that nearly 147,000 square kilometers of China's sea was below the clean water standard in 2009, up 7.3 percent from the previous year.

The country's marine environment, particularly the coastal waters in Liaodong Bay, Bohai Bay, Hangzhou Bay, the mouths of the Yangtze River and Pearl River, was not good, according to the Administration's bulletin.
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Rural and urban citizens likely to have same proportion of deputies but clarity is needed on voting and vote-counting

As the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee and the National People's Congress (NPC) unveil their annual sessions, the public has again cast its spotlight on the long-anticipated amendment of the Law on Elections.
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China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology refuted that China has been involved in any negotiations with Google since the US search engine threatened on January 21 to pull back from the country.

"We have yet to have any direct contacts or negotiations with them on this topic," said Miao Wei, vice minister of the MIIT, at the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress.
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