China spends $146 bn on ecology in decade

October 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Almost 70 percent of female alligators chose to remain with their partner, often for many years, a new study has revealed. The 10-year-study was conducted by scientists from the Savannah River Ecology Lab (SREL) in North Carolina.

October 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - More than 421,000 people in China have the same name "Guoqing," which when translated means 'National Day', according to government data. The data released by the National Citizen Identity Information Center under the Ministry of Public Security showed that the capital Beijing alone saw 6,600 registrations under the name.

October 1st, 2009 LONDON - An average British person spends 30 hours online every week, according to a new survey. The study says 93 percent shop and 82 percent manage their finances using the Internet.

September 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - NIIT, a leading IT training company in India, has bagged five Chinese awards including the one for the Most Influential IT Training Brand in China for its efforts to create well-trained world-class professionals in that country. According to the IT training major, the awards were conferred by the Chinese Society of Educational Development Strategy (CSEDS), which is under China's ministry of education.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - A recent report on the 'Patterns of Higher Education Institutions in the UK' has found that students from China and India have played a major role in almost doubling the number of foreign students at UK universities in the last decade. According to figures from universities in the UK, some 2,29,640 students were recruited from outside the European Union in 2007, compared to 1,17,290 students in 1998.

August 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese man, who loves to stay naked in his balcony in summers, has attracted fury of his neighbours. His neighbours in Suining, Sichuan province have begun to pelt him with soybeans from slingshots, reports the China Daily.

July 27th, 2009 Pandas face uncertain future after China quakeBEIJING — About 35 pandas at a reserve in southwestern China face an uncertain future after nearly a quarter of their habitat was destroyed by last year's powerful earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people, according to a study published Monday. Large parts of Sichuan province — where most of the world's remaining wild pandas live — were devastated by the massive May 12 earthquake, which sent landslides crashing into river valleys and leaving 5 million homeless.

July 24th, 2009 DHAKA - China has expressed support for talks between Dhaka and New Delhi over the proposed construction of Tipaimukh dam in India's Manipur state. The Barak river, on which the dam is to be built, flows from China into India and then goes to Bangladesh.

July 1st, 2009 Washington state farmers sue to stop feedlot planYAKIMA, Wash. — A group of Washington state farmers have joined two environmental groups in filing a lawsuit to block a proposed feedlot from using a well that is exempt from requiring state permits to water up to 30,000 cattle.

June 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese ventriloquist has developed the skill to imitate the sounds of 50 different birds. Xu Mingfu, 53, who first learned ventriloquism five years ago in Beijing, likes to imitate birds and he is even trying to follow their eating habits, reports China Daily.

May 31st, 2009 Geithner says US wants closer ties with ChinaBEIJING — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says he wants to develop the same kind of close working relationship with China that the U.S.

May 26th, 2009 TORONTO - The next decade belongs to Indian and Chinese consumers, forecasts a new economic outlook report. Further, the US will see the return of inflation and stocks and resource prices will boom as Asian consumers splurge in the next decade, says the new economic outlook report by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) here Monday.

May 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Experts from both the United States and China are in agreement that the democratic systems followed in both countries are different, and therefore, neither country should tell the other what to do. "The US should not tell China what to do," the China Daily quoted Yawei Liu, director of the China Program of the Carter Center, as saying.

May 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Yamuna Bank metro extension, a gateway to the east Delhi metro lines, was opened to the public here Sunday amid anxious attempts by environmental activists to stop further construction as it caused 'irreparable damage to the ecology'. The Indraprastha to Yamuna Bank extension of phase II of the Delhi Metro was opened to commuters from 6 a.m.

March 31st, 2009 BEIJING - China declared Tuesday that it desired mutually beneficial cooperation with India and it posed no threat to New Delhi. 'The leaders of China and India have already reached consensus that the two countries will not pose a threat to each other,' Xinhua quoted foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang as telling reporters here.