A total of 49 people are confirmed dead in the food poisoning case in a town near east China's Nanjing city.
Sources with the municipal government told CRI that most of the fatalities were children; two soldiers were also among the dead. The authorities have yet to announce an official death toll.
Initial investigations in Nanjing point to a commonly-used rat poison as the most likely cause of the incident on Saturday, which has caused an undetermined number of deaths.
Zhou Qiang, an information official with the Jiangsu provincial government, says the poison could have been deliberately put into the food by someone. Public security authorities are still looking into the case. Police were questioning the manager of a company that supplied food to the shop.
On Saturday morning, over 200 people - largely students and migrant workers - were poisoned after eating fried dough sticks, sesame cakes and glutinous rice in a restaurant in Tangshan Town. The victims are reported to be in a stable condition.
Local hospitals began treating the sick immediately after the accident occurred. The provincial and municipal governments demanded that every effort be made to save the victims.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says Iraq has agreed to re-admit UN arms inspectors unconditionally.
CNN reports that Annan has received a letter from Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri which says Iraq is ready to re-open the door to the weapons inspectors.
Annan will pass the letter to Bulgaria, the current chairman of the U.N. Security Council.
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A spokesman for German submarine maker, Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft, or HDW, has restated that the company has no plans to sell diesel-powered submarines to Taiwan.
Dr. Juergen Rohweder has told CRI that such exports are subject to approval from the German government.
He said despite a US investment group's acquisition of the shipyard HDW strictly adheres to national policy when it comes to the sale of its military hardware.
Rohweder called inaccurate a report in Taiwan's media that the Kiel-based shipyard is to manufacture the conventionally powered subs for sale to the Taiwan navy.
The German government has said it has no intention of allowing the sale of German submarines to Taiwan.
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China’s tax revenue amounted to more than 130 billion US dollars during the first eight months of this year.
Officials with the State Administration of Taxation say the figure represents a growth of 11 per cent over the same period last year.
They indicate that the rapid growth has laid a good foundation for the country's tax revenue target, which was set earlier this year.
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China's Ping'an Insurance Company has announced plans to build a 150-meter or over 490-foot high office building in the financial and trade center of Shanghai.
Ma Mingzhe, chief executive officer of the company, says it will invest about two billion yuan, or over 240 million US dollars in the project.
The CEO says the project is designed to enable Ping'an to become more competitive through giving full play to the geographic location and other advantages of the district.
The company is also planning Asia's biggest financial service platform in the district, which will include a telephone and computer center with 1,000 seats.
Ping'an Insurance Company is the second biggest insurance company in China. It's the country's first share-holding and national insurance company with overseas capital.
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The US's third-largest health insurer, Cigna Corporation, has won a license to offer life insurance services in China, according to the 21st Century Business Herald.
The New York-based underwriting firm received the permit last month.
Cigna will need to link up with a partner in the world's most populous nation within a year to be eligible to sell its policies in a market that grew 43 percent last year to 17 billion US dollars.
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On Wall Street, technology stocks fell on Monday on profit warnings and the threat of a second Gulf War, but blue chips rose as aerospace giant Boeing Company averted a strike by its largest union.
The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average closed up less than one per cent, at 8,380. The technology-packed Nasdaq Composite fell over one per cent, to 1,276.
European stock markets were mixed although the oil sector made gains.
London's FTSE-100-share index closed up nearly one per cent at 4,044. CAC 40 Index in Paris fell nearly half a per cent, to close at 3,142, and Frankfurt's DAX fell over one per cent, to 3,319.
The Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional government has announced that the Central Government has initiated an investment program that will see 11 billion US dollars go into the region over the next four years.
In addition, the government will help the region to realise more than 100 projects to help improve Tibet's infrastructure and people's living standards.
He says that the central government has also promised to approve any project that's in the interests of the Tibetan people.
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Chinese President Jiang Zemin says all countries should strengthen international exchanges and cooperation in agriculture, enjoy the fruits of technological progress and realize each country’s development.
Addressing an International Rice Congress, Jiang Zemin says Chinese scientists have cultivated a number of new strains of high-yield rice. Technological progress has played an important role in improving agricultural productive power and providing comprehensive benefits.
Jiang Zemin adds that China’s grain production has been increased from 200 million tons in the 1960’s to 500 million tons today.
The congress calls for continuous attention from Asia and the international community on rice production and promoting innovations on rice technique.
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The Chinese government plans to invest seven hundred and fifty million dollars in a hundred key universities.
The Education Ministry says the money will be used to enhance the quality of teaching and research, introduce key courses, and develop newly-emerging courses and interdisciplinary sciences.
In the last five years, the Chinese government and relevant sectors have poured over two billion dollars into improving academic facilities in one hundred key colleges including Tsinghua, Peking and Fudan University.
These schools have cultivated a large number of high-level talents and become major bases for innovation in scientific research.
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China has seen nearly seventy thousand cases where legal aid has been given, and twelve provincial administrative regions have issued rules regarding legal aid services in the first half of this year.
Legal aid refers to fees reduced or waived by the government for poor or disabled citizens.
Over 700 thousands of people have received assistance from the service.
1--Do you want black or white coffee?
2--White, please.
1--Look! There's a folk concert tomorrow evening.
Do you want to go?
2--I don't like folk music very much.
1--What kind of music do you like?
2--I like classical music. Do you?
1--Not very much. Classical music sends me to sleep.
2--I don't believe you.
1--It's true.
2--You are funny!
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注解：
1）black or white coffee：加糖或加牛奶的称作white
coffee.什么也不加的称作black coffee.
2）folk concert：民间音乐会。folk作“民间的”、
“具有民族传说的”解。如folk dance，folk music,
folk songs, folk tale等。
3）classical：经典的。如classical music, classical
literature等。
4）How about...?（你以为）...怎么样？征询对方的意见时
常用的句型。如，征询关于时间安排的意见时，可以说How
about tomorrow？征询活动内容时可以说How about playing
tennis now?征询人选意见可以说How about Jane?等
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