Life NewsUPDATED: 16:56, June 25, 2007 |
China's first national park, the Pudacuo National Park, was unveiled today in Yunnan Province's Shangrila. Cramped commuting, overpriced housing, shoddy workmanship, scorched parks, charmless high streets and outdated schools are a few of the things that make city life less than pleasant. Random violence, bad weather and Victorian trading hours make it hell. Thousands of people took to the streets in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, calling for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Malaysia's Health Ministry declared the country free of bird flu, the New Straits Times reported on Monday. Firefighters were still battling wildfire in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and at Lake Tahoe in California, which started Tuesday and Sunday respectively, U.S. media reported Sunday. - Universal's modern-day Noah comedy "Evan Almighty" swept the box office at North American theaters this weekend by selling about 32.1 million dollars worth of tickets, according to preliminary box office figures released Sunday. Seven dead birds discovered near two lakes in southern Germany tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, media reported Sunday. More than 8,500 people gathered downtown here on Sunday in a dance fiesta, setting a new record in the country. A Chinese hospital that performed the country's first face transplant has conducted a liver transplant without removing the original, which the hospital claims to be the first such surgery in the world. The number of bird flu patients in Indonesia has increased to 101, spokesperson for the Health Ministry Lily S Sulistyowati said in press release in Jakarta Sunday. The World Heritage Committee decided in Christchurch Sunday that improvements in the preservation of the Everglades National Park (Florida, U.S.) and R o Pltano Biosphere Reserve (Honduras) were sufficient to remove both UNESCO World Heritage sites from the List of World Heritage in Danger. As part of its efforts to improve medical services for the 2008 Olympics, Beijing will adopt a mobile phone positioning system that can give the exact location of people calling about a medical emergency. The China Social Development Forum, co-sponsored by the Party School of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Harvard University, concluded in Beijing Saturday. China's military medical academy announced on Friday that it would licence a British company to use the patent of its new anti-dementia drug based on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), opening up a new avenue to the international market for TCM products. There are many ways to set up a Confucius Institute and different types of sponsorship are welcome, an official with the Chinese Language Council International said in Beijing Saturday. A four-year-old girl from Indonesia's Riau province has been tested positive of bird flu but her condition is improving because of quick medical response, doctors said Saturday. The 31st World Heritage Committee's annual meeting started Saturday to consider and approve over 40 new World Heritage site nominations. The Indonesian government said Friday bird flu vaccine for human will be ready in July and mass vaccination was likely when a cluster case occurs. Hong Kong and Mainland Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen co- operation and exchanges in health and medical areas with an aim to raise the health care standard in both places. Paris Hilton, the 26-year-old heiress, who is set to be released from jail on June 25, said her "gratitude has gone up so much" since she's been behind bars and insisted she would emerge from jail a changed woman. More U.S. college students face obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and inactivity, according to a new study. The 2007 Style Hong Kong fair staged at Beijing's World Trade Center from Wednesday to Friday showcased the SAR's creative side. And it further demonstrated Hong Kong's global position as a melting pot of Eastern and Western elements set against a unique background. The mystery surrounding the end to fictional boy wizard Harry Potter's saga deepened on Wednesday with a computer hacker posting what he said were key plot details and a publisher warning the details could be fake. The years have been kind to Citizen Kane, including the last decade. The 1941 Orson Welles classic - the story of a wealthy young idealist transformed by scandal and vice into a regretful old recluse - was again rated the best movie ever on Wednesday by the American Film Institute. A blaze swept through a nursing home in Siberia yesterday, killing at least 10 people, officials said, the latest in a series of deadly fires in Russia, many of them caused by neglect of safety rules. An international fund and families of HIV-infected children in Libya have not yet agreed a financial package for them, a lawyer for foreign medics sentenced to death in the case said on Thursday. The parents of more than 400 missing children have posted a second joint letter online, urging authorities to step up their efforts to rescue slave workers across the country. Large-scale algae outbreaks are once again posing a threat to the drinking water supplies from Taihu and Chaohu lakes. With a bowling alley, a pub, a prison and a nuclear power plant just down the road, Springfield, Vermont, likes to think itself a real-life version of the home of The Simpsons. A three-year-old boy suffering from kidney failure received a part of his mother's kidney in the world's first half-kidney transplant, a Romanian surgeon said on Thursday. |
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