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Italy to withdraw troops from Iraq in June
Italy will withdraw 1,000 troops from Iraq by June and the rest of the contingent will come home by the end of the year, Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino said on Thursday.
Speaking to a joint meeting of Italian Senate and Lower House foreign committees, Martino said Italy's mission in Iraq will be "definitely accomplished" by the end of 2006.
Italy, which did not take part in the U.S.-led war on Iraq, currently has the fourth largest contingent serving there after the United States, Britain and South Korea.
Martino confirmed that after a drop from 3,200 to 2,900 troops in September, there would be a further reduction this month to 2,600.
He has said repeatedly that the Italian contingent's mission now consists mainly of training and equipping the Iraqi security forces.
The Italian government said recently that Italians had helped the local population with "500 concrete operations" and also trained 10,000 Iraqi police and soldiers.
S. Korea begins probe into stem cell funding
www.chinaview.cn 2006-01-16 14:26:09
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- South Korea's Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) on Monday started its investigation on the spending of state funding by the discredit stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk's research team
The investigation came about one week after the Seoul National University (SNU) concluded Hwang's two papers published by U.S.-based journal of Science were faked.
In a news release, the BAI said its probing priorities are determination of whether the funding was made transparently and whether the government's system to evaluate the results of state-funded research worked normally.
The audit authorities also said it will summon key figures involving in the case and inspect eight government ministries as well as state-funded organizations to find out whether the financial funds were given to Hwang's team properly.
The BAI probe coincides with the prosecution's investigation over the fabrication of two papers on the stem cells by Hwang's team.
A special investigation team was already formed by the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office last Wednesday to conduct investigation over the scandal.
The BAI said it will inform the prosecution team of any criminal charges, such as fraud and embezzlement, against Hwang.
According to the latest tally released by the BAI, Hwang's team received 41.7 billion won (42 million U.S. dollars) and 4.3 billion won (4.4 million dollars) in state and civilian funding, respectively, for its research activities from 1995 through 2005.
Hwang, once dubbed the "pride of South Korea," was stripped of his official title of "Top Scientist" last week by the government due to the fabrication of the two papers.
Moreover, in the wake of the conclusion made by the SNU, journal Science also formally retracted the two papers, published respectively in 2004 and 2005, last week.
Hwang, 52, became globally famous in 2004 when he said he created a human embryo with cloning technology and derived stem cells from the embryo. In 2005, he reported that he created 11 tailored lines of stem cells from patients.
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BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Any news about TD-SCDMA is eye-catching on the eve of the launching of the third generation mobile communication (3G) market.
China's major telecom equipment manufacturer ZTE has obtained the contract to build a test network in Romania based on homegrown standard TD-SCDMA, said sources with the company.
If the network is successful, Romania would adopt TD-SCDMA, which would in return push forward the technology's progress in Europe," said Yang Hua, secretary-general of TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance.
Mixed opinions have accompanied TD-SCDMA from the day it was born. Despite a test result reported to be "satisfactory" by the concerned departments, the technology failed to convince overseas partners, or even local telecom operators.
Due to its late start, TD-SCDMA is in an unfavorable position and has not been commercially used in China. The technology appears to be quite weak in competition against the other two international standards, WCDMA and CDMA2000, in the overseas market.
ZTE's breakthrough in Romania this time can be considered the first "test" of China's homegrown standard by foreign telecom operators and also the starting point for TD-SCDMA to go to the world, said analysts.
As the spokesman for the TD-SCDMA camp, Yang strongly supports the technology's development outside of China, saying that there is market opportunity for TD-SCDMA not only in underdeveloped countries.
"Due to a frequency spectrum limit, the United States could notcontinue to expand the use of CDMA2000 and chose TDD spectrum," said Li Shihe, who is considered father of China's third mobile communication.
In the TDD spectrum, TD-SCDMA is the most mature technology. "The US's adoption of TD-SCDMA would be the most important part of TD-SCDMA's overseas market," said Li.
"As FDD spectrum resources are so crowded, TDD will be adopted sooner or later," said Yang.
The International Telecom Union defined the TDD and FDD frequency spectrum independently. Among the 120 3G licenses issued globally, 101 pieces are within the TDD frequency spectrum.
However, as Europe, the U.S., Japan and the Republic of Korea all began to offer 3G services several years ago, it is doubtful whether TD-SCDMA can break into their market as a latecomer.
Japanese and Korean telecom officials said they are unlikely to introduce TD-SCDMA because the investment based on the other two technologies is already large scale. As the application matures, new standards are hard to cut in, they said.
Japan and the ROK both have their own 3G models and it is of little possibility for them to adopt TD-SCDMA, said Zhou Huan, board director of Datang Telecom, a major developer of TD-SCDMA.
Zhou Huan said 3G development in the U.S. is limited by frequency spectrum resources, but it still has other options. Whether it would choose TD-SCDMA depends on the technology's commercial use status in China, Zhou said.
China's 1.3 billion population makes the country the world's largest mobile communication market. Based on the confidence, the Chinese government proposed its own standard to compete against CDMA2000 and WCDMA.
The TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance has grown from the original 8 domestic telecom companies in 2002 to 21 members with world leading companies in the field all included.
Even if TD-SCDMA does not enter the international market and is only developed domestically with policy support, multinational companies will not give up investment in the standard, said experts.
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BEIJING, Sept. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- As the 3G (third generation) mobile communication technology matures, China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) will host a "Beyond 3G" international conference on October 18 in Shanghai.
Officials, research staff and companies in the industry will come from the three nations to discuss future mobile communication technology, including technology standards, frequency spectrum and market demand.
"The next five years will be a crucial period for the formation of a Beyond 3G standard and the technology is expected to be commercialized in 2015," said Cao Shumin, vice-president of the Telecom Research Academy under the Ministry of Information Industry.
Headed by the International Telecom Union, the concerned countries have reached an agreement on the future development of "Beyond 3G". Its frequency spectrum will be set at the world wireless conference, to be held in 2007.
China, which began to study beyond 3G technology in 2001, has made breakthroughs in key areas.
According to the present research, new technologies could realize a transmission speed 5-10 times faster than under the 3G technology, said You Xiaohu, director of National Mobile Communication Research Laboratory.
At the end of this year or early next year, he noted, China will set up a test bed for Beyond 3G in Shanghai and will offer wireless transmission with a speed between 100 Mbps and 1G by 2010.
When talking of the relationship between Beyond 3G and 3G, Cao said the research and implementation of B3G will not affect 3G's application.
3G is maturing in China and will play a dominant role in the mobile communication market for a long time, Cao said.
She said that beyond 3G has just been proposed and remains at the stage of research.
A forum organization on future mobile communication will be setup in October in China. "The forum will do away with misunderstanding between Beyond 3G and 3G while creating a good environment for joint research from concerned parties," Cao said.
The International Conference on Beyond 3G, launched in 2002, has been held for three years, respectively in Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo.
BEIJING, Sept. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese scientists have invented a tiny vehicle which can carry drugs in human blood vessels and unload drugs only at therapeutic targets.
Shi Jianlin, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Shanghai Institute of Silicate, led a research team to invent the nano-vehicle.
"The 200-nanometer-long vehicle can safely carry drugs and release them suspendedly at focuses targeted by physicians," Shi said, adding that unloaded nano-vehicles can go out of human bodies via alimentary canals.
"This method can reduce side effects as much as possible and make the curative effects of drugs into full play," Shi said.
Shi completed his sophisticated tests in his lab, delivering antiphlogistic and analgesic drugs and cancer curatives.
The invention was published by the American Chemical Society Journal and a German academic journal of Angew Chemical.
Shi said that one gram of drugs needs thousands of such vehicles for transportation.
The research team used layer-by-layer technique in a hollow mesoporous silica. Mesoporous materials are of great research interests for their potential applications as catalysts, absorbents, key components in chemical sensors and optical nanodevices.
The past decade has seen the fast development of nanocomposite materials from ordered mesoporous materials.
The size distribution and dispersion of nanomaterials, in addition to their dimension, are crucial for their performance, Shi said.
Angew Chemical rated Shi's achievement as a "very important paper."
Chinese scientists have achieved a lot in nanotechnology. Statistics showed that from January to August 2004, China was ranked first in academic papers in nanotechnology by the Scientific Citation Index.
China's energy production and consumption has become the focus of world attention. In 2004, China's net crude oil import was 117 million tons, accounting for 6.31 percent of the volume traded worldwide. China supplies 94 percent of the energy it needs and is only six percent dependent on overseas market.
Per capita primary energy consumption in China is 1.08 tons oil equivalent, about 66 percent of world average, which stands at 1.63 tons, 13.4 percent of America's 8.02 tons, 26.7 percent of Japan's 4.03 tons and 28.1 percent of Britain's 3.82 tons. China has a per capita installed capacity of 0.3 kilowatt, about 10 percent of America's three kilowatt. China's crude oil import makes up 6.31 percent of world trade and is 23 percent of America's import and 56 percent of Japan's.
Some people attribute the hike of international oil prices in 2004 to the growth of crude oil consumption in emerging countries like China and India. This opinion fails to truly reflect the situation of international energy markets.
China is a developing country. Its basic principle of energy development is to rely on domestic resources and make prioritizing saving and efficiency the prime task of its energy policy. China issued the Law on Conservation of Energy in 1997. From 1978 to 2004 China's 4.8 percent average annual growth of energy consumption sustained a 9.4 percent average annual economic growth. From 1990 to 2004, energy consumption for every ten thousand yuan of GDP in China has decreased by 45 percent.
China's energy consumption dependence on other countries is rather small and the world has no reason to overreact over China's energy consumption growth. Meanwhile the international community should respect China's right to development and the Chinese people's desire for getting rid of poverty and living a well-off civilized life. The development of China's economy and energy also brings great business opportunity to the world and becomes a driving force of world economy.
In light of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, China has studied out a medium and long-term plan for energy development. The plan can be summarized as: prioritizing energy saving with efficiency as foundation; diversified development with coal as basis; relying on domestic resources while exploring overseas; integrated planning of urban and rural areas as a whole and rationalizing structure; relying on science and technology and exploring new system; protecting environment and ensuring security. The medium and long-term plan stresses adjusting energy structure, accelerating development of nuclear power, renewable energies and vigorously developing hydropower.
The National People's Congress has adopted the Law on Renewable Energies, which provides legal guarantee for the development of renewable energy. According to the plan, China would increase the proportion of renewable energy in the primary energy consumption from current seven percent to 15 percent in 2020, substitute fossil energy by 400 million tons coal equivalent, reduce carbon dioxide discharge by one billion tons and sulfur dioxide discharge by more than seven million tons.
China would continue to stick to expanding the opening up policy in developing energy and ensuring energy security, strengthen energy cooperation with other countries. The solution to China's energy issue needs relying on domestic resources and expanding exchange and cooperation with other countries. The Chinese government is willing to strengthen and deepen dialogue and cooperation with other countries, international organizations and multinational companies in the energy area, on the principle of mutual benefit, win-win result, business operation, government coordination, broad cooperation, diversified development, sincerity and enhancing communication.
Source:peopledaily
PICC Property and Casualty Co. Ltd. was named the official insurance partner of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Thursday.
The largest non-life insurer in China, PICC P&C was the 10th company to join the elite club of the 2008 Olympic partners, following in the footsteps of Germany's automobile giant Volkswagen, Sinopec, PetroChina and Bank of China, etc.
"Based on our market research of the industries that potential sponsors come from, PICC P&C is possibly the last partner signed by the organizing committee," said Yuan Bin, marketing director of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG).
With less than three years remaining before the 2008 Olympics opens, it is also for the sake of the partners to give them as more time as possible to promote their brands, said Yuan.
"But there could be exceptions, because maybe some enterprises care about the period just before the Games or the 16 days during the Games period," she said.
According to the deal, PICC P&C will provide insurance protection and financial support for the 2008 Olympics and Paralympics, BOCOG, the Chinese Olympic Committee and the Chinese sports delegations to the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics and 2008 Olympics.
"Insurance, as a means of economic compensation, has always played an important role in ensuring the safe operation of an Olympic Games," said Wang Wei, BOCOG Executive Vice-President and Secretary General, at the signing ceremony.
"With the participation of PICC P&C, the Beijing 2008 Olympics will be safer and more insured," he added.
The Marketing Plan of the 2008 Olympic Games includes partnership, sponsorship, suppliership and licensing programs. Partnership, sponsorship and suppliership grant enterprises four-year exclusive marketing and promotion rights, while the licensing program authorize companies to produce and sell products with the official Olympic logo only after paying royalities to BOCOG.
BEIJING, Sept. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Day Four matches at the China Open ATP tournament have been cancelled due to continual rain, announced the organizing committee late on Thursday.
Ed Hardisty, the ATP superviser, told Xinhua that he had consulted with Ekkehard Rathgeber, the chief director of the Asiantennis event, and the Player Manager before deciding to cancel the matches.
The cancelation was announced after six hours away from the original kicking off time as a second round match between Chinese Wang Yu and Peter Wessels from the Netherlands had been scheduled to start 1300 local (0500 GMT).
Four matches on the Day Four schedule will be postponed to Friday with some players having to make their quarter-final encounters on the same day of racing past the second round.
Wang Yu, the sole home survivor in the men's singles last 16, has been bothered for the second time in two match days by unforeseen troubles of playing timetable as his first round clash against Luka Gregorc of Slovenia had been delayed for two hours because of raindrops wetting the court.
Other matches halted on Thursday pit seventh seed Mikhail Youzhny from Russia and Danai Udomchoke of Thailand, Japanese Toshihide Matsui and second-seeded Argentine Guillermo Coria, as well as top seed Rafael Nadal of Spain and Justin Gimelstob from the United States.
213 Chinese cities win honor of Excellent Tourism Cities
A total of 213 Chinese cities have won the name of Excellent Chinese Tourism Cities, about one third of China's total.
The newly-added seven cities which have reached the standard of excellent cities included Panjin from Liaoning Province, Xinxiang from Henan Province, Jingdezhen from Jiangxi Province, Meizhou and Maoming from Guangdong Province, Yibin and Ya'an from Sichuan Province.
The seven cities have made a good use of their tourism resources and paid great attention to their tourism design as well as displayed city attraction when competing for the excellent tourism cities.
Assessment of excellent tourism cities started in 1996. Another more than 100 cities are now hoping to win the honor.
Source: Xinhua
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