People's Daily: Life News
Spring Awakening leads Tony nominations
Nominations for the 2007 Tony awards were announced Tuesday, with Broadway hit musical Spring Wakening snatching 11 nominations.
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Chinese vice premier calls for progress on pilot medical insurance program for urban residents
China will push ahead with the experiment of basic medical insurance in cities to solve the health care problems of unemployed urban residents, Chinese vice premier Wu Yi said on Tuesday.
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Stallone pleads guilty of importing prohibited imports to Australia
Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone has pleaded guilty to importing and possessing prohibited imports in Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio reported Tuesday.
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"Spiderman 3" reaps 100 mln yuan in China, most profitable 2007 film so far
The American blockbuster "Spiderman 3" had reaped more than 100 million yuan on the Chinese mainland by Sunday, becoming the most lucrative movie in the Chinese market so far this year, according to the latest box office statistics.
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China to launch the urban life quality appraisal system
People in China have been giving growing attention to the social development and life quality in recent years. A subject under review named "the institution of an appraisal system with life quality as its guide" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) under the State Council, or the central government, had undergone experts' examinations and appraisals in Beijing on Sunday or May 13.
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27 European nations added to travel list of Chinese citizens
As of September 1st, citizens in China will be able to travel to 27 European countries in groups.
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East China hand-foot-mouth outbreak can be contained: experts
An outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease that killed a toddler in east China's Shandong Province can be contained if effective measures are maintained, according to a Chinese epidemiologist.
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Walking in countryside beats depression
A new study found that taking long walks in countryside could help alleviate symptoms of depression.
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Vietnam may reprocess bird flu medicine Tamiflu
Vietnam is extracting Oseltamivir phosphate, active agent of Tamiflu, to reprocess the bird flu medicine, according to local newspaper Youth on Tuesday.
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Miracle of life or a nuisance?
The decision to broadcast video footage of a woman giving birth by cesarean section in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan Province, has divided the public, according to the results of an on-line survey yesterday by sohu.com, a Web portal.
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China keen for copyright cooperation with famous foreign publishers
Many world-famous magazines, such as "Newsweek", "Elle" and "Marie Claire" now appear on newsstands on Chinese streets -- in Chinese.
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California pharma firm banks on Indian companies
California-based Gilead Sciences is hopeful of making its license agreements with 10 Indian companies for its HIV drugs, the model for marketing other drugs in future, national daily, The Hindu, reported in New Delhi Monday.
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4 die of dysentery, 40 fall ill in central Nepal
At least four persons have died of and over 40 are suffering from dysentery that has spread in some villages of Rautahat district in central Nepal in the past few days, The Himalayan Times reported on Monday.
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Safety net spreads for neglected youngsters
In early 2006, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, along with a dozen other relative departments, issued Suggestions of Strengthening the Work on Underage Homeless Wanderers, and Suggestions of Strengthening the Work to Help Orphans.
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"Spider-Man 3" tops box office despite huge fall
"Spider-Man 3" remained the No. 1 movie for a second weekend, even though it took a huge 60 percent drop from its record debut a week earlier, the film's distributor said on Sunday.
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U.S. okays first drug in skin patch for Parkinson's
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug in patch form to treat Parkinson's disease symptoms, according to media reports Monday.
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Cholesterol levels measure kids' heart disease risk
Researchers from Queens University in Ontario have begun to use cholesterol levels as a window to look at the long-term health consequences of kids' inactivity, media reports said Monday.
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Two die of mystery disease in Nepal
Two members of a family have died while seven others been in serious conditions due to an unidentified disease in Dhading District, some 50 km east of Kathmandu, website thehimalayantimes.com reported Sunday.
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China's children too busy for playtime
At the age of 12, Zhuzhu seems to have everything a child could dream for -- plenty of toys, beautiful clothes and even a piano.
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Additional bird flu outbreak reported in Vietnam
Vietnam's central Nghe An province, which detected an outbreak among fowls in early May, has faced a new one, a local veterinary official told Xinhua on Sunday.
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