SOCHI, June 15 -- Group B heavyweightsSpainandPortugalwill kick off their World Cup campaigns here on Friday night. Xinhua takes a look at four key issues likely to dominate the agenda when the Iberian giants go toe-to-toe in the Fischt Stadium.
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HONG KONG, June 15 -- Hong Kong scientists have developed a robotic system that can perform brain surgeries within a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner to facilitate the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other neuropsychiatric disorders, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) said.
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CHICAGO, June 14 -- The University of Chicago (UChicago) on Thursday launched a test-optional admissions process to enhance the accessibility of its undergraduate college for first-generation and low-income students.
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By the end of April 2018, a total of 27.49 million passengers had traveled to and fromTibetusing the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest and longest line built on a plateau, China News Agency reported from Lhasa on Thursday.
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China will start a massive environmental overhaul on June 11 to ensure the effective curb of air pollution in key regions, said sources with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment Saturday.
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Over the last two days, 9.75 million students descended upon campuses across the country for what is the most important exam of their young lives – the gaokao. Unlike schools in the west, this one exam will define the student’s life, as their gaokao score will be the sole deciding factor for universities to determine if they’re worthy or not. Places in universities are sought after, and there’s stiff competition between classmates as only one in 20 students will get into a top university.
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Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) had arrived in Singapore, Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said Sunday in a message on Twitter.
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China's mobile phone shipments returned to growth in May, ending 14 straight months of decline, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.Altogether 37.8 million mobile phones were sold to dealers in the domestic market last month, up 1.2 percent year on year, according to a report released by the academy.Of the total, there were 36.1 million 4G mobile phones, up 1.7 percent from a year earlier.Smart phone shipments reached 36 million, up 1.7 percent and accounting for 95 percent of all shipments.
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The United Kingdom is not doing enough to respond to the Chinese ban on plastic waste imports, said British recyclers, and this could lead to more plastic polluting the world’s oceans.In January China stopped accepting certain types of plastic waste imports on environmental grounds. Heads of recycling companies in Britain are concerned that the UK is now redirecting exports to other countries in Asia that do not have the capacity to receive or process increased shipments.
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LIEGE, Belgium/BRUSSELS - Authorities sought to deflect questions on Wednesday over the furlough of a convicted criminal, known to have been radicalized in jail, who killed three people in the city of Liege.
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