Power Shortage Causes Blackouts Nationwide: Twenty-one Chinese provincial power grids have been obliged to impose blackouts since this January as a result of the surging demand for power caused by the cold winter and rapid economic growth.
China Launches Health Education Program to Reduce Chronic Diseases: China launched a massive health education program Friday in a bid to curb the fast increase of non-communicable diseases in the country. About 160 million Chinese suffer from hypertension. Meanwhile, more than 20 million Chinese have diabetes and about 200 million are overweight.
Post Office Set up in Antarctica: China resumed a post office at the Great Wall Station in Antarctica at 5 pm Beijing time on Friday. This is the first time in the past two decades that mail from China has been delivered to Antarctica. People can now send a letter or a post card to China's Antarctic Great Wall Station from any post office in Beijing and the Great Wall Post Office will send it back postmarked: China Antarctic Great Wall Station Post Office.
Iraq Insurgents Say They Have Freed 8 Chinese Hostages: Insurgents in Iraq said they released eight Chinese hostages on Saturday. A man with his face covered by a traditional checkered headdress shook hands with each of them before they walked off camera. The speaker on the tape said they were being released.
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