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This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.
China is offering a further 200 million yuan package, around 33 million U.S. dollars of humanitarian aid to African countries and international organizations to help control Ebola.
The aid includes food, supplies for disease control, emergency treatment facilities, and capital support.
China will also promote long-term medical cooperation with African countries, to help them raise their disease control and response abilities and improve public health systems.
So far, more than 4,000 cases of Ebola have been reported, resulting in more than 2,000 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
China offered humanitarian aid of 30 million yuan last month.
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A chartered flight took off early Sunday morning with 169 Russian tourists on board who were stranded in southern China after their tourism agency went bankrupt.
A total of 740 tourists from Russia were stranded on China's island province of Hainan after their Russian tourism agency, South Cross, declared bankruptcy during their trips in China.
Hainan has negotiated with Russian airlines to dispatch two aircraft to take about 600 stranded tourists back home. More efforts are under way to return the remaining 100 tourists.
Hainan has offered help to ensure their journey back to Russia, and 22 hotels in the province have accommodated the stranded tourists.
Translators, transportation, food and hotel rooms are being provided free of charge after the fees were left unpaid by the Russian agency.
Russia has been the top source of foreign tourists to Hainan for the past few years. Last year, Russian travelers made 125,000 visits to the province.
With its warm climate and beautiful coast, Hainan has been devoted to making the island province a world-class tourist destination by 2020.
You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
September 14th marked the 27th anniversary of the first email ever sent from China.
On September 14th, 1987, a computer company in Beijing sent an email that said, "Across the Great Wall, we can reach every corner of the world". The message was sent to a German university.
Twenty-seven years later, China is home to more than 600 million Internet users, the largest online population in the world.
To mark the occasion, the Internet Society of China said that the Internet is widely used in the fields of politics, economy, culture, medician and education, and its influence is far-reaching.
The Society called on Internet users to take responsibility and jointly work for the healthy development of the web.
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Taking a cue from an American TV program, the city of Chongqing in southwestern China has created a smartphone sidewalk lane, offering a path for those too engrossed in messaging and tweeting to watch where they're going.
But the property manager says it's intended to be ironic - to remind people that it's dangerous to tweet while walking on the street.
Nong Cheng is an official with the local company which manages the area in the city's entertainment zone. Nong divided a 50-meter-long stretch of pavement into two lanes: one that prohibits cellphone use next to the one that allows pedestrians to use them - at their "own risk".
She got the idea after watching a television program featuring a similar stretch of pavement in Washington D.C. in the United States. The pavement was created by the National Geographic Television Channel in July as part of a behavior experiment.
But Nong says that pedestrians in Chongqing are not taking the new lane seriously, and many are just snapping pictures of the signs and pavement.
She says those using their cellphones have not heeded the markings on the pavement, because they simply did not notice them.
You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
Apple had more than 4 million advance orders for its new, larger iPhones in the first 24 hours, exceeding its initial supply.
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have been delivered to customers since Friday and throughout September. Phones are still available on a walk-in basis at Apple retail stores and from various wireless carriers and authorized Apple resellers.
Apple's website had intermittent outages a week ago because of heavy traffic as orders began online. Apple said the 4 million orders set a new 24-hour record, beating the 2 million orders in 2012. That was for the iPhone 5, the previous time Apple increased the iPhone's screen size.
Last year, Apple sold 9 million iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in the first three days they were on sale.
The iPhone 5, 5s and 5c have screens measuring 4 inches diagonally, while the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have 4.7-inche and 5.5-inche screens respectively.
Besides larger screens, the new phones offer faster performance and a wireless chip for making credit card payments at retail stores by holding the phone near the payment terminal.
The phones start at 199 dollars with a two-year service contract.
