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Tanzania's anti-poaching crusade received a boost when China donated 50 special vehicles worth 1.3 million U.S. dollars for patrolling in the East African nation's parks and game reserves.
The Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania handed over the vehicles to Tanzanian officials in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
The Chinese government also donated mountaineering jackets, tents, patrol generator sets and mobile radio phones.
The vehicles and other facilities will be distributed to national parks and game reserves across the country.
The support came days after a Chinese delegation visited Tanzania to enhance cooperation between the two countries and share experiences in the management of natural resources, including wildlife.
For the past three years, China had extended support amounting to 30 million U.S. dollars for wildlife protection in Tanzania.
Tanzania's elephant population has declined by 60 percent since 2009.
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Beijing police have detained six people in connection with a sex video taken in a Beijing fitting room that went viral online.
Police authorities said the six were detained on suspicion of spreading obscene content.
The police said one of the suspects, surnamed Sun, is a 19-year-old man from northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
Sun was suspected of posting the sex video at Weibo.com, a major micro blogging platform, while the other three were suspected of spreading obscene information.
The video, shot on a smartphone, shows a young Chinese couple having sex in a fitting room. The off-screen broadcast indicated it was taken in a Japanese apparel retailer, Uniqlo store, in Sanlitun, an upmarket shopping district in Beijing in mid-April.
The couple admitted having sent the video to some friend at Wechat, a mobile chatting app. But it was somehow hacked and posted on the web, drawing fierce criticism from web users.
The police are investigating the case. The couple will face punishment if they are found to have deliberately spread the footage.
China's criminal law stipulates that those disseminating obscene books, films, pictures and video clips could face up to two years' imprisonment, while those who make obscene products for profit could be sentenced to life.
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The police in eastern China have detained over 20 people in the latest crackdown on the production and online trading of fake drugs.
The public security authorities in Zhejiang Province seized at least 20,000 boxes of fake drugs and several tons of raw materials, in the crackdown that lasted for more than three months.
The drugs were sold in almost all of the provinces across China, with total economic gains reaching 100 million yuan, roughly 16 million U.S. dollars.
Among the best-sold fake drugs were slimming capsules and painkillers that contained banned ingredients. Most of the drugs were sold only at online stores on Wechat, China's most popular mobile messaging app.
The police said an increasing number of people complained of health problems after using the drugs.
Investigations found an illegal drug production and trading hierarchy that involved dozens of people working in Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces.
Further investigations are underway.
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The overall number of cases of adverse drug reactions last year remained on a par with the previous year, but those involving traditional Chinese medicine injections had a noted rise.
More than 1.3 million cases of adverse drug reaction were reported in total, a year-on-year increase of almost 1 percent. Injections accounted for 61 percent of the total, up 2 percentage points.
That's according to a report released by the China Food and Drug Administration, the public health watchdog. The annual report is a key reference for safety supervision over drugs on the market.
The report revealed that traditional Chinese Medicine injections were responsible for almost 130,000 drug reaction cases, up more than 5 percent from the previous year, marking the most significant increase across all types of drugs. Among them, 7 percent were severe cases.
Medical experts say that unlike drugs taken orally or applied on the skin, Traditional Chinese Medicine injections usually have more complicated ingredients and are used together with other drugs. Improper dosage or incorrect injection-speed are very likely to induce adverse effects.
The administration has urged hospitals to exercise caution when prescribing Traditional Chinese Medicine injections, the main cause of the increasing number of drug reaction cases.
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A man in central China has successfully had his severed hand restored to his arm after it was preserved by being grafted to his leg.
The patient, surnamed Zhou, is now able to slight move his injured fingers, but his surgeons say he still needs further rehabilitation.
This is the second such surgery performed by the team in a hospital in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province. The first such surgery took place in 2013.
Zhou lost his left hand in a work accident in another city. He was sent to a local hospital, and was told he needed an amputation. Then he was transferred to the hospital in the provincial capital, with better medical facilities.
Surgeons at the hospital could not reattach the hand straight away because the arm was badly hurt and the nerves and tendons needed time to heal.
The surgeons grafted the severed hand to the patient's ankle to ensure the blood supply and kept it alive there for more than a month, before they connected the hand and the limb in a 10-hour operation.
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A toddler in central Hunan Province has become the first person in the world to have her cranium successfully reconstructed, with the help of 3D printing technology.
The three-year-old girl suffered from hydrocephalus, a congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue.
The condition has left the child bedridden, as her neck cannot support her head, which has grown to four times its normal size.
Surgeons at a hospital in Changsha used 3D printing techniques to create a titanium cranium, based on a model of her head.
In a 17-hour operation, the surgeons removed a portion of her cranium, drained excess fluid and put the titanium mesh in place.
Doctors used an adult-sized cranium implant, allowing room for the toddler to grow.
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New evidence has been found in an archeological site in Beijing, suggesting that the ancestors of modern human beings were able to use fire more than 600,000 years ago.
The findings were announced after archeologists spent three years excavating the Zhou-kou-dian fossil site, in the western suburbs of Beijing.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a fire site with the remains of sintering soil, and burned rocks and bones.
Some animal bones at the site were entirely carbonized and had turned black, a result of burning. Some fire sites are encircled by rocks and lime, resulting from limestone burning.
Fossils of "Peking Man" were discovered in the same area in the 1920s. An almost intact skull earned the place the title of one of the birth places of humans.
Ashes, burned bones and rocks, as well as charred seeds were also found in 1929, which was taken as proof that "Peking Man" knew how to use fire.
However, there has been skepticism which claims that the burning may have been resulted from naturally occurring fire.
The researchers say the new evidence is more convincing, because it has been found under the earth untouched, without weather damage. It shows that the "Peking Man" knew how to keep kindling and control fire.
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Oxygen matters in the opening match of China's National Basketball League, the NBL, when players from the central plains had to inhale oxygen from time to time.
Members of Nanjing city's military team had to be substituted every minute and were forced to inhale oxygen once they sat at the sidelines. They were playing the local team in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, which lies at an altitude of 3,700 meters above sea level. The time of the game was cut short, from 12 minutes to 10 minutes for each period.
The local team won the match 53-32 in their NBL debut. Team Lhasa is the first ever professional basketball team in Tibet.
The NBL is a basketball league which operates parallel with the better known CBA, the Chinese Basketball Association, and is smaller in scale and has a shorter history. There are nine teams in the league for the 2015 season, while the CBA has 20 teams.
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A table-tennis table and two professional players have joined musicians on the stage in Shanghai, marking a bold move by American composer Andy Akiho.
The Ping Pong Concerto, which debuted at the closing ceremony of the Shanghai Music Festival, combined the rhythms of a bouncing ball with violin and percussion.
Akiho says the ping pong ball is a unique musical instrument and its bouncing is in perfect harmony with stringed instruments.
The New York-based composer said he has always wanted to combine the rhythms of sport and music.
Among the team members are U.S. table-tennis players Michael Landers and Ariel Hsing.
Hsing is an American of Chinese descent and began playing table-tennis at age seven. She says this was the first time she has played in a dress and high heels, instead of sportswear.
Instead of hitting for points, she was requested to play in tune and target the ball at the bass drum from time to time to create different sound effects.
The concerto is scheduled to be staged in Beijing this autumn.
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The Shanghai Disney Resort will feature attractions unseen in the five other Disney resorts worldwide when it opens next year.
According to a plan unveiled in Shanghai recently, new attractions will include those based on Marvel comics and Star Wars, and others inspired by the Chinese culture. They will distinguish the Shanghai resort from its peers in the United States, Europe and other parts of Asia.
The "Garden of the Twelve Friends" uses Disney and Pixar characters to recreate the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac; and a section inspired by the new "Pirates of the Caribbean" film will feature a live stunt show.
"Wandering Moon Teahouse" honors the restless, creative spirit of China's itinerant poets and the diverse and beautiful landscapes that inspired them. The "Restaurant" features authentic Chinese architecture, combined with miniature natural landscapes.
In addition, the resort will provide traditional Shanghai food including Shaomai, a steamed dim sum made of sticky rice, pork mince, Chinese mushrooms and onions, to cater to Chinese visitors.
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