• Chinese NGO explores new mode of AIDS prevention education

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  Imports of infant formula powder have more than tripled in the past five years after a series of food safety scandals involving domestically produced dairy products, according to China's top quality supervision authority.

• Infant formula imports skyrocket since scandals

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  Imports of infant formula powder have more than tripled in the past five years after a series of food safety scandals involving domestically produced dairy products, according to China's top quality supervision authority.

• Is Beijing really sinking?

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  Recently, some foreign media reported that excessive pumping of groundwater is causing the geology under Beijing to collapse, which has attracted wide attention. The Water Supplies Bureau of Beijing responded that the decline of groundwater levels has been slowed down currently and it is expected that starting from 2025, the underground water level of Beijing will gradually recover.

• Japan's attempts to hamper UNESCO listing of 'comfort women' set to backfire

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  JAKARTA - Japanese government's poor efforts to resolve "comfort women" issue will become a "boomerang" to its political position in the Asia Pacific region, an Indonesian expert told Xinhua in a recent interview.

• Arbitral court not best place for South China Sea dispute settlement: Croatian law expert

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  The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague was not a best place to resolve the dispute between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea, a Croatian law expert said.

• Calling it quits: Divorce rate jumps 6%

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  More than 3.84 million couples called their marriage off in China last year, a 5.6 percent increase from 2014, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Monday, the China News Service reported.

• Drug price reform will 'improve services'

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  China's top pricing regulator launched a new round of drug pricing and healthcare financing reform on Wednesday in the latest attempt to improve the nation's public healthcare system.

• Police investigate body found in demolished home

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  An autopsy is being carried out on a body found in the debris of a demolished home in Central China's Hunan province after an apparent dispute between the home owners and demolition crew.

• Companies embracing robotics for production efficiency, profit

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  In a humming factory in Foshan, Guangdong province, a machine is busy tailoring fabrics to custom designs. Within 18 seconds, a pair of jeans is done, outperforming humans who would take 30 minutes to an hour to do the same job.

• Chinese Twin Students Both Celebrate Offers from Oxford

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  A twin brother and sister from Beijing have both received offers from the University of Oxford, and will enter the prestigious institution later this year.