Music Festival Ambassador
Lu Siqing, a renowned Chinese violinist, is chosen as ambassador for the annual May Music Festival at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing
To the West
China plans to recruit 17,000 college graduates to live and work in the country's western regions in 2012
Stricter Customs
China plans to impose harsher punishments on customs officials who are found to breach the customs rules
Occupational Diseases
The Ministry of Health will upgrade its service network for the prevention and treatment of occupational diseases in line with a newly amended law
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"The Huangyan Island is an integral part of Chinese territory. There is no basis for the Philippines' claim to the island and China cannot accept this claim."

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying, lodging a complaint over the harassment of Chinese fishermen by a Philippine naval ship near the Huangyan Island in the South China Sea with the charge d'affaires of the Philippine Embassy in China in Beijing on April 18

"Nobody has written down completely the changes Tibet has experienced in the past half a century. We are enjoying religious freedom. Our lives have been greatly improved. I want to tell readers our true feelings."

Tibetan writer Cering Norbu, speaking about his new book on Tibet's changes since the 1959 democratic reform at the London Book Fair on April 17

"China has done a lot to help ease disagreements between Sudan and South Sudan, and it will continue to work with the international community to push for reconciliation and talks."

Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin, expressing concern over rising tensions between Sudan and South Sudan at a press conference in Beijing on April 19 after Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir declared war on South Sudan

"We are absolutely determined to make sure we have a safe and secure games and we put a lot of thought into how we can do that."

Jeremy Hunt, British Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, saying that London is ready for the coming Olympic Games while attending a promotional activity for the games in Shanghai on April 18

DELECATE ART
Visitors walk past a set of Chinese furniture during a preview of the Chinese Contemporary Arts & Crafts Biennale, which kicked off in Beijing on April 16 (LI FANGYU)
HAPPY FESTIVAL
Girls of the Dai ethnic group celebrate the water-sprinkling festival in Ruili of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province on April 13 (CHEN HAINING)
ENDANGERED SPECIES
A Yangtze finless porpoise plays with its caretaker at the White Fin Dolphin Zoo in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on April 18. Seven Yangtze finless porpoises are raised in the zoo (XINHUA)
AIMING HIGH
Participants prepare to fly their kites during a competition in Weifang, east China's Shandong Province, on April 17 (ZHANG CHI)
 
NEW CONNECTION The bridge across Lhasa River in Lhasa, capital of west China's Tibet Autonomous Region, is under construction. The 1.28-km bridge, called the No.1 bridge in Lhasa, will be finished in October (JUE GUO)
INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITY Spanish designers join the Products Design Center at the 111th Canton Fair opened in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, on April 15 (WAN XIANG)
Charity Pioneer
An online campaign to provide free lunches to impoverished students was selected the Most Influential Charity Program at the Seventh China Charity Award. Deng Fei, a reporter from Phoenix Weekly magazine, is one of the founders of the program
Boosting Green Cars
The State Council says that the country will move faster to develop its energysaving and new-energy vehicle industry
Home Prices Down
New home prices declines in most Chinese cities surveyed in March
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Responsible SOEs
All executive directors of the board in CNOOC voluntarily give up their salary, subsidy, welfare and annual performance bonus
Mobile Shopping
China's online grocery giant Yihaodian launches a virtual store mobile application focusing on baby products, the first of its kind in China. Customers will be able to order diapers and baby formula more conveniently with a special app on their mobile phones
Business Reshuffle
Oil giant Sinopec Group is reshuffling its businesses and making preparations for an initial public offering in Hong Kong. Oil logistics and refining have become the first two sectors to be combined
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  • BRITAIN
    The Royal Horse Guards perform on April 16 to mark the 100-day countdown to the London Olympic Games (XINHUA)
  • THE PHILIPPINES
    Students vandalize the outer wall of the U.S. Embassy in Manila on April 16 to protest the 12-day 2012 Balikatan exercises, a joint Philippine-U.S. military drill scheduled to take place simultaneously in several parts of the Philippines (XINHUA/AFP)
  • EGYPT
    Egyptians take part in a demonstration in the Tahrir Square in Cairo on April 13, demanding former regime members be barred from public office (XINHUA/AFP)
  • THE UNITED STATES
    Guests walk on the tarmac after watching the space shuttle Discovery and NASA's Boeing 747 shuttle carrier aircraft land at an airport near Washington, D.C. on April 17. The shuttle will go on permanent display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia (XINHUA/AFP)
  • SUDAN
    Sudanese President Omar al- Bashir (center) greets a crowd at the headquarters of the ruling National Congress Party in Khartoum on April 18. While addressing a rally there, he declared war on South Sudan at a time of escalating border clashes between the two countries (XINHUA/AFP)
  • FRANCE
    A zoo keeper feeds a Mangabey monkey on April 18, at the Jardin des Plantes botanical garden zoo in Paris. The baby was born in the zoo in March, and then rejected by his mother, forcing zoo staff to care for the tiny primate (XINHUA/AFP)
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