Deputy Central Banker
Du Jinfu, a former assistant to the governor of the People's Bank of China, China's central bank, has been appointed the bank's vice governor
World Nursing Chief
Eric Chan Lu-sek joined the World Health Organization in Switzerland on June 21 as its chief scientist in nursing and midwifery. He is the second medical expert from Hong Kong to take up a senior post at the UN body
Sacked Official
Zhang Jingli, Deputy Director of China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), had been sacked and put under investigation for suspected disciplinary violations

"Whenever something went wrong in the global economy, and whenever someone had to shoulder international obligations, the West would always point fingers at China."

Vladimir Portyakov, head of the Center for Prognosis of Russia-China Relations and Deputy Director of the Far East Institute in the Russian Academy of Sciences, rebuffing the "China solo show" theory in recent Western media reports, which indicates China has been the biggest winner in the global financial crisis while Western economies have been confronted with grave difficulties

"Narrowing the fluctuation of the yuan's value was the best exchange rate policy China could take during the crisis period, which gave export businesses a stable expectation of the yuan's value and reduced costs caused by a volatile currency."

Xiang Songzuo, Deputy Director of the Center for International Monetary Research at the Renmin University of China. China announced on June 19 it would allow more flexibility in its yuan exchange rate

"A global economic downturn will always end, but food security is the problem we have to face every second."

Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist known as the "father of hybrid rice," at a theme forum of the World Expo on June 20. His team is now working on a new version of high-yield hybrid rice with an expected yield of 13.5 tons a hectare and might complete it in 2012

"We've never seen anything like this in history anywhere across the world."

Sarah Waller, of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, on its new report, which found the use of opiate drugs such as heroin and opium has doubled in Afghanistan since 2005, with nearly 3 percent of Afghan adults now addicted

"My budget is tough, but it will be fair. This is an unavoidable budget because of the mess we have to clear up."

George Osborne, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition's first budget, which includes the biggest package of tax increases and spending cuts in a generation

"We wish it a speedy recovery because it is also our currency."

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, expressing concern about the dramatic plunge of the euro at the Saint Petersburg economic forum on June 19. Russia holds over 40 percent of its forex reserves in the single currency

"We obviously expect this to have a very, very nice effect on our attendance."

Bill Davis, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of Universal Orlando Resorts, referring to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The new theme park attraction had its grand opening on June 18

 
POWERED BY NATURE On June 23, a businessman examines a solar-powered bicycle at the first Cross-Straits Fair on Electric Motors and Home Appliances held in Ningde City, Fujian Province (LAI JIANQIANG)
Clearer Sky
Chinese cities will need to coordinate efforts to clear the sky while a new mechanism to improve regional air quality is set up
Real Name
Chinese online video game players will soon need to register their real names before playing games in the virtual world. The regulation, to be effective on August 1, marked China's first official document targeting the country's thriving online gaming industry
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BACK TO THE WILD
A researcher releases an artificially-bred Chinese Sturgeon, an endangered animal, into the Yangtze River in Yichang City, Hubei Province, on June 22 (FENG GUODONG)
NIGHT NAVIGATION
A helicopter lands on the Chinese destroyer Guangzhou during a night training course of the Chinese Navy's fifth batch of flotilla escorting merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden on June 21 (LIU CHUNHUI)
GUSHING OUT
People admire the spectacular water scene at Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River during the reservoir's 10th sand-washing sluicing operation on June 22. The action is to clear up a sediment-laden section of the Yellow River in Jiyuan, Henan Province (MIAO QIUNAO)
WHO DOESN'T LIKE FOOTBALL
A red panda plays football at a zoo in Yantai City, Shandong Province, on June 17. The zoo gives different animals footballs so they can perform for the tourists (CHU YANG)
 
DANCING WITH THE WIND Wind turbines of China Huaneng Group's Santanghu Phase-I Project in Hami, a small city in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, were connected to the local power grid to generate electricity on June 21 (ZHU ZHENGHUA)
Rebates Removed
The State Council will abolish export tax rebates on 406 products, effective July 15. The products include some steel and non-ferrous metal products, fertilizers, as well as certain plastic, rubber and glass products
Net Mapping
China is about to grant licenses to 18 domestic companies for providing Internet mapping services in China, with a number of applications from foreign vendors still being considered
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China's Currency
China's renminbi exchange rate reform will be a gradual process, but its impact on the markets has already been felt
Local Debt
The National Audit Office on June 23 made a report to the 15th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress, providing a fresh snapshot of local government debt
Third-Party Safety
The central bank on June 21 issued a circular, stepping up stringent control over the crowded and chaotic third-party payment industry
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  • PERU
    A policeman catalogs more than 9,000 kg of cocaine base paste before its incineration near Lima on June 22 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • KYRGYZSTAN
    Refugees cross the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border to get back to Kyrgyzstan near a village some 20 km outside Osh, the southern Kyrgyz city engulfed in riots, on June 18 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • BRAZIL
    Residents of Branquinho in Alagoas State navigate a flooded street on June 23. Raging floods swept through towns across northeastern Brazil, claiming more than 40 lives (XINHUA/AFP)
  • SWEDEN
    Crown Princess Victoria and Duke of Vastergotland Daniel Westling, her former personal trainer, wave from the royal carriage after their fairy-tale wedding on June 19 (WU PING)
  • FRANCE
    Chinese residing in France partake in a Paris rally on June 20 demanding better police protection from violent crimes affecting Chinese communities (CNSPHOTO)
  • RUSSIA
    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow on June 22 to mark the 69th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union (XINHUA/AFP)
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