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At a Glance
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Food ban
BEIJING: China is to punish health food producers who "illicitly added certain kinds of banned drugs into their health products", said a senior Ministry of Health (MOH) official on Wednesday.
Sand control
URUMQI: The sand fixation technology making use of underground water along highways in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been proven effective and is reaching an internationally advanced level.
The sand control project, launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994, aims to improve the ecological environment in the inner areas of the desert in Xinjiang's Tarim Basin and facilitate the construction of a petroleum base and highways in the desert region.
Embezzlement
SHANGHAI: A Chinese banker has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for privately lending 26.27 million yuan (US$3.17 million) of bank funds and pocketing the interest, Wenhui Daily reported yesterday.
Osteoma removed
CHONGQING: Chinese doctors from a hospital in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality successfully removed a 23.5-kilogramme osteoma (a benign tumor) from the left leg of farmer Lu Xiufu, a native of Pingnan County, eastern Fujian Province.
Sources from Daping Hospital attached to the Third Military Medicine University, where Lu had the operation to remove the osteoma, reportedly the biggest ever measured, said the operation, done on March 17, took eight hours to finish.
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