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China and Japan hold high-level economic dialogue in Tokyo

China and Japan have held a day-long second high-level economic dialogue in Tokyo and vowed to work together to boost bilateral trade relations.

The talks on Sunday were co-chaired by Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan and Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone.

Wang Qishan said the two sides reached a lot of important consensus and achieved positive results.

Earlier in the day, the two countries' trade ministers signed a memorandum on intellectual property rights protection.

Rescuers race against time to save trapped miners in China landslide, seven bodies recovered

Rescuers have recovered seven bodies from the debris of Friday's landslide in southwest China, as the search continues to find the 65 people still missing.

More than 400 experts, technicians and rescuers have joined the operation in Chongqing.

So far they have carried out two explosions at the site to enable the drilling of holes in order to send food and air to 27 trapped miners.

High school students in China begin college entrance exams

More than 10 million Chinese high school students have begun the three-day national college entrance exams.

Although the number of candidates was down 3.8 percent from last year, the first decline in seven years, the exams are still the world's largest.

Competition is fierce although this year's admission rate is around 62 percent.

China to hold national anti-terror drills in areas around Beijing

China will hold a national anti-terror exercise beginning Tuesday.

The drill, dubbed "Great Wall-6", comes less than four months ahead of the celebrations of the 60th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

A spokesman of the drill headquarters says it will be carried out in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Shanxi and Hebei provinces and last through the middle of this month.

Number of confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases rises to 80 on Chinese mainland

Eight more A/H1N1 flu cases were confirmed on the Chinese mainland Sunday, bringing the total number to 80.

These included two patients infected through local transmission in the southwestern city of Chengdu. There are now six such cases on the mainland.

Chinese investigators say gasoline was brought aboard bus before fatal blaze

An investigation into a fatal bus blaze that killed 27 people in southwest China shows someone had brought gasoline aboard the vehicle.

An official with the investigation team also says explosion can be ruled out as the cause of the fire.

The accident occurred in the morning rush hour Friday in Chengdu. Another 76 people were injured.