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Broadcasting Time: 07:00-08:00, GMT+08:00, 2010-03-06
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In This Edition
Chinese Premier1 Wen Jiabao says the central government plans to improve social equality through a fairer wealth distribution system, deal with soaring housing prices and reform the household registration2 system.
China's leading medical expert says primary healthcare may offer an answer to the country's food safety and medical services problems.
A gunman in the US Capital opened fire at a subway entrance to the Pentagon complex wounding two police officers before being shot and killed.
And Turkey recalls its ambassador from Washington after a US congressional panel approved a resolution declaring the Ottoman-era killing4 of Armenians "genocide".
Hot Issue Reports
Premier Wen Pledges to Create a Fairer Society
In his government work report to the opening of the National People's Congress Friday in Beijing, Premier Wen Jiabao says the central government plans to improve social equality through a fairer wealth distribution system, deal with soaring housing prices and reform the household registration system.
Hukou reform - right time now?
As the Premier mentioned in his speech, household registration reform is going to be one of the priorties for the central government this year. But, as we hear from our Dominic Swire, the larger question of how to change the Hukou system still lingers.
Cultural Industry Accelerates Transformation5 of China's Economic Development Pattern
Members of China's top advisory6 body are suggesting that this country's cultural elements could be part of equasion when it comes to transforming the overall economic development pattern.
Zhong Nanshan: primary healthcare may offer an answer to problems of food safety and poor medical services
China's leading medical expert says primary healthcare may offer an answer to the country's food safety and medical services problems.
Zhong Nanshan, Director of Chinese Medical Associatin, says he considers China's new food safety commission, which is headed by Vice3 Premier Li Keqiang, a step in the right direction.
"I have high expectations for this commission. It moves closer to the goal of a primary healthcare commission, which is also my dream for China's health system. We have fulfilled the task of incorporating the food and drug watchdogs into the Health Ministry7. But more work remains8 to achieve the goal of securing healthcare for every Chinese person. "
Zhong Nanshan also blames the multi-layered control of different departments for the loopholes in food-quality control.
"Vested interest is the core reason behind multi-layered control. It demands determination and forceful moves by the central government to solve this problem."
Earlier this month, about 3.5 tons of Hainan cowpeas were found tainted9 with poison in Wuhan. Tests on Hainan cowpeas were later carried out nationwide.
Light News
Shooter in Pentagon Attack Killed, 2 Police Officers Injured
In Washington, DC, a gunman opened fire Friday at a subway entrance to the Pentagon complex wounding two police officers before being shot and killed.
Richard Keevill is the chief of the Pentagon police.
"6:40 tonight a person came towards the Pentagon pre-screen area, appeared to be pretty calm, as the officers started to ask him for his pass to get into the Pentagon, he drew a weapon from his pocket and started shooting immediately at the officers, he didn't say anything, he just engaged the officers."
Police say the suspect, 36 year old John Patrick Bedell, tried to get inside the massively fortified11 Defense12 Department headquarters.
In the immediate10 aftermath, investigators13 did not think "terrorism" was involved but were not ruling that out, but did not discuss possible motives14.
A Pentagon official working late in the building says people inside first heard about the shooting from the television.
Turkey Recalls its Ambassador from Washington as Committee Recognizes Genocide
Turkey is recalling its ambassador from Washington after a US congressional panel approved a resolution declaring the Ottoman-era killing of Armenians "genocide".
Howard Berman, the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, urged his fellow members of the committee to pass the resolution.
"Nothing justifies15 Turkey turning a blind eye to the reality of the Armenian genocide; it is regrettable for example that Turkey's Nobel Prize winning Novelist Orhan Pamuk was essentially16 hounded out of his native country for speaking out on this subject."
The Committee endorsed17 the resolution with a 23-22 vote, even though the Obama administration had urged Congress not to offend Turkey by approving it.
Meanwhile, Obama has asked Turkey to rapidly ratify18 a deal with Armenia that would open the border between the two countries.
However, Turkish lawmakers have warned that the committee's vote could stall progress.
Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks, an event widely viewed by scholars as the "first genocide of the 20th century".
Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll19 has been inflated20, and that the people who died were casualties of the First World War.
Strong Aftershock Rocks Chile, Government Backs Away from Preliminary Death Toll
A strong aftershock today created some brief panic in the city of Concepcion in Chile.
However, no injuries or damage have been reported.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the aftershock had preliminary magnitude of 5.9.
Meanwhile, Chile's government now says the death toll from a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunamis22 was unclear because of confusion over the number of people who disappeared and whether they were dead.
Chile's Interior Ministry Undersecretary Patricio Rosende says that the information will eventually be available via the internet and added that President Michelle Bachelet has declared a three-day mourning period.
"A complete list of the 279 Chileans that have been identified by the relevant state organizations will be available to all Chileans at the internet site Interior.gov.cl. Her Excellency, the President of the Republic, has declared a period of national mourning for three days, starting at midnight, March 7, in memory of the Chilean men and woman that have died."
The government had earlier put the death toll at just over 800.
The Chilean government has come under criticism for underestimating the tsunami21 threat as well as its slow response in the aftermath of the quake. The governmetn admits aid still hasn't been able to reach certian areas.
Greek Rally against Budget Cut Plans Turn Violent
Clashes have broken out between riot police and protestors in Athens during demonstrations23 over the government's stringent24 austerity measures.
The rallies were sparked after the debt-ridden Greek government this week detailed25 a new round of painful austerity measures, including salary cuts for civil servants, pension freezes and tax increases on cigarettes, alcohol, luxury goods and gems26.
Labor27 unions fiercely oppose the measures, and have held several protests since Thursday. Nikos Gioulos is among the demonstrators.
"Everyone knows who needs to pay, but it's the worker who always pays."
The protests in the evening later turned ugly after clashes broke out between stone-throwing protesters and police, who used teargas and stun28 grenades to disperse29 the troublemakers30.
No arrests or injuries have been reported.
The Greek parliament is set to approve a draft legislation on the new austerity plan that looks to save some 4.8 billion euros this year.
Toyota Plans Sales Push in China
Toyota is planning to launch a major new sales campaign in China in an effort to win back customers rattled31 by the company's recall crisis.
The campaign will involve a combination of sales incentives32, including zero-percent loans, free insurance and fuel, and roadside service.
Toyota sales are believed to have hit a serious slowdown in China since late January, after it began announcing recalls of vehicles to fix faulty accelerator pedals and other problems.
However, the company says that its sales in China grew 30 percent in February from a year earlier to 45,400 vehicles, despite the crisis.
A Beijing-based sales and marketing33 executive with Toyota says those figures include deliveries of cars ordered earlier and is largely an "echo" of strong sales made before February.
The company has recalled more than 8 million vehicles worldwide. In China, it has recalled more than 75 thousand RAV4 vehicles because of gas-pedal problems.
Meanwhile, two thousand workers gathered at Toyota's headquarters in Japan to listen to a morale-boosting speech given by its top executive Akio Toyoda.
"There was a language barrier, and I'm not sure how much I was able to get across. However, more than just words, what I wanted to convey to customers was that thanks to everyone's efforts to solve this problem, Toyota has changed."
More than 7-thousand others watched at factories via live video feed.
Media Digest
From Reuters out of Santa Barbara California: A leading venture capitalist in Silicon34 Valley says China is leapfrogging ahead in the development of green technology, and the United States is "barely in the race."
John Doerr (pr: do-'er) says as an example China grew its market share in the solar industry to nearly 50 percent in the fourth quarter of last year from just 2 percent three years earlier.
The United States, on the other hand, went from 43 percent to 16 percent in the same period.
China has also pushed ahead fast in developing wind power. It overtook the United States in new installations and in manufacturing of wind turbines last year, nearly doubling its wind generation capacity from 12,100 megawatts in 2008 to 25,100 megawatts at the end of 2009.
Doerr is a partner with Kleiner-Perkins, which is well known for investing in early start-up companies which include Amazon, Google and Netscape.
From Bloomberg's Business Week: The Chief Investment officer for Blackrock, a global equities35 company, says China's stocks aren't a bubble and will gain by the end of the year as the government takes measures to prevent the economy from overheating.
Bob Doll says there will be gains predicated on a slowdown in growth being successful, and this will be completed before not too long.
Last year's rally in Chinese stocks and property prices have prompted analysts36 including former Morgan Stanley economist37 Andy Xie to call the nation's asset markets "a bubble that will burst once the government curbs38 credit." The government has raised lenders' reserve requirements twice this year to cool an economy that grew 10.7 percent in the fourth quarter, the fastest pace since 2007, partly because of record bank lending.
From the Wall Street Journal: Threatened by Apple's growing stable of portable devices, Sony is reportedly developing a new lineup of handheld products, including a smart phone capable of downloading and playing videogames.
According to insiders, the Japanese electronics giant also is developing a portable device that shares characteristics of netbooks, electronic-book readers and handheld-game machines. The device is designed to compete against multifunction products such as Apple's coming iPad tablet.
From the Associated Press out of Mexico: A mayor in central Mexico says he has fired one of his town officials for spray-painting the buttocks of a teenage boy as punishment for graffiti tagging.
The mayor of San Juan del Rio says police caught the 13-year-old tagging a wall last week and turned him over to the official. The official's job is to impose penalties for petty crime.
The Mayor says that he fired the official because he should have notified the boy's parents so they could pay for the damage, and not punish the teen personally. He did not identify the employee.
Market update
U.S. stocks rose on Friday as data showed U.S. employers cut fewer jobs than expected last month, offering relief to investors39 braced40 for bad labor market news.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 122 points, or 1.17 percent, to 10,566. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 15.7 points, or 1.4 percent, to 1,139. The Nasdaq Composite Index gained 34 points, or 1.5 percent, to 2,326.
Across Europe, Britain's FTSE 100, went up 1.3 percent to 5600, France's CAC40 gained 2.14 percent to 3910. Germany's DAX added 1.4 percent to 5877.
0306 weather for 07am
Before we go, a quick look at the weather,
Beijing is Cloudy day with a high of 2, clear tonight and low of -5
Shanghai is moderate rain and high of 8, falling to 3
Elsewhere around the world
Bangkok Sunny of 34
Tokyo Sunny 18
Vientiane Sunny 36
New York Cloudy 5
Toronto Sunny at 1
Sydney shower at 28
Wellington Cloudy at 18
Perth Sunny 24
Cairo Sunny at 28
Morovia Sunny at 33
And finally Nairobi will be Sunny at high of 27 degrees
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advisory
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tainted
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