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China's IPO fundraising to hit $40b, largest worldwide

Fundraising by China's new IPOs in 2016 is estimated to hit 250 billion yuan ($40 billion) to 300 billion yuan this year, making the A-share IPO market the biggest one globally, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Monday.

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First death confirmed as 80 remain missing in south China's landslide

Nearly 3,000 rescue workers were racing against time on Monday to search for dozens of people missing after Sunday's landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.

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China unveils economic blueprint for 2016

China's top leadership, which is preparing to launch the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), on Monday announced an overarching strategy to lead the economy's ongoing transition.

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Six TV drama adaptations of online literature in 2015

The year 2015 saw another boom in TV drama adaptations of online literature. Despite the difficulty of adapting original works, these popular novels on the Internet were screened one by one. Some enjoyed a great success while some were criticized by the audiences. Both the winners and losers tried to have artistic settings through projecting an aesthetic world and put an emphasis on charming appeal of both male and female protagonists. In others words, the lead roles in these adaptations often have a "high face value", which has become an important selling point to attract more audiences.

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Bye-bye blue: More smog settling in

With a new round of smog likely to engulf Beijing and surrounding areas over the next three days, the city issued an orange alert-the second-highest warning level-on Saturday afternoon, 31 hours ahead of the expected gloom.

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91 suspects repatriated in past year

China ramps up international manhunt as nationwide anti-graft campaign continues

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Xi'an seeks to standardize its famous dishes

As Xi'an-style foods gain in popularity, the local industrial standards authority says it is going to regulate the recipes of the ancient city's most famous foods.

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Tianjin plans world's largest animal cloning factory

Tianjin will build the world's largest factory where it will clone dogs, cows and horses among other animals, said the management committee of Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area on Sunday.

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Clinton to detail sweeping plan to rein in Wall Street

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday will unveil a sweeping plan to curb what she has said are the abuses of Wall Street, proposing everything from raising the fines that can be levied by regulators to requiring executives to bear some of those costs.

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Balloon goes up after idea for an ad fails

Niko Edwards and Green D - both aliases used on the Internet - had long dreamed of taking a look at Earth from above, like many teenagers.However, Edwards, 19, never thought he would see a similar video that used some of their photos two months later on Youku, one of the country's top video websites.

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Coal checkpoint near Beijing closes on Monday

A major checkpoint for coal supplies from Shanxi province, which accounts for one-quarter of the country's reserves and output of the fuel, will close on Monday as part of government efforts to improve coal transportation and distribution.

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SAT score delays affect thousands

On Oct 28, when that month's SAT scores were to be released, thousands of students from the Chinese mainland and the Republic of Korea were notified their scores had been delayed by the Educational Testing Service, the examination provider of the College Board. ETS explained later that the delay resulted from an ongoing investigation into possible cheating.