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Teachers arrested over exam cheating
According to Shanghai Daily of July 1, 2009, prosecutors in Fuyu County of Songyuan City in northeast's China Jilin Province have ratified the arrest of two teachers who sold equipment to students to help them cheat in the university entrance exam.
An accomplice was arrested for helping to hide the profits, the Procuratorial Daily reported today.
The exam was held from June 7 to 9. Two teachers, Liu Yanhua and He Shujie, and their accomplice, Yang Chun, were caught by police on June 5 while testing the equipment ....
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Professional property managers certificated

The Ministry of Construction and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly said that 1,119 people were given certificates after passing exams covering subjects including property management, construction engineering and real estate development.
About 3.5 million people work in China's property management sector, which began in 1981 with one company in what was then the first Special Economic Zone, the southern city of Shenzhen....

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ATA Launches Campaigns to Promote TOEIC as Vocational English Standard
On July 24, 2009, ATA invited HR managers and recruiters from well-known multinational companies, state-owned enterprises and English training institutions in Beijing to a conference introducing TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) as the vocational English assessment standard. This is one of the 7 stops in a series of campaigns to promote the test in China since ATA and ETS signed exclusive country master agreement for TOEIC business earlier this year. Other 6 stops include cities like Shanghai, Suzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dalian, and Chengdu...
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China's gross domestic product grew 7.9 percent in the second quarter as the nation became the first of the major economies to rebound from the global recession. The figure, announced by the statistics bureau in Beijing today, exceeded the 7.8 percent median forecast of 20 economists in a Bloomberg survey and a 6.1 percent gain in the first quarter that was the slowest in almost a decade....

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China's Market Value Overtakes Japan as World's No. 2

China overtook Japan as the world's second-largest stock market by value for the first time in 18 months, after government stimulus spending and record bank lending boosted share prices this year. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.4 percent yesterday ...

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