DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: “Cambodia's special economic zones waiting for foreign investments” plus 9 more

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Eight out of Cambodia's 19 special economic zones (SEZ) are being operational across the country, while the rest are still waiting for both local and foreign investors, the data from Council for Development of Cambodia (CDC) showed on Saturday.
The statistics showed that Cambodia has a total of 19 SEZs, most of them situated along Cambodia's borders with Vietnam and Thailand.
Of the 19, eight are fully operational by both local and foreign investors, while the rest are being developed or waiting for investors, the statistics showed.
The SEZ has been firstly established in Cambodia in December, 2005. It is designed for industrial zone--manufacturing for exports.
The government considers SEZs as an important part of the country's economic development as they bring infrastructure, jobs, skills, enhanced productivity, at the same time, investors in the SEZs will benefit from a number of fiscal incentives, including income tax, customs, and VAT benefits.
According to the statistics, SEZs being operational are those located in the provinces of Koh Kong, Svay Rieng, Banteay Meanchey, Kandal, Kampong Cham, Preah Sihanouk and Phnom Penh.
And the products being produced in those SEZs include vehicles and spare parts, garments, bicycles, foot-wears, jewelry packaging, pure drinking water, electric poles, sugar, and agro-products.

HANGZHOU, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- The public medical insurance system on the Chinese mainland currently covers over 1.25 billion people, or about 93 percent of the mainland's total population, according to a health official.
The Chinese mainland's rural cooperative medical system has provided 835 million people with health care, while another 421 million are covered by basic medical insurance systems for urban dwellers, said Zhang Zongjiu, director of the Department of Medical Service Supervision of the Ministry of Health.
Zhang made the remarks at an ongoing health forum of hospitals from the mainland and Taiwan, which was held in Hangzhou, the capital city of eastern Zhejiang Province.
In the first half of 2011, the Chinese government spent more than 245 billion yuan (about 38.4 billion U.S. dollars) on health care, up 61.4 percent year-on-year, according to a report submitted to the country's top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, in late August.

HEFEI, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- A bank official who killed a woman while driving drunk has been detained in central China's Anhui Province, according to local police.
Yin Xiangyu, the deputy head of a branch of China Construction Bank in the city of Mingguang, is being held by the public security bureau of Fengyang County, according to Huang Min, a local traffic police officer.
Yin, driving a sedan owned by the bank, hit a 73-year-old woman riding an electric bike around 5 p.m. Wednesday in Fengyang County's township of Hongxin, Huang said, adding that the woman died en route to the hospital.
A blood test indicated that Yin had 26 milligrams of alcohol for every 100 milliliters of blood in his system, 6 milligrams higher than the limit specified by Chinese law.
Police are working to determine whether Yin fled the site after hitting the woman, as it was discovered that he failed to stop his car immediately after the accident occurred.

BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale hit the border area between the city of Dujiangyan and Wenchuan County in southwestern Sichuan Province at 12:13 a.m. Beijing Time Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
The epicenter, with a depth of 15 km, was initially determined to be at 31.3 degrees north latitude and 103.6 degrees east longitude.
The Sichuan earthquake authorities said the tremor was felt as far as in Chengdu, the provincial capital. The epicenter was about 35 km from Dujiangyan, 20 km from Wenchuan and 80 km from Chengdu, according to the center.
There have been no immediate reports of damages or casualties.
Wenchuan was the epicenter of an 8.0-magnitude earthquake on May 12, 2008, which left 87,000 people dead or missing.

BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Education has vowed to regulate test books market for primary and middle school students through strict supervision on publication and distribution channels.
The ministry has said it was working with the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) to revise government regulations on the management of test and reference books for primary and middle schools, issued in 2001.
The revision would "further regulate the editing, printing, and distribution work" of these books, the ministry said in a statement on its website, but giving no further details.
It is common for Chinese students in lower grades to do a large amount of after-class exercises and tests, often in line with the instruction of the school, in order to get better score in exams. This has led to a booming market of test books.
Many schools have been under fire for forcing students and their parents to buy extra test books. In some cases, publishing houses, book dealers and schools are blamed for seeking illegal kickbacks through forced deals.
According to the 2001 regulations, education departments at all levels are not allowed to force schools to purchase any kind of test books, and schools should not organize students to buy these books.

BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale hit the border area between the city of Dujiangyan and Wenchuan County in southwestern Sichuan Province at 12:13 a.m. Beijing Time Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
The epicenter, with a depth of 15 km, was initially determined to be at 31.3 degrees north latitude and 103.6 degrees east longitude.  
Wenchuan was the epicenter of an 8.0-magnitude earthquake on May 12, 2008, which left 87,000 people dead or missing.

BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- China's railway system has transported some 1.27 billion passengers during the first eight months of this year, up 11.8 percent from a year earlier, the Ministry of Railways said Sunday.
The figure has accounted for 67.4 percent of the ministry's full-year target, said the ministry in a statement on its website.
The Ministry of Railways has planned to send 1.9 billion passengers in 2011, up 13.1 percent year-on-year.
The country's high-speed trains had been operating with improved order and efficiency, said the ministry, which has been required to run high-speed trains at slower speeds, as well as to reorganize bullet train schedules nationwide, for safety reasons.
The State Council, or Cabinet, ordered increased safety checks after a fatal train collision that killed 40 people in July raised concerns over the safety of the country's high-speed railways.
The ministry cut the number of high-speed trains running between Beijing and Shanghai to 66 pairs from 88 pairs per day, effective as of Aug. 16.
Meanwhile, the railways transported more than 2.6 billion metric tons of goods from January to August, up 7.8 percent year-on-year, the ministry said.

NANCHANG, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- One person died and five others were injured after a fire engulfed a building Sunday morning in east China's Jiangxi Province, said local fire control authorities.
The fire broke out around 5 a.m. at an eight-storey building in the downtown area in the provincial capital city of Nanchang, said a spokesman with the city's fire control contingent.
Fire fighters have extinguished the blaze and rescued 11 people trapped by the fire. Six of them were found injured and rushed to two hospitals, said the spokesman.
One of the injured died later after failing to respond to emergency treatments, he said.
A cinema and dozens of shops that sell lighting facilities are located in the building's ground and second floor respectively. The other six floors are occupied by residents.
A Xinhua reporter at the scene said some shops were severely damaged in the fire and smoke was still rising from the first five floors of the building as of 10 a.m..
The cause of the accident is under investigation.

BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Following are home news items to be covered or pursued by Xinhua on Sunday.
1 China to regulate publishing industry of students' test books
2 China seizes 13 mln illegal publications in crackdown
3 China's railway passengers hit 1.3 bln in first eight months
4 Around China: Messages of love from a migrant worker's wife
5 Rescue of three miners trapped after colliery floods in NE China

BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Publication authorities across China seized more than 13 million illegal audio and video products and print publications in a high-profile campaign to protect intellectual property rights (IPR).
From October 2010 to June, law enforcement personnel also cleaned up 663 workshops, where pirated music and film disks, softwares, books and other print products were manufactured, according to the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP).
"Our campaign focused on print and copy businesses, online copyright infringement and piracy, supervision on the publication market and investigations into major cases," said Yu Cike, a senior official with the GAPP.
According to GAPP, 18 major video websites, including youku.com and video.sina.com.cn, have been ordered to report the IPR authorization status for all the films and TV series posted on their sites to supervision departments on a quarterly basis.
The high-profile crackdown was also joined by other central government departments including the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), National Copyright Administration and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
In late August, the MPS announced a fresh round of crackdown on counterfeiting businesses from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31 after the country's police broke up more than 4,500 criminal rings and arrested about 10,000 suspects in the previous action.