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Coordinated development for optimized growth

Edit China Daily 08 Oct 2016
Moreover, economic competition among provinces and cities encouraged inefficient allocation of resources and exacerbated industrial overcapacity ... Nationally, coordinated development means comprehensive regional initiatives integrating multiple provinces and cities, such as the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei province urbanized region....

$2.5-million investment will help to address flood risk in Peace Region (Government of British Columbia)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Oct 2016
The $2.5 million we announced today is in addition to the $173 million we have invested since 2008 toward flood mitigation projects throughout the province to help communities better manage risk.' ... Through the Flood Protection Program, the Province, federal government and local communities have invested $173 million for flood mitigation projects in B.C ... In total, the Province already has invested $15 million for repairs....

$2.5-million investment will help to address flood risk in Peace Region (Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure of British Columbia)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Oct 2016
The $2.5 million we announced today is in addition to the $173 million we have invested since 2008 toward flood mitigation projects throughout the province to help communities better manage risk.' ... Through the Flood Protection Program, the Province, federal government and local communities have invested $173 million for flood mitigation projects in B.C ... In total, the Province already has invested $15 million for repairs....

Home price curbs expected to spread

Edit China Daily 08 Oct 2016
"Without financing curbs, speculative buyers can still afford to buy," said Xu. Nanjing in Jiangsu province, Xiamen in Fujian province and Wuhan in Hubei province, which have all taken cooling measures, saw average housing prices rise more than 20 percent in September year-on-year, according to data of the China Index Academy, a research organization that monitors housing prices in 100 cities ... ....

Chinese spending on shopping, food hit record high during National Day holiday

Edit China Daily 08 Oct 2016
West China's Chongqing Municipality and Sichuan province and Central China's Hunan province were the top three regions seeing booming retail and catering business ...   ....

News of the day from across the globe, Oct. 8

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 08 Oct 2016
The first bomb exploded on the train and the second device, which was planted on the railway track, struck the moving train near the village of Mach in Baluchistan province, according to police officials ... the attack, but separatist groups in the province have claimed similar attacks in the past....

Green Beret killed in Afghanistan was Minnesota native

Edit Pioneer Press 08 Oct 2016
Army Staff Sgt ... Thomas, 31, of Takoma Park, Md., died Tuesday of injuries inflicted by an improvised explosive device�in Nangarhar Province, near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan ... special operations forces have been conducting counterterror operations with Afghan troops against Islamic State militants in the province, the Associated Press reported ... ....

Twin bombing targets Pakistan train; 6 dead

Edit Arabnews 08 Oct 2016
Author.  ... Two explosions targeting military personnel on a passenger train killed at least six people and wounded 19 others in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern Balochistan province Friday, officials said ... Balochistan is also the site of China’s ambitious $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor infrastructure project linking its western province of Xinjiang to the Arabian Sea via Pakistan ... ....

CFS won't return tot to social worker granny

Edit Toronto Sun 08 Oct 2016
She says she has been trying to get temporary custody, but has been told she needs to be investigated first ... She’s troubled the province doesn’t appear to enforce that for all agencies ... Spokesman David von Meyenfeldt said the province couldn’t comment on a specific case ... He couldn’t immediately say what the province is doing to ensure all agencies give priority to family members before a child is taken into care....

Man jumps into temple pond for coins

Edit China Daily 08 Oct 2016
Surprised tourists at a Buddhist temple in Zhejiang province watched as a man jumped into a pond and started scooping up coins that had been tossed into the water as donations. The man, in his late 30s from neighboring Jiangsu province, was dredging up coins for several minutes at Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou on Monday as thousands of tourists looked on, according to the temple's administration office ... ....

Afghan Security Forces Fudging Numbers, Lining Pockets

Edit Opposing Views 08 Oct 2016
"According to my information," Agha Noor Kintoz, the police chief of Helmand province, told Tolo News, "40 to 50 percent of the force did not exist physically when we asked for help during operations. Salaries of ghost soldiers had been received during the past eight months and the money has gone to personal accounts." ... "Huge numbers of ghost police are reported in Helmand province," Afghan senator Akhundzada Alokozai said ... The U.S ... ....

Yemeni artillery fire kills 3 pro-Saudi commanders

Edit Press TV 08 Oct 2016
Yemeni army troops, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, launched the attack against the Saudi troops deployed in the Sirwah district of the western province of Ma'rib on Friday, killing three high-ranking commanders, identified as General Abdulrab al-Shadadi, Shayef Ameri, and Ali Hamisi, Yemen's al-Masirah television reported....

Assisted death: Around 200 Canadians have taken advantage of new law

Edit Topix 08 Oct 2016
About 200 Canadians have received help killing themselves since legislation authorizing medically assisted suicide came into force in June, new figures obtained by The Canadian Press show, but those numbers do not paint the whole picture. To date, 87 people have taken advantage of the law in Ontario, while the total in British Columbia is 66, the provinces' coroner's offices reported Thursday ... ....
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