開帷幕[Photo/Agencies]BANGKOK - Thailand's Supreme Court on Wednesday found former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of malfeasance in a loss-ridden rice subsidy program and sentenced her in absentia to five years in jail

年沙Earlier in his career, he also received the Royal Australian Chemical Institute's H山大環季Since taking charge, his research center has published a series of academic papers in major scientific journals, including Nature, which has helped raise Shanghai University's international profile

拉力賽首場Despite only arriving in China three years ago, Australian professor Jeffrey Reimers has already had a significant impact on Shanghai's scientific community冬季比賽拉All these things are global issues that affect China, and China is doing its share to address these key issues開帷幕He is currently working on a project that involves protein crystallography, a vital element in drug design, and is collaborating with prominent Chinese scientist Hong Guo on research into silicon electronics年沙Three or four years ago, when my family and I were on the subway or a bus in Shanghai, people around would talk to us山大環季I once had a student come visit me and he was almost in tears after having to cross a road

拉力賽首場"Hopefully when I'm done with my work here, the connection between the two universities will be further strengthened, and through that I will leave a legacy," Reimers said冬季比賽拉She now speaks perfect Chinese and even has a Beijing accent開帷幕To achieve the target, China needs to bring more than 10 million people out of poverty every year, meaning nearly one million people per month or 20 people per minute

年沙9 million people out of poverty each year" (Aug 29, 2017)山大環季China has set 2020 as the target year to complete the building of a "moderately prosperous society," which requires the eradication of poverty拉力賽首場[Photo/Xinhua]Poverty reliefAn ambitious poverty reduction campaign is seeking to change this, ensuring by 2020 that no one is living in poverty - defined by the government as less than 2,300 yuan ($349) a year冬季比賽拉From road building to subsidies, the central government has spent large amounts of money on poverty relief in places like Liangshan

The 19th Communist Party of China National Congress will convene in Beijing on Oct 18As all eyes are on the upcoming Congress, let's take a look at what international media said about the developments and achievements of China

A photo taken on June 14, 2017 shows a poverty alleviation relocation site in Leibo county, Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan province91 million people out of poverty each year from 2012 to 2016, according to a report from the State Council on Tuesday-- Reuters: "China's ethnic Yi struggle against poverty" (Aug 10, 2017)China lifted 13This year's Nobel prizes will be announced starting from October 2, with the ceremony lasting one or two weeks, said the Swedish Academy on its official website

She received Bachelor of Science at Stanford University and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Utah, according to faculty information of Pittsburgh UniversityShe has received a number of awards for her work, including the Meyenburg Foundation Award for Cancer Research and the Robert Koch PrizeChang was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States as a young childcom]Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, announced its 2017 Citation Laureates - scientists whose publications have been cited so often by their colleagues that they could be recipients of a Nobel Prize this year or in the future

The couple was listed for the discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV), also known as human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)Chinese-American Yuan Chang, 58, joined the list of physiology or medicine laureates, together with her husband Patrick S

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is the most common cancer in HIV-infected untreated individualsTsien (1952-2016) got his Clarivate citation prize of chemistry in 2008, before he co-won the Nobel honor in chemistry at the same year, with Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie, for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP)

Professor Chang is a Co-Director of the Tumor Virology Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer InstituteIn the last 15 years, 43 Citation Laureates have gone on to receive Nobel honors, so the prize has been seen as an indicator of the Nobel prizes, introduced in memory of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896)Each year, analysts at Clarivate Analytics mine millions of citations in the Web of Science, an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service, to identify top-tier researchers in physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry and economicsKaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus is the infectious cause of this neoplasmHere, we present some of the most striking images around the world this past weekChildren cool off themselves at a wading pool in Toronto, Canada, on Sept 24, 2017

The vice-premier said China is willing to work with the US to prepare for President Trump's visit to China to ensure it is a great successVisiting Vice-Premier Liu Yandong, right, speaks with Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, center, and Ivanka Trump, left, daughter of US President Donald Trump also serving as an adviser, in Washington DC, on Sept 27, 2017

Liu addressed a reception celebrating the 68th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Chinese embassy on WednesdayThe training course on the Chinese lion dance is part of the 2017 China Africa Cultures in Focus, an activity held by the Bureau for External Cultural Relations of Chinese Ministry of Culture to strengthen the cultural communication between China and African countries

They kept practicing from morning until night, trying to master the basic skills of lion dance, routines and instrumental music within a short periodThe cultural center of the Jinpu New Area also arranged some courses for them to know about other traditional Chinese culture such as Chinese calligraphy, seal cutting, folk dance, paper-cutting, and pottery

The cultural center of the Jinpu New Area has undertaken the course for three consecutive years since 2015During the 35-day training course, they learned from Li Mingxu, the fifth generation successor of the Jinzhou Lion Dance, a provincial intangible cultural heritage that has been passed from generation to generation for more than a centuryTen students from Nigeria and Zambia learned how to perform Chinese lion dance at the Jinpu New Area in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning provinceThese changes may look pleasant, but not quite so to Derek Hyra, an associate professor at the American University School of Public Affairs and an expert on neighborhood change

Chen Weihua/China DailyHaving lived in Washington DC for almost five years, I have seen the city growing, with new construction and renovation projects happening in many streets and neighborhoodsHyra described how the "dark ghetto" has been turned into a "gilded ghetto"

To Hyra, it has caused not just residential displacement for African Americans but also political and cultural displacementHis book this year, Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City, is the result of his many years of field research on the issues

Whites are the majority now, accounting for 55 percent of the communityThe 14th Street near U Street, a traditional African American neighborhood, is now lined up with hip restaurants and bars in this photo taken on Sunday

The area, a 90 percent black neighborhood just a few decades ago, was only 30 percent African American by 2010Hyra described the massive transformation in the U Street/Shaw area, where the city's once most infamous open-air drug market has become a farmers' market now selling grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioliThe Wharf residential and business project I visited recently is probably one of the biggestThe same urban renewal is happening in other parts of Washington

The U Street/Shaw and 14th Street area has fast been turned into an upscale neighborhood in recent years, with many new restaurants and shops opening and new apartment constructionOnly a short walk from the National Mall, it looks like a good place to live, work and hang out

The area has seen a sharp increase in the white population and skyrocketing property prices, a sign of gentrification in the Washington DCHe saw major issues of gentrification and segregation in Washington beneath the surface of rapid urban renewal

Located in southwest Washington along the waterfront next to the famed Maine Avenue Fish Market, its first phase will open on Oct 12"An effort to reduce sugary drink intake of teenagers is urgently needed," Liang Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said