Beijing - A UN-sponsored congress on Saturday urged the integration of traditional medicine into national health care plans, saying patients would benefit from its use alongside modern medicine.

"The knowledge of traditional medicine, treatments and practices should be respected, preserved, promoted and communicated widely and appropriately based on the circumstances in each country," said a joint declaration issued at the end of the World Health Organization Congress on Traditional Medicine.

Beijing - China on Saturday said it would crack down on "fake"
journalists, a category that appears to include many freelance
journalists.

The General Administration of Press and Publications issued a
circular on Friday asking journalists to register for press cards "in
order to prove their legal identities to their interviewees," the
government's official Xinhua news agency said.

The circular was designed to "protect the legal rights of news
organizations and journalists" and to "step up a crackdown on fake
journalists," the agency said.

Beijing, Nov. 8 : China has said that it will never tolerate any attempts at "Tibet independence".

"Tibet independence is out of the question," The China Daily quoted Du Qinglin, head of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the CPC Central Committee, as saying after meeting with two representatives of the Dalai Lama recently.

"Semi-independence or independence in any disguised form will not be tolerated either," Du reportedly told the two envoys, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, Xinhua said on Thursday.

Beijing- Chinese leaders on Friday called for developed nations to take the lead on climate change and share technology to help developing nations to reduce carbon emissions.

Developed nations should "take responsibility and obligations in addressing climate change" and "alter their unsustainable way of life," Premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech at a UN-sponsored conference on climate change.

Beijing - The foot injury that forced China's star hurdler Liu Xiang to withdraw from this year's Olympic Games is looking more likely to need surgery that could keep him out of competition for six months, Chinese media said on Friday.

Liu, 24, returned to China on Wednesday after consulting US medical experts but had still not made a final decision on whether to opt for surgery, the official China Daily and other media said.

Beijing - Helicopters have dropped emergency supplies to isolated villages cut off for up to 10 days by landslides that killed at least 43 people and left 46 missing in mountainous areas of south-western China's Yunnan province, the government said Friday.

Three military helicopters began the drops on Thursday in the worst-hit prefecture of Chuxiong, delivering emergency food, water, clothes, tents and bedding, the provincial civil affairs bureau said.

The death toll across the province had risen to 43, with 46 listed as missing and 29 injured, the bureau reported on its website.