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Chinese vice premier to visit Cuba, Brazil
It's been announced Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang is set to visit Cuba and Brazil next week.
As part of his 3-day visit to Cuba, Wang Yang is set to hold talks with Cuban leaders.
In Brazil, Wang Yang will co-chair a meeting of the China-Brazil High-level Coordination and Cooperation Committee.
Top Chinese, U.S. universities launch Global Innovation Exchange Institute in Seattle
A pair of leading universities from China and the United States have entered into a new exchange program.
Tsinghua University and Washington State University have entered into the agreement.
A signing ceremony has taken place in Seattle.
The creation of the Global Innovation Exchange Institute will focus on training students from both sides in technology development.
Microsoft, which is based in Washington State, is pumping 40-million US dollars into the program.
China, U.S. officials to meet for annual dialogue, consultation
Preparations are underway for the latest round of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
Chinese vice-Premiers Wang Yang and Liu Yandong, along with State Councilor Yang Jiechi, are set to lead the Chinese delegation to next week's meetings in Washington.
The talks themselves will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Areas of discussion during this particular session are expected to focus mostly on non-critical areas such as education, health and sports.
However, it's widely expected areas of strategic importance, including the South China Sea, will be discussed.
The US side will be led by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew.
China develops 15-minute MERS test
A new diagnostic test for MERS has been developed in China.
It's been developed by researchers at Hong Kong and Xiamen universities.
The new reagent test only takes 15 minutes to determine if someone has MERS.
It should allow a single tech to process around a thousand samples a day.
S.Korea MERS: Protests outside hospital
A small demonstration has taken place today outside the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul.
Around 30 members of local health care unions have been picketing the partially-shuttered facility, blaming the government for not doing enough in the early stages of the MERS outbreak.
The Samsung hospital is where around half of all the MERS infections in South Korea have originated from.
The death toll from MERS has now risen to 24, with one new death and one new infection being reported this Friday.
At the same time, health authorities in the country are monitoring around 3-thousand people who may have had some level of contact with a paramedic who works for the Samsung medical center who has been diagnosed with MERS.
Despite this, South Korean health authorities, as well as the World Health Organization, are suggesting the MERS outbreak in the country is on the decline.
El Nino effect on China to last till autumn
Environmental experts in China are warning the so-called "El Nino effect" is going to remain in effect here in China through until the fall.
The Ministry of Water Resources says they're concerned this current cycle may bring additional flooding along the Yangtze River this summer.
"El Nino" is a periodic change in ocean temperatures in the Pacific which creates high-pressure systems along the western Pacific.
The effect typically generates more rain in central and southern China during the summer.
It also limits rainfall in the northern sections of China and the rest of the region.
North Korea is said to be struggling through its worst drought in the country's history.
First electric planes produced in China delivered
The first two fully-electric passanger aircraft generated in China have been delivered to their customer.
Liaoning Ruixiang General Aviation has purchased the planes for around 1-million yuan each.
The electric aircraft can fly for up to an hour on a single charge.
They've been manufactured by Shenyang Aerospace University and the Liaoning General Aviation Academy.
The light-planes are designed primarily for training and sight-seeing, and can reach heights of up to 3-thousand meters.
28 of the aircraft are now on-order.
The RX1-E is said to be the first fully-electric aircraft in the world to recieve an airworthiness certificate.
It also participated in the 10th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai last November.
Highway ramp collapse kills 1, injures 3 in S China
The collapse of a highway overpass in Guangzhou has left at least one person dead.
Three others have been hurt, after the overpass came down earlier this Friday morning.
It's believed the weight of 4 industrial trucks on the bridge at the time led to the collapse.
The highway itself opened in 2005.
It links Guangdong with the neighboring province of Jiangxi.
Visa process for Chinese traveling through Europe streamlined
The UK and Belgian governments are moving to streamline the visa application processes for Chinese visitors.
Chinese travellers are going to be able to submit visa applications for both countries during a single visit to a UK visa application center.
The new scheme means visitors from China will be able to obtain a visa for both the UK and the Schengen area - which the UK is not part of - without having to visit two different application centers.
The Schengen area is a collection of 26 countries in Europe which allow travel across their borders under a unified visa.
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