Posts Tagged ‘china’
By Paul Eckert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 200 tourists from China will get a cabinet-level official welcome in the United States this week — a sign the U.S. tour industry hopes millions more will follow in their footsteps.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez will head up a Washington waterfront reception on Thursday for the first tourists to take advantage of a bilateral agreement allowing packaged group tourism to the United States from China.
Until now, the 300,000 Chinese citizens who visited the United States each year came only on student and business visas or to visit family members residing in the United States.
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Tags: china, National Tour Association, Washington
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Unproven stem cell therapies that lure desperate patients around the globe must be condemned and stopped, said international scientists writing guidelines to help people resist the draw of those purported cures.
Treatments being offered today to patients willing to travel to China, Mexico, Thailand and other countries are nothing more than “snake oil,” said George Daley, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, at the group’s annual meeting in Philadelphia today. A committee of the society is developing recommendations to help patients understand how to evaluate services.
With the exception of blood and bone marrow transplants, “there are no established stem cell therapies,” said Daley, a researcher with Harvard University’s Stem Cell Institute, at a press conference today. “But there is a growing market between clinics purporting to offer cures and desperate patients.”
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BEIJING (AP) -China’s capital Beijing is banning fireworks of all types during a more than three-month period around this summer’s Olympic Games.
The order extends an existing ban in the city center to the capital’s sprawling suburbs, where many of the Olympic events are being held, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
Dealers will be forced to suspend sales and store their stock in specially designated warehouses from July 1 to Oct. 8, Xinhua said.
The ban is the latest in a raft of security measures ordered to ensure the Aug. 8-24 games go off without a hitch. Some of those have drawn the ire of the IOC, foreign residents, sponsors and broadcast rights holders, including increasing scrutiny over visas and limits on live coverage in Tiananmen Square.
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