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HARBIN cheap nike air max 2017 outlet , Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Female giant panda Sijia celebrated her 11th birthday Saturday, one year after she and her playmate Youyou moved to their new home in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

About 1,500 visitors joined in Saturday's celebration. Sijia enjoyed a rose-shaped ice cake at the ski resort of Yabuli, thousands of kilometers from their home in Sichuan Province.

Sijia and Youyou moved to Yabuli last July. Of all of China's pandas, the two live the furthest north. Pandas in Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland are 1 cheap nike air max 2018 outlet ,200 km further north, but the climate there is much less harsh.

Wei Rongping, scientist with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, said the resettlement of the pair was an attempt to expand the range of the species and could help researchers better understand the living conditions of pandas at high latitudes.

"The pair has adapted well to the local climate," said Yan Hongbin cheap nike air max outlet , who feeds the pandas. Last December, the pair enjoyed their first winter and played cheerfully outdoors when a blizzard dumped 40 cm of snow on the ski resort of Yabuli.

Pandas were downgraded from "endangered" to "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in September last year thanks to continued efforts to protect the species by Chinese scientists.

But the number of pandas living in the wild is still fewer than 2,000 and around 400 lived in captivity as of the end of 2013, according to data from China's State Forestry Administration.

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SEOUL cheap air max 2017 outlet , Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's headline inflation posted 2.2 percent last month as heavy rain and heat wave raised prices for fruit and vegetable, a government report showed Tuesday.

Consumer prices increased 2.2 percent in July from a year earlier, according to Statistics Korea. The consumer price inflation, which stayed below 2 percent last year, hovered around 2 percent this year.

The consumer price inflation posted 2 percent in January cheap air max 2018 outlet , 1.9 percent in February, 2.2 percent in March, 1.9 percent in April, 2 percent in May and 1.9 percent in June respectively.

The high level of inflation put more pressures on the Bank of Korea (BOK) to hike its benchmark interest rate. The BOK lowered its policy rate from 3.25 percent in July 2012 to an all-time low of 1.25 percent in June last year.

Household debts maintained a record-breaking momentum amid the record-low borrowing costs, while inflationary pressure from the demand side got strong amid the recovering exports.

The central bank recently submitted a monetary policy report to the National Assembly cheap air max outlet , indicating the need for less accommodative monetary policy. The bank said the less accommodative policy stance is different from a tightened monetary policy.

Vegetable prices jumped 10.1 percent last month, leading to a 9.8 percent hike in agricultural product prices. It was attributed to the sweltering heat and the rainy season that rattled supply of vegetable and fruit.

Higher agricultural product prices raised the overall headline inflation by 0.67 percentage points in July.

Prices for livestock and fishery products advanced 8.1 percent and 5.7 percent each, lifting the headline inflation by 0.28 percentage points.

Egg prices soared 64.8 percent, with those for squid, potato and amber logging a double-digit increase.

Prices for electricity cheap nike air max 2017 online , tap water and gas jumped 8 percent in July as the government temporarily lowered electricity charges a year earlier. It raised the overall inflation by 0.29 percentage points.

Oil product prices, which showed a big increase earlier this year, inched up 0.5 percent in July from a year ago as global crude oil weakened recently.

Core consumer prices, which exclude volatile agricultural and oil products, rose 1.8 percent last month. The OECD-method core prices cheap nike air max 2018 online , which exclude energy and food costs, gained 1.5 percent.

Services prices advanced 1.9 percent as the summer vacation season kicked off in late July.

The so-called livelihood prices, which reflect costs for daily necessities, climbed 3.1 percent in July, posting the fastest since January 2012.

The fresh food price index cheap nike air max online , which reflects prices for fresh vegetable and fruit, advanced 12.3 percent last month on the supply shortage caused by heavy rain and heat wave. It marked the highest increase since November last year.

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SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- South Korea planned to regain its wartime operational control from the United States within a five-year term of President Moon Jae-in, a lawmaker of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party said Friday based on documents submitted by the defense ministry.

According to Rep. Kim Hack-yong of the Liberty Korea Party, the Moon government set up a "three-stage roadmap" to recover its wartime command of South Korean forces from Washington by early 2020s.

It was at least three to four years faster than the planned transfer under the previous Park Geun-hye administration.

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