XI'AN Kyzir White Chargers Jersey , Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- China launched a new program Friday to help address poverty caused by illness.
The program, which will last until February, aims to use the slack farming season and the Spring Festival holiday when migrant workers return home, to figure out how many poor people have diseases and keep them updated with new policies, according to Xia Gengsheng from the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
Xia said that more than 50 percent of impoverished residents in 10 Chinese provinces fell into poverty due to illnesses, at the end of 2016.
China aims to lift all people above the poverty line -- per capita annual income of 2 Derwin James Chargers Jersey ,300 yuan (348 U.S. dollars) -- in rural areas by 2020. Strong efforts have been made in helping the rural poor suffering from illnesses.
More than 4.2 million poor patients with serious or chronic diseases have been treated since last year. The family doctor system has expanded to include around 80 percent of those living under the poverty line.
Meanwhile, more than 900 top hospitals have dispatched doctors to over 1,000 hospitals in poor counties, and developed a network of distance health care.
Lebanese police on Monday arrested a driver suspected of killing British embassy worker Rebecca Dykes after trying to rape her, according to officials and the national news agency.
An undated handout picture released by the family of Rebecca Dykes through Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office on December 17, 2017
The Lebanese news agency said the Lebanese man Easton Stick Chargers Jersey , who works as a driver with ride-hailing giant Uber, had confessed to killing the young woman, who was employed at the UK embassy in Beirut.
Dykes was last seen alive at a party in Gemmayzeh, a Beirut neighbourhood popular with foreign residents, on Friday night and left in the suspect's car.
"He picked her up in Gemmayzeh on Friday night, took her to Achrafieh then to the Metn highway and tried to rape her Drue Tranquill Chargers Jersey ," the news agency said, referring to an expressway north of Beirut.
Her body was found dumped on the roadside there early the following evening.
A senior security official had told AFP that strangulation was the likely cause of death and added that Dykes was found with string tied around her neck.
The Lebanese news agency said the suspect was tracked down thanks to security cameras and confessed to killing Dykes after she resisted when he sexually assaulted her, it said.
A senior official in the judiciary said that she had booked her vehicle using the Uber app, whose driver identification and rating system is seen by many, especially women, as offering better safety guarantees than when hailing a cab off the street in Lebanon.
The driver "tried to rape her and when she resisted he strangled her... took her wallet and threw her in a dumpster Nasir Adderley Chargers Jersey ," the official said.
Such crime is rare in the Lebanese capital, a city which is considered generally safe, including for tourists and foreign residents. A senior official had stressed that the murder was "not politically motivated".
A picture of the young woman, who worked at the British government's Department for International Development (DFID), was on the front pages of many UK papers Monday.
The British ambassador in Beirut, Hugo Shorter Jerry Tillery Chargers Jersey , expressed his grief in a statement and messages of support for her family and colleagues poured in from Beirut's shell-shocked diplomatic and aid community.
"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca. We are doing all we can to understand what happened," the family said in a statement passed on by the Foreign Office.
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by Xinhua writer Chen Wenxian
JERUSALEM, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's growing cybersecurity market has attracted more attention from global companies including those from Israel, which is strong in the cybersecurity sector.
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During an interview with Xinhua at the Cybertech 2018 being held in Tel Aviv, Fischbein said his company is ""more than keen to cooperate with Chinese partners on how to protect the next wave of cyber attacks.""
As the cyber world becomes increasingly connected, the risks of more advanced attacks disrupting the cyberspace are no longer a science fiction.
To protect cyber security and order requires global cooperation, especially when the world is being connected in the era of the IoT (Internet of things) Dan Fouts Youth Jersey , most experts and industrial leaders attending the Cybertech 2018 agreed.
Yigal Unna, director general of Israel's National Cyber Directorate in the Prime Minister's Office, emphasized the importance of global cooperation in the cybersecurity sector.
One of the important solutions is the establishment of an international cyber coalition, because the cyber threats affect the entire world, and so are the ways of dealing with them, Unna said.
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So far, Check Point, which has offices in China's Beijing and Shenzhen with almost 100 employees, has cooperated with China's Alibaba, the world's largest online B2B marketplace on cybersecurity.
And the company is planning to expand its presence in China, attracted by the growth of the Chinese market.