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SYDNEY Cheap Nike Air Max Outlet , Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Australian cricketer Shane Watson has smashed his fourth Test century on the fourth day of the third Ashes Test against England at Perth' s WACA Ground on Monday, local media reported.


Resuming on 235 for three, Australia declared before lunch on the fourth day of play on 369 for six after Shane Watson joined opener David Warner as century-makers in the home side's second innings.


Watson has resumed on his overnight score of 29 off 66 deliveries, continuing to club 103 off 108 deliveries.


Australia lead the five-match series 2-0 and are perfectly placed in hot conditions to wrap up the series before the Boxing Day Test, leaving the tourists' batsmen with a huge task to save the game.



SHANGHAI - China has signalled its intent to cut prices of medicines used to treat serious diseases such as cancer Cheap Air Max 1 Outlet , part of a wider drive to reduce the cost of healthcare for patients in the world's second-biggest economy.


The National Health and Family Planning Commission is negotiating a pilot programme with drug firms to lower the price of five drugs, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday, citing Li Bin, the head of the commission.


The high cost of healthcare is a major point of contention in China, where low levels of state health insurance coverage means patients and their families often burn through savings to buy drugs to treat chronic disease.


"We are taking measures to satisfy people's need for drugs Cheap Air Max 90 Outlet , especially to resolve issues of high-priced patented drugs and patients unable to afford medicines," Li said on the sidelines of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing.


China's drive to lower the price of drugs is one of the main challenges facing drug firms in the world's second-largest medicine market, where growth has slowed markedly over the past couple of years. Beijing is also supporting domestic firms to take a bigger share of the market.


Li said the pilot scheme would seek to reduce the price of the five drugs by over half, adding the drugs were currently expensive because they were patented or imported. She did not name the drugs or the companies which made them.


China's cancer drug market is led by Swiss firm Roche Holding AG (ROG.S), followed by China's Qilu Pharmaceutical Cheap Air Max Outlet , Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine , Jilin Aodong Pharmaceutical Group and Britain's AstraZeneca PLC (AZN.L), Deutsche Bank said in a 2015 report.



LOS ANGELES, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The Los Angeles 2024 organizerswelcomed Monday the decision by two European soccer giants,Manchester United and Real Madrid Cheap Nike Air Max 1 , to use the campus of theUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as their upcoming U.S.tour base.


LA 2024 Chairman Casey Wasserman said they were delighted thatout of all the possible venues across the U.S., "Manchester Unitedand Real Madrid chose to use LA 2024's Olympic and ParalympicVillage at UCLA as their pre-season training base. UCLA is aparadise for elite athletes - it has already produced 420 Olympiansfrom 45 countries."


"The quality of the campus means LA 2024 can offer the world'sathletes a home-from-hone with state-of-the-art facilities, whileeliminating the risk and billions of dollars in constructioninherent in building a facility from scratch. The Olympic andParalympic Village at UCLA was the logical, responsible and OlympicAgenda 2020-compliant choice for LA 2024 Cheap Nike Air Max 90 ," Wasserman said.


"UCLA is extremely proud to be welcoming these two iconic teamsand their world-class players to our campus this summer,"saidUCLA's Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.


Both European soccer teams will play pre-season matches at otherproposed LA 2024 venues during their time in Los Angeles.Manchester United will take on LA Galaxy at the StubHub Center, andSpain's European Champions, Real Madrid, will face Manchester Cityat the LA Memorial Coliseum Cheap Nike Air Max , LA 2024's athletics and ceremoniesvenue.



BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The zero-depth earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale that occurred Saturday in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is not the result of a nuclear test, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said.


The China Earthquake Administration, of which the CENC is a part, and related departments conducted studies on the infrasonic records of the earthquake and previous quakes including those provoked by nuclear tests on the Korean Peninsula. They concluded that Saturday's quake is a natural one Cheap Air Max 1 , the seismic service said.


The epicenter was at 41.36 degrees north latitude and 129.06 degrees east latitude, according to the CENC.


The epicenter was roughly the same with a similar shallow earthquake on Sept. 3, which turned out to be caused by a nuclear test by the DPRK.


Earlier, South Korea's weather agency said the quake is presumed to have been a natural one, the country's Yonhap news agency reported.


"The quake is presumed to have occurred naturally Cheap Air Max 90 ," the report quoted an agency official as saying. "A sound wave, which is usually generated in the event of an artificial earthquake, was not detected."


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MADRID， Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- One round of games in Spain's Primera Liga has come to a conclusion just as the next kicks off.


This season's fixture calendar means that match-days four， .