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Wuhan issues China's first commercial license for autonomous cars
Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province, issued the country's first commercial licenses to companies for trials of driverless vehicles in open road conditions.
The companies–including Baidu, Haylion Technologies and DeepBlue Technology–received licenses from the Wuhan traffic authority and will be allowed to conduct trials in designated areas of a 28-kilometer road and start commercial operations.
Powered by multi-functional traffic monitor poles that stand every few hundred meters, the driverless vehicles can reduce time lapses to milliseconds and improve the precision of positioning to centimeters.
The poles are equipped with 5G wireless technology and China's domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. (CGTN)
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Huawei CFO returns to Canadian court
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, returned to a Canadian court for a hearing on Monday.
This is Meng’s first court appearance since May. In this eight-day hearing, her defense team will seek more information and documents about her arrests at Vancouver airport in December.
A Huawei spokesman said it would “not be appropriate” to provide detailed comments at this time, but reiterated the belief that the Canadian judicial process will ascertain Meng’s innocence.
Previous court records showed Meng’s extradition hearing is set to begin in January 2020. (People's Daily app)
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Turkish, US presidents hold talks on Syria, bilateral issues over phone
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed regional developments and the Syrian issue in a phone call with his US counterpart Donald Trump on Sunday.
Erdogan told reporters that he would discuss with Trump the US continued support for Syrian Kurdish fighters which his country considers as terrorists.
Last month, Turkey and the US agreed to set up a safe zone in northeastern Syria that would ease Turkey's security concerns and develop a peace corridor to facilitate the safe return of refugees to their homeland.
Erdogan is in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. (Xinhua)
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Chinese blood pump to be tested in US
A blood pump that deploys magnetic levitation technology to better support heart function has been developed by a medical device company in Suzhou, Jiangsu province and will begin clinical trials in the United States next year, according to researchers.
The lemon-sized machine, also known as a left ventricular assist device, is implanted in a patient with a critical heart condition and assists in pumping blood.
It has been used in at least nine trial surgeries led by experts from Beijing's Fuwai Hospital, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
He Xin, a patient who received the device in China, said that he is now able to climb stairs and walk for hundreds of meters. In the past, he had to take long breaks after walking short distances.
The domestically developed device holds the potential to benefit even more patients with heart problems in China, cardiology experts said. (China Daily)
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Nissan paying $15M, Ghosn $1M to settle US fraud charges
Nissan will pay $15 million and former chairman Carlos Ghosn will pay $1 million to settle allegations by U.S. regulators that they hid more than $140 million of Ghosn’s retirement benefits from investors.
Ghosn led Nissan for two decades and rescued it from the brink of bankruptcy.
He was arrested by Japanese authorities in Tokyo and jailed four times since November.
Ghosn’s successor, Hiroto Saikawa, resigned earlier this month after acknowledging he had received questionable income payments linked to the company’s stock price. (AP)
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Indonesian forest fires putting 10 million children at risk: UN
Indonesian forest fires are putting nearly 10 million children at risk from air pollution, the United Nations warned Tuesday, as scientists said the blazes were releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases.
The fires have been spewing toxic haze over Southeast Asia in recent weeks, closing schools and airports, with people rushing to buy face masks and seek medical treatment for respiratory ailments.
Jakarta has deployed tens of thousands of personnel and water-bombing aircraft to tackle the slash-and-burn blazes set to clear agricultural land. The fires are an annual problem but this year are the worst since 2015 due to dry weather. (AFP)
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Chinese official attends 70th anniversary commemoration of Geneva Conventions
And Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said 196 countries have acceded to the Geneva Conventions, conveying the belief that peace and tranquility are always the goal of mankind.
He made the comments at the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Wang said China has always taken an active part in international humanitarian responsibility and has helped more than 100 countries tide over humanitarian crises. (Xinhua)
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