China will also be contributing technical expertise and equipment in the future

Society has become much more insular, and people are more focused on themselves and their toys

According to the US Department of Agriculture, global production of sugar is up 9 million tons to a record of 180 million metrics tons a year and consumption hovers at the 172 million metric ton level, also a record high level

It was reported that she had fled to Dubai where her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, lives in self-imposed exile avoiding a 2008 sentence for corruption

In 2002, she became the first person from her country to receive China's Friendship Award, the highest honor given to foreigners by the central government