Pharmacists pack and sell Chinese medicine at the Hu Qingyutang Chinese Medicine Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. [Photo by Feng Chonglin/chinadaily.com.cn] BEIJING - China will roll out a host of measures to boost development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), according to a statement issued by the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The administration vowed to further regulate TCM health care services, and to greatly improve the capacity and system of technological innovation in TMC. Efforts will also be made to further standardize the TCM industry and expedite the fourth national survey on medicinal resources in the country. It's necessary to focus on training of TCM professionals as well, according to the statement. Standards should be worked out for establishing overseas TCM centers, so as to expand foreign exchanges and cooperation in TCM, especially with countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative. debossed wristbandfigured wristbandfigured wristbandsnew rubber band braceletscustom bracelets toronto
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media inside the parliament premises on the first day of the budget session, in New Delhi, India, January 29, 2018. [Photo/Agencies] NEW DELHI - Indian police on Sunday detained as many as 24 lawmakers from a regional party for holding a sit-in protest outside the official residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital. The lawmakers of regional Telegu Desam Party (TDP) staged the protest, demanding special status for the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. We have detained the TDP lawmakers for protesting outside the prime minister's residence. However, no cases have been slapped on them. All the lawmakers will be freed later in the day, a senior police official said. TDP last month pulled out of India's ruling coalition led by Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and unsuccessfully attempted to bring in a no-confidence motion against the government in the Parliament over the latter's refusal to grant special status to Andhra Pradesh. N. Chandrababu Naidu, the TDP chief and the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, has been furious over the Indian government's refusal to grant the southern state special status as promised after Telangana was carved out of it in 2014. Andhra Pradesh is to go to polls next year and opposition parties are upping the ante against the deprivation.
