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China will grow relatively quickly for a long time, and its market will be open and fair, President Xi Jinping said on Monday, soothing fears over the Chinese economy.

Meeting more than 30 foreign and domestic business leaders at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2013, Xi said China's market potential is huge thanks to the country's rapid agricultural modernization, industrialization and urbanization.

"China's economy will go upwards instead of downwards for a long time," Xi said.

Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady of British politics who died on Monday at 87, played a key role in China’s relationship with the United Kingdom, especially in the peaceful handover of Hong Kong, experts said.

Britain’s first and only female prime minister, Thatcher died peacefully at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family announced. She governed Britain from 1979 to 1990.

Even though only a few customers go to Xiao Huang-biao's food stand each day, the Taiwan native does not regret coming to the Chinese mainland to seek his fortune.

Xiao, 52, arrived on the mainland from his hometown of Kaohsiung five years ago. In 2012, he opened a snack stand selling southern Taiwan food in Pingtan county, Fujian province, where his wife comes from.

Information technology (IT) is all about innovation. Vish Iyer can’t agree more.

Mobility, social media and big data are all hot-button topics. Cloud computing frees up people from the desk, so an IT system can be managed even on the road. “For a bank, it could be payment via Internet banking or mobile phone,” says the high-flying corporate executive, dapper in a light purple shirt.

George Quek is a hard man to pin down, given his jam-packed schedule of meetings and traveling. Weeks and several postponed meetings later, China Daily Asia Weekly finally sits down with the man behind one of the biggest food and beverage (F&B) empires in Singapore.

Despite his hectic schedule, Quek has a Zen-like aura, not unlike the art masters he admires. Running his business empire takes up most of his time these days.

Laurence Lien’s path was set by the time he was 19. He had just completed his pre-university studies and had won an Overseas Merit Scholarship from the Public Service Commission. Four years later, he bagged a Singapore Government Scholarship. The prestigious scholarships stand testament to Lien’s abilities. After completing a bachelor’s degree in Oxford University, Lien returned to Singapore and began his career in the civil service.

Chinese officials expressed confidence in curbing the H7N9 strain of bird flu, citing how the country has built capacity to deal with epidemics since the SARS outbreak.

However, the possibility of the virus being transmitted between humans cannot be ruled out, a World Health Organization official said.

Michael O'Leary, the WHO's China representative, said such a possibility remains despite no one in close contact with the first human H7N9 cases having tested positive for the strain.

Officers and soldiers from the People's Liberation Army navy are well prepared and determined to protect China's territorial integrity and marine interests, said naval officers stationed on the frontier island of Zhongjian in the South China Sea.

"Last year when I came home I told my wife that if there will be a war, I must fulfill my duties in my position," Qiu Hua, an officer from the naval garrison that guards the island, told China Daily.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is looking to breathe new life into dormant Middle East peace talks in meetings on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, amid talk of modifying a decade-old Arab plan that's long been greeted with skepticism by the Jewish state.

Pyongyang suspended its sole remaining major project with Seoul on Monday after weeks of threats against the United States and the Republic of Korea, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said any nuclear conflict may make Chernobyl look like a fairy tale.

Pyongyang said on Monday it will suspend operations at the Kaesong industrial complex, pulling out more than 53,000 workers and moving closer to severing its last economic link with the ROK.

Becoming a man is hard work, even for an Olympic champion.

Just ask Sun Yang.

After being punished for violating team rules and quarreling with coach Zhu Zhigen in February, Sun found himself dealing with the controversy yet again at last week's National Championships, where more than 80 reporters and numerous fans gathered at the National Games' preliminary meet to follow Sun's first race since the incident with Zhu.

Sun responded with four freestyle titles and two season-best times, and said he wants to repair his tarnished image.

Trading of live poultry suspended following deaths, report Shan Juan and He Na in Beijing, and Wang Hongyi in Shanghai.

Few stalls were open on Sunday in Shanghai's Wanshang flower and bird market in the wake of deaths from the H7N9 strain of bird flu. Sunday is usually the busiest day of the week as bird lovers of all ages wander around and listen to the chorus of thousands of birds.

On April 6, the local government ordered the suspension of all trading in live poultry and pet birds, but so far there has been no official directive to close the market.