Zhao Ping, a researcher at the Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, told China Daily that due to their rising income levels, an increasing number of Chinese people are paying more attention to healthy eating, bringing new perceptions toward foreign fast-food brands.

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In January, Slim and Khan announced in Mexico City that the Carlos Slim Foundation and Khan Academy had signed an agreement of cooperation to allow students, teachers, researchers and others in Mexico and Latin America to get access to education and training courses by translating them into Spanish.

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As regards the creation of new knowledge, a wide range of public and private regulations now curb cooperation among research scientists in the industry, the academy, and government.

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We have now taken a major step in this direction and will use our know-how in an international cooperation, which involves our colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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One partner of this initiative is the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), who in 2005 signed a cooperation agreement with UNESCO through the Joint Research Laboratory of Remote Sensing for Archaeology.

UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

The organizers are: The Russian Academy for Public Administration, under the President of the Russian Federation, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, the UNESCO Network of Chairs on Intercultural and Inter-religious Dialogue and the UNESCO Moscow Office.

UNESCO: CULTURA

Promoting North-South and South-South cooperation is at the root of the strategy of the Programme that is being carried in partnership with the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), scientific unions of the International Council for Science (ICSU), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and other science centres, IGOs and NGOs.

UNESCO: 6th Meeting of IBSP Scientific Board