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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 1000 GMT, Dec. 1

Xinhua, December 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese media company StarTimes on Wednesday launched a satellite digital television project in Kenya as part of its long-term agenda to bridge rural-urban information gap in the East African nation.

According to StarTimes, the southwestern Kenyan county of Kajiado will pilot the project that has given over 120 households in Saina Village free access to the StarTimes digital television service. The project will seek to benefit over 30 percent of Kenyans living in areas with limited or no access to the digital terrestrial signal. (Kenya-China-TV)

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LONDON -- Times Higher Education (THE) on Wednesday reveals its BRICS & Emerging Economies University Rankings 2017. China's institutions dominate, taking seven of the top 10 places, led by Peking University (1st) and Tsinghua University (2nd), and 77 in the ranking overall.

Accounting for one in six of universities in the ranking, the Chinese mainland is home to the highest density of leading institutions in the developing world with 52 universities in the list. (UK-China-Universities)

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PARIS -- China's economic reforms are effective on several fronts as the reduction of cost of business and the modification of fiscal system, an economist of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said.

OECD's indicator shows that in the past three years, the cost of starting a business has been reduced substantially in China, while the administrative procedures that the firms have to go through when registered have been eased a lot in the country, the head of China Desk of Economics Department of the OECD Margit Molnar said in a recent interview with Xinhua. (OECD-China-Reforms)

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UNITED NATIONS -- A Chinese envoy Wednesday called on the international community to make efforts along four tracks -- ceasefire, political negotiation, humanitarian assistance and joint fight against terrorism -- to ease tensions in Syria's northern city of Aleppo.

Wu Haitao, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, made the appeal at a Security Council meeting on Syria.

Wu noted that recently there is a steady escalation of situation in some parts of Syria including Aleppo with the humanitarian situation there steadily worsening. (China-UN-Syria Crisis) Endi