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China, India return to long-delayed border talks

A long-delayed round of sensitive border talks between Chinese and Indian diplomats will take place in India from today. State Councillor Dai Bingguo and Indian National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon will attend the 15th meeting between special representatives on Sino-Indian border issues. The countries share a 2,000-kilometre border that has never been formally delimited. The talks were cancelled in November after reports that Beijing objected to a scheduled speech in New Delhi by the Dalai Lama.

Apple announces move on electronic textbooks

Apple is to make an education-related announcement at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, pushing further into a market it penetrated early on with computers that won a following among students and schools. The event will focus on electronic textbooks, the company said. It will be the first event hosted by the company since co-founder Steve Jobs died in October.

Beijing turns focus from economy to city's services

The Beijing municipal people's congress concludes its annual plenum tomorrow. It is set to adopt a development plan for the year that focuses the city's overall goal on improving the quality of its services, with less importance assigned to economic output and more given to human interests, innovation and environmental protection. That means greater efforts are planned to alleviate the notorious inner-city traffic congestion.

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