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McDonald to Add 1300 Outlets in China

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Apr 01, 2016 07:12 AM EDT

Fast food giant McDonald's is planning to add 1,300 restaurants to its existing 2,200 over the next five years.

China-led AIIB to Loan $500 Million to India for Solar Energy Expansion

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Apr 01, 2016 07:11 AM EDT

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), where India is the second biggest shareholder after China, is looking to raise $500 million to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to expand the country's solar capacity to 100 gigawatts by 2022.

Asian female Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Manager discussing diet with Asian male person with diabetes

151 million expected to have diabetes in China by 2040

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Mar 31, 2016 11:41 AM EDT

The swelling trend of diabetes is a foremost concern for China as close to 100 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes, which is highest in the world as per the data released by International diabetes federation (IDF). According to IDF, the number of diabetes cases has increased rapidly in recent years and is projected to reach 151 million by 2040 in the country. There are almost 500 million more people, suffer from so-called “prediabetes”—a stage where blood sugar levels are high, but not high enough to trigger a diagnosis—indicating what the IDF calls “the enormity of diabetes as a public health problem in China”. A study by IDF also says that 13% of medical expenditures in China are directly caused by diabetes.

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