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Oliver tops 110m hurdles at World Challenge Beijing
With the absence of Chinese star Liu Xiang, American David Oliver topped the men's 110-metre hurdles at the 2013 IAAF World Challenge Beijing here, while China's Li Jinzhe continued his good form and grabbed a second win in the men's long jump. Oliver, bronze medallist in the event at the 2008 Beijing Games, held off the challenge of London Olympic runner-up Jason Richardson and Jamaica's ...
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`China-Pakistan have all-weather strategic ties
Li Keqiang left India for Pakistan Wednesday, the second stop of his first overseas trip as China's premier. Xinhua described the Islamabad-Beijing ties as an "all-weather strategic partnership". It is worth noting that Li is the first foreign leader to visit Pakistan in the wake of the country's general elections, Xinhua said in a commentary. The two "firsts" testified to the "all-weather ...
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Tesco closes Shanghai superstore owner refused to renew lease
A 10-year-old Tesco store in Shanghai will be closed in the end of May, the UK retailer Tesco Group announced Wednesday, shortly after rival Wal-Mart Stores Inc shut down three superstores in the Chinese mainland in April. The property owner has no intents of renewing the lease contract, so the firm decided to close the supermarket on May 31, an PR representative with Tesco China, who wished to ...
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La Tagliatella Opens Second Location in Shanghai China
SHANGHAI, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AmRest HK Limited, a HK Company, recently celebrated the grand opening of its second La Tagliatella Italian restaurant in Shanghai, China. Built just behind the Oriental Pearl Radio and TV Tower, one of China's most iconic modern structures, the new La Tagliatella features a breathtaking location along the Huangpu River. The physical address of the ...
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Six face extortion charges in China for sex-video scandal
Chinese authorities have charged six people with extortion in connection with a scandal involving secretly recorded sex videos, prosecutors said Wednesday. The six are accused of luring officials in the southwestern city of Chongqing into having sex with women and secretly recording the encounters to blackmail the officials, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported. The suspects were ...
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Durian pizza a hit in Shanghai
A restaurant in Shanghai is offering affluent middle-class Chinese with a growing taste for the exotic a popular, if unusual, dish - pizza with a Thai durian ...
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Hershey Opens Asia Innovation Center in Shanghai
Innovation a key driver for Hershey's Asia growth As part of the company's strategy to drive global growth and innovation, The Hershey Company ( ) today announced the opening of its new Asia Innovation Center located in Shanghai, China. Hershey's new Asia Innovation Center, located at the Jinqiao Golden Bridge Research Park in the Pudong District of Shanghai, is a ...
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Shanghai Copper Closes Marginally Higher
The concerns of Chinese demand are well known though the prices posted a confident face at the time of closing. Shanghai August expiry contract closed at 53730 yuan per tonne on Wednesday, up 350 yuan per tonne.LME Copper three month futures gain is most likely to have boosted Copper in China. LME Copper was trading at $ 7463 per tonne, though it was below $ 7400 per tonne levels at the early ...
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Heavy metal with a political message from Ai Weiwei
The Chinese artist and political campaigner releases a music video for his heavy metal single Dumbass, which reconstructs the 81 days he spent detained by the ...
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Hang Seng Shanghai close lower
(1 min ago) Stocks in Hong Kong closed down 0.45 percent despite a strong lead from Wall Street, as dealers awaited testimony by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on the economic outlook. The benchmark Hang Seng Index lost 105.29 points to 23,261 on turnover of HK$52.41 billion. Trading began in the city todat at 1pm after a delay over a severe rainstorm warning. Stocks in Shanghai ...
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The Bund opened little changed
technical factors to guide trading. So both the Bund and the US Treasuries went South in early US trading, approaching the recent, sell-off lows. However, no break occurred and helped ...
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Man commits suicide after killing wife son in Jiangsus Wuxi
A family quarrel escalated into a violent attack when a man killed his wife, one-year-old son and himself on Tuesday in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, local media reported today. The couple started quarrelling around noon and soon began to fight each other. Both were highly agitated and locked the door to fill their apartment with coal gas, neighbors said. Around 2:30pm, the wife was seen ...
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Road cave-in kills five people in China
A road in south China's Guangdong province caved in, killing at least five people, authorities said. The incident Tuesday occurred at the Huamao industrial park in Shenzen, a major city in the province in the southern tip of mainland China. Guangdong, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macau, has been hit by major flooding caused by heavy rainstorms that have claimed at least 33 lives. At the road ...
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Eastday-Shanghai workers cash in despite slow economy
Feng said China was aging rapidly due to its one-child policy and has begun to lose its demographic dividend, resulting in labor shortage and insufficient young workers.To some extent, their salary expectations are lower than locals and migrant workers are more hardworking as they want to survive in the city," Feng ...
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Profit-taking weighs on Shanghai
(49 mins ago) Stocks in Shanghai were down slightly in early trade due to profit-taking, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.13 percent, or 3.05 points, to ...
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Op-Ed Contributor Chinas Brutal One-Child Policy
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Extensive gold reserves discovered in northwest China
Geologists in China say they've found gold reserves in a northwestern province that could be worth $32 billion to the country's economy. The discovery was made in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the country's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. The gold deposit in Xinyuan County in the Ili Valley is estimated to contain at least 53 tons, Zeng Xiaogang, ...
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Freed boat to continue fishing in Yellow Sea
The private Chinese fishing boat freed by Pyongyang this morning after 12 days of detention will continue its operations in China's waters off the Yellow Sea, its owner said on Tuesday. Yu Xuejun, who was not on board, said that all the fishermen are safe and are returning without ransom having been paid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The boat's captain called Yu ...
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Shanghai to allow chicken again
/enpproperty--> With no new confirmed cases of the H7N9 virus on the Chinese mainland for more than a week, Shanghai is planning to allow cold-processed poultry meat onto the market by the end of May, giving the heavily hit poultry industry a chance at ...
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Shanghai Film Festival jury announced
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Shanghai International Film Festival has announced the list of jurors who will join British filmmaker Tom Hooper in choosing the winner of its official competition next month, The Hollywood Reporter said. Czech master Jiri Menzel, German director Chris Kraus, Iranian filmmaker Khosro Masoumi and French critic Michel Ciment will be in Shanghai from May 16 to 25 alongside ...
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Chinese troops suffering post-traumatic stress disorder in Tibet
The battle to keep Tibetans under control is inflicting severe psychological damage on Chinese armed police, an internal training document has ...
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Shanghai ISSON Power Quality Co. Ltd. Deploys Maxwell Technologies Ultracapacitors To Power Yangshan Deep-Water Port Electric Cranes
), a leading developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor-based energy storage products, today announced Shanghai ISSON Power Quality Co., Ltd. installed 126 of ...
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Shanghai office seeks to increase engagement
Shanghai Innovation Office (SIO) has hosted high-level delegations, coordinated conferences that have brought together Wisconsin and Chinese experts from academia as well as from the public and private sectors, and facilitated collaborative agreements. As UW–Madison moves to further strengthen connections in China, faculty and staff across campus are being encouraged to pursue new ideas ...
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Shanghai looking ahead to future
Shanghai is the commercial capital of China and the most populous city in the People’s Republic, with origins as a small fishing village, the city has grown into a global city with fingers that stretch across the world, exerting global influence over international cultural, commercial and political scenes. With major projects and programs underway, the future looks bright for Shanghai.
It was recently reported by international, Chinese and Shanghai news media that China had eclipsed Japan as the second-largest economy in the world. China’s GDP and economic activity has surpassed that of Japan for many decades, but the announcement was made on the back of a range of factors including imports and exports and the human development index within major cities such as Shanghai. Read more
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