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Kenyas Beijing 1500 champion makes comeback in New York league
Beijing Olympic 1,500m champion Nancy Jebet Lagat and London 800m winner David Rudisha led a group of Kenyan athletes heading to New York for the Diamond league meet on Saturday.Whereas Rudisha, will be one of the biggest stars in the Adidas Grand Prix, which is third stop in the 2013 IAAF Diamond League, the return to action of Lagat has tilted the equation over the four lap race."I have ...
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China to host 1st arena football training camp
Ganlan Media International (Beijing) Co., Ltd.(GMI) said in Beijing on Wednesday that China's First American Arena Football Coach/Referee Training Camp will be held on May 27-31 in the Beijing Sports University.This is the first time that Arena Football League (AFL) comes to China to hold a professional training camp, and which marks American Arena Football is officially coming to China.GMI ...
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US expecting strong bookings from China
Increasingly strong bookings from China to the United States have been forecast through the third quarter of 2013, according to a new study. For the first quarter of the year 81 percent of tour operators surveyed projected an increase in bookings from China to the US, according to the Travel Market Insights Travel Trade Barometer. Second quarter estimates were even higher, with 87 percent ...
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Galaxy Securities debuts in Hong Kong
Hong Kong on Wednesday after having to cancel its launch ceremony due to storms. The stock rose on its first day of trading. The firm's chairman Chen You'an is upbeat about growth ahead. For Galaxy Securities, Wednesday's storm in Hong Kong was like a parable of Chinese brokerages' ...
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Nutritious meals sicken 500 in NW China schools
/enpproperty--> XINING - A total of 548 students fell ill after consuming milk and biscuits in schools in Northwest China's Qinghai province on Wednesday, local authorities said. The food poisoning incident involved primary and middle school pupils in seven townships in Hui-Tu autonomous county of Datong, and about a dozen of them were in serious condition, said a statement from the ...
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Beijing to hold taxi price hike hearing
/enpproperty--> Beijing will hold a taxi price hearing on Thursday to address drivers' complaints over low income and make it easier for people to hail a cab, chinanews.com reported. According to a plan released by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform on May 7, the base fare will go up from 10 yuan ($1.6) to 13 yuan for the first 3 km. The rate per km after the ...
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PM2.5 emerging as major pollutant in Shanghai
The PM2.5 particles are becoming a major pollutant in the city, surpassing former culprits like sulfur and nitrogen dioxides, Shanghai officials said ...
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Art Basel in Hong Kong to kick off
A visitor walks past an exhibit during the exhibition Art Basel in Hong Kong, in south China's Hong Kong, May 22, 2013. Art Basel in Hong Kong, the latest leg of the international circuit, will kick off here on Thursday. [Xinhua/Lui Siu ...
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Beijing offers electric cars
Based at Tsinghua University Science Park in Haidian district, it was initiated by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Technology and launched on ...
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Chinas premier offers to help end Pakistan energy crisis
China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the economy to a near standstill. Li arrived in the Pakistan capital under extra-tight security on Wednesday on the second leg of his first official trip since taking office in March and ...
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Philippines to send probe team to Taiwan
Taipei has approved Manila's request to send investigators to Taiwan to examine evidence and interview witnesses to the May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards. But Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Wednesday declined to tell reporters when a team from the National Bureau of Investigation would leave for Taiwan. "It will be very soon but we don't ...
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Li moots China-Pak eco corridor
Li Keqiang on Wednesday linked growth in his country's restive west with that in sluggish Pakistan, saying the two sides wanted to create an "economic corridor" to boost development. Li, on his first overseas trip since taking over in a once-in-a-decade power transfer in Beijing, congratulated Pakistan on its recent general election and hailed the countries' long-standing ...
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Hang Seng Shanghai open lower
(14 mins ago) Stocks in Hong Kong opened 0.81 percent lower, reflecting falls on Wall Street after the US Federal Reserve hinted it could soon start to ease its policy of aggressive stimulus measures. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 189.05 points to 23,072.03 in the first minutes of trade. Stocks in Shanghai were down 0.44 percent in early trade ahead of the release of HSBC's ...
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Hong Kong stocks drop before China factory data
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong stocks dropped early Thursday as concerns that the Federal Reserve was considering winding down its bond purchases weighed on sentiment, with investors also cautious ahead of a preliminary reading on Chinese manufacturing activity in May. The Hang Seng ...
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Machines help turn trash into treasure
/enpproperty--> The Beijing Subway's Line 10 will soon have "reverse vending machines", which will pay customers for their empty plastic bottles. After customers put their empty bottles into the machines, the devices identify and compact the bottles, and customers have their monetary reward scanned into their transportation cards. The refrigerator-sized machines, about 40 in ...
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Thirteen arrested for mall rumors
Thirteen people have been arrested on charges of spreading rumors and disturbing public order in the protests that followed the death of a female migrant worker in Beijing earlier this month, police in the capital's Fengtai district have announced. "Their behavior led to serious social consequences," a statement by the police said on Wednesday. On May 3, 22-year-old Yuan Liya, a ...
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Press Digest - China - May 23
Wed May 22, 2013 9:34pm EDT May 23 (Reuters) - Chinese newspapers available in Beijing and Shanghai carried the following stories on Thursday. Reuters has not checked the stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. CHINA SECURITIES JOURNAL -- Combined profits at China's state-owned enterprises rose 5.3 percent to 689 billion yuan ($112.38 billion) in the first four months of 2013 from a ...
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Hong Kong shares to open down 0.8 pct Chinese financials slide
HONG KONG | Wed May 22, 2013 9:25pm EDT HONG KONG May 23 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares were poised for a weaker start on Thursday, with Chinese financials weak ahead of the HSBC China flash purchasing managers' index for May that could offer fresh clues on the world's second-largest economy. The Hang Seng Index was set to open down 0.8 percent at 23,066.7. The China Enterprises ...
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Elusive pandas caught on camera in China habitat
A giant panda in the Wang Lang Natural Reserve in Sichuan province, was captured by a camera trap set up by the World Wildlife Fund and its local partners as part of an effort to obtain footage of endangered species in ...
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Netizens slam 100-yuan fine to 2 foreigners for peeing on road
Two of the six foreigners who were pictured urinating on an elevated highway in downtown Shanghai in March have been identified and fined 100 yuan (US$16.3) each, officials said ...
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2 mini-spider species found in SW China
Two new minute spider species with oversized rumps have been discovered in southwest China, according to a new study published in the open access journal ...
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Hong Kong shares may start weaker ahead of China flash PMI
HONG KONG | Wed May 22, 2013 9:05pm EDT HONG KONG May 23 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares could start weaker on Thursday, tracking Wall Street losses and ahead of the HSBC China flash purchasing managers' index for May that could offer fresh clues on the world's second-largest economy. Lenovo is due to post quarterly earnings later in the day, while Sinopec Engineering is due to ...
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US China can jointly tackle global challenges
/enpproperty--> WASHINGTON - US and China can cooperate more to resolve a range of challenges to advance global economic recovery, said Tung Chee Hwa, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's political advisory body, here Wednesday. Over the past few decades, the economic relationship between the United ...
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Argentina calling Chinese firms
China, Argentina vow to enhance ties " (China Daily, May 11) Argentina can substantially increase the output of its agricultural products such as soybeans, corn, wheat and other food grains. Besides, it is already a major producer of beef and dairy products. Chinese companies should, therefore, think of starting large-scale joint ventures to produce non-genetically modified soybeans, ...
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China-Pakistan bond unbreakable premier
The relationship between China and Pakistan is unbreakable, and the two neighbors are intent on deepening their strategic cooperation, visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here ...
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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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