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Greek PM invites China to join Greeces success story
China's Premier Li Keqiang (r.) and Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras talk during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last week. Mr. Samaras is hoping to convince the Chinese to invest in Greece, which could help ease the country's debt ...
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Chinese rich buys a $5.5M mansion at ...
Star-studded: Sinatra pictured with John F Kennedy in 1961, left, and Marilyn Monroe with the crooner, right (photo/Agencies) The upscale Manhattan penthouse that legendary crooner Frank Sinatra had once called home finally has a new owner nine months after it was put up for sale. The sleek 3,200-square-foot, four-bedroom duplex at 530 East 72nd Street, was reportedly sold for $5.49million to a ...
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China demands DPRK free crew of Chine...
China is urging Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to release a Chinese fishing boat and its crew reported to have been held since May 5. Counsellor Jiang Yaxian of the Chinese Embassy in the DPRK told Xinhua news agency yesterday that Yu Xuejun, the boat's owner, called the embassy for help on May 10 and it had immediately contacted the North Korean side. The Chinese ...
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Chinese Teenager Pulls Out of US Open Qualifying
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Federal Court dismisses challenge to admission of Chinese mine workers
A Federal Court judge has dismissed a union challenge of a federal government decision to allow a B.C. coal mine to bring in 200 temporary foreign workers last year.Two union locals were granted special status last fall to challenge a bureaucrat's ruling that the Chinese workers could be hired by HD Mining International ...
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China Builds Museums But Filling Them Is Another Story
One of the highlights of the new China Art Palace in Shanghai is a giant digital rendering of a famous ancient scroll, "Along the River During Qingming Festival," which includes figures that walk and talk. The work was first presented at the 2010 World Expo in ...
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Li China India have vast room for further co-op
Li Keqiang said Tuesday. "China and India are two largest developing countries and emerging markets in the world," Li said in a speech at the Indian Council of World Affairs. "China-India relations are one of the world's most important bilateral relations in the 21st century," Li said. "Their cooperation has vast room of further development." Li urged both ...
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Why China Can Handle Social Unrest
received significant international attention because they combined two major, hot-button issues in China: environmental pollution and government corruption. But the Kunming protests were hardly unusual in China; in fact, a ...
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Scotiabank says China reevaluating Guangzhou deal
By Cameron French TORONTO | Tue May 21, 2013 4:34pm EDT TORONTO (Reuters) - Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS.TO) Chief Executive Rick Waugh said on Tuesday that Chinese authorities are reevaluating whether they want to go ahead with a deal to sell 20 percent of Bank of Guangzhou to the Canadian bank. Scotiabank, Canada's No. 3 lender, announced the C$719 million ($698.09 million) purchase ...
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Taiwan released a satellite record of the route of a fishing boat fired on by Philippine coastguards flatly rejecting Manilas allegations that the boat intruded into its waters.
Taiwan released a satellite record of the route of a fishing boat fired on by Philippine coastguards, flatly rejecting Manila's allegations that the boat intruded into its waters.The killing of crew member Hung Shih-cheng, 65, sparked outrage in Taiwan, which has announced a series of economic sanctions against the Philippines.The island's Fisheries Agency said the voyage data recorder ...
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Xi Obama to meet in California
Obama in California next month on his way back from a trip to Latin America and the Caribbean. Analysts said the arrangements for their meeting, which is informal but will be held over two days, show that relations between the two countries are mature. The China-US summit, the first since Xi took office in March, will be held at Sunnylands, on the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Estate, on June 7 ...
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Premier pays tribute to doctor
Premier Li Keqiang met Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis' relatives in Mumbai on Tuesday, remembering the doctor as a real friend to China. Dr Kotnis treated injured Chinese soldiers during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) and stayed in China until his death. Li told the doctor's relatives that he was very happy to meet them. "He came to China at the most ...
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Punishments urged for air threats
People who make fake threats to airlines could face criminal charges instead of only being detained for a few days, the Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday. The notice came after a rash of threats disrupted flights and airport operations over the past week. Suspects have been apprehended in two recent cases of multiple fake bomb threats targeting civilian flights, and public security ...
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Wrongly jailed want more compensation
/enpproperty--> The lawyer of the uncle and nephew wrongly convicted of rape and murder and jailed for 10 years believes his clients deserve more compensation after a court announced it would award the men a combined 2.21 million yuan ($360,000). "The court should give more money to make up for their losses," the lawyer, Ruan Fangmin, told China Daily on Tuesday. "I ...
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Jamaican Hurdler Thomas Second in Beijing Athletics Challenge
Beijing, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Jamaican Dwight Thomas achieved the silver medal in the 110m hurdles at the 2013 IAAF World Challenge, Beijing, taking place in this capital. Thomas achieved a time of 13.44 seconds following American David Oliver, Olympic Medalist in London 2012, current world record holder and gold medal winner with 13.16 Bronze medal for also American Jason Richardson with a ...
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PICC PC plans 5.76b yuan rights offer
Chinese State-controlled insurer PICC Property and Casualty Co Ltd (PICC P&C) is raising 5.76 billion yuan ($938 million) to bolster capital, expecting strong growth and amid signs that profitability of Chinese insurers are coming under pressure.China's property and casualty insurance market is expanding between 10 to 15 percent annually, making it the fastest growing in the world. That ...
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Is China Pushing away from Diet of U.S. Treasuries Meet the New Old-Boy Network Banks Finally Draw a Line
YahooFinance ) In February, China held $1.251 trillion in U.S. Treasuries. In March, the figure dipped to $1.250 trillion. That's a billion dollar change in a month. Is that a big deal? On the surface, it may not seem like it. But if China begins to unwind from U.S. debt at the same time the Federal Reserve scales back its quantitative easing, that combination could pose trouble for ...
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China to promote cleaner growth
/enpproperty--> China aims to promote cooperation among Asian political parties for sustainable development as Asia has become an engine of global economy but faces environmental challenges, an official of the Communist Party of China said on Tuesday. Shen Beili, director of Bureau I under the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks ahead of the opening of the ...
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Netizens question young officials rocket promotion
/enpproperty--> A Party official in East China's Jiangsu province has denied nepotism played a part in the promotion of a senior official's daughter to a top post. Yuan Huizhong, 30, was appointed deputy secretary of Yangzhou's Communist Youth League in February. The appointment raised eyebrows, as she previously only had three years of experience with township authorities. ...
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13 arrested in Beijing for rumormongering
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Police in Beijing said Tuesday that 13 people have been arrested for allegedly spreading rumors and disrupting public order by inciting a protest after a young woman's death earlier this month. A statement from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau said the woman surnamed Yuan, who fell to death from a clothing market building in Fengtai District on May ...
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Chinas Xi to meet Obama months earlier than expected
BEIJING--China's new leader Xi Jinping will confer with U.S. President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than their expected first meeting, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubled by issues from cyberspying to North ...
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China India in talks on trade strategy Li
Li Keqiang said on Tuesday in Mumbai. "There are solutions to helping the two countries maintain rapid growth in bilateral trade and investment," Li said during an evening banquet at the China-India Commercial ...
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Chinese boat skipper beaten up by North Koreans owner
BEIJING--Gunmen wearing North Korean military uniforms released a Chinese fishing boat Tuesday after holding its crew for two weeks, beating up the captain and stealing the vessel's fuel, the boat's owner said. He added that the hijackers did not get the 600,000 yuan (US$100,000) ransom they had ...
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China-Japan trade will pick up report
/enpproperty--> Economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan will get back on track if there is no further deterioration of the countries' already strained ties, leading Chinese think tanks said in an annual report released on Tuesday. The row over ...
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China rallies poultry industry as bird flu fears wane
/enpproperty--> WUHAN - Agricultural officials ate poultry products at an ongoing national animal husbandry expo in order to boost public confidence in the poultry industry, as bird flu concerns are starting to disappear. Several officials, including Li Xirong, head of the China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station and Wang Zongli, deputy head of the animal husbandry department of the ...
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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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