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Treat Hong Kong for HKs sake or the karma will never end
/enpproperty--> Richard Hughes's Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time: Hong Kong and Its Many Faces must be one of the most mentioned books among the city's intelligentsia. Few take the trouble to read it, but we have all heard of it because the title and especially Hong Kong's "many faces" both past and present are so full of diversified meanings that it is forever ...
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Netanyahu Arrives in China
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began an official visit to China Monday despite tensions back home following the alleged Israeli airstrikes on Syrian weapons storage facilities. Israeli commentators said it was important for Netanyahu to maintain his plans to signal that Israel is continuing its business as usual. Netanyahu did delay his departure slightly Sunday ...
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Half of The Rice in Guangzhou Is Polluted
Jeff Chiu/AP The latest in China's rolling cascade of food safety disasters comes from Guangzhou -- the capital of Guangdong province in southern China, and one of China's largest cities -- where 44 percent of rice samples were found to ...
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With wary eye on the U.S. China courts India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, smiling and effusive, was out to smooth ruffled feathers in India this week, promising to ease tensions and increase trade between Asia's fastest growing economies in his first trip overseas since taking ...
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Chinas bird flu outbreak cost $6.5 billion
GENEVA (Reuters) - The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some $6.5 billion in losses to the economy, U.N. experts said on ...
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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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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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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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