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Yao looks to PwC for charity credibility
/enpproperty--> The Yao Foundation, established by former NBA star Yao Ming, is aiming to enlist the help of auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers as the public calls for greater transparency in the charity sector. After a ceremony to announce a partnership with hotel company Marriott International on Wednesday, Yao said some PwC employees were working as volunteers at the Yao Foundation, which is ...
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Taiwan and China look to create unified LED light technical standard
TAIPEI -- The Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Association (TLLIA) signed a letter of intent with its Chinese counterpart in Guandong province on a proposal to jointly promote a unified technical standard for LED lighting ...
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Eslite Bookstore plans to establish its newest store in Shanghai by 15
TAIPEI -- Eslite Spectrum Corp., the operator of Taiwan's leading book chain Eslite Bookstore, announced yesterday that it would establish a foothold in Shanghai by ...
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Automotive giant GM plans to invest US$11 bil. in China
SHANGHAI--General Motors will invest US$11 billion in China through 2016, executives said Wednesday, as the U.S. car giant broke ground on a plant to produce luxury Cadillacs for the world's biggest auto ...
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HK forum to propose Taiwan China solution DPP ex-head
TAIPEI -- A forum highlighting the development of cross-straits relations and creativity will propose solutions to narrow the political differences between Taiwan and China, an official of opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said on ...
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Chinas Huawei to launch new smartphone for high-end market
SHANGHAI -- Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will launch a new smartphone on Tuesday to better compete with high-end rivals like Apple and Samsung overseas, a company official ...
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Twin lions in Barrhaven park a ‘monument’ to Chinese-Canada relations
OTTAWA -- Two Chinese guardian lion sculptures were "awoken" Wednesday morning in a Barrhaven park as a symbol of the neighbourhood's large Chinese community, and Ottawa's close ties to the Asian country.The two, 2,000-kilogram white marble statues stand at the entrance of the recently renamed Water Dragon Park on Chapman Mills Drive. They were met by about 100 people from ...
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Ex-Communist Party of China official executed for child rapes state media reports
The case of Li Xingpong, the former deputy Communist Party chief of Yongcheng city, caused an uproar online after police said he had raped 11 girls, all under age 18, since the latter half of 2011. Abuse of power by Communist Party officials has long been a central cause of online activists, and Li's case was seen by some as emblematic of the problem. In response, the government has ...
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Skeptics on China might be right but timing is a hurdle too
Take a banking system that is opaque at best. Add a global financial community well-versed in signs of stress following the 2008 meltdown in the West - and one that is on the lookout for them. Thus each twitch in a system - say, the spike in China's interbank rates - is a fresh fill-in-the-blank opportunity for China Cassandras to press their favourite theory of ...
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The yacht indicator Chinese mogul splashes out
Wanda Chairman Wang Jianlin, third from left, toasts near British Ambassador to China Sebastian Wood, third from right during a Dalian Wanda Group event at a hotel in Beijing, China, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Chinese property and cinema conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said it is buying British yacht maker Sunseeker and will develop an upmarket London hotel, expanding into the luxury market as ...
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Anti-Pervert Tights Become Internet Sensation in China
These days, girls in China can keep perverts away by wearing "full-leg-of-hair stockings" in public. At least that's what an advertisement says on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. When a girl dons a pair of these tights, her legs look as hairy as a man's – or hairier. Netizens passed around images of these furry stockings, which became one of the most ...
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Human Rights Activist Discloses Fellow Dissident Du Bin’s Whereabouts
Du Jirong, sister of human rights activist Du Bin, holds up a sign saying "Du Bin is innocent." outside the Fengtai District Public Security Bureau. (China Human Rights ...
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Cancer top killer in Beijing for sixth straight year 8550 diagnosed daily nationwide
Cancer was the major cause of death for Beijing residents for the sixth consecutive year, according to a white paper issued by Beijing Municipal Health Bureau Tuesday. The white paper on Beijing residents' health conditions in 2012 also showed the second and third killers are heart and cerebrovascular diseases, which, along with cancer, caused 73.3 percent of total deaths. Lung cancer, the ...
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Chinas Hunger For Pork Will Impact The U.S. Meat Industry
Smithfield Foods Inc., the world's largest pork producer by sales volume, has agreed to be acquired by Shuanghui International Holdings, a privately owned meat processing company headquartered in China, for $7.1 billion including debt, valuing the company's equity at $34 per share. Although the deal still needs to receive shareholder and regulatory approvals, we believe it can have a ...
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UN chief hails Chinas peacekeepers
The courage and solidarity of Chinese troops on UN peacekeeping missions around the world has been praised by the organization's chief. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for his sixth visit to China. He said xie xie -- thank you in Chinese -- many times at the peacekeeping center of the Ministry of National Defense, noting that China has made great ...
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Space lesson to reach millions
/enpproperty--> More than 60 million students and teachers at China's 80,000 middle schools will experience a special class delivered by China's first teacher in space from more than 300 kilometers above Earth's surface. Female astronaut Wang Yaping will carry out fundamental physics experiments onboard the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module at around 10 am on Thursday, the ...
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Foreign buyers eye Chinese drones
aviation defense products in China and has a strong presence in the military aircraft market. It belongs to Aviation Industry Corp of China, the country's leading aircraft manufacturer. Established in 1909, the Paris Air Show is held every odd-numbered year at Le Bourget Airport in north Paris. This year's show started on Monday and will last through Sunday. Ma said clients' ...
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Paul B. Farrell New China billionaires blowing massive bubbles
Billionaires have mastered this rule passed down from the great Chinese Buddhist masters: To be truly happy, they focus on money, block everything outside that Eternal Now, at least till you become a billionaire and can sign ...
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China Vietnam agree to set up hotline to resolve fishing incidents in South China Sea
BEIJING, China - China and Vietnam agreed on Wednesday to set up a hotline to resolve fishing incidents in disputed South China Sea waters that have been a frequent source of tensions between the two ideological allies. The two countries' agriculture ministers signed the agreement in Beijing. No details were immediately available. China claims virtually the entire South China Sea and its ...
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Number of dead rose to 120 at a Chinese poultry slaughterhouse fire…
BEIJING - The death toll from a poultry factory fire in northeast of China rose to 120 on Tuesday.The fire broke out early Monday morning at a slaughterhouse owned by the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company in Mishazi Township of Dehui City which is about 100 km northeast of the provincial capital Changchun and about 800 km northeast of Beijing.It was added, at least 120 people died and the number ...
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Why China hates its mens national soccer team
Referee Chris Beath shows a yellow card to China's Zhang Linpeng, right, during a friendly soccer match between China and Netherlands held at the Worker's Stadium in Beijing, China, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Netherlands won 2-0. (Alexander Yuan, Associated Press) How much does soccer-loving China hate its men's national team? The mostly empty hotel lobby that greeted the team on ...
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The PLA has has much bigger concerns in Hong Kong than what to do about Edward Snowden
East-Asia-Intel.com The case of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden has drawn the world's attention to the extent to which Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership can influence the decision of the authorities of the Hong Kong special administrative region ...
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At start of visit to China UN chief highlights partnership for peace stability
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discussed a range topics central to the agenda of the United Nations regarding peace and security, human rights and development, as well as the situation in Syria and the Korean peninsula. In talks with President Xi Jinping, Mr. ...
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China has 570000 orphans most outside govt welfare system
China had some 570,000 orphans by the end of 2012, an increase of 11 percent on the same period of last year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said Wednesday in an annual report. Only 95,000 of all orphans were being raised by government-funded welfare agencies, while the remainder was taken care of either by relatives or by privately owned orphanages."The government has put a stop to ...
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Snowden adrift in Hong Kong provides tough dilemmas for all involved
For more than 40 years, the US has ensnarled itself in a tradition of "exposure for the public good." It started in early 1970s with a defense analyst named Daniel Ellsberg leaking the so-called "Pentagon Papers," exposing the deliberately misleading US policy vis--vis the Vietnam War.This was soon followed by the captivating series of unbelievably detailed write-ups by two ...
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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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