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Hong Kong shares extend losses after China flash PMI falls
HONG KONG | Wed May 22, 2013 10:21pm EDT HONG KONG May 23 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares sank deeper into the red on Thursday and looked set for a third-straight loss after a preliminary private survey of May manufacturing activity in China came in at a seven-month low. Financial, materials and energy counters led the slide after China's HSBC flash purchasing managers' index (PMI) ...
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Huge sinkhole kills 5 factory workers in China
Five factory workers were killed when a sinkhole measuring 10 metres in diameter opened outside an industrial park in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese town near Hong ...
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China-UNIDO cooperation exhibition opens in Vienna
The exhibition to mark the 40 years of cooperation between China and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) , was held in Vienna Wednesday at the UNIDO headquarters.Above 200 representatives of UNIDO Member States and officials of the other UN agencies in Vienna, including Kandeh Yumkella, the UNIDO Director-General, Zhong Shan, the international trade representative of ...
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China Pakistan to be good partners brothers forever premier
China and Pakistan will always be good partners and brothers that are reliable and sincere to each other, visiting Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday.The two neighboring countries "are all-weather friends," Li said during a meeting with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari shortly after he landed here before noon.The bilateral friendship boasts a solid foundation and enjoys great ...
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Chinas new leadership highly values friendship with Zimbabwe
Visiting Vice Premier Wang Yang on Wednesday told Zimbabwean Vice President Joyce Mujuru that China's new leadership highly values the traditional friendship with Zimbabwe.Wang said his visit is to follow up to the African trip by Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this year and join Zimbabweans in efforts to push Sino-Zimbabwean cooperation in all fields to achieve "greater ...
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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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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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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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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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Calypso Technology Opens New Office in Beijing
http://www.calypso.com ), the leading integrated treasury and capital markets software provider, today announced it has opened an office in Beijing, to service both the domestic and international institutions across the region. This follows the recent client successes and continued growth in Greater China. The office will consist of sales, professional services and engineering teams to support ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Building construction gives way to birds in C. China
Prospective residents of a building that is under construction in central China's Henan Province will have to wait to move in because of some strange intruders at the construction site == ...
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China-Africa Towards More Sustainable Health Care
Credit: ChimpLearnGood/ flickr By Paul Kadetz In 1941, Mao Zedongcalledfor a "practice of revolutionary humanitarianism". 14 years later in Bandung, Indonesia, China’s Premier Zhou Enlai met with other Asian leaders to chart a distinctly anti-colonial approach to humanitarianism and diplomacy on the African continent. From its first health aid to Algeria in 1964, China has ...
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Beijing Startup Builds On The Shoulders Of Giants To Go Global From China
Who is that Light in the Box? That's startup founder Alan Guo at his Beijing base Beijing entrepreneur Alan Guo makes the point that today, big companies serve small companies rather than the other way around. And his four-year-old startup Light in the Box is a good example. Meeting with Guo at his office in Beijing, he relates how his global e-commerce business relies ...
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Princess Masna Concludes Official Visit To China
China - Her Royal Highness Princess Hajah Masna, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, concluded her official visit to the People's Republic of China ...
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North Korean Sends Special Envoy To China Amid Tensions
North Korean party and military official Choe Ryong Hae, (front right), shakes hands with as he departs for China. North Korea has sent a special enjoy to China, hoping to patch up relations between the two countries that have been on rocky ground ...
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Massive Beijing Subway expansion plans
The Beijing Subway is one of the biggest, most efficient and most used subways in the world. It is constantly undergoing expansion and upgrades, and yet is unable to keep up with the growth of the capital city. With the recently announced plans for the expansion of the subway by over 60%, the city will certainly be hard-pushed to meet the massive task.
The Beijing Subway is one of the largest in the world. It carries over 5 million people every day, and hundreds of trains run on 228kms of track and service 147 stations. It is a feat of engineering, planning and coordination every single day. It is a network that Beijing commuters should be proud of, it represents the forward-thinking and development of the city. Read more
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