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China steel price ‘to stay low’
/enpproperty--> China steel prices have dropped in spite of decreasing global output and easing oversupply, according to an article on the website of China Iron & Steel Association on Monday. The prices will fluctuate but largely remain low in the foreseeable future, said the article. Starting from the second quarter, overall demand has been rising while demand from industries with high ...
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Amber Alert issued for nine-month-old Edmonton girl feared heading to China
EDMONTON - Edmonton police issued an Amber Alert on Tuesday for a nine-month-old girl that has been abducted by her mother.The child and her mother were last seen early Monday at a southwest Edmonton home on Mullen Road.The baby girl is Chinese, has dark hair and a round face.The mother is Chinese, 36, five-foot-two, 125 pounds and has straight, black hair with yellow highlights.The mother is ...
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China aims to slash its air pollution by 2017
CHINA may soon breathe a little easier. The nation's State Council has announced strict measures to cut the amount of air pollution chucked out by industry by nearly a third by the end of ...
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Trump and Allen knocked out in China
Judd Trump and Mark Allen were shock first-round casualties at the opening ranking event of the season, China's Wuxi Classic. World number three Trump was beaten 5-2 by home player Li Hang, who earned his return to the professional ranks with a run to the final of last season's third Asian Players Tour Championship event. Li played fluently to take a deserved 3-0 lead with breaks of ...
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Shanghai Film Museum opens to public China Economic Information Service
Shanghai Film Museum opens to public SHANGHAI, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The Shanghai Film Museum, one of the country's largest film museums, opened on Monday in Shanghai, the birthplace of Chinese film. Covering an area of 10,000 square meters, the museum features multiple exhibitions detailing the city's role in the development of China's film industry. "I didn't expect that ...
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Join up to get Beijing hukou military offers college grads
For nonlocal college graduates who desire a much sought-after Beijing hukou, or household registration permit, joining up for a spell in the Chinese military may be a good option. As this year's recruitment campaign in the capital entered its second day on Tuesday, the loosened hukou policy, which is widely seen as an incentive to boost the declining number of new recruits, has attracted ...
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Voice saying demands for transparency are pushing the Red Cross Society of China to build trust
"We are not restoring public trust in the Red Cross Society of China, but establishing new trust for the new age." Zhao Baige, executive vice president of the Red Cross Society of China, saying demands for transparency are pushing the group to build trust, quoted by Xinhuanet.com on ...
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China expected to lift IPO freeze at end of July rush of offerings unlikely
China is likely to resume approving initial public offerings at the end of July, sources quoted a senior regulator as saying on Tuesday, after a freeze since October as part of efforts to crack down on wrongdoing and restore investor confidence.The IPO resumption, which had been expected around midyear, follows the release of draft rules early this month to reform IPO mechanisms, including ...
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Voice saying that China’s food safety problems have become a nationwide issue which harms the nation’s credibility
"One netizen said he would rather eat tainted imported food than eat domestic food. I was shocked by his remarks."Ning Gaoning, Chairman of the China National Cereals, Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation, saying that China's food safety problems have become a nationwide issue which harms the nation's credibility, quoted by the China Entrepreneur on ...
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China hosts Middle East peace talks
BEIJING // The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations praised China's growing involvement in the Middle East peace process, saying it enhances the efforts of other nations and should continue to expand. Riyad Mansour made the comments yesterday during a UN conference hosted by China promoting a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The two-day forum is part of ...
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SW China province seizes 9.2 tonnes of drugs
Police authorities in Southwest China's Yunnan Province Tuesday said they captured more than 8,000 drug traffickers and seized 9.22 tonnes of drugs in the first five months of the year.The two figures are up 12.7 percent and 23 percent respectively from the same period a year ago, said Yan Shangzhi, deputy director of the Yunnan provincial public security bureau.Yunnan, which borders the ...
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Tourism can solidify China’s claims around beautiful Xisha
An eye-catching tourism cruise to the Xisha Islands, which China disputes with Vietnam, has been running for about two months. After its maiden tour in late April, Coconut Princess, the luxury ship that has carried hundreds of tourists and staff so far, is becoming a symbol of Xisha tourism. With the tour route being normalized on a regular basis, some questions have been raised, especially in ...
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I am not a spy for China says Snowden
A TV screen shows the news of Edward Snowden, former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a restaurant in Hong Kong Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Snowden has declared that the American government will not be able to cover up his revelations about its vast data-collection programme ';by jailing or murdering ...
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HP shifts PC chief to China global focus
Todd Bradley steps down from HP's PC and printer unit to be replaced by Dion Weisler, a former Lenovo and Acer executive. HP is hoping the two can form an executive tag team to tackle China and ...
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On Saving Chinas Dying Languages
Phonemica project, an effort led by two foreign-born linguists to record native speakers in each of China's surviving languages, ensuring that their words will be understood after their passing. In this follow-up, I spoke to Kellen Parker, one of Phonemica's founders, about China's linguistic map -- and why preserving a language means preserving a history that may otherwise be ...
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China tests U.S. academic freedom
>Editor's note: James Millward is professor of intersocietal history at the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of History, Georgetown University.(CNN) -- The Chinese legal advocate Chen Guangcheng, facing the end of his fellowship at New York University, has claimed that NYU is forcing him out due to Chinese pressure. NYU's participation in a complex deal to allow Chen to leave ...
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Anti-pervert hairy leggings all the rage in China
"Super sexy, summertime anti-pervert full-leg-of-hair stockings, essential for all young girls going out,"@HappyZhangJiang wrote in describing the item onChina's popular microblogging service, Sina ...
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Dolphin dies after China tourist abuse
BEIJING (AFP) - A dolphin has died in China after tourists hoisted it out of the water to pose with it for photographs, state media said Tuesday, provoking outrage online.Images posted online showed a group of tourists manhandling the grey creature, which washed ashore on a beach Sunday in the southern Chinese province of Hainan, the state-run Shanghai Daily reported, adding that it later died ...
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China builds worlds fastest supercomputer Tianhe-2
National University of Defense Technology in central China's Changsha city has designed the world's fastest supercomputer, which will double the speed of the US ...
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China’s trade ties deepen with Africa
Africa has long found itself on the wrong end of unbalanced trade relations with China, the US, the European Union and other major trading partners. And the current Sino-African trade structure is still in the developing stage, driven by resource endowments as well as labor and the technological conditions that underscore the differences between China and Africa. The relationship is thus a ...
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Chinas health care costs increase official data
Health care costs in China increased in 2012 compared to that of the previous year, according to a statistics bulletin released on Tuesday by the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC).The bulletin said in 2012 the estimated total cost of health care services in the country reached 2.89 trillion yuan (473.5 billion US dollars), a 18.8 percent rise compared to the previous ...
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China eyes early Geneva meeting on Syria warns against escalation
The priority for resolving the Syrian conflict is to hold the Geneva peace conference and avoid any action that may escalate tensions, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday."It is urgent to hold the second peace conference in Geneva as soon as possible and avoid any action that might escalate the situation," spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily press briefing.Hua's ...
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World Record 75-Carat Briolette Diamond Named Star of China
Tiffany Chen poses by a picture of the 75-carat Star of China diamond while wearing the gem after purchasing it for $11.15 million at Christie's Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels sale. The new owner of ...
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Rupert Murdochs Split Divorcing Wendi China Or Both
Murdoch's divorce spotlights News Corp's China reversal It's been relatively quiet in China these last few days due to the Dragon Boat holiday, so I thought I'd start the new week with a look at Rupert Murdoch's ongoing divorce with Wendi Deng and what it might mean for his ...
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Caravans to see rapid growth in China
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - The number of caravans in China is expected to increase by about 50 percent or more annually over the next three to five years, an industry expert said Tuesday. By 2015, the number of caravans in China will surpass 20,000 and may even reach 50,000 if the industry develops well, said Ye Shengji, deputy secretary-general of the China Association of Automobile ...
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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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