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China suspects presumed guilty until proven innocent
A police officer stands guard on Tiananmen Square: police and prosecutors are often placed under enormous pressure to find suspects guilty. Photograph: Diego ...
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Top Secret The Battle for the Pentagon Papers Is a Hit in ... China
A poster for the December 2011 run of "Top Secret" in China (LA Theatre Works) A little less than two years ago, the play, "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," came to China by way of Los Angeles, playing to mostly student audiences in small theaters in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. I took in one performance on the campus of Peking University that felt ...
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India China ink 8 agreements on trade water resources
India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the ...
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At least 12 dead in China blast
AT least 12 people died and 11 were missing Monday after a blast destroyed an explosives workshop in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, state media said. The explosion scattered rubble up to 200 metres away, killing at least a dozen people at the factory owned by the Poly Explosives (Jinan) Company in Shandong's Caofan township, the semi-official China News Service ...
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China trying to manage exposure of corruption online
Reuters © Liu Tienan, then head of the National Energy Administration and deputy chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), attends a news conference about Spring Festival transport in Beijing in this January 8, 2012 file photograph. The latest bureaucrat to fall from grace thanks to the Internet was Liu Tienan, sacked from his job last week as deputy chief ...
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Cannes Diary India and China have a strong presence
While many stars come to the French Riviera to party, the main business of Cannes is business itself. Selim El Azar, the chief executive of the Qatar-based Gulf Film, and Abdulaziz Al Khater, the new head of the Doha Film Institute, are both in Cannes this week to shake hands and make deals. Also on the sales-pitch circuit is the directing legend Martin Scorsese, drumming up interest in his ...
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Video Jon Stewart - the new Voice of America in China
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Inside Asia On Chinas Border Underground Banking Flourishes
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H7N9 found in poultry sample in S China
A poultry sample in south China has tested positive for H7N9 virus, the country's agriculture authority said on Monday.The avian flu virus, which has so far led to the deaths of 36 people nationwide, was detected in a sample of chicken that came from a market in the city of Zengcheng in Guangdong Province.After completing gene sequence analysis, the national avian flu reference laboratory ...
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How China chokes its neighbors
-- When the Chinese smog arrives, the medical masks come in fashion. Every few months, this city of 1.5 million people in southern Japan, not far from mainland China, gets a dose of lung clogging courtesy of its neighbor. Coal factories in the cities of Tianjin ...
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Australian-trained doctor Huang Jiefu hits back at critics over ties to China organ harvesting
The University of Sydney 2006 The Australian-trained doctor under fire for his involvement in China's controversial organ transplant program has defended the practice and responded to calls for him to be stripped of honorary titles from the University of ...
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Eversheds Launches Beijing Office With Two New Partner Hires
Eversheds has announced the launch of its Beijing office, opening on 20 May 2013, with the appointment of two new partners: corporate energy law expert Ingrid Zhu-Clark and corporate lawyer Jay ...
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Indias Essar Oil to sign $1 billion debt-for-fuel deal with China
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Essar Oil Ltd (ESRO.NS) will sign a $1 billion loan deal with China on Tuesday that sources with knowledge of the matter said would be backed by supply of refined products to top state oil producer ...
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Jeff Reevess Strength in Numbers China’s troubles will hit these stocks hardest
If that's not enough for you, feel free to surf around for more troubling macro data. But rather than just spit out data,I'll focus on specific stocks and sectors that are at risk to help you protect your ...
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China Factory Explosion Blast Kills 5 At Plant 20 Missing
BEIJING -- A massive blast ripped through an explosives factory Monday in eastern China, killing at least 12 people and leaving others buried in the debris, state media reported. Rescuers were take care to avoid setting off additional explosions as they went through the site of the mid-morning explosion in Shandong province's Caofan township, the China News Service said. The company ...
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China offers India a handshake across the Himalayas
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and China will study new ways to ease tensions along their ill-defined border, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday in his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes just weeks after a military stand-off between the Asian giants in the ...
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China urges North Korea to release Chinese fishing boat 16 crew owner says ransom demanded
BEIJING, China - China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighbouring allies. Boat owner Yu Xuejun, who wasn't aboard, first publicized the seizure on his microblog late Saturday, and on Monday posted that his terrified ...
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Police in central China detain 18-year-old gay pride march organizer
BEIJING, China - Police in central China have detained the 18-year-old organizer of a gay pride march in a sign of the government's nervousness over a growing civil society and demands for stronger individual rights. Police and newspaper reports Monday said the man had been detained following the Friday event and ordered to serve 12 days in a detention centre for organizing an illegal ...
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Danone strikes deals to meet Chinas taste for yogurt
PARIS (AFP) - French food industry group Danone is ramping up its presence in the growing Chinese market for dairy products with two deals on Monday to tap sales of yogurt and health foods, the firm said on Monday.Danone said it was investing about 325 million euros ($418 million) to strengthen its place in the potentially vast Chinese market, via two joint ventures in distribution and ...
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China investigates Agricultural Bank former VP for corruption
BEIJING | Mon May 20, 2013 7:14am EDT BEIJING May 20 (Reuters) - Chinese Communist Party discipline authorities are investigating a former vice president at Agricultural Bank of China on suspicion of accepting bribes, media said on Monday, the latest casualty in a campaign against corruption. Yang Kun is being investigated by the party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection ...
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Ghaddafi thanks Germany Russia and China
Colonel Ghaddafi today in an interview thanked the governments of Germany, Russia and China for opposing a no-fly zone over Libya, promising new oil ...
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Avian influenza kills one more person in China
Another fatal case caused by avian influenza H7N9 has been reported in China, the Committee on Health of Hunan Province said Wednesday. A 64-year-old woman died in the hospital of the city of Shaoyang in Central China. Thus, the number of deaths from the disease has reached people, whereas the number of people infected is left unchanged - 130. Reportedly, the deceased was the first patient in ...
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China orders transparent handling of major accidents
China's central government has ordered increased transparency in the handling of major accidents and other items of public concern following a fatal high-speed train crash last month. The general offices of the State Council, or China's Cabinet, and the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee said in a circular issued on Tuesday that information on major emergencies and items ...
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Last-four berths fixed China finish 15th
The men's water polo last-four berths were produced while hosts China finished 15th here on Tuesday evening at FINA World Championships. Hungary, Serbia, Croatia and Italy will vie for the final tickets on Wednesday. Hosts China greeted their first win at FINA worlds by beating South Africa 9-4 to take the 15th place among all the 16 participants. Tying on 7-7 after three periods, Beijing ...
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Support Grows for NTD Television to Keep Broadcasting Into China
A screenshot of NTD Television Asia Pacific's website. The broadcaster hopes to negotiate a new satellite contract with Chunghwa Telecom, but the latter has remained silent; many suspect the Chinese regime's influence. (Screenshot via The Epoch ...
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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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