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A Touch of Sin A scathing portrait of China’s economic boom
, was released on Youkou, China's version of YouTube. Could such a film ever get past the censors?The film is an exercise in social criticism, exploring torn-from-the-headlines tales of corruption, prostitution and violent crime. It can easily be interpreted as a scathing portrait of China's economic ...
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China to issue 20b yuan in 50-yr T-bonds
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - The Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Friday that it will issue 20 billion yuan ($3.23 billion) in 50-year book-entry treasury bonds. The issuance marks the ministry's tenth issuance of book-entry treasury bonds this year, according to a statement posted on the MOF website. The interest rate for the bonds is fixed at 4.24 percent. Interest will be paid ...
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Death toll from new bird flu in China rises
confirmed cases , the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The United Nations health agency said the four deaths were from cases that had already been identified in laboratories. Since May 8, there have been no new cases of infection with H7N9, it added. The WHO reiterated that there is no evidence that the new strain of bird flu, which was first detected in patients in China in ...
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Chinas Favorite U.S. States In 2012
Who would have known it? China is buying Made in the U.S.A. Many sectors and states from across the country are selling more to China these days. In fact, between 2003 and 2012 total exports to China rose 294%, an increase of nearly $81 billion. Forty-two states have achieved triple-digit export growth to China since 2003, and four states experienced quadruple-digit growth over the same period ...
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China Investors Wary Over Slow Start To Second Quarter
The iShares FTSE China (FXI) exchange traded fund may be up over 1% on Friday, but wait a minute. Investors finally have a reason to be bearish on the world's No. 2 economy. The second quarter is off to a modest, unsustainable start. April economic data point to generally soft economic ...
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China urban private-sector wages surge despite sluggish expansion
BEIJING -- China's private sector wages in urban areas grew 17.1 percent in 2012, official figures showed Friday, even as the country's economy expanded at its slowest pace in 13 ...
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Cannes Chinas Seven Stars Frances Stone Angels Form Joint Venture
Cannes: 'Grace of Monaco' Images Preview Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly (Exclusive Photos) The companies say their first collaboration will be a project ...
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First Chinese assembled A320 with Sharklets goes to China Eastern
China's largest operator of Airbus aircraft, China Eastern Airlines, has taken delivery of its first A320 aircraft equipped with Sharklet fuel saving wing-tip devices, becoming China's first carrier to do so. The aircraft is also the first Sharklets equipped A320 assembled and delivered in Tianjin. The A320, powered by IAE V2500 engines, features a comfortable two class cabin, seating ...
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Irans Farhadi and Chinas Jia make Cannes splash
CANNES, France (AP) -- Two directors from countries with tough film censorship brought bold and probing movies to the Cannes Film Festival on Friday - one exploring China's social problems, the other delving into the mysteries of the human ...
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School Year Blog Six Things that South African Teenagers Learn in China
Anders Kelto is The World's Africa Correspondent. He is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and reports on health and development issues. Prior to joining The World, he worked with NPR, the CBC, and National ...
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China Kingho may spend up to $10-billion in Sierra Leone
A truck is loaded with iron ore at a port in Nantong, China, May 5, 2013. China Kingho Energy Group, one of China's largest privately-owned energy companies, could spend between $6-billion (U.S.) and $10-billion on infrastructure projects in Sierra Leone over the next five years, with an emphasis on iron ore production. (CHINA ...
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China supports peace in Middle East Xi says
China would like to further strengthen communication and coordination with Saudi Arabia to maintain peace and stability in the Middle East, ...
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China to invest big to support Beidou system
/enpproperty--> China is expected to invest 7 billion yuan ($1.13 billion) to support the development of industries related to the country's Beidou satellite navigation system before 2015, an industry insider said. "Industries related to the Beidou system are entering a booming development stage," Yang Qiangwen, a senior engineer at the China Satellite Navigation Office, said ...
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How China Became an Arctic State
China's permanent observership to the Arctic Council is clearly a great step forward for all Arctic states and indigenous groups. Going further, it offers indisputable proof of what Chinese strategists have understood since 2009 in terms of how one non-Arctic state must act to work its way into a region in which it does not naturally belong: by abandoning 20th century notions of "hard ...
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Cultural Fusion in Film
Today, the growing Chinese film market has become nearly impossible to ignore. At the Third Beijing International Film Festival 2013, held from April 16 to 23, both foreign and domestic movie makers announced multiple joint initiatives, lending an ambitious impetus to the local ...
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China Increases Investment in Himalayan Neighbor Nepal
KATHMANDU -- In recent years, Nepal has deepened its already strong ties with China - some say to counter its reliance on India for aid and investment. In a sprawling 132-bed hospital in Nepal’s capital, patients receive treatment for everything from blood disorders to heart disease - vital services in a country that the United Nations ranks 157th in the world for human development. ...
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Banaue Miclat–from China to New York to the PH stage
BANAUE Miclat. Photo by Amads Ma. Guerrero Singing actress Banaue Miclat was born in China and spent her first seven years there, because her parents Mario Miclat (the writer) and Alma were leftist activists. In the home, she and older sister Maningning spoke Tagalog, switched to Mandarin when they ventured out, and learned English in an international school there. Eventually the Miclat couple ...
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Eating Bitterness Hardship and Opportunity for Rural Women in China
(Busan International Film Festival) Young Xiuqiao slowly approaches the cold chamber of a rural Shaanxi Province mortuary, led by the facility's cremator, old Lao. She'd spent weeks searching for her sister, who'd gone out for migrant work and never returned home. Old Lao opens the chamber and prods Xiuqiao to have a look at the corpse's face. She reluctantly obliges and ...
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China EU solar duties to seriously harm trade ties
/enpproperty--> China warned the European Union on Thursday that imposing duties on Chinese solar panels would "seriously harm" bilateral trade ties, a week after the EU said it would move ahead with hefty penalties in June. The European Commission has agreed to impose average import duties of 47 percent on solar panels from China, according to officials, a move they say is to ...
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Japan PM aide in Beijing after Pyongyang trip
TOKYO (AFP) - An aide to Japan's premier said Friday he had held "sincere" talks with North Korean officials during his controversial visit to the country.Isao Iijima, a senior adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was tightlipped about the subjects of his discussions when he arrived at the airport in Beijing."By visiting there, I was able to hold sincere talks for a ...
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China’s hunger for American coal in doubt
Growing environmental objections to exporting coal from Washington state and Oregon have begun to endanger the coal industry’s hope to restore its flagging fortunes by shipping much more of the embattled fossil fuel to China and ...
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China continues patrols in waters surrounding Diaoyu Islands
A fleet of Chinese marine surveillance ships conducted regular patrols in territorial waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands on Friday, said the State Oceanic Administration (SOA).The fleet composed of three marine surveillance ships monitored Japanese ships in the area to collect evidence and urged them to leave the waters, according to a statement posted on the SOA's ...
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The Bangladesh Problem Will Be Solved The Same Way The China Problem Is Being Solved
I think we would all agree that wages in Bangladesh are shockingly low: those textile workers are getting $40 a month or so for very long hours in what we know to be dangerous conditions. I'm equally sure that we'd all like such wages to be higher: and the problem comes as we try to work out how to raise them. At which point let us switch to a different country and use it as an ...
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Mapping Chinas demand for baby formula
Staff members chat in front of the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's new sculpture installation "Baby Formula" which forms a map of China with cans of milk powder. Picture: ...
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China Delivers New Vessel to Cuba
Beijing, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuba has added another cargo ship, named Haydee, to its merchant fleet, the seventh delivered by China to that Caribbean nation, as part of a deal for 10 bulk cargo vessels contracted at the Shanghai shipyards. Information provided by the Cuban Consul in Shanghai, Ariel Lorenzo, said that the delivery ceremony took place at the company's facilities at ...
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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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