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Starbucks to move first Chinas store
Starbucks Corp on Wednesday denied media claims that high rental and labor costs had forced the company to close the first Starbucks in the Chinese mainland at China World Trade Center (CWTC) phase I, a building located in downtown Beijing.The company said in an e-mail to the Global Times Wednesday that the store will be moved to a bigger location at CWTC phase III in order to provide customers ...
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TTIP may back China into a corner
US President Barack Obama and top leaders within the European Union (EU) will sit down next month to negotiate the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which could lead to the creation of the world's largest free trade agreement in history.An integrated market between the US and the EU will further elevate the influence of these two already-formidable entities on world ...
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China threatens death penalty for serious polluters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious pollution cases, state media said, as the government tries to assuage growing public anger at environmental desecration. An increasingly affluent urban population has begun to object to China's policy of growth at all costs, which has fuelled the economy for three decades, with the ...
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China dog meat festival under fire
A FESTIVAL dedicated to dog meat in southern China has been targeted by protesting animal lovers, who have won a minor concession from local officials, an activist ...
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Hoping to engage a cynical public Chinas Communists launch 1-year campaign echoing Mao
In this June 18, 2013 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's President Xi Jinping addresses a conference on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) campaign aimed at boosting ties between CPC members and the public, in Beijing. China’s leadership wants to show a cynical public that it’s modernizing and serious about graft, but it ...
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China and Cuba seek greater cooperation
Xi Jinping said his country would like to work more closely with Cuba on international and regional issues. Xi told Cuba's visiting first vice president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, that China would like to forge a good partnership with Latin American and Caribbean nations, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. The Chinese leader called for stronger cooperation between China and Latin ...
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China eager for Iranian nuclear talks
The Chinese government expects peaceful nuclear negotiations will continue through multilateral dialogue with Iran, a government spokeswoman said. Iranian delegates joined officials from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany in a second round of nuclear negotiations in Kazakhstan in April but made few breakthroughs. February talks in Kazakhstan included efforts to ...
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China puts up a green wall to US trash
United States exports. Or 60 percent of its scrap paper exports. Or 50 percent of its plastic.But a new Chinese edict, banning "foreign rubbish," has thrown the international scrap and waste trade into turmoil and is posing a major new challenge for US ...
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UNs Ban meets Chinas Xi for talks on NKorea Syria
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese president Xi Jinping and UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday discussed the situation on the Korean peninsula and in Syria, state media reported, as Ban's visit to Beijing was overshadowed by a deadly attack on a UN compound.Ban, who arrived Tuesday, met Xi in Beijing's ornate Great Hall of the People after earlier visiting a centre which trains China's UN ...
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China continues jet exercises from aircraft carrier
China on Wednesday successfully conducted taking-off and landing exercises of J-15 fighter jets on the country's first aircraft, the Liaoning.This is the second time the country has conducted such training after a first jet landing exercise passed successfully on the deck in November last year.The Liaoning, which set sail for a first sea trial this year on June 9, has conducted a series of ...
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CNPC building Chinas first shale gas pipeline
China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the country's largest oil and gas producer and supplier, said it has started building the country's first dedicated shale gas pipeline in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.The 92.8-km pipeline will link gas wells in the Changning block to an existing gas line that leads to neighboring Yunnan Province, according to a report posted on the ...
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UN chief praises Chinas peacekeeping efforts
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised China's commitment to peacekeeping efforts on Wednesday during a visit to a peacekeeping training base in Beijing. Ban said China has provided more peacekeepers to the United Nations than all the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council. Ban inspected training facilities and communicated with Chinese ...
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UPDATE 1-Gazprom aims to sign basic terms of China gas deal in Sept
Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:52am EDT * Final deal still expected by year-end - Gazprom CEO * Pricing formula is still under discussion - spokesman (Adds detail, quotes) ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 19 (Reuters) - Russia's Gazprom expects to sign an agreement in September on the basic terms of a deal to provide gas supplies to China and aims to conclude the deal by the end of this year, the company ...
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Chindex International Inc. Announces Opening of Beijing United Family Rehabilitation Hospital
BETHESDA, Md., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/-- Chindex International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHDX, "Chindex" or the "Company"), an American healthcare company providing services in China through the operations of United Family Healthcare, a network of private hospitals and affiliated ambulatory clinics, today announced the official opening of its Beijing United Family Rehabilitation ...
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Chinas Unfair College Admissions System
While it may seem counter-intuitive, competition for spots at China's top universities is less fierce in populous cities like Beijing and Shanghai than in China's more rural provinces. This is because universities located in Beijing will reserve more spots for students with Beijing ...
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Beckham Is Consolation for Chinas Sad Soccer Fans
Lintao Zhang/Getty Images ABC News’ Sasha Han reports: BEIJING — It might not be a goal in the soccer field, but David Beckham is scoring big in another arena: China. ';Hi I am David! Welcome to the OFFICIAL David Beckham Sina Page! Talk to you soon!'; was the Englishman’s first post on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter. In just one day he garnered over 400,000 ...
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China releases natural disaster report
Officials said Wednesday 1,530 people lost their lives or are missing following natural disasters in China in 2012. The Ministry of Civil Affairs said the disasters affected 290 million people and caused direct economic losses of more than $67 billion dollars. Natural disasters also forced the relocation of 11 million people, and damaged more than 61 million acres of crops, Xinhua reported. ...
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Irish market opens up to China
The Irish funds market has opened its doors to Chinese investors in a move by the Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA). The Irish financial regulator, IFSRA, signed a Memorandum of Understanding one Thursday 23 October with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), its Chinese counterparts. This will enable Chinese investors ...
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The Real News Network Chinas Top 1 Control 70 of Wealth
China's growing economic problems and dark political history left out of the Olympic spotlights August 15 - Minqi Li spoke with Paul Jay, Senior Editor at The Real News about the grim reality of China's economic situation in contrast to the spectacular display of the country's rich cultural history at the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony. The ceremony promoted a falsely ...
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Chinas Xi harks back to Mao in party cleanup
BEIJING (AP) -- China's new leader Xi Jinping is commanding wayward Communist Party cadres to purify themselves of corruption, and he's summed it up in a pithy slogan as Mao Zedong might have done: Look in the mirror, take a ...
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China may resume IPO approvals in July
SHANGHAI (AFP) - China's stock regulator could resume approving new stock offers as early as July after an eight-month suspension, state media said Wednesday.The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) suspended approvals for initial public offerings (IPO) in November to prevent an oversupply of shares and boost the weak stock market.But Yao Gang, vice-chairman of the commission, ...
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Chinas Wanda buys luxury yacht maker Sunseeker
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese property and cinema conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said Wednesday it is buying British yacht maker Sunseeker and will develop a high-end London hotel, expanding into the luxury market as part of the latest foray abroad by a major Chinese firm.The company will acquire a 91.81 percent stake in Sunseeker, in a transaction worth 320 million pounds ($500 million). The deal ...
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China mulls food safety law amendment
The State Council, China's cabinet, has listed a food safety law amendment as the nation's legislative work for 2013, the China Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday.The government agency said that it has also started soliciting public opinions on the amendment.It said that the amendment aims to enhance the effectiveness of food safety supervision and ensure the security ...
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Tibet - Chinas Benefit the Masses campaign surveilling Tibetans
The Chinese government, under the rationale of a campaign to improve rural living standards, has sent more than 20,000 officials and communist party cadres to Tibetan villages to undertake intrusive surveillance of people, carry out widespread political re-education, and establish partisan security units, said Human Rights Watch June 18, 2013. These tactics discriminate against those perceived ...
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China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels says CVIA vice president
While China-based TFT-LCD panel makers have reportedly asked the China government to increase customs duties on imported 32-inch and above TV panels from 5% currently to 8% or even 12%, China Video Industry Association vice president Bai Weimin has indicated at the 2013 Display Taiwan exhibition that the government has had no time schedule for doing ...
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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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