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Taierzhuang Ancient Town in Chinas Shandong
Taierzhuang Ancient Town, located in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, is surrounded by water and has some classical bridges, an old water transport system, wetland parks, temples, museums, and the architecture of a bygone ...
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10m-yuan bra shines in Shenyang
A model poses in a 10 million-yuan bra in Shenyang, Liaoning province on May 21, 2013. The bra was created by 10 French designers, with 2,500 diamonds and 18k gold. [Photo / ...
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Mobile services shut in Pakistan ahead of Chinese PMs visit
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday shut mobile services in Islamabad and the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi over security concerns on the arrival ...
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China charges six in sex video extortion case
BEIJING: A court in the city of Chongqing has charged six people with working together to blackmail government officials by recording videos of them having sex, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. The six were charged with extortion on Monday, Xinhua said, citing a statement from judicial authorities in Chongqing, where they are slated to be tried. Investigators said the group ...
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Confronting Big China and Little China
Our Scarborough Shoal conflict with the People’s Republic of China (Big China) – which ignited on April 9, 2012 when Chinese fishing vessels were caught poaching in Philippine waters by the Philippine Navy – has taken a back seat to a potentially graver conflict in the West Philippine Sea, this time with Taiwan, also known as the Republic of China (Little China), a conflict ...
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Taiwanese Chinese held in Ilocos released
LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte -- Immigration officials released 52 Taiwanese and Chinese tourists on Tuesday night, almost 12 hours after they were taken to the Bureau of Immigration office here for verification of their passports and other travel documents. The tourists, 45 of them Taiwanese and the rest Chinese, were taken from a resort in Vigan City in Ilocos Sur, after they were suspected of ...
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Chinas Li offers to help end Pakistans energy crisis
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves to the audience during an event organised by Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) in New Delhi May 21, ...
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Chinese PM on Pakistan visit
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in Pakistan Wednesday for a two-day visit where he will meet prime minister-elect Nawaz Sharif as the long-time allies look to boost trade ties.Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party swept to victory in the May 11 general election on a promise to revitalise Pakistan's struggling economy and help from its giant neighbour to ...
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Ai Weiwei uses music to mock state power in China
BEIJING -- Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers - and even sits on the toilet - in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power.The video accompanying the visual artist's heavy metal single "Dumbass," released Wednesday, is meant to reconstruct his 81-day detention in 2011, which was part ...
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China US to mutually benefit from deeper cooperation in next decade
Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations and US China and the United States can mutually benefit from deeper economic relations in the next decade along with US economic recovery and booming Chinese middle class, said a bilateral study released at a forum here on Tuesday. "This study comes at a critical juncture in the bilateral relationship, a time when the two countries ...
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Ambassador hails Chinese Bridge language contest in Russia
Chinese Ambassador Li Hui said Tuesday the success of the Chinese language competition was a living embodiment of the ever-deepening relations between Russia and China."The success of the competition will definitely help the spread of the Chinese language in Russia," Li told Xinhua in an exclusive interview.Li said he believed the success of the competition is a vivid testament to the ...
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Meeting between US Chinese presidents seminal in Sino-US ties Kissinger
Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations and US The meeting between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be a seminal event in Sino-US relations as well as in the relations of the world, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said here on Tuesday."I am very encouraged by the announcement that the two presidents will meet, and especially by the ...
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China gains international recognition for immediate effective responses to H7N9
China has gained international recognition for its immediate and effective responses to the human infections with H7N9 virus, a side event on Influenza A (H7N9) showed Tuesday.The Chinese delegation to the 66th World Health Assembly and World Health Organization (WHO) convened the side event, which gathered officials and experts from international organizations and relevant countries to exchange ...
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Heavy rain puts Hong Kong on hold
/enpproperty--> HONG KONG - Hong Kong had been affected by heavy rain on Wednesday morning, with more than 20 cases of flooding reported, and schools and public services on halt. The city's observatory issued black rainstorm warning at around 4 am local time which had been in force for over five hours. More than 150 mm of rainfall were recorded over many parts of the territory. A total ...
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Hong Kong Disneyland unveils new attraction
Mystic Manor, the final chapter of Hong Kong Disneyland's current expansion project officially opened on May 17, 2013 to attract large numbers of tourists. [Photo: Xinhua] Mystic Manor, the final chapter of Hong Kong Disneyland's current expansion project officially opened recently, attracting large numbers of tourists. Featuring one of the most sophisticated systems ever built by ...
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Top DPRK leaders envoy visits China
A special envoy of Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), left Pyongyang Wednesday for a visit to China, the official KCNA news agency ...
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Landscape costumes presented at China Intl Garden Expo
A model presents "Wangfujing" landscape costume at the opening ceremony of the 9th China (Beijing) International Garden Expo in Fengtai district, Beijing, May 18, ...
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China seeks larger diplomatic footprint
China's bid to facilitate the Israel-Palestine negotiations is being regarded in some quarters as a quixotic quest, as even the United States has found itself exhausted after fruitless mediation over half a century. Contrarians would argue that a fresh superpower with no baggage in Semitic feuds is just the tonic needed to bring about a workable accommodation between two ancient peoples. ...
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Kiwifruit growers in the dark over Chinese smuggling
Some kiwifruit growers are accusing Zespri of keeping them in the dark over not revealing the full extent of a Chinese customs investigation that saw a Zespri subsidiary fined nearly $1 million for smuggling. New Zealand Customs has told ONE News the department learnt of the investigation in February 2011, alerting both Zespri and Government ministers. But Zespri says it only found out the ...
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North Korea sends military leader as special envoy to China
SEOUL: North Korea on Wednesday sent a top military official to China as a personal envoy of leader Kim Jong-Un, at a time of strained relations with Beijing and ahead of a key China-US summit. Choe Ryong-Hae, the director of the Korean People's Army politburo, flew to Beijing with a handful of senior military and ruling party officials, the Korean Central News Agency said, highlighting his ...
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Taiwan reporter sacked over Philippine hoax
Chen Wen-chi (left), from Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice of the Department of International and Cross-Strait Legal Affairs, listens as Chen Ming-tang, deputy minister of Taiwan’s Justice Ministry, speaks while holding a picture showing a bullet found in the fishing vessel after it was attacked by Philippine coastguards, killing a Taiwanese fisherman, during a press conference in Taipei ...
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Chinas Ai Weiwei launches musical career with heavy metal Dumbass single
BEIJING (Reuters) - Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei made his first foray into the musical world on Wednesday with the release of the top single from his debut album, a song called "Dumbass" that takes inspiration from his detention in ...
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IHT Rendezvous Tensions Flare in Asian Seas Now Involving Taiwan
Residents of Taichung in Taiwan, led by a Taiwanese lawmaker, Lu Shou-yen (center, in purple shirt,) chant slogans demanding an apology from the Philippine government for the death of a Taiwanese ...
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Hong Kong opens up 0.18 after rains
HONG Kong stocks have opened up 0.18 per cent after the start of trading was delayed by a severe rainstorm warning, and following a strong lead from the US and ...
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Hong Kong stocks rise after storm-delayed start
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong stocks overcame tentative early trade to edge higher Wednesday, with property developers and Chinese banks rising in the wake of strong global and regional cues to offset losses for heavyweight HSBC Holdings PLC. The Hang Seng ...
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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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