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Air China makes baggage through check-in available to 14 cities
BEIJING, China - Air China will make its baggage through check-in service from international cities to domestic cities (I-D) via Beijing more accessible. Starting May 21 (Beijing time), Air China passengers who travel from London, Paris, Dusseldorf, Munich, Frankfurt, Rome, Milan, Stockholm, Vancouver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Geneva transferring to other Chinese cities via ...
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Macau hosts Asia’s largest gaming expo
Gambling machines are displayed at the Global Gaming Expo Asia, a three-day fair of gambling innovations at the glitzy Venetian hotel in Macau on May 21, 2013. The largest gaming event in Asia, showcasing the industry’s latest products, services and technologies, is taking place amid a decline in growth rates in the former Portugese colony’s gaming industry as China’s economic ...
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PM Li faces litmus test in Pakistan Chinas iron brother
Chinese premier Li Keqiang faces the challenge of meeting conflicting demands for his attention and Beijing's purse when he lands in Pakistan on Wednesday at the end of his India visit, his first foreign tour after assuming ...
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Kerry Logistics Deploys Hybrids in Hong Kong
The vehicles operating in Hong Kong are using a combination of fuel and battery-powered electricity. For two years, the logistics service provider will operate three conventional trucks in parallel to the new hybrid trucks, and a research team from Hong Kong Polytechnic University will compare performance, diesel consumption, and maintenance cost of the two ...
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5000 yuan seats raise doubts
Zhejiang University is welcoming their alumni to donate 5,000 yuan ($815) in exchange for naming a stadium seat after them, a move that many people are questioning as a ploy for the school to raise funds. The school's alumni officially made the offer on its website last Monday, saying that it has 3,705 seats up for grabs. Each alumnus who purchases a seat can pick which one they want to ...
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China Declares Global State of Emergency An Urgent Telegram from Taihu
most powerful politician, Yu Zhengsheng, Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) opened the Second Conference of the (carbon-neutralized) ...
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Mo Yan promotes Chinese literature
After keeping a low profile since he was crowned Nobel laureate in literature in December, Mo Yan is ready to face the media. Last week, Mo Yan rejoined public events as chair of the International Writing Center under Beijing Normal University, and joined artist Fan Zeng for a conversation with physicist C.N. Yang on "literature meeting sciences", where he spoke in front of hundreds ...
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China coal imports to continue affecting global prices Platts
/enpproperty--> China's coal imports will continue from a more diversified number of sources over the long-term, exerting a major influence on international coal prices, according to Platts, a leading source of benchmark price assessments in the energy, petrochemicals and metals sectors. James O'Connell, the editor-in-chief of Platts' Coal Trader International, which ...
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Chinese language contest held in St Petersburg
/enpproperty--> ST PETERSBURG - A Chinese language proficiency competition featuring student teams from five Russian regions was held here on Tuesday, with the winners set to sail into an international contest to be held in China. In the city's iconic Hermitage Theater, university teams from St Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok and a joint Siberian team took turns ...
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Treat Hong Kong for HKs sake or the karma will never end
/enpproperty--> Richard Hughes's Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time: Hong Kong and Its Many Faces must be one of the most mentioned books among the city's intelligentsia. Few take the trouble to read it, but we have all heard of it because the title and especially Hong Kong's "many faces" both past and present are so full of diversified meanings that it is forever ...
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Netanyahu Arrives in China
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began an official visit to China Monday despite tensions back home following the alleged Israeli airstrikes on Syrian weapons storage facilities. Israeli commentators said it was important for Netanyahu to maintain his plans to signal that Israel is continuing its business as usual. Netanyahu did delay his departure slightly Sunday ...
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Half of The Rice in Guangzhou Is Polluted
Jeff Chiu/AP The latest in China's rolling cascade of food safety disasters comes from Guangzhou -- the capital of Guangdong province in southern China, and one of China's largest cities -- where 44 percent of rice samples were found to ...
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With wary eye on the U.S. China courts India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, smiling and effusive, was out to smooth ruffled feathers in India this week, promising to ease tensions and increase trade between Asia's fastest growing economies in his first trip overseas since taking ...
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Chinas bird flu outbreak cost $6.5 billion
GENEVA (Reuters) - The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some $6.5 billion in losses to the economy, U.N. experts said on ...
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Extensive gold reserves discovered in northwest China
Geologists in China say they've found gold reserves in a northwestern province that could be worth $32 billion to the country's economy. The discovery was made in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the country's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. The gold deposit in Xinyuan County in the Ili Valley is estimated to contain at least 53 tons, Zeng Xiaogang, ...
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Greek PM invites China to join Greeces success story
China's Premier Li Keqiang (r.) and Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras talk during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last week. Mr. Samaras is hoping to convince the Chinese to invest in Greece, which could help ease the country's debt ...
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Chinese rich buys a $5.5M mansion at ...
Star-studded: Sinatra pictured with John F Kennedy in 1961, left, and Marilyn Monroe with the crooner, right (photo/Agencies) The upscale Manhattan penthouse that legendary crooner Frank Sinatra had once called home finally has a new owner nine months after it was put up for sale. The sleek 3,200-square-foot, four-bedroom duplex at 530 East 72nd Street, was reportedly sold for $5.49million to a ...
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China demands DPRK free crew of Chine...
China is urging Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to release a Chinese fishing boat and its crew reported to have been held since May 5. Counsellor Jiang Yaxian of the Chinese Embassy in the DPRK told Xinhua news agency yesterday that Yu Xuejun, the boat's owner, called the embassy for help on May 10 and it had immediately contacted the North Korean side. The Chinese ...
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Chinese Teenager Pulls Out of US Open Qualifying
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Federal Court dismisses challenge to admission of Chinese mine workers
A Federal Court judge has dismissed a union challenge of a federal government decision to allow a B.C. coal mine to bring in 200 temporary foreign workers last year.Two union locals were granted special status last fall to challenge a bureaucrat's ruling that the Chinese workers could be hired by HD Mining International ...
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China Builds Museums But Filling Them Is Another Story
One of the highlights of the new China Art Palace in Shanghai is a giant digital rendering of a famous ancient scroll, "Along the River During Qingming Festival," which includes figures that walk and talk. The work was first presented at the 2010 World Expo in ...
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Li China India have vast room for further co-op
Li Keqiang said Tuesday. "China and India are two largest developing countries and emerging markets in the world," Li said in a speech at the Indian Council of World Affairs. "China-India relations are one of the world's most important bilateral relations in the 21st century," Li said. "Their cooperation has vast room of further development." Li urged both ...
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Why China Can Handle Social Unrest
received significant international attention because they combined two major, hot-button issues in China: environmental pollution and government corruption. But the Kunming protests were hardly unusual in China; in fact, a ...
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Scotiabank says China reevaluating Guangzhou deal
By Cameron French TORONTO | Tue May 21, 2013 4:34pm EDT TORONTO (Reuters) - Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS.TO) Chief Executive Rick Waugh said on Tuesday that Chinese authorities are reevaluating whether they want to go ahead with a deal to sell 20 percent of Bank of Guangzhou to the Canadian bank. Scotiabank, Canada's No. 3 lender, announced the C$719 million ($698.09 million) purchase ...
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Taiwan released a satellite record of the route of a fishing boat fired on by Philippine coastguards flatly rejecting Manilas allegations that the boat intruded into its waters.
Taiwan released a satellite record of the route of a fishing boat fired on by Philippine coastguards, flatly rejecting Manila's allegations that the boat intruded into its waters.The killing of crew member Hung Shih-cheng, 65, sparked outrage in Taiwan, which has announced a series of economic sanctions against the Philippines.The island's Fisheries Agency said the voyage data recorder ...
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Chinese shipping industry is not the only one causing environmental incidents
The recent highly publicized grounding of a Chinese bulk carrier on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia attracted the scrutiny of the world on the Chinese shipping industry with some commentators saying that the accident was indicative of a dysfunctional health and safety record throughout the industry in China.
China’s shipping industry is primarily made up of the state-owned and run COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company), and it is this company to whom the Shen Neng 1 belongs. The Shen Neng 1 is not the only COSCO ship to be involved in a notable maritime accident. Read more
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