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 | Hsieh said he expects that forthcoming discussions could address the issue of an open market for the cultural sector, as he believes that it is a prerequisite for mutually beneficial exchange.
Issues such as intellectual property rights protection will also be included in the high-level talks, according to Xu.
Cai's trip has triggered widespread speculation that cultural issues will be high on the agenda of the next round of high-level talks between the Chinese mainland and... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 09:27:34) |
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&$Cai Wu (C), honorary chairman of the China Friendship Association of Cultural Circles, arrives at Taipei to visit southeast China's Taiwan, Sept. 2, 2010. Photo: Xinhua&$&$
Heading a 50-member delegation from the Chinesemainland, Minister of Culture Cai Wu embarked on a week-long visit to Taiwan Thursday, marking the highest-level visit to the island in 12 years.
Land ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 09:27:33) |
 | Prosecutors in Taiwan have lodged an appeal against a non-custodial sentence for Shin Nakagomi, the Japanese former manager of a Taiwanese professional baseball team who was convicted of game-fixing on Aug. 17, it was confirmed Friday. In an application filed to the Taiwan High Court dated Aug. 30 and seen by Kyodo News on Friday, Banciao District Court prosecutors said the Chinese Professional Baseball League's contention that Nakagomi's sentence was too light and the fine of NT$1.8 million... (Kyodo News, 2010-09-03 09:10:11) |
 | In a major setback to India, China Thursday said it will continue to issue stapled visas to Indians holding passport from the state that China recently called (Phayul, 2010-09-03 08:58:00) |
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&$A dolphin frolics in the waters of Sanniang Bay, Qinzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Huo Yan / China Daily&$&$
Development plans prioritize rare sea creatures. Li Xing and Huang Chaohua report from Qinzhou.
As the dolphins swam by and frolicked among the waves, cheers erupted from three nearby motorboats.
The cameras flashed and clicked as the majestic cr ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:54:55) |
| The housing market in this country is in a "very big bubble" that may last until the central bank increases interest rates and Beijing introduces a real-estate tax, The Bloomberg News quoted StarRock Investment Management as saying Thursday.
"China's property market has a very big bubble, which may last for a while," Jiang Hui, investment director at StarRock Investment, said at a conference in Shanghai. "Only higher interest rates and the introduction of a property tax can bring down... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:51:49) |
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&$Li Xinyi dances during the 2010 reality TV show The Top Talent on Henan TV on Aug 22. Li won the contest. Li Yang / for China Daily&$&$
Two months ago, his tattered clothes and soot-covered face told the tale of his difficult and impoverished life as a coal deliveryman.
Today, he has taken that story and turned it into a successful song and dance number.
Forget Gene ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:51:19) |
| Results from the latest epidemiology study have pointed to a thyroid-related disease outbreak in China that may be related to the nation's 1995 mandate to add iodine to salt, experts said.
Roughly one out of 15 Chinese is suffering from hypothyroidism, one of the most commonly seen thyroid problems here, showed the study sponsored by the Chinese Medical Association's endocrinology branch. That's almost twice the incidence reported in late 1990s.
The survey, which started last M ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:48:00) |
| Local health authorities have admitted waiting five months before announcing that secret recalls had been ordered for a brand of camellia oil that had been found to contain excessive carcinogens.
The oil was manufactured by Jinhao, a well-known edible oil maker based in Central China's Hunan province.
An official with the provincial bureau of quality and technical supervision confirmed, on the condition of anonymity, that in March, the bureau found excessive amounts of a harmful... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:45:57) |
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&$Visitors are captivated by the State Grid Pavilion's Magic Box, which uses 112 LED panels to create a visual illusion for visitors. Song Weixing / for China Daily&$&$
The Expo 2010 Shanghai is lighting up the new green potential of LED technology.
More than one billion LE ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:41:28) |
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&$Left: Chen Xinnian on Tuesday shows how he managed to build the underground apartment. Right: Chen Xinnian (left) and his wife Liu Shula dance in their underground apartment in Zhengzhou, Henan province, on Tuesday. Photos by Yan Huazhuang / for China Daily&$&$
Chen Xinnian, a 64-year-old former miner in Central China's Henan province, is now anxiously awaiting the results of a go ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:39:47) |
| With the central government's pledge to upgrade the annual trade fair here to a country-level political and economic platform, Xinjiang is stepping up its efforts to establish itself as a leader in trade between China and its western neighboring countries.
"It will speed up Xinjiang's bid to become China's window facing the west," said Nur Bekri, chairman of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region government.
The annual China Urumqi Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Fair (Urumqi Fa ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:38:56) |
| The Expo Garden has seen a sharp decrease in the number of visitors this week, but organizers said the drop is temporary and visitors would increase again with the National Day holiday around the corner.
More than 223,000 visitors entered the Expo Garden on Sept 2. It was the third day that the number of visitors hovered around 200,000. The high on Aug 21 reached more than 560,000 visitors.
According to Expo organizers, the drop in group visitors and the start of a new semester ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:37:08) |
| China's Ministry of Civil Affairs has published the official Chinese names for places on the earth's moon, in a first that eliminates confusion and will help the nation's lunar exploration efforts.
The ministry published the Chinese names for 468 places and will publish more at a later date.
The International Astronomical Union has given names to more than 9,000 places on the moon, said a ministry official Thursday.
The project to standardize Chinese lunar names was init ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:35:17) |
| Donald Tsang Yan-Kuen, Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ( HKSAR), who was currently on a visit to Russia, said here Thursday that Hong Kong was the "best business partner" for Russia in Asia.
Chinese Hong Kong and Russia have locked several key cooperative sectors, including technical innovations, in particular communications and information technology, as well as financing, Tsang told Xinhua in an interview.
According to Tsang, Chinese mainlan ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:33:40) |
 | Every Friday, we tell you what sounds exciting to us over the next three days! This weekend, look forward to dance opportunities - both watching and learning, and charitable events galore! Not to mention, rugby fans get to cheer for their favorite leagues LIVE at the Shanghai Sevens and the father of minimal music, Robert Hood, is in town (for all you DJ lovers). For this weekend's live music offerings, check out our Midweek Music Preview. FRIDAY Party animals pay... (Shanghaiist, 2010-09-03 08:30:00) |
| Economic cooperation and investment among northeast Asia countries is accelerating, a senior trade official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Thursday in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province.
"Northeast Asia has the advantages of modern technology, abundant natural resources and huge markets, which lays a solid foundation for common prosperity through cooperation," Koo Bon-Tai, vice trade minister of the DPRK, said at the Sixth Northeast Asia I ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:19:23) |
| China's Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang Thursday called upon Chinese industrial firms to improve the quality of their products as part of the efforts to transform China's economic growth pattern.
Chinese enterprises should boost the quality of industrial products by upgrading their technologies and establishing a quality-based credit system of enterprises, said Zhang at a forum held in Beijing which focused on how to improve the quality and reputation of Chinese industrial products.
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| China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Thursday it would urge industrial enterprises to produce high-quality products as part of the effort to enhance the image of "made in China."
The Ministry would also draw up a blacklist displaying the names of those firms breaching quality-related regulations, said Li Yizhong, Minister of the MIIT.
The MIIT would reward those companies that have good records for producing quality products with increased policy ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:15:14) |
| A vast majority - a staggering 90 percent - of the post-1980 generation believes it is incapable of supporting parents, according to a recent survey, which polled 1,612 people born in or after 1980.
The survey was conducted by the social research center of China Youth Daily via two major websites, minyi.net.cn and hudong.com.
About 40 percent of the respondents claimed to be the only child.
Nearly 74 percent of those polled said that their workload is so overwhelming tha ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:13:55) |
| Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Thursday China welcomed the resumption of peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli leaders.
"China hopes both parties will seize the opportunity and take a practical attitude to actively push forward the peace process and make progress as soon as possible," she told a regular news conference.
Li Guofu, director of the Center of Middle East Studies affiliated to the China Institute of International Studies, said it was a big step ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:10:34) |
| Beijing and Kiev signed 13 agreements on Thursday, the first day of the Ukrainian president's state visit to China, in what analysts are predicting could be the beginning of a new "Silk Road".
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych spent the opening day of his four-day state visit meeting with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao. Both leaders agreed to lift their ties in a comprehensive way.
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| A senior Chinese general Thursday met with the head of a leading U.S. think tank and discussed the building of strong military ties between the two countries, despite military exchanges between the two nations having been frozen since January.
"A sound and stable China-U.S. military relationship is good for bilateral strategic trust and regional peace and stability," Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Ma Xiaotian told John Hamre, president ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:06:49) |
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&$ Rescuers work at the scene of landslide at Dashifang Village in Baoshan City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 2, 2010. The landslide happening on the night of Sept. 1 has left at least eight people dead and 40 others missing. (Xinhua/Chen Haining)&$&$The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday has climbed to 12, and 36 ar ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:05:28) |
| A senior Chinese general Thursday met with the head of a leading U.S. think tank and discussed the building of strong military ties between the two countries, despite military exchanges between the two nations having been frozen since January.
"A sound and stable China-U.S. military relationship is good for bilateral strategic trust and regional peace and stability," Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Ma Xiaotian told John Hamre, president of the... (People's Daily, 2010-09-03 08:00:48) |
 | China's largest property company said its August property sales more than doubled from a year earlier to $1.76 billion. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-09-03 07:17:07) |
| A Philippine government committee began questioning Friday officials who played roles in an Aug. 23 hostage-taking that left eight Hong Kong tourists dead. The Incident Investigation and Review Committee created by President Benigno Aquino III and headed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima first heard a statement from Interior Undersecretary Rico Puno who was told by Aquino during the incident to monitor the situation and keep him updated. (Kyodo News, 2010-09-03 07:10:06) |
 | The first visit of Chinese warships to Burma ends as top Burmese leader Than Shwe prepares to visit Beijing, highlighting the two country's close ties. (BBC NEWS, 2010-09-03 07:01:57) |
 | The European Union said Thursday it expects China to support tough sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear program and not let its companies move… (Japan Today, 2010-09-03 06:24:00) |
| Japanese stationery maker Kokuyo Co has begun marketing in China a notebook developed for university students with the help of those attending Fudan University, one… (Japan Today, 2010-09-03 05:21:00) |
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Experts Say Chinese Filter Would Make PCs Vulnerable to Intrusion (New York Times) The program would let outsiders monitor a computer’s Internet activity, steal personal data or plant viruses, according to those who have examined it.
The Day China's Heart Froze (newmatilda.com) Twenty years ago today, thousands were being killed in the streets around Tiananmen Square. Dan Edwards in Beijing speaks to survivors about a wound that hasn't healed
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China: A Threat to or Threatened by Democracy? (Dissent Magazine) How can one know whether China will or will not democratize? In general, as Karl Popper showed in The Poverty of Historicism, political futures in even the middle distance are unknowable because of the inherently uncertain and contingent dynamics of politics. Therefore, an analyst should focus on the multiple factors that make different futures more or less likely.
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