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 | Cai Wu, honorary chairman of the mainland-based China Friendship Association of Cultural Circles, said Monday he expects the Chinese mainland and Taiwan to create "favorable conditions" for a cultural exchange pact.
"We hope the two sides across the Taiwan Strait hold deep talks on the cultural exchange pact and then sign it, to create a cross-Strait cultural cooperation mechanism," said Cai in his address to the opening ceremony of a cross-Strait cultural forum in Taipei Monday.
He urged... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 13:11:02) |
 | China has been using Pakistan to counter India by arming it with nuclear weapons, missiles and conventional weapons, says K Subrahmanyam (rediff.com, 2010-09-06 13:10:10) |
| The gross output of China's press and publication sectors in 2009 surpassed 1 trillion yuan and the added value exceeded 300 billion yuan, according to the Chinese government.
The General Administration of Press and Publication recently issued the 2009 Press and Publication Industry Analysis Report, which said that the industry nationwide has achieved output amounting to 1 percent of the GDP.
The added value of related activities in this industry, which includes publication, printing... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 13:05:55) |
| In the past few days, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei provinces have suffered from sauna-like conditions characterized by high-temperature days with high humidity, the China News Service reported on July 26.
China's National Meteorological Center continued to issue high-temperature blue alerts on July 26 and said parts of China, including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei Province, Shanxi Province, Chongqing, Hunan Province, Guangdong Province and Gansu Province, have been hit by scorching hot weather... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 13:04:16) |
| China-ASEAN trade volume reached 136.5 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of the year, up 55 percent year on year, making ASEAN China's fourth biggest trading partner, said Gao Hucheng, vice minister of commerce, in a press conference Monday.
Gao said that the establishment of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area on Jan. 1 was a major milestone for regional economic integration indicating that bilateral economic and trade relations have entered a new stage.
And the establishment of the... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:59:51) |
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&$The equestrianism performance on the 21st Nadam Fair in Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region.(Photo by Liu Yongzhen/Xinhua)&$&$
The 21st Nadam fair opened in Gegentala Grassland of Wulanchabu City, China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on July 25.
The word Nadam means entertainment or games in Mongolian and the Nadam fair is a large entertainment gathering to celebrate the harvest.
It is often held d ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:58:46) |
| The new generation of migrant workers in cities pursues rights and interests not only in the economic sphere, but also in spirituality, according to results of a survey released by the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions on Sunday.
They also have stronger awareness of safeguarding legal rights and employment. Employee-employer relationships, living conditions and identity are their greatest concerns, Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.
The new generation of migrant workers is the main... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:58:00) |
| Wang Yue, China's volunteer for the Mars-500 experiment, spent his 28th birthday in a sealed module on July 25 during a simulated space trip to mars, People's Daily overseas edition reported on Monday.
Despite the lack of a birthday cake, no candles and no family members around, Wang Yue said it was the most significant birthday he had ever spent.
Wang received birthday greetings from centers for China's astronauts, the Moscow-based Institute of Biomedical Problems, his family members... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:54:54) |
| China Southern Airlines has recently opened a Harbin-Jinan-Urumqi flight route, marking the launch of all of the flight routes by China's civil aviation industry for the "pairing" assistance from 19 provinces and municipalities to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to a press conference by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on the Chinese aviation industry's assistance to Xinjiang.
To provide the 19 provinces and municipalities with convenient aviation services, Air... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:47:25) |
 | The domestic investment arm of China's sovereign-wealth fund plans to sell up to $8.09 billion worth of bonds in mid-September, the second tranche of its planned $27.57 billion issuance this year. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-09-06 12:45:41) |
| The E.U. Pavilion and the Consulate General of Greece in Shanghai are co-organizing a photography exhibition named "Silk Road, a European Perspective" by Simoni Zafeiropoulou from July 19 to July 25.
The theme of the exhibition embodies one of the Expo's core messages of uniting people through trade and culture. Besides, Greece and China have historically formed the two poles of the famous Silk Road and the photos presented in the exhibition reflect vivid images of the traditional trade... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:45:12) |
| Direct tourist charter flights from Shanghai to Pyongyang will be officially launched on August 6 and the first batch of tourists will fly to Pyongyang on Koryo Air, China News Services reported on Friday.
Experts noted the launch of direct tourist charter flights will help to further promote cooperation and exchanges between China and North Korea in trade, tourism and culture.
Since this year marks the 60th anniversary of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, many old Chinese... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:42:41) |
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&$A S-76 helicopter that from the North Sea relief flight team lands on the temporary landing area near the accident site and medical staff transfer victims.&$&$
On July 22, the “Liaoning 2010” mock rescue operation was held at the Shenyang-Dalian highway section. This was the first time China has used a helicopter in a simulated major accident rescue.
The operation involved about 20 related units, inclu ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:42:19) |
| In the first half of 2010, a total of nearly 6.4 million new jobs were created in urban areas, which is 71 percent of the whole year's target of creating 9 million new jobs, said Yin Chengji, spokesman of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, at a press conference Friday.
Yin said that in the first half, almost 3.1 million laid-off workers found employment nationwide, 61 percent of the whole year's target.
In addition, the number of registered unemployed was 9.1 million at the... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:38:41) |
| The cable television network of the Peking University has broadcast a three-dimensional program that uses independently-researched and developed encoders and decoders with intellectual property rights wholly owned by China, the Audio Video Coding Standard Group of China (AVS) reported yesterday.
The AVS was established by the Science and Technology Department under the former Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in June 2002.
With the mandate of satisfying the demands of the... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:36:24) |
| The First Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Travel Card Association was recently established in Nantong, Jiangsu Province.
... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 12:34:55) |
 | The Shanghai zoo has complained that it has no more space for exotic animals abandoned by the city's pet-owners. (telegraph.co.uk, 2010-09-06 12:23:25) |
 | Nepal's opposition Maoist party has been dragged into a snowballing scandal with a leaked audio tape indicating the former guerrillas sought NRS 500 million from Chinese "friends" to buy MPs' votes ahead of Sunday's election (Phayul, 2010-09-06 12:23:00) |
 | Newsweek seems to think it might be. While their ability to produce impartial news about China is incredibly suspect, they win against Western media by being cheap, cheap and... non-Western. Oh yeah, did we mention cheap? The heavily subsidized service doesn't have the paycheck problems of the AFP, Reuters or AP and, when they're not talking about China, they're actually kind of good. Go figure. Wouldn't it be funny if, in the future, we turned to Xinhua for every piece of news not about China? (Shanghaiist, 2010-09-06 12:15:28) |
| A security check on Chinese airlines has uncovered 200 pilots flying with falsified qualifications, it emerged on Monday. (telegraph.co.uk, 2010-09-06 12:12:16) |
| Speaking of beauty pageants (and boy, has there been a lot recently), apparently there's a Miss Expo 2010 as well. Says City Weekend, Expo's Porterhouse Bar will be kicking off their own beauty competition this evening at 8pm. 55 ladies from different pavilions will duke it out for the title of Miss Expo 2010. As a lady who's into man bits, I've got to wonder: when will it be our turn to oggle? (Shanghaiist, 2010-09-06 12:00:00) |
 | SEVEN foreign writers have arrived in Shanghai to participate the two-month "2010 Shanghai Writing Program."
They will attend theme seminars to discuss with local writers, visit the ongoing World Expo, and interview... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-06 11:57:28) |
| A Chinese hospital is seeking international medical help to artificially grow skin for two seriously burned survivors of a plane crash in northeast China last month.
The Brazilian-made Henan Airlines jet carrying... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-06 11:40:20) |
| Models of China's domestically-produced large passenger aircraft C919 and the new regional aircraft ARJ21 made their debut at the Farnborough 2010 International Air Show, which opened on July 19.
According to Jin Zhuanglong, general manager of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, manufacturer the C919 aircraft, this is the first time that China's civil aviation manufacturers have formed a delegation to participate in the Farnborough International Air Show and also the first time... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 11:30:25) |
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&$People attend a celebration rally of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China's first economic reform zone, in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 6, 2010. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)&$&$
Shenzhen, a southern city bordering Hong Kong, marked its 30th anniversary as China's first economic reform zone Monday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao was scheduled to add ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 11:30:18) |
| The Red Cross Society of China is to provide no less than 2.3 billion yuan of disaster funds to the earthquake-stricken area in Yushu, Qinghai Province, facilitating post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction of Yushu, according to an agreement made with the Qinghai provincial government on July 21.
The reconstruction funds provided by the Red Cross are from the relief contributions raised by the China Red Cross Foundation, local Red Cross foundations on the Chinese mainland and Red... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 11:29:22) |
| Chinese-American political activity has been growing with increasing education levels and income, Stephen Sham, Mayor of Alhambra, California, told reporters with the China News Service on July 22.
The American population now numbers more than 300 million. The number of Asian-Americans is approaching 15 million, of which the number of Chinese-Americans is closing in on 3 million. The Chinese language has become the third most widely-used language in the United States after English and... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 11:25:40) |
| Under a new government policy, Web sites found to contain pirated content will be included on a blacklist, which will prevent them from operating or accessing services and they will be closely monitored, according to Beijing News reports on Thursday.
The National Copyright Administration, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly announced a crackdown on Internet piracy on July 21. The move will last until the end of October.
Names... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 11:24:49) |
| According to official statistics, the permanent residents of Beijing totaled more than 19.7 million by the end of 2009, well over the State Council's goal of limiting the number to fewer than 18 million by 2020, Beijing Daily reported today.
The report said that of the total registered population, registered permanent residents account for around 12.5 million and about 7.6 million are members of the registered floating population, nearly 7.3 million of which have been living in Beijing for... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 11:22:23) |
| The week-long 21st Hong Kong Book Fair opened on July 21 in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.
The theme of the book fair this year was "Reading the World, Writing the Future" and over 90 writers will take part in 250 activities together with Hong Kong people, who will find themselves swimming in an ocean of books.
More than 500 publishers from 20 countries all over the world participated in the fair.
A senior official from the Hong Kong Trade and Development Council said... (People's Daily, 2010-09-06 11:21:29) |
Think Again: Asia\'s Rise (FOREIGN POLICY) Don\'t believe the hype about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. It will be many decades before China, India, and the rest of the region take over the world, if they ever do.
Is China Really an \'East Asian success story\'? (Policy ) State-controlled investment in China provides poor financial returns, explains John Lee
Chinese chukkas (BBC NEWS) How polo enthrals Shanghai's moneyed class
Business › Many Chinese seek Japanese celebrity names as trademarks for business (Japan Today) The names of Japanese celebrities, such as pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki, have been registered as trademarks in China by businesspeople trying to take advantage of…
China's Dictators at Work: The Secret Story (The New York Review of Books) “If the Mafia boss thinks you might betray him, he will just kill you or throw you into prison.” That is not how the government of China should behave...
We're Not Selfish, They Are (Daai Tou Laam Diary) We're willing to pour billions and billions of our and their dollars in overruns to build transit links to ensure our commutes from pricey south island is fast and efficient. We've even cut the taxi fares for our weekend trips out to Sai Kung to eat seafood or travel home to Sai Kung/Clearwater Bay after those late nights in Lan Kwai Fong/Wan Chai. We've raised their transit fees twice in the last three years and dragged our feet since the last Central reclamation on spending...
Desertification worsening in Tibet: Report (Phayul) Desertification is worsening in Tibet, Chinese state media reported Wednesday. According to the report, authorities in Tibet aim to halt the spread of the desert in Tibet by next year, hoping to stem the effects of years of mining, tree-felling and
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
Founding fathers (BBC NEWS) The French town with an unlikely Chinese past
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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