July 17, 2008 by l00p
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Chinese police in a remote northwestern city have broken up 12 terrorist cells this year as part of the nation’s pre-Olympic security blitz, state-run press said on Wednesday.
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Investors flocked to Huaxia Commodities Spot Exchange, plunging into the risky world of commodities in search of better profits. But now Huaxia’s boom has collapsed amid accusations that its founder fled to the United States last week with up to $25 milli
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July 16, 2008 by l00p
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In Beijing’s view, whenever China gave an inch to Tibetans, they responded with outpourings of devotion to the Dalai Lama, other aspects of their culture that Beijing despises. The Dalai Lama’s pleas for some sort of autonomy fail because there can be onl
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They have been called the “Fifty Cent Party,” the “red vests” and the “red vanguard.” But China’s growing armies of Web commentators—instigated, trained and financed by party organizations—have just one mission: to safeguard the interest
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The Olympics will give China a chance to celebrate its emergence as a political and economic powerhouse. But even before the games begin, the Asian nation has been raising its profile in the global deal-making business.
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July 15, 2008 by l00p
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Everyone’s favourite China user and abuser, Chinabounder, has returned – flicking the lights back on at his blog: Sex and Shanghai/欲望上海.
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Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) announced on Monday to start “special” security checks at 19 airports to guarantee a safe Olympic Games.
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July 14, 2008 by l00p
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An opening ceremony of China’s first “North Pole University” was held on Sunday aboard the ship Xuelong during China’s third scientific expedition to the North Pole.
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A 13,112-meter-long painting scroll is stretched out along the Juyongguan Pass section of the Great Wall in Beijing, capital of China, July 13, 2008, to mark the 7th anniversary of China’s winning the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games. The painting scr
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The blockbuster success of an American animated movie that’s set in ancient China, highlights Chinese culture, mythology and architecture and stars a kung fu fighting panda has filmmakers and ordinary Chinese wondering: Why wasn’t this hit made . . . in C
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In commenting about the human fresh search engine phenomena, Liu Hong-bo felt that anonymity had become impossible in the Internet world.
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Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou said Saturday that Taipei won’t stop buying arms from the United States just because Taipei-Beijing ties are improving.
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THEY entered as tourists and worked here illegally, quite a number in the flesh trade, and had no problem staying on thanks to help from high up in the Malaysian Immigration Department. And, if they were willing to pay the asking price. They did.
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Chinese republic, preached close cooperation between China and Japan in a fight against Western encroachments in Asia Now, with China rising as a real power in Asia, a new pan-Asianism is emerging.
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Xinhua News is reporting that China’s State Council has approved a significant expansion of a “transgenic species development” program to “shore up the country’s sustainable agricultural development.”
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July 13, 2008 by l00p
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“WE WILL give the media complete freedom to report when they come to China.” So promised one of the most senior Chinese Olympic officials, Wang Wei, in 2001 on the eve of the International Olympic Committee awarding Beijing the 2008 Games. Seven years on
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China pledges to host the cleanest Olympic Games ever this summer, and a state-of-the-art anti-doping lab is set up to enforce the pledge. These days, China’s elite athletes don’t flinch at anti-doping tests
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“Snow Dragon”, the carrier for China’s third Arctic expedition, will leave here on Friday as it carries out a mission to observe polar changes and their effects on the country’s climate and environment.
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The algae plaguing China’s Olympic sailing venue is spreading to other ports and beaches along the coast, state media has reported, despite official claims that the battle is being won.
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July 12, 2008 by l00p
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After a botched response to bloody riots in Tibet in March, the Chinese authorities have ruthlessly restored order. But anti-Chinese resentment is deep-seated
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“There are things that China cannot say to European countries,” he told members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “France is a European country that must respected just as much as China.”
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In neither Tibet nor Taiwan are things going as well for China as its leaders would like
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When Beijing was awarded the host of the 2008 Olympics on July 13, 2001, the joyful Chinese didn’t expect that their road to the summer of 2008 would be so bumpy. This summer game has been politicized from very beginning.
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‘It is highly unacceptable and improper for the mainland to make that reference. Chinese-Taipei is Chinese-Taipei and it is never China’s Taipei,’ said Henry Chen, spokesman of Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry.
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Factories shut, workers laid off, no frolicking on cars – in fact, forget fun – it’s all for an Olympic games that will look on telly
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Beggars, the homeless, prostitutes, scrap recyclers, bottle collectors, activists and anyone who might challenge Beijing’s efforts to present itself as a modern, sophisticated metropolis are being forced to leave or cease work. A tightening of visa regula
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THERE was a trail of blood. And it led to a blood-soaked crime scene. British Columbia model Diana Gabrielle O’Brien, 22, had reportedly been repeatedly stabbed and her upper body was covered with blood.
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Russia and China vetoed sanctions proposed by the U.S. at the United Nations against Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and 13 of his government’s officials for attacks on political opponents before an election last month.
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Murder shocks Shanghai. Questions freewheeling fashion scene that lures growing numbers of young foreigners — who find some job requests require no posing for the camera. “There were few modeling jobs. ‘Why don’t you be a hostess?’ as they put it. Lured
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SUN Lidong from Jiangsu Province has been sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison for forcing women into prostitution. Minhang District People’s Court had previously jailed his accomplices, Kuai Lichun and Du Guanlin, for 13 years and seven years respectively
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One taikonaut will leave the craft while the other two will wear spacesuits as they monitor their colleague’s historic walk. It will be the first time a Chinese citizen has walked in space.
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On Shanghai’s posh Huaihai Road, a merchant at Cybermart mall said an unlocked iPhone is priced at 3,000 yuan ($437), while a Chinese copy would cost 1,000 Yuan. “As soon as we get it from Hong Kong and bring it over and unlock it, you should be able to b
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China has executed two Uighurs and sentenced another 15 to jail for alleged terrorist links, the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia said in a report just days after Beijing warned of attacks aimed at the Olympics.
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July 11, 2008 by l00p
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July 10, 2008 by l00p
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A Shanghai tycoon who made his fortune building highways is at the centre of a 4.3-billion-yuan (627-million-dollar) fraud investigation, state media reported on Wednesday.
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A Chinese court has jailed a former anti-graft prosecutor for life for torturing a suspect to death, while his superior was sentenced to seven years in prison for trying to cover up the case, local media said on Wednesday.
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In centuries past, Chinese villagers who believed they were victims of injustice often traveled to the capital to appeal to the emperor. Today, that custom survives. In run-up to Olympics, petitioners are being carted-f to squelch any signs of conflict.
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Chinese police have this year detained 82 suspected terrorists in the nation’s Muslim-populated far northwest who were planning to attack the Beijing Olympics, state media reported on Thursday.
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默克尔政府需要通过媒体来为改变对华政策创造舆论环境，记者只是在前面“冲锋陷阵”
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From telling lies about China pillaging Germany’s riches, to labeling all Chinese in Germany as spies, and then to slandering the Chinese government as having betrayed the spirit of the Olympics, and even to the point of raising the flag of Tibetan inde
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July 9, 2008 by l00p
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115 km in 27 minutes China is edging into the elite club of high-speed trains with the month-long passenger-free trial of its latest service between Beijing and the city of Tianjin in northern China on July 1.
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Photographer Rian Dundon explores life on the fringes of the People’s Republic
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The Olympic Games start in 31 days, and the Chinese Special Forces are ready, authorities said on Tuesday. The Snow Leopard Commando Unit, a major anti-terrorism wing of the People’s Armed Police, is ready for security operations during the Games, sa
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With just one month to go before the Olympics, China is reaffirming its promises of complete media freedom and unfettered Internet access during the games. These assurances come even as foreign journalists working in Beijing report continued harassment an
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McDonald’s has chose “Wo jiu xihuan Zhongguo ying,” for Chinese marketing campaign. When translated the phrase means “I love it when China wins.” This is problematic for several reasons with the top being that McDonald’s is openly supporting t
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China’s ambassador to France on Tuesday warned of “serious consequences” to Sino-French relations if President Nicolas Sarkozy meets the Dalai Lama during his visit to France next month.
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China’s first anti-monopoly law goes into effect on Aug. 1. Attorneys prepare for affects on their clients, particularly MNCs. There are also concerns about whether politics will play a role in the implementation of the new law.
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Police shot and killed five suspected gang members when one of them stabbed an officer while resisting arrest during a raid in China’s restive far west Xinjiang region, the official Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday.
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A university has apologised to China for “any unhappiness” it caused by awarding an honorary degree to the Dalai Lama. Pandering to the bully panda.
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Marking the one-month countdown to the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, activists gathered here and in cities around the world Tuesday to call on China to ease crackdowns on dissenters and release political prisoners.
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In Hong Kong, the leading democracy advocate, Anson Chan has announced that she won’t be seeking a second term in September’s Legislative Council elections.
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A 22-year-old B.C. woman who had planned to fly home early from China after a bad experience with an overseas modelling agency was found dead near Shanghai yesterday morning, reportedly the victim of a homicide.
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Mackers has chosen ‘Wo jiu xihuan Zhongguo ying,’ for Chinese marketing campaign, translates as ‘I love it when China wins.’ This is problematic for several reasons. McDonald’s seen as openly supporting the Chinese.
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Prokhorov backs merger of nickel and aluminium miners to form a $100bn rival to a united BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto
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July 8, 2008 by l00p
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City of Heavenly Tranquillity, Beijing in the History of China by Jasper Becker / The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power 1850-2008 by Jonathan Fenby – Times Online
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Taobao.com, China’s top consumer-to-consumer (C2C) site, will receive a further two billion yuan (292 million U.S. dollars) in investment from its parent Alibaba Group over the next five years.
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Guangdong TV host Ou Zhihang does pushups near China’s National Stadium (known also as “Bird’s Nest”). He said in his blog: “I love my country, I also love my body. I contrast my tiny body with the ‘miracle of the world’ through the popular exercise — pu
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What could go wrong in Beijing? Everything
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In China’s pre-Olympics crackdown on dissent two communities have received considerable global attention — the Tibetans and the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang.
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