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  • Beijing rejects claim of Snowden being Chinese spy

    Beijing has rubbished a former US president's claim that Edward Snowden, a former US intelligence contractor-turned-whistleblower hiding in Hong Kong, was an agent of China. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying termed such a claim as "sheer nonsense" Monday, a day after former US vice president Dick Cheney expressed suspicion that Snowden had chosen Hong Kong due to being a Chinese ...

  • Beijing begins military recruitment of college students

    More than 1,000 representatives from over 30 universities in Beijing Monday joined in a ceremony held to mark the start of the military recruitment of college students. Brochures introducing recruitment policies were distributed and students' questions about the policy were answered in the event, which was jointly organised by the Ministry of National Defence (MND) and the Ministry of ...

  • China builds worlds fastest supercomputer

    China Monday announced that it has built the world's fastest supercomputer which is capable of performing 33.86 quadrillion operations per second, surpassing the US Titan supercomputer. The Tianhe-2 has a peak performance speed of 54.9 quadrillion operations per second, according to the National University of Defence Technology, which built the computer, reported Xinhua. The computer's ...

  • China may take 18 years to clear air under countrys anti-pollution campaign

    China could take 18 years to bring air quality within acceptable standards, analysts have said. China has announced new measures to combat pollution by slashing emissions from major polluting industries and holding local officials responsible. According to news.com.au, the problem of air pollution has led to discontent across the country, with levels of particulate matter in Beijing measured ...

  • Obama says China hears ‘blunt’ message on hacking

    UNITED STATES, RANCHO MIRAGE : TOPSHOTSUS President Barack Obama (R) listens as Chinese President Xi Jinping answers a question following their bilateral meeting at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, on June 7, 2013.Obama, with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping by his side, called Friday for common rules on cybersecurity after allegations of hacking by Beijing. At a ...


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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the best so far of the film series based on J.K. Rowlings books about a burgeoning boy wizard. While the first two films were competently directed by Chris Columbus, they relied far too much on the source ... ...

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  • Chinas FDI edges up 0.29 in May

    FDI recovery after declining for eight consecutive months since June of 2012. During the first five months, the inbound investment increased 1.03 percent from a year earlier to $47.6 billion, data ...

  • This Worries Us Most About China Says World Bank

    Financial instability in China, stemming from its vast shadow banking sector, is a lurking threat for the world's second largest economy, according to Hans Timmer, director of the Development Prospects Group at the World Bank."[China has] a shadow banking sector where nobody knows who is on the hook for all kinds of loans; [it] has 160 percent of GDP [gross domestic product] of private ...

  • End in Sight for China Equity Downtrend

    China remains one of Asia's worst-performing stock markets this year, but there are reasons to believe the prevailing downtrend for the long-time laggard may be coming to an end. In broad terms, the ...

  • Beckham back in Beijing

    The Chinese soccer team's 5-1 defeat to Thailand on Saturday may have broken fans' hearts but the reappearance of David Beckham in Beijing probably eased some of the pain. Hot on the heels of the drubbing, Beckham, who took the role of Chinese soccer's global ambassador in March, visited the capital again on ...

  • Beijing was told bluntly about cyber hacking risks says Obama

    (57 mins ago) US President Barack Obama said China has understood his ';very blunt'' message that cyber-hacking against the United States will lead to a deterioration of relations between the two powers. ';We've had very blunt conversations about this. They understand, I think, that this can adversely affect the fundamentals of the US-China relationship,'' ...

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