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  • China planning to give private businesses larger role in economy

    China is planning to give a larger role to private businesses and market forces in its economy. The move comes in a major policy shift intended to improve living conditions for the middle class and to make China a stronger competitor on the global stage. According to the New York Times, in a speech to party cadres, Chinese Prime Minister, Li Keqiang, said the central government would reduce ...

  • China Pakistan vow to deepen comprehensive strategic cooperation

    Beijing, May 25 (Xinhua-ANI): China and Pakistan agreed to cement their strategic partnership and deepen comprehensive strategic cooperation in various areas, according to a joint statement issued Thursday during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to the South Asian country. In the statement, China reaffirms that its relationship with Pakistan is always a priority in its foreign policy and ...

  • Spotlight grows on Chinas harsh labor camps

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - When she refused to sign a form renouncing her faith, Wang Chunying said she was handcuffed between two bunkbeds for 16 hours, deprived of food, water and sleep as she felt her wrists bleeding."The police would kick the beds apart to the point that my body couldn't stretch any further," she recalled of the time in a Chinese labor prison in late 2007."The ...

  • Lavender flowers attract tourists in Chinas Wuxi

    Tourists take photos in a lavender field in Xuelangshan forest park in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 25, 2013. Over 100,000 lavender plants here attracted numbers of tourists. (Xinhua/Luo ...

  • Move Over Japanese Yen Make Way For Chinas Yuan

    By 2015 the Chinese currency, the renminbi (RMB), will be one of the three most traded currencies in the world, on par with the euro and the dollar, HSBC said on Friday. "The RMB is increasingly part of normal day-to-day business for anyone trading or investing in China," said Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC Holdings at the Annual General Meeting in London yesterday. "Every ...


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The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin

Following in the footsteps of his former protg Robert Zemeckis, who hasnt directed a live actor on film since Tom Hanks talked to a volleyball in Cast Away (2000), Steven Spielberg has ventured into the world of 3D performance capture CGI with The Adventures ... ...

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  • Sino-Swiss FTA deal a springboard for China

    Switzerland will be China's springboard to enter the European market, said Ding Yifan, economist of China's State Council's Development Research Center, Saturday in ...

  • Landslide kills 7 in NW China

    Seven people died and 12 others were injured after a landslide buried a dormitory building in Northwest China's Shaanxi province on Saturday morning. [Xinhua] ...

  • China is now worlds second largest moviegoing country

    May 25--Related: Mayor Villaraigosa off to China to promote business Movies are bigger than ever. At least, they are in China. The nation of 1.35 billion became the second largest filmgoing market on the planet last year, its box office receipts of $2.7 billion muscling out Japan from that spot. That was a whopping 36 percent higher than the 2011 ticket sales in the People's Republic, and ...

  • Wichanee sets CLPGA Tour record for low round in Beijing Challenge victory

    A week after winning her maiden professional title in her native Thailand, Wichanee Meechai picked up her first international victory Saturday in shooting a nine-under 63, a new China LPGA Tour record for low round, to claim the 500,000-yuan Beijing Challenge.The 20-year-old Bangkok native, winner of the Singha-SAT Thai LPGA Championship last week, finished with a 54-hole score of 10-under 206, ...

  • A historic opportunity to advance China-EU cooperation

    Premier Li Keqiang has arrived in Berlin for an official visit, opening up a historic opportunity to firm up China's cooperation with Germany and the European Union (EU) at large.The China-Germany relationship is now in its best shape in history, and their fruitful practical cooperation has evolved into a paragon of China-West interaction.A telling illustration of the Beijing-Berlin close ...

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