Archive for August, 2007
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
China hopes to see progress on such topics as climate change and clean development, integration of regional economy, multilateral trade and APEC reform at the impending APEC summit, said a senior official with Chinese Foreign Ministry. The proposal was raised by Chinese assistant foreign minister Cui Tiankai at a press conference ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Beijing's police is scheduled to launch its first ever virtual police on leading web portals in the city starting from September 1st, Beijing News reports.
With cartoonized virtual police figures in place on Beijing's 13 major websites, including Sina.com and Sohu.com, netizens will feel free to report online or offline crimes ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton on Wednesday settled a 10 million U.S. dollars defamation lawsuit brought against her by diamond heiress Zeta Graff, media reported.
Jury selection for a civil trial was due to get underway next Monday, but lawyers for the socialites settled the case during a court hearing in Santa ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Lindsay Lohan arrives for the premiere of the film "Georgia Rule" at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York in this May 8, 2007 file photo.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan on Thursday reached a plea deal on charges of possessing cocaine and drunken driving and was required ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
China on Sunday said it has always opposed to and forbidden all sorts of criminal activities that could break down computer networks, including hacker activities.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu made the remarks when asked to comment on recent German media reports that held Chinese hacker accountable for attacking the ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Every city has its main color. In Paris, for example, the main color is grayish white and in London, yellowish gray becomes the dominating color of buildings in the city. What is the major color in Beijing, then? Not long ago, an authority in Beijing said that gray is the ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Chinese share prices closed slightly higher on the last trading day of this week with major index kept above the 5,000-point mark. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index went up 1.49 percent or 75.18 points to close at 5,107.67 points on a transaction volume of 167.55 billion yuan (22.05 billion U.S. dollars).
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
More than 63 percent of Taiwan entrepreneurs want to scale up their investment in the Chinese mainland, a recent survey of the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (TEEMA) showed. Having inquired its member companies, the Taiwan's largest industry association found that the number of Taiwan business people who hope to ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
The fifth batch of materials for humanitarian aid provided by the Chinese government for Sudan was shipped on Friday at north China's port of Tianjin. The 40 million yuan (5.2 million U.S. dollars) worth materials include cross-country vehicles, ambulances, medical instruments, and mobile houses.
A container is loaded to a ship at ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
After taking on an imperial robe and sitting on an imperial chair, Basil Bernstein asked his Chinese friend to take a picture of him at a temple fair. "My wife said I am very handsome when wearing the imperial robe," said Bernstein, a free-lance American photographer, at a Spring Festival temple ...
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