Archive for the ‘China news’ Category
Friday, August 24th, 2007
A worker shows the flower-shaped gold and jade, gold and silver commemorative medal in Beijing Aug. 21, 2007. The flower-shaped gold and jade, gold and silver commemorative medals, also known as "Olympic Moon Cakes", under the authorization of the Organizing Committee of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, have been issued. ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Chinese Foreign Ministry inaugurated a consular protection center on Thursday to better protect the interests and legitimate rights of Chinese nationals living or traveling abroad. The center, upgraded from a consular protection division under the ministry's consular department, is aimed at strengthening its coordinative abilities on the precaution and operation of ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
A passenger plane of China Airlines was almost completely destroyed in fire on Monday morning at Naha airport of Southern Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, according to Japanese media.
None of the 163 passengers and crew members was injured in the accident since the fire broke out after all of them got off ...
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- HSBC has got the nod from China's banking regulator to set up a village bank in the central province of Hubei, becoming the first foreign bank to expand its business in the country's vast rural areas, HSBC announced on Thursday. The village bank will be opened ...
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Five people have been confirmed dead and another five are still missing after torrential rains hit northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Thursday, a spokesman with the provincial flood control authority said.
The downpours started at 8:00 AM on Wednesday. They have affected more than 308,000 people in 37 townships. Precipitation in ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
SHIJIAZHUANG -- Two bank workers were sentenced to death on Thursday for China's largest ever bank theft, involving 50.95 million yuan, in northern Hebei Province.
Ren Xiaofeng, 34, and Ma Xiangjing, 37, who worked as vault managers at the Handan branch of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), were convicted of ...
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