Royal Trophy set for China debut
Source: The Star
Hong Kong :: China | updated 2013-05-21 17:09:28 -0700 | sports-news
China will host the Royal Trophy team event for the first time this year, organisers said yesterday, adding to a list of big golf tournaments in the country. The seventh edition of the tournament between Asia and Europe will be...
It’s the last $traw thanks to the BWF
Source: The Star
Wuhan :: China | updated 2013-05-21 17:08:57 -0700 | sports-news
Wednesday May 22, 2013 It's the last $traw thanks to the BWF THE Sudirman Cup will probably be the last major event that Malaysia will host and it's got nothing to do with the poor fan turnout. It's just that...
Chinese Bear Bile Farming Draws Charges of Cruelty
Source: The New York Times
Chengdu :: China | updated 2013-05-21 17:06:45 -0700 | political-news
China It was, at first glance, a rather modest initial public offering by a small Chinese company seeking to expand production of the key ingredient used in traditional remedies said to shrink gallstones, reduce fevers and sooth the aftereffects of...
Ai Weiwei's Music Video, Recreating His Detention
Source: International Herald Tribune
Hong Kong :: China | updated 2013-05-21 19:39:14 -0700 | entertainment-news
When the rebel artist Ai Weiwei was illegally detained in 2011 , he recounts, his young paramilitary guards asked him to sing for them. He belted out decades-old Communist revolutionary tunes, and they were stunned that he knew them, he...
Chinese Premier's Two-Day Visit To Pakistan. Civil Nuclear Projects Are On Top priority
Posted by: atifji75
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-05-21 19:08:38 -0700 | political-news
ISLAMABAD: Chinese Premier's Visit To Pakistan. Civil Nuclear Projects Are On Top priority. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is visiting to Pakistan on Wednesday. It is the first visit of Chinese prime minister to Pakistan. According to the reliable sources Chinese...
EdX adds 15 schools to online roster
Source: Boston Herald
Hong Kong :: China | updated 2013-05-21 09:51:15 -0700 | business-news
EdX, the nonprofit online learning platform devised by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said today it has added another 15 higher education institutions to its roster, bringing its total to 27. The new institutions include Tsinghua University...
Families endure desperate searches for China's missing children
Source: Denver Post
Xuzhou :: China | updated 2013-05-21 12:04:54 -0700 | political-news
China In front of a van plastered with pictures of about 100 children's faces, Xiao Zhaohua and Wu Xinghu pleaded with passersby for help. "Please don't think this is someone else's problem, and never take your eyes off your children!"...
Los Carpinteros Moonwalk through the Crack-up
Source: Village Voice
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-21 14:55:38 -0700 | technology-news
In Havana, on a sun-baked afternoon, that sensuous humanist observation goes double. Picture a Times Square flash mob mugged by the hurly-burly of New Orleans' scrappy Treme. For those who haven't visited Fidel's island, a current show at Chelsea's Sean...
Caustic composer
Source: Chinadaily
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-05-21 20:08:36 -0700 | entertainment-news
But Wang Xilin tells Chen Nan that he will not stop composing because he cannot stop the fire in his belly. The award-winning composer Wang Xilin has written nearly 50 symphonic pieces in his four-decade-long career. But, the 76-year-old musician...
Feathers fly as H7N9 hits China's down industry
Source: Chinadaily
Fengcheng :: China | updated 2013-05-21 19:43:46 -0700 | business-news
The H7N9 bird flu epidemic, which has inflicted huge losses on China's poultry industry, is also hitting the country's down products manufacturers. The virus, which has so far killed 36 of the 130 people infected nationwide, prompted the culling of...
China's red-hot property market searching for remedy
Source: Chinadaily
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-21 19:43:44 -0700 | business-news
As China's real estate prices continue to rise despite the central government's repeated housing curbs, experts have suggested the cure is to be found in market-oriented measures. China has been fine-tuning its property regulations since 2003, but average housing prices...
Lender wins big with local edge
Source: Chinadaily
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-21 19:43:43 -0700 | business-news
But against all odds, including bitter competition between eight established lenders in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, Bank of Tibet made its debut on May 22, 2012. The new bank notched an 18 million yuan ($2.9 million) profit...
Phoenix Arts Group spreads wings globally
Source: Chinadaily
Wuxi :: China | updated 2013-05-21 19:43:44 -0700 | business-news
The Phoenix Arts Group, in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, is the world's second-largest art materials supplier in terms of production capacity, after the United Kingdom-based Winsor & Ne wto n. "We plan to open our second overseas fa cto ry in...
Dreaming in Chinese
Source: Chinadaily
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-21 19:27:49 -0700 | entertainment-news
Limelight Peter Chan New Oriental is a Chinese business success story, and now a Hong Kong filmmaker has brought the story of this English-language company to the big screen...In 1993, three young men started an English training class, which has...
Mo Yan promotes Chinese literature
Source: Chinadaily
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-21 19:27:42 -0700 | lifestyle-news
Renowned artist dismisses concern about value of his work Fan Zeng, the 75-year-old ink painter and calligrapher, says he doesn't care about the price of his works or his ranking. More... "Let the trial on me begin," Mo Yan joked...
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