IHT Rendezvous: Job Hunting in Asia: Language Skills Count
Source: The New York Times
Hong Kong :: China | updated 2013-05-23 03:26:10 -0700 | political-news
Asia has long exerted a magnetism for mobile Westerners in search of jobs and adventures. Tens of thousands of Europeans and Americans live in cities like Singapore and Hong Kong, which are financial and trading hubs with a long history...
Lincolnshire boy takes 2nd in National Geographic Bee
Source: Chicago Tribune
Baotou :: China | updated 2013-05-22 23:32:26 -0700 | political-news
One of the world's largest deposits of rare-earth elements .....The correct answer: Baotou. "I guessed Hohhot," said Conrad, who attends Wright Junior High School in Lincolnshire. "I knew it was one of those two cities...That question was one of five...
Don't treat history as a civics lesson
Source: The Globe and Mail
Hong Kong :: China | updated 2013-05-23 03:31:23 -0700 | political-news
EDT Laura Madokoro The parliamentary heritage committee's recent decision to conduct a review of history as it's presented in Canadian museums and archives has sparked debate across the country about the nature of this history. Proponents of the review believe...
China's Guangxi Normal University opens Indonesia Center
Source: The Jakarta Post
Guilin :: China | updated 2013-05-23 04:21:06 -0700 | political-news
Guilin, China, in collaboration with the Indonesian Embassy, has opened an Indonesian Cultural Center, the fourth such center established in the Asian superpower nation...The center was inaugurated by acting Indonesian consul general in Guangzhou Gantosori Tanjung, according to a statement...
13 people held for protesting mystery death in China
Source: NewKerala
Beijing :: China | updated 2013-05-22 23:05:42 -0700 | political-news
Thirteen people were arrested after taking part in a protest demanding transparency in the investigation of the mysterious death of a 22-year-old woman near a Beijing market, Chinese police said Wednesday. The circumstances surrounding her death, which authorities attribute to...
Three officials dismissed for abuse of power
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-23 06:56:51 -0700 | political-news
In 2007, Hou Shaojun, deputy director of the bureau of housing and urban-rural development in Luoning county, Song Peng, another official with the bureau, and Niu Hongjun, an official with the department that manages local property rights for real estate...
ROK president to visit China: spokesman
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-23 06:24:40 -0700 | political-news
Republic of Korea (ROK) president Park Geun-Hye will pay a state visit to China in late June at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said at a Thursday press briefing. Since Park took office,...
Deposit insurance system to be launched at ‘appropriate time'
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-23 06:24:41 -0700 | political-news
China will launch its deposit insurance system at an appropriate time, Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of the central bank, said on May 22. The deposit insurance system, first used in the United States, was established in the 1930s to guard...
Guangzhou oysters contaminated by cadmium
Source: China News
Guangzhou :: China | updated 2013-05-23 06:24:37 -0700 | political-news
Following a scandal of cadmium-tainted rice in the southern province, China Central Television reported that 1 kilogram of oysters sold at a Guangzhou restaurant, famous for grilled oysters, contained 2 mg of cadmium, 20 times the permitted content stipulated in...
Police bust Guangzhou betting gang
Source: China News
Guangzhou :: China | updated 2013-05-23 03:42:29 -0700 | political-news
Guangzhou ( chinadaily.com.cn) Police in the Guangdong provincial capital detained 157 suspects amid a crackdown against illegal soccer gambling. More than 132 million yuan ($21.29 million) has been frozen in bank accounts as police targeted a major soccer betting syndicate...
Chinese courts to deploy more citizen jurors
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-23 03:42:25 -0700 | political-news
Chinese courts are hoping to double the number of citizen jurors in the next two years, a senior judge said Thursday. The total number of citizen jurors, also known as people's jurors, will reach 200,000 in 2015, said Shen Deyong,...
Indonesia to co-host enterprise fair
Source: China News
Guangzhou :: China | updated 2013-05-23 03:42:25 -0700 | political-news
Neddy Rafinaldy Halim, Indonesia's deputy minister of cooperatives and small and medium enterprises, said co-hosting the world's largest fair for SMEs will help boost the country's business and trade links with China. "We are keen on exporting more products to...
Air China to upgrade surfing services
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-23 02:09:23 -0700 | political-news
Shanghai ( chinadaily.com.cn) An upgrade will see Air China passengers surfing faster in the sky with improved phone facilities. The Beijing-based carrier plans to introduce the improvements in its entire Airbus A330 fleet within the year. The nation's biggest carrier,...
Shanghai metro campaign fights obscenity
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-23 02:09:21 -0700 | political-news
Reinforced electronic surveillance and stepped-up patrols in the subway carriages and stations will be carried out. A 24-year-old man was held in administrative detention by police on Monday after he tried to photograph a woman with his mobile phone.
Man walks house back to hometown
Source: China News
Liucheng :: China | updated 2013-05-22 23:57:17 -0700 | political-news
Liu Lingchao carries his house on a road in Liucheng county, South China's Guangxi province, May 21, 2013. The 38-year-old left his hometown in Guangxi 20 years ago to find a job in the neighboring province of Guangdong. Five years...
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