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A generous donation from a former student has provided a boost for the newly established China Institute at King’s College London. The gift will contribute towards the establishment of a Lectureship in Chinese Entrepreneurship, believed to be the first post of its kind at a British university. The alumnus, who does not wish to be named, is from Singapore. He has given 750,000 to create the Dr Abraham Lue Lectureship in Chinese Entrepreneurship which will be based in the King’s China Ins ...
Major donation boosts Chinese studies
2010-02-08 09:45:41
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&$The well-known Tibetan singer Cedai Drolma is singing on the record site of Tibetan New Year gala held in Lhasa, Feb 7. (Xinhua Photo)&$
&$ The record for a performance offered by famous artists was completed to celebrate the traditional Chinese New Year and the Tibetan New Year, both of the festivals fall on this Feb. 14. &$&$Source: China Tibet Information Center&$&$&$
2010 Tibetan evening gala completes record
2010-02-08 09:40:33
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&$A tourist from Beijing is offering hada for the holy lake "Mapham Yutso". (China Tibet Information Center Photo)&$
&$ Lake Mapham Yutso as the highest body of freshwater in the world locating at 2,000 kilometres from Lhasa in Tibet Autonomous Region, has attracted many tourists for sightseeing. &$&$Source: China Tibet Information Center&$&$&$
Morning of Lake Mapham Yutso
2010-02-08 09:34:41
Around midnight on the train heading for Anhui province, a guard suddenly heards a girl's sharp cry from the hard-seat coach. No sooner does the guard get to the coach than a strong smell of alcohol assaults his nostrils. He sees a young man pressing dozens of hundred bills to a girl and babbling: "Marry me, Xiao Qian, please! I give you all these." Obviously, the young man is drunk. The girl is cornered, screaming and shivering with scare, while other passengers freeze with loss. The you ...
Drunk travels squandering cash
2010-02-08 09:32:26
In celebration of the Tibetan Tiger New Year, Tibetan Xiahe Labrang art troupe hosted a singing and dancing performance in Lake Zurich, Switzerland on Feb 6th with over 350 Switzerland overseas Chinese, Chinese students and international friends in attendance. The group leader of Tibetan Labrang art troupe from Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture introduced all the actors felt proud of having such kind of chances to perform at abroad. The attendees also enjoyed a show given by ...
Tibetan Tiger New Year gala held in Swiss
2010-02-08 09:26:39
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&$Railway stewards perform for passengers on K9801 from Xining to Lhasa. (Xinhua Photo) &$
&$ Feb. 6 marks the traditional "Little Year" according to Chinese lunar calendar and the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Corporation offered wonderful performances to passengers for celebration. &$&$Source: China Tibet Information Center&$&$&$
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Celebration for coming new year on railway
2010-02-08 09:23:51
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&$A Tibetan herdsman from Damxung is selling homemade butter. (Chinatibetnews Photo)&$
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Festival atmosphere in Lhasa
2010-02-08 09:19:17
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&$Photo shows a piece of woodcut print by Lebo Dhondup. (China Tibet Information Center Photo)&$
&$ A woodcut print exhibition titled "Tibetan Jampa" will be held at the "Bridge Art Space" in Beijing 798 Art Zone on March 6, with more than 60 pieces of works by 12 Tibetan artists on show. The exhibition reflects Tibetan people's spiritual outlooks by showing their daily life and religious life. ...
Tibetan woodcut to be exhibited in Beijing
2010-02-08 09:07:39
Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, held talks with Kim Yong Il, director of the International Affairs Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) here Sunday. Wang said the activities held by the two countries last year to mark the DPRK-China friendship year served to enrich and broaden their traditional friendship. He noted that a retrospect of their bi ...
CPC, DPRK senior officials meet on enhancing bilateral ties
2010-02-08 09:02:48
What is believed to be the country's biggest hacker training site has been shut down by police in Central China's Hubei province. Three people were also arrested, local media reported yesterday. The three, who ran Black Hawk Safety Net, are suspected of offering others online attacking programs and software, a crime recently added to the Criminal Law. A total of 1.7 million yuan ($249,000) in assets were also frozen. According to the provincial public security department of Hubei, the c ...
Biggest hacker training site shut down
2010-02-08 08:59:11
The cost of returning home for the Spring Festival has become such a burden for young workers that many are choosing not to make the trip. "The high costs of the Spring Festival are a real financial burden for me," Song Pingyang, who works in Chongqing, said during an interview with Chongqing Evening News. Due to the economic recession, Song has not made a lot of money recently, with his monthly salary dropping from 5,000 yuan ($732) to 3,000 yuan, squeezing his already tight budget. But ...
Festival reunions too costly for young people
2010-02-08 08:49:55
Chinese Vice President &$&$Xi Jinping&$&$ on Sunday urged improvement of the Party's role in leading the economic work as the country pushes forward transformation of the economic development mode. &$
&$Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (2nd L), also a member of the Standing Committee of the &$Chinese vice president stresses Party's role in economic transformation
2010-02-08 08:44:01
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said here Sunday that NATO should become "the hub of a network of security partnerships and a center for consultation on international security issues" with closer ties with countries such as China and India. The NATO chief said at the Munich Security Conference that in an age of global insecurity, the threats to Europe and North America, including terrorism, cyber attacks, energy cut-offs, piracy and climate change, come from far beyond NATO borders. In or ...
NATO chief eyes closer ties with China, India
2010-02-08 08:33:22
China and Russia would strengthen coordination to better implement the regional cooperation program approved by state leaders last year, officials from the two countries said in Beijing on Sunday. The statement was made by Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration and vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, and representatives of the Russian government, at the China-Russian regional cooperation symposium. In September 2009, Chinese President Hu Jinta ...
China, Russia to strengthen regional cooperation: officials
2010-02-08 08:29:23
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&$Industry inspectors in Chaohu city of Anhui province examine milk powder in a supermarket on Friday. The central government has sent eight inspection work teams to 16 provinces nationwide to prevent melamine-tainted milk powder from resurfacing. Cheng Qianjun&$
&$ Dairies shut; 170 tons of dairy product recalled More than 170 tons of milk powder have been recalled amid a 10-day nationwide crackdown on mela ...
More tainted milk found in latest crackdown
2010-02-08 08:26:01
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday exchanged congratulatory messages with his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe Velez to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries. Chinese President Hu said in the message that the bilateral relations between China and Colombia have developed smoothly in the past 30 years. Hu said the Chinese-Colombian relations have entered a new stage of rapid development especially in the recent years, with more frequ ...
Chinese, Colombian leaders exchange greetings on 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties
2010-02-08 08:26:54
China and the United States cranked up the tension Friday as they exchanged new tariffs, underscoring the increasing sensitivity and fragility of the world's most significant bilateral relations, which have been strained in recent weeks. China's ministry of commerce announced duties on imports of US chicken products Beijing believes are sold at unfairly low prices. In its preliminary ruling, the ministry asked importers of US chicken parts in China to pay deposits at customs – of up to 105. ...
US, China swap more tariffs
2010-02-08 08:22:00
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&$Chen Mingshu (left), 47, takes his two-year-old granddaughter back to their hometown in Sichuan province, at the Beijing Railway Station yesterday. [China Daily/Wang Jing] &$
&$ &$&$Bad weather forecast to hit during peak festival season&$&$ The weather refused to cooperate yesterday as the country entered its peak traffic season with millions on the move home. Over the weekend, snow and heavy fog ...
Snow, rain play havoc with travel
2010-02-08 08:21:43
China's railway network has transported 5.03 million passengers as of February 6, the eighth day of the country's annual Spring Festival transport peak lasting from January 30 to March 10 this year, said the Ministry of Railways (MOR) Sunday. The figure was 105,000 more than that in the same time last year, up 2.1 percent year on year, according to the MOR. Beijing railways have transported 347,418 passengers by February 6, and the figures in Guangzhou and Shanghai stood at 576,710 and 325 ...
China's railways send 5m passengers by Feb 6
2010-02-08 08:16:27
Chinese Premier &$&$Wen Jiabao&$&$ said Sunday that China-Japan ties are at a crucial stage, urging the two countries to enhance mutual trust and step up dialogue and cooperation in all spheres. "In the first decade of this century, China and Japan have taken an import ...
Premier Wen says China-Japan ties at crucial stage, urges mutual trust
2010-02-08 08:16:25
China's Ministry of Health (MOH) on Sunday released an inclusive list of illustrations on medicine use as guidance for doctors in writing prescriptions. It is the first state-level list of its kind in the country. The list illustrates what each kind of medicine should be used for, but it is not mandatory. Medicines on the list include all those on the National Basic Medicine Catalogue and the Catalogue of Drugs for Basic National Medical Insurance, and some other frequently used medicine, the ...
China compiles medicine list to guide doctors
2010-02-08 08:15:03
A baby girl who was abandoned by her parents because she suffered life threatening birth defects is receiving medical treatment in Beijing after being taken by a woman without permission from a Tianjin hospital. The newborn girl suffers from a congenital defect that blocks the anus, and other problems. Her family abandoned her in a local hospice because her condition cannot be cured. China Daily has been told that on Friday morning at 2:30 am, a Beijing resident and four friends snuck into ...
Abandoned child receiving treatment in Beijing
2010-02-08 08:14:13
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&$Chinese Preimer &$&$Wen Jiabao&$&$ presides over a meeting on education in Beijing Feb. 4, 2010. The Premier presided over five meetings from Jan. 11 to Feb. 6 to solicit opinions from represent ...
Chinese Premier seeks opinions on draft of education reform plan
2010-02-08 08:36:55
Nobel laureate Charles Kao attended an event here Sunday marking the 135th anniversary of his Alma Mater, St. Joseph's College. Kao was greeted with warm applause when he stepped into the college auditorium, and he waved back with a big smile. At ceremony, some of Kao's former classmates recalled the happy time they had shared with Kao, saying Kao was a hard-working and easy-going man. And Kao was obviously delighted at hearing the comments on him. After the ceremony, Kao visited an exh ...
Nobel Laureate Charles Kao returns to Alma Mater in HK
2010-02-07 17:15:20
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&$A woman takes pictures of flowers at a market in Taipei of southeast China's Taiwan Feb. 6, 2010. The eight-day 2010 Taipei Flower Festival opened on Saturday to greet the Chinese lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, which will begin on Feb. 14 this year. (Xinhua/Wu Ching-teng)&$
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2010-02-07 15:50:48
Hong Kong Secretary for Transport and Housing Eva Cheng said Saturday that the government will explore ways to enhance ties with Internet users, adding it will improve its communication mechanism to cope with changing social values. Cheng attended a forum on Saturday to explore the way forward for enhancing public participation in the planning of transport infrastructure initiatives. She said the government is studying ways to encourage the public to express their views at an earlier stag ...
Communication mechanism to be bolstered: HK official
2010-02-07 15:44:14
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale jolted the sea off the east coast of Taiwan's Hualien County on 14:10 Sunday afternoon, local meteorological authorities said. Obvious tremor was felt in Taipei. The epicenter was located at 123.09 degrees east longitude and 23.35 degrees north latitude, with a depth of 15.5 kilometers, meteorological authorities said. The strongest quakes detected on the island all measured three on the Richter scale, respectively in Hualien, Taitung an ...
Strong earthquake hits sea east to Taiwan, tremor felt in Taipei
2010-02-07 15:43:13
A light to moderate snow blanketed north China Sunday, leaving more than 80 flights out of Beijing delayed or cancelled. Sixty-four flights out of Beijing had been delayed and another 21 been cancelled by 10 a.m., the Beijing Capital International Airport said in a statement. The city received an average snowfall of 1.8 mm between 8 a.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday. Shijingshan district recorded the largest snowfall of 3.2 mm. The road traffic wasn't much affected as all highways were o ...
Snow disrupts air travel in Beijing
2010-02-07 15:42:32
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&$Railway passengers pour into the ticket-inspection lanes at the Jinan Railway Station in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 30, 2010, the first day of China's Spring Festival travel peak. (Xinhua/Lv Chuanquan)&$
&$ China's railway network has transported 5.03 million passengers as of Feb. 6, the eighth day of the country's annual Spring Festival transport peak lasting from Jan. 30 to March 10 this yea ...
China's railways send 5 mln passengers by Feb.6
2010-02-07 15:41:38
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&$Chinese peacekeeping anti-riot and civilian police officers pose for a group photo to send new year's greetings to their motherland, at the encampment of the Chinese peacekeeping anti-riot police team in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, Feb. 6, 2010. According to Chinese Lunar calendar, this Saturday is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, marking the end of the year and the start of a series of Spring Festival activi ...
Chinese peacekeepers in Haiti extend new year greetings to motherland
2010-02-07 15:36:39
China has published Chairman Mao Zedong's manuscripts on military theory and strategies and national defense, part of which were made public for the first time. The book, in three volumes, were distributed across China Sunday. The 821 manuscripts included Chairman Mao's telegraphs, instructions, speeches, talks, letters and inscriptions on military topics, among which 91 had not been released before. Compiled by the Party Literature Research Center of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Cen ...
China publishes Chairman Mao's manuscripts on military
2010-02-08 08:29:33
Last year, the Potala Palace received 782,500 tourists and worshipers, with a yearly increase of 62%, according to a cultural conference held in Lhasa. The Zhol City of the Potala Palace has embraced 28,000 visitors since its opening to the public last August and the Norbu Lingka also got 470,008 tourists and believers, up by 72.4%, said Yu Dawa, director of Tibet Regional Cultural Relics Bureau. The tourism industry resumed rapidly in 2009. Materials from Tibet Regional Cultural Relics Bu ...
Potala Palace receives 780,000 visitors in 2009
2010-02-07 13:51:11
In celebration of the Tibetan Tiger New Year, the Chinese Embassy in Nepal hosted a reception on Saturday in Nepali capital Kathmandu. More than 600 Tibetan compatriots residing in Nepal attended the reception and celebrated the festival with Embassy staff together. Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Qiu Guohong extended season's greetings and sincere wishes to all Tibetan compatriots in Nepal. In his speech, Qiu hailed the outstanding economic and social development that China' ...
Chinese Embassy in Nepal hosts Tibetan Tiger New Year reception
2010-02-07 13:40:24
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&$A contestant attends a street dance competition in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on Feb. 6, 2010. (Xinhua/Gesang Dewa)&$
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2010-02-07 13:34:20
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&$Potato curry is also called Xiangzhai in Tibetan language and is eaten in the evening of the first day of Tibetan New Year. Tibetans are fond of this potato curry. (Source: CCTV.com)&$
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Food customs during Tibetan New Year
2010-02-07 13:27:17