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History exhibition creates a stir

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
An exhibition on the history and development of Tibet has drawn much public attention since it opened on Wednesday at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing.Some 160 exhibits and 400 pictures provide glimpses of the great chang ...

Tibet open to Chinese tourists

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
Tibet's sightseeing sites reopened to Chinese tourists as the Labor Day holiday kicked off on Thursday.The region's major tourist sites such as Potala Palace and Norbu Lingka received a number of tour groups from other provinces and reg ...

7 students dead, 1 missing in NW China flash flood

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
Rescuers have found seven bodies of students killed after a flash flood hit a dried-up riverbed they were crossing in China's far-western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said on Friday. Another one was still missing. ...

Suspected death case of hand-foot-mouth disease reported in S China

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
A suspected death case of hand-foot-mouth disease was reported in south China's Guangdong Province, the provincial health department announced early Saturday morning. The case was reported in Gaoming district of Foshan city on Frida ...

Guangdong cracks down on child labor in factories

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
The Guangdong government has vowed to launch a province-wide investigation to end child labor after local newspapers reported that more than 1,000 children from Liangshan, Sichuan province, were working at factories of Dongguan.The emer ...

GDP could be 2.5 times that of the US by 2030

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
China's economy could be 2.5 times that of the US by 2030, based on Japan's experience and the yuan's appreciation against the greenback, a senior Chinese economist says in Harvard Business Review's Chinese edition.The forecast by Justi ...

Hubei reports 340 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
Central China's Hubei Province has seen 340 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease this year, but no deaths reported, local health authorities said on Friday. At least five cases were caused by an intestinal virus known as enterovirus 71, ...

Mass intestinal virus infection sickens 3,321, kills 22 in east China

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
Death toll from a mass intestinal virus infection rose to 22 after another child died in eastern Fuyang City, Anhui Province, local authorities said on Friday afternoon. By the wee hours of Friday, 3,321 children had been sickened b ...

Large SOEs told to be ready for tough times

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
Tighten your belts and brace for two years of tough times, large State-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been told by the minister supervising the country's 150 largest SOEs."Please keep a close watch on your purses and do not splurge," Li ...

China Southern Airlines opens Guiyang-Seoul route

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
Chinese major carrier China Southern Airlines launched a new route on Friday linking picturesque Guiyang City in southwest China's Guizhou Province to Seoul of the Republic of Korea (ROK). The twice-a-week flight with a Boeing 737 a ...

Beijing police launch campaign against scalpers in run-up to Olympics

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
Beijing police have launched a one-month campaign against scalpers to ensure the sound progress of Olympic events in August, the Beijing Youth Daily reported Saturday. On May 1, 130 police were dispatched to get hold of scalpers bef ...

Most effluent outlets discharge excess pollutants to sea in N China

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
About 87 percent of effluent outlets discharged excessive pollutants to sea in north China's Hebei Province in 2007, according to a yearly report on the marine quality of the province issued by the Hebei Provincial Land and Resources Depart ...

Drug smuggler gets death sentence in east China

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
A drug smuggler in east China was given a death sentence with a two-year stay for smuggling 3.8 tonnes of methaqualone pills, a potentially habit-forming drug used as a sedative and hypnotic. Wu Jiang was accused of hiding the pills

NW China province reports 118 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has seen 118 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease this year, but no deaths have been reported, local health authorities said Saturday. The Shaanxi Provincial Health Department has begun to monitor kind ...

One Chinese killed, 14 injured in bus crash in Trans-Baikal Territory

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
One passenger was killed and 14 others were injured when a bus carrying 28 Chinese citizens overturned in the Trans-Baikal Territory on Saturday, Interfax news agency reported. The accident was reported at 4:05 a.m. Moscow time (000 ...

China's food exporters strive to meet challenges of higher safety standards

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
China's booming food export industry is facing a difficult year as the overall environment for Chinese food export has tightened and stricter examinations are required from Western importers. Many food export firms in the spring ses ...

Pork export in China shrinks substantially in 1st 2 months

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
Figures from China Customs show pork export was halved in first two months in comparison with that in the same period last year. China exported 12,000 tons of fresh and frozen pork in January and February, down 55.2 percent from

China cracks down on illegal grain exports

03.05.2008 10:19    english.people.com.cn
China's customs have tightened blocking illegal grain exports triggered by international price hikes. As the international rice and wheat prices surge to historical highs, cases of grain smuggling are on the rise, said customs offic ...

PingMag: Illustrator Yoshitaka Amano

03.05.2008 10:13    jeansnow.net
PingMag interviews illustrator Yoshitaka Amano, a name fans of anime and gaming should be be well familiar with.time savedtime saved
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PingMag: Illustrator Yoshitaka Amano

Can MUJI Make It in the US?

03.05.2008 10:13    jeansnow.net
Japan Today has a piece (from Kyodo News) that looks at the challenges MUJI faces in trying to expand in the US ("the company [...] is committed to opening 30 to 40 stores across the United States in the next
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