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Holly and jolly
2019-04-08“Alone in a foreign land as a foreign guest, I miss my family all the more on every festive day.“ This line of prose was composed by a Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet, and today, it strikes a chord wi...
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China to float its 2nd batch of QDII
2019-04-08BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- ICBC Credit Suisse Asset Management Ltd. announced it will raise up 22 billion RMB yuan (2.87 billion U.S. dollars) under the Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QD...
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BEIJING, Dec. 21 -- Half of Chinese residents say consumer prices are “too high and unacceptable,“ according to a new survey from the People's Bank of China. It's the first time in three years tha...
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’Fur? I’d Rather Go Naked’(1)
2019-04-08Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protest outside the M&M World Store in New York's Time's Square December 20, 2007. PETA is calling for a boycott of M&Ms, Twix candy bars ...
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9 new EU member states join Schengen Area
2019-04-08The Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer (L) symbolically cuts a bar with his Slovak counterpart Robert Kalinak in Stary Hrozenkov, Czech, on the eve of the two countries accession to the Schengen area...
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Beijing tells IOC it can breathe easy
2019-04-08Beijing's air quality was one of the key issues addressed at the year-ending meeting of the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board last week, with Beijing promising cleaner skies next summe...
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Entertainment Stars Party in Beijing
2019-04-08Actor Huang Xiaoming poses with the trophy at the Star of the Year awards ceremony held by a magazine in Beijing on Wednesday, December 19, 2007. [Photo: sina.com]Nearly one hundred entertainers gathe...
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Yearender 2007by Xinhua writer Wu Qiong BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) reported a year of prosperity. Annual profits were forecast to surge 30 percent to nearly a...
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Brazil to promote exports to China in 2008
2019-04-08BRASILIA, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Brazil will come up with a policy to promote exports to Asian, especially Chinese markets in 2008, the country's export and investment authorities said in a statement Thu...
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BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- In the most deadly year since 1994, at least 64 journalists were killed in 2007 with Iraq the most dangerous place to report worldwide, a U.S. media watchdog said on Mo...