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North Korea seizes another Chinese fishing boat, crew
DALIAN, China — Among fishermen in this historic seaport city, the danger of steering their boats near North Korean waters is well known. North Koreans took three Chinese ships and their crews hostage a year ago, and Chinese maritime officials...
Tags: China, Punishment, Fines, Lifestyle and Leisure, Communist Party of China
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China offers India a 'handshake across the Himalayas'
ReutersNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and China will study new ways to ease tensions on their ill-defined border after an army standoff in the Himalayas, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday on his first official foreign trip. The number two in the Chinese...Tags: Government, China, New Delhi (India), Dalai Lama, Travel
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Indian, Chinese leaders meet in New Delhi, pledge better relations
NEW DELHI – The Indian and Chinese premiers papered over their differences at a meeting in New Delhi on Monday, pledging to tackle a border dispute that has soured relations for decades and to work together for global stability. The meeting was...
Tags: China, New Delhi (India), India, U.S. Navy, Trade Agreements
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Beijing International Screenwriting Competition announces winners
An American woman arrives in China to retrace the steps of her deceased daughter from a video diary the daughter kept of her trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A young flautist travels to Beijing to audition for a conservatory. A seamstress for a...Tags: China, The Pink Panther (movie, 1964), Loyola Marymount University, Columbia University, Movies
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Tensions rise between China, North Korea over boat held hostage
BEIJING -- A Chinese fishing boat was seized by armed North Koreans who are demanding a ransom of nearly $100,000 for the release of the ship and 16 Chinese crew members. The Chinese Communist Party's Global Times newspaper suggested in Monday's...
Tags: China, Lifestyle and Leisure, Communist Party of China, North Korea
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Restraint is the new red in China
BEIJING — Exports of elegant Swiss watches to China have plunged. Sales of Mercedes-Benz and other premium sedans are slowing. And high-end restaurants, coming off their worst Chinese New Year festival in years, are starting to change their menus to...
Tags: Government, China, Gucci Group NV, National Government, Travel
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China trying to manage exposure of corruption online
ReutersBy Terril Yue Jones BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) - China's Internet is brimming with disclosures of officials collecting bribes, homes and luxury accessories as casually as they do mistresses. But while the government tolerates such anti-corruption...Tags: The New York Times, Bird Flu, China, Computer Networking and Internet, Social Media
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Despite curbs, China's vast hot money triangle flourishes
Reuters* Underground banking network remits billions of yuan daily * Money laundering risks exacerbated by unofficial networks * Macau junkets act as pseudo banks for China capital outflows * Chinese authorities soft on enforcement, say intermediaries By...Tags: China, Banking, Hong Kong, Macau, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older
Reuters(Repeats story first published on Sunday. No changes to text) By Li Hui and Maxim Duncan QIANTUN, China, May 19 (Reuters) - Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager - washing his clothes, bringing...Tags: Arts and Culture, China, Customs and Tradition, World Bank Group, International Economic Institution
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China urges North Korea to release Chinese fishing boat, 16 crew; owner says ransom demanded
Associated PressBEIJING (AP) — China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies....Tags: China, News Agency, Pyongyang (North Korea), Lifestyle and Leisure, Aquaculture
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Asia: What are the top 101 restaurants?
It was a big job, but somebody had to do it, said editors at the Daily Meal. So they set out to recognize Asia’s top 101 restaurants. The list, which took six months to compile, includes restaurants in 25 cities. China topped the charts with 28...
Tags: China, Sushi and Sashimi, Hong Kong, Lifestyle and Leisure, Japan
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Insight: Despite curbs, China's vast hot money triangle flourishes
ReutersZHUHAI, China/HONG KONG (Reuters) - In an underground mall just a stone's throw from China's teeming border with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with identical golden plaques does a brisk, though shadowy trade with mainland Chinese visitors, many of them...Tags: China, Banking, Macau, Hong Kong, Science and Technology
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