This year’s Helsinki Design Week was a citizens’ fest more than ever. Organised for the 12th time, the design festival was spread across the city from September1 to 11, reaching 158,000 visitors in total. That indicates an ...
With only one month left to go, the Helsinki Design Week recently published their 2016 programme. The design festival breaks its record by offering more than 250 events from September 1 to 11 under theme ‘Better’. During ...
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Thanks to tireless promotion by top Chinese leaders, the country's railway industry has seen another year of good harvest in overseas markets in 2015, culminating in the launch of a railway project in Asia and the start of another in Europe ...
China on Thursday donated mine clearance equipment to Cambodia and start-up funds to the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center. The 500,000-U.S. dollar donation included office equipment worth about 250,000 dollars to Cambodia, and start-up ...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani met with Vice President Li Yuanchao in Kabul on November 3. Li Yuanchao passed on the oral message from President Xi Jinping to President Ghani. President Xi Jinping sent his best regards and wishes to ...
Hu Kaihong: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the news briefing held by the State Council Information Office. The Johannesburg Summit and the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ("FOCAC") will ...
The 18th-century gilded-bronze chime clock by a British craftsman will go under the hammer on Monday. [Photo provided to China Daily] An 18th-century British clock, once kept at a Chinese royal court, is among a dozen antiquities that ...
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Supporters from around the world come together in St. Paul, Minnesota for 15th annual So The World May Hear Awards Gala in 2015. [Photo/starkeyhearingfoundation.org] Fifth-grader Xie Wen'an lost his hearing at an early age. Although he ...
Twenty-four solid gold ornaments dating back almost 2,000 years were returned to China without compensation on Monday, on the grounds that they had been looted from tombs in Gansu province and held by French collectors. Following a similar ...
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No matter what soothes your soul, the classic or beyond the mainstream, come and be spoiled for choice at the Beijing Music Festival, says Chen Jie. For music lovers, Beijing has too many choices, from high-brow classical to underground ...
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New Defense Ministry spokesman highlights importance of 'utmost sincerity' in key role After his successful debut as spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, Wu Qian was both focused and modest: "I expect to undertake this job ...
Peng Liyuan is more than simply China's first lady. She enjoyed a glittering career as a folk singer from the 1980s. Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, she has also attracted a lot of attention from home and abroad. She is ...
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Table tennis players share the stage with musicians in the PingPong Concerto in Beijing. Jiang Dong / China Daily In April 1971, members of a US table tennis team became the first American athletes to visit China before the two countries ...
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The two-day National Business Work Conference closed in Beijing on Decemebr 29, 2014. Entrusted by Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng, China International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan made a concluding speech, ...
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The National Business Work Conference was held in Beijing on December 28, 2014. The main tasks of the conference were to fully implement the spirits of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 3rd and the 4th Plenary ...
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