More than 5,000 British students will be taught Mandarin in schools, after a 15 million US dollar funding boost announced Wednesday by the British government. Last year, only about 2 percent of state funded primary schools in Britain and ...
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A report by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry shows that 1,094 of the city's historic gardens and parks lack of overall protection and are particularly at risk, even facing permanent disappearance. Although "Regulations ...
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New York's renowned Juilliard School will launch its first overseas campus to offer graduate courses in music in the northern Chinese municipality of Tianjin by 2018. Sources with the administrative commission of Tianjin Binhai New ...
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With many South Korean filmmakers moving to neighboring China for a wider and more lucrative market, Kim Ki-duk has become the latest big name to join the flock. Kim, 55, recently announced in Beijing that his first Mandarin movie, Who Is ...
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The gap between domestic blockbusters and their Hollywood counterparts is closing, especially in visual effects. In recent years, inspired by high-grossing Hollywood pictures, domestic filmmakers have attempted to cash in on films driven ...
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Father Francis Li Jianlin has been looking for investment opportunities and health insurance in his spare time, spurred on by a feeling of responsibility for the priests and nuns in his Catholic diocese in Xinxiang, Henan province. ...
When the 13th-century Italian merchant and traveler Marco Polo finished his famous book The Travels of Marco Polo, he couldn’t have imagined that seven centuries later his adventures in China would be adapted into a seven-hour film. ...
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The Phantom of the Opera, a hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, staged its first show in Guangzhou city in Guangdong province on Sept 22. The southern Chinese city is the second location on the mainland, after Shanghai, to host the show ...
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US divisions of Coca-Cola and Pepsi are both vying for investment in Greek yoghurt producer Chobani. Any investment deal could value Chobani at US$3billion. Reuters say the yoghurt producer is after an investor who can help grow the ...
US-based food and beverage company PepsiCo is opening its first Quaker Oats factory in China with an investment of CHF200m ($31.25m), in order to expand its nutritional offerings in the Asian country, as carbonated drinks business continues ...
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The Wilkins Group is investing over $3m into a brand new state of the art factory on the island of Sri Lanka. The Wilkins Group bought the land overseas back in 2013, and work began on the two-acre site at the back end of last year, with ...
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Not all LED signs are the same. Like cars, they have similar parts, but different performance levels. To find its differences and similarities, you can take a look at its components and the manufacturer itself. Getting an LED display ...
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US-based agricultural and food company Cargill is considering investment in poultry production in the Philippines. The company is still studying the investment structure and the business model, location, and supply chain in the ...
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Constantia Flexibles has opened a new research and development (R&D) center for polymer films and film laminates for flexible packaging in Germany. The move is in line with the company's multi-million investment for upgrading equipment ...
Curing press as advanced hot-pressing equipment for thermosetting plastic compression moulding is mainly used for vulcanization processing of a variety of rubber products, adhesive tapes, slab rubber, etc. According to the transmission ...
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