Seaborne iron ore prices reached a new historic low Tuesday as the Platts 62% Fe Iron Ore Index, or IODEX, lost $0.75/dmt on the day to reach $44/dmt CFR North China. It is the lowest point the IODEX has been since Platts' began spot ...
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Supramax shipowners are bracing for a tough finale to a disappointing year as limping grain and petcoke trade in the Atlantic fails to support the monstrous weight of available tonnage. That has been keeping freight rates low, while hopes ...
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What comes to mind when we speak of cultural exports from China to the United States? Bruce Lee, the giant panda, or kung fu? Without a doubt, these cultural symbols are successful exports of Chinese culture, but another form of Chinese ...
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Chinese director Jia Zhangke has revealed that his latest film Mountains may depart is to be submitted for this year's foreign-language category at the Academy Awards. The movie tells the story of a family that moves from China to ...
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Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 were steady after the fall last week on the sharp drop in primary aluminum prices, while trade remained thin as there was no significant change in physical buying interest, sources said ...
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West coast Indian miner Fomento Resources has offered a cargo of 57%-Fe iron ore fines material through a spot tender Thursday, making this the first iron ore shipment the miner will send out of Goa after the state's mining bans were ...
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A winter Nadam as well as a fire sacrifice festival kicked off on Tuesday in Old Barag Banner (county) of Hulunbuir, a city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Popular sports events and entertainment among ethnic Mongolians ...
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The 15th China Pingyao International Photography Festival opened Saturday with the theme of "Home and Dream" in the ancient city of Pingyao, North China's Shanxi province, Sept 19, 2015. The festival featured 483 exhibitions, showcasing ...
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Photo taken on Sept 20 shows how LED light passes through a carved egg at an egg-caving show by artist Kong Bin in Linfen, North China's Shanxi province. Artist Kong Bin carves an egg in Linfen, North China's Shanxi province, Sept 20, ...
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The Xi Jinping Era presents his vision in Chinese and English, and offers glimpses into the president's personal life. As a young boy, Xi Jinping once refused to wear an old pair of shoes with floral prints for fear of being teased by ...
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Craftsmen Li Shuanglu (left) and Wu Laishun (right) try to beat a piece of steel bar flat with a hammer in making crewel needles in Dayang township of Zezhou county, North China's Shanxi province, Sept 24, 2015. Pei Xiangnan, 66, is the ...
Since June, a conservation program has surveyed and made records of 281 traditional Chinese villages, said the center responsible for the program Wednesday. Pu Jiao, vice director of the Research Center for Conservation and Development of ...
People queued in front of a bank to obtain new commemorative coins in Beijing, Oct 12, 2015. A set of commemorative coins has been issued by People's Bank of China to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in the Chinese people's War of ...
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Starting from Monday, 15 operas that belongs to 11 ethnic groups of China will be shown during the 4th Chinese ethnic groups opera show. The event lasts till Oct. 26. Artists from Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County perform an opera of ...
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Wei Shaoxian operates a film projector at his film museum in Siliugu village of Handan county, North China's Hebei province, Oct 13, 2015. Cinephile Wei Shaoxian collected more than 20,000 items about film, such as filmstrip, poster and ...