Los Angeles City Council and an alliance of plastic bag makers are at loggerheads over banning one-time use of plastic bags in the city. The American Progressive Bag Alliance also is lobbying city lawmakers to try to head off the plans to ...
Cantonese opera singing means Guangdong melodies. The music is delicate, sweet, tender and soft. It is an important member of the family of Chinese quyi Sung in the GuangZhou, or Cantonese, dialect, it is popular in Guangdong Province, the ...
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Pottery miniature courtyard among the burials during the Three Kingdom Period (220-280) unearthed from Echeng Hubei, showing ancient Chinese residential building in five elements and eight diagram styles. Residential building featuring ...
Tags: residential building, artworks, folk arts
South Korea has issued a ban on sale and consumption of meat of whales caught for scientific purpose. An unnamed official from Ministry of Food,Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries told the Yonhap News Agency that from the very beginning ...
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Suzhou pingtan is a general term denoting Suzhou pinghua and tanci. It also enjoys great popularity in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces as well as in Shanghai. This art has a long history. Pinghua developed from the storytelling art of ...
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To promote the commercialization of LED lighting, South Korea's Knowledge Economy Ministry announced in 2006 a "15/30" plan, which means to achieve 30% LED lighting commercialization by 2015. The ministry later announced a "20/60" plan in ...
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The news comes after the French senate adopted a law that bans the use of BPA in food contact packaging. Quoting scientific studies carried out by French research bodies Inserm and Anses, the senate said the toxicity of BPA is proven in ...
Tags: France, ban, BPA, food packaging, warning label, pregnant, feeding mothers
IDG News Service-Apple and Samsung will return on Thursday to the San Jose courtroom where they battled over cell phone patents earlier this year,and Apple subsequently won damages of$1.05 billion. The late August trial saw both companies ...
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The Maonan minority group is located in the mountainous areas of Guanxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is a traditional agricultural group. Every family used to have a weaving machine and plant blue grass for to dye and make coarse clothes ...
Tags: Maonan minority, costume, weaving, overcoat, women's dress, children wear
The Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year, is the most important festival for people in China and other neighboring countries, comparable to Christmas in the West. Family members try every means to get together before the Spring ...
In the border region of western Yunnan, where China is linked with Myanmar by common mountains and rivers, there is a large expanse of beautiful land, Tengchong, which is known as "an emerald in the depth of great mountains." ...
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The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the regulatory body for therapeutic goods in Australia, has prohibited sale, supply and use of DMAA (1,3-dimethylamylamine), an ingredient used in some sports supplements. The TGA noted that it ...
Tags: therapeutic goods, sports supplements, reports of adverse effects
California has imposed a ban on foie gras–a food product made from the liver of a duck or goose that has been specially fattened. The fattening of the liver is achieved through force feeding of ducks and geese using a tube-like ...
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) welcomed the announcement by the Obama Administration that it will begin the process of lifting sanctions against Burma (also known as Myanmar), including a ban on U.S. imports from that ...
Tags: AAFA, lifting sanctions, democratic reforms
The Malaysian Plastics Manufacturers Association (MPMA) has launched a MAR600,000 ($0.18m) public education campaign aimed at reducing litter. MPMA said its campaign would rely on newspaper advertisements and printed plastic shopping bags ...
Tags: Plastic Waste, education campaign, bag ban