Cross-stitching, a type of embroidery, involves stitching one cross after another onto a fabric grid to form different patterns. Cross-stitched handkerchiefs and clothing accessories are unsophisticated and simple yet durable. ...
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Foreigners are not expected to know all of these things the minute they step off the plane and will be given great latitude, however your knowledge of what is not acceptable can make your transition to life in China much smoother. If you ...
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There's more to beans than curd and paste; they can also be made into elaborate artworks. Bean painting, where beans are used as the raw material, is a kind of folk art, adopting artistic characteristics from Chinese traditional ...
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Foreigners are interesting in Suzhou silk. When one thinks of China, silk is one of the first things that come to mind. China is the birthplace of silk, and still produces some of the finest silk in the world. In all of China the best ...
Taipei, Nov. 9, 2012 (CENS)--To attract high-level foreign white-collar workers working in Taiwan, the Executive Yuan (the Cabinet) resolved yesterday (Nov. 8) to remove the requirement for foreigners with permanent resident certificate in ...
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Villagers of the Miao ethnic minority celebrate Miao's New Year in front of their houses built on the mountainside in Danzhai County, Guizhou Province. Their seclusion in the mountains helps the villagers sustain their traditional ...
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Taipei,Oct.12,2012--Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves increased US$3.728 billion from a month earlier to US$397.954 billion at the end of September,remaining the world's fourth largest holder of forex reserves,according to the central ...
Epom,the global provider of ad serving technologies and owner of its own ad exchange marketplace Epom Market,announced about a significant expansion of Epom Market in Japan after implementing a new online advertising model specially ...
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Taipei,Sept.5,2012--In response to the invitation of the Council for Economic Planning and Development(CEPD),foreign firms in Taiwan have suggested the government incorporating foreigners working in Taiwan into the labor pension system and ...
Total investments in auto parts production in Russia is expected to reach €4.4bn by 2020, according to a recent forecast from the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. According to Alex Rakhmanov, deputy head of the Ministry, up to ...
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Foreign holdings in U. S. Forests and farmland rose by 6.7% in the last 10 months of 2010, encompassing an area roughly the size of Indiana, according to a new report by the Department of Agriculture. The report, containing the most recent ...
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An original design manufacturer (ODM) is a company which designs and manufactures a product which is specified and eventually branded by another firm for sale. Such companies allow the brand firm to produce (either as a supplement or ...
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A warm winter is rare in the Arkhangelsk region, an inhospitable, vast Russian tundra bordering the Barents and Kara seas. But this year it came close, with temperatures rarely dropping below -6C until the middle of January. Welcome relief, ...
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The sun never shone brighter on rural Bangladesh with low power solar systems transforming the lives of tens of millions of marginalised rural people who are unconnected to the national grid. Nizamuddin Sheikh, 52, who runs a small ...
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The sun never shone brighter on rural Bangladesh with low power solar systems transforming the lives of tens of millions of marginalised rural people who are unconnected to the national grid. Nizamuddin Sheikh, 52, who runs a small eatery ...
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