For more than 2000 years, the Chinese people have used brilliant colors. Today in modern China, red is a very popular color. However, contrary to popular belief, ancient peoples did not pay special attention to the color red. ...
In Chinese, 'Yugur' means 'wealth and solidity'. With a population of 13,719 as at the 2000 census, approximately 90 percent of the Yugur people live in the four areas of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, and the rest in the Yugur village of ...
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The Girls Meeting is a traditional festival in Tu minority group. It falls on the day between the seventh day to the 12th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It is a festival formed spontaneously by the young women and men in ...
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How does Electra Bicycles turn a tidy profit marketing products to a nonenthusiast customer base the rest of the industry is largely content to ignore? Electra Marketing Director Elayne Fowler knows. But aside from a few tantalizing hints, ...
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The Chinese penchant for looking at objects and interpreting their hidden meaning is revealed by the prolific use of symbols within their culture and these symbols are like a secondary language, rich in nuances and that penetrates all their ...
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Myanmar Times reported that the Pyithu Hluttaw has unanimously approved a motion to form an independent commission to investigate the Letpadaung copper project in Sagaing Region and whether a planned expansion should be allowed to proceed. ...
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The Dong ethnic minority lives primarily in the border regions between Guizhou, Hunan and Hubei Provinces, and it was during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), that this minority separated from the mixed minority 'Bai Yue', naming themselves Dong. ...
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Metal Closures is based in Cape Town and produces aluminium closures for wines, spirits and other beverages. The €410m-turnover Guala, which is the world’s biggest producer of caps for the wine and spirit industry, has begun ...
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The Qiang ethnic minority lives mainly in the counties of the Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan; Maowen Qiang Autonomous County is the largest area that is home to the Qiang. The Qiang have a profound history of over 3,000 years as ...
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The Wa are one of the peoples with a deeper religious feeling in Southwest China. Some researches done in the first years of communist reforms, just when all the life and culture of indigenous peoples must be evaluated in terms of ...
Distribution and Population: The Miao ethnic minority has a population of 8,940,116 which is larger than most of minority groups in China. After immigration in a long history, today they live mainly in Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Hubei, ...
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications for its green buidlings. Digitimes recently sat down with Arthur Chuang, director of TSMC's New Fab Planning ...
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) today announced that it had accepted an award from the U.S. Commerce Department's International Trade Administration's Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) to promote the export of American ...
Karmarama's Psychedelic Rabbit Hole Karmarama,one of the fastest-growing communications agencies in the UK,relocated to Farringdon Place in a move to unite the entire Karma Comms group of 250 staff under one roof.With successful ...
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Population and Distribution: The Lahu ethnic minority now has a population of 453,705. Most of them are scattered around the Lancangjiang Lahu Autonomous County and Menglian, Shuangjiang Autonomous Counties, with others in the Simao, ...
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