Pyramid Breweries has collaborated with the Portland Trail Blazers to create its newest, limited-edition beer – Reigning 3s. This unfiltered White Pale Ale is Pyramid's take on its own 3-pointer - using a combination of Cascade, ...
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Nissan's assembly plant in Smyrna, Tennessee has started the production of the updated 2016 Nissan Altima, the company's best-selling passenger car in the US in 2015. Nissan unveiled the 2016 Altima in September after providing a new ...
Glass, one of the oldest man-made materials, carries a history of more than 2000 years in China. The earliest glass ware in China was shaped as small ball, and was used only as a decoration on the sword of nobleman. Glass boomed in China ...
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Workers build a Tibetan-style house in the ancient town of Dukezong in Shangri-la county, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Oct 12, 2015. The general restoration project for the ancient town of Dukezong, which caught fire in January of ...
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On a sleepless night in early spring of 2013, standing on the balcony of his New York apartment, choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung saw the sky begin to fill with a magical blue hue. For some 20 minutes, the sun was still below the horizon but ...
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Tibetan moviemakers are increasingly moving away from themes of scenery and mysticism to tell people stories. The Tibetan-language movie Tharlo has been nominated in four categories for this year's Golden Horse Award, a prestigious annual ...
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"I was told to be prepared for the audience to leave, but no one left - no one ever made a sound." Zhu Xiaomei, the pianist who left China in disappointment more than 30 years ago, said she gained a lot of confidence in the country after ...
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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 UK remains one of Chinese students' top three destinations for studying abroad, and the growing number going there in recent years has not gone unnoticed. In January, the UK's Higher Education Statistics Authority said more first-year ...
The Chinese government will ensure that every village and urban community has its own cultural center within five years. Culture centers that meet state standards for resources, facilities, services and functions should be in place by ...
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Taiwan makers' shipments of LCD monitors during the third quarter of 2015 dropped 9.3% on year to 20.11 million, which also represented a 1.7% quarterly decline, according to Digitimes Research. Products sized 20-inch and above accounted ...
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"Our current momentum continues with margins steadily improving, product innovation across a strong portfolio of brands delivering higher profitability, and more efficient operations." Jakks Pacific has reported its financial results for ...
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Traders of mined diamonds are divided over how to best respond to the growth of their laboratory-grown counterparts. Last week, India’s Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) became the second exchange to ban trading of man-made diamonds, ...
Filming of the documentary, a joint Chinese-British television production, began at a ceremony marking the 2,565th anniversary of the philosopher's birth. Confucius had its world premiere in London on Wednesday during President Xi ...
General Motors (GM) has announced its plan to add a second shift at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant in the US, creating 1,200 new jobs. The addition of second shift comes as the company plans to meet the expected market demand for the ...
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