A report by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry shows that 1,094 of the city's historic gardens and parks lack of overall protection and are particularly at risk, even facing permanent disappearance. Although "Regulations ...
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Opening night of the 18th Beijing Music Festival (BMF) took place at Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing on Thursday with a concert under the baton of noted Chinese conductor Yu Long who stands as the founder and art director of BMF. ...
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Erl is a small village in the northern part of Tyrol, Austria, which is more renowned for its cows than for double bass. But every summer, opera lovers - especially fans of the German composer Richard Wagner - from all over the world flock ...
The discovery of 47 human teeth in a cave in Hunan province by Chinese scientists has unearthed new evidence that the earliest modern humans lived in East Asia. The teeth and a number of animal fossils were excavated from Fuyan Cave in ...
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The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival. It usually falls in October in the Gregorian calendar. In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number "6" was ...
Montreal and the government of Quebec are planning to install 106 electric car charging stations in the city by next spring. The project is part of the Canadian city's aim to install a total of 1,000 charging stations by 2020. Between ...
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A man walks through burning charcoal as he participates in the traditional ritual "Lianhuo", or "fire walking", in Pan'an county, East China's Zhejiang province on Oct 21, 2015. Local people held the ceremony to show respects to ancestors ...
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Canada-based food company Gaston Vachon has recalled its Gaston Vachon Homestyle Meat Sauce because of a possible Clostridium botulinum bacteria contamination. The recall was initiated by ministère de l'Agriculture, des ...
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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Xpressdocs Holdings, a provider of on-demand marketing solutions, announced expansion of its print infrastructure to leverage the latest in digital press technology from HP. The HP Indigo 7800 and W7250 Digital Presses offer improved ...
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Chocolate manufacturer Hershey’s is introducing its Kisses candy in double-size in the US. Called Hershey's Kisses Deluxe, each piece of candy comes with a hazelnut center and has chocolate with crisped rice. The product is ...
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New Yorkers will find a new beer on shelves this fall from Smart Beer, the first organic beer company born and bred in New York. The brand, which is headquartered in New Paltz, in the heart of the Hudson Valley, will release its first ...
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China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) issued the Measures for the Implementation of the Compliance Work of Trade Policies (Trial) (hereinafter referred to as the Measures) on December 12, 2014. The head of the MOFCOM Department of WTO ...
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The 19th China-U.S. Legal Exchange Seminar, jointly sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, the Legislative Affair Office of the State Council and the U.S.Department of Commerce, was held in Beijing and Wuhan on January 13-15, 2015, ...
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In 2014, the development situation of China’s foreign trade was complex and severe. In January-April, the country suffered “double falls” of import and export which had not appeared for many years. The Central Government ...