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• The Third Net Goods Trade Fair will Open on 18th December in Chengdu

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 557
  In the May and September this year, the first and the second nets goods fair held respecitively in Guangzhou and Hangzhou. The second nets goods trade amounted to more than 1,200 exhibitors, more than 15 million viewers, and spur Portable Media Player nearly local millions of jobs with turnover of 2.24 million yuan.  ...
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• The Future of Wild Places in China: Experiments in Private Management?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 520
  (Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there. Read all his posts .) A couple posts back I noted the similarities between Potatso (Pudacuo) National Park in Diqing, ...
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• Living in China: Shanghai expats receive security blanket

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 128
  Foreigners and overseas Chinese who hold a Shanghai residence card and stay in a work contract with a Shanghai employer can now enjoy the city’s social security and benefits, just as their local counterparts do. The Shanghai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau has put up a notice on its Website, stating ...
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• China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: 4 million Chinese families own million dollar assets

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 128
  The more than 4 million Chinese families with million dollar assets in 2008 will reach 7.8 million in 2013, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) published recently. However, the regional concentration of these rich families can be obviously seen. More than half of these million dollar asset ...
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• John Woo’s Epic Film…Red Cliff. Civil War in Ancient China

  
  Wig-Wags — Authority: 114
  Every once in a while, a movie comes along that takes the visual depiction of battle to a new level ( Braveheart , Saving Private Ryan ).  John Woo’s epic film, Red Cliff, does just that. Based on the actual Battle of Red Cliffs (see the Red Cliff Wiki here ) that took place in the winter 208 CE, the film ...
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• Living in China: Chinglish to get the axe in Shanghai for World Expo

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 128
  Shanghai is looking to get rid of poorly translated English signs as it readies to welcome 4 million foreign visitors to next year’s World Expo. “Pick one’s steps?”, by Itamar Medeiros Shanghai Media Group’s International Channel Shanghai (ICS) launched a campaign called “ Write It Right ” to ...
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• Make global warming top priority: Dalai Lama to world leaders

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Dharamsala, Nov 30 (IANS) Ahead of the Copenhagen summit, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Monday asked world leaders to make finding a solution to climate change their number one priority.“Protection of the global environment must take precedence over matters of national interest and politicians must make ...
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• What I Saw Inside China’s—and the World’s—Most Important Dam

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 535
  Daniel Gross writes for Slate about his journey inside the Three Gorges Dam : The controversial Three Gorges Dam project, which flooded hundreds of square miles of land and required the relocation of more than 1 million people, was promoted as an effort to improve human welfare. No longer would the Yangtze’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• China’s Three Gorges Dam in trouble – news video report

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  The Three Gorges Dam (長江三峽大壩) is a hydroelectric river dam that spans the Yangtze River in Sandouping, Yiling District,Yichang, Hubei, Wongsuichow, China. The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest electricity-generating plant of any kind. Melissa Chan of Al Jazeera News reports from Hunan Province ...
  4 weeks ago

• Asia Cast for Wednesday 18th November

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 127
  China’s massive Three Gorges Dam project is proving to be a potentially disastrous scheme, with looming threats of landslides and earthquakes. (By putneymark/Flickr) In this Bulletin… - Tibetan website founder sentenced to 15 years in closed-door trial; - Men survive two months lost in Pacific Ocean; and - ...
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