Beijing Informer

Macau's casinos get family friendly as 'tough cop' arrives from Beijing As Beijing signals a tightening of the leash in Macau, the only place in China where gambling is legal, casino operators are signing up characters from Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar to burnish their family-friendly reputation. Sands China, the world's … Full News here [...]

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URI President Dooley a frequent traveler, from Beijing to his Montana lab PROVIDENCE, R.I. — University of Rhode Island President David Dooley is a frequent and world-wide traveler, whose 118-plus days on the road last year took him to destinations as near and far as Bozeman, Mont., and Beijing, China. His travels cost the … [...]

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Gold bullion buying frenzy from Bombay to Beijing Gold bullion buying frenzy from Bombay to Beijing. Friday, April 19, 2013 by John Phillips. Gold bullion buying frenzy from Bombay to Beijing. Shoppers all over the world are flocking to gold shops to stock up on the yellow metal, and take advantage of … Full News [...]

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A warning from Beijing on bad loans PHILLIP LASKER: And Andy Xie says it's a myth to assume Beijing may trigger social unrest if the economy slows too much. ANDY XIE: Chinese economic turmoil has all come from inflation, not from unemployment rate. So there's a mistaken view that if … Full News here – [...]

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Beijing man makes desperate leap from 5th floor window to escape fire (Update … These harrowing photos show the moment a Beijing man had to jump from his fifth storey window to escape the fire that was consuming a residential building in the Yuegezhuang area on Monday. The man's current condition is unknown according to [...]

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From Beijing to Te Papa: Chairman Mao's feather cloak to be on display In Beijing today, Māori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples today formally received a Māori feather cloak (kahu huruhuru) which will be temporarily loaned to Te Papa for display later this year. The cloak was given to Chairman Mao Zedong in 1957 by New [...]

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Beijing set to seek guarantee on copper supply from Glencore The mainland's antitrust authority, the last obstacle in the way of the Anglo-Swiss trading and mining company Glencore's takeover of its fellow Anglo-Swiss concern Xstrata, has set its sights on copper, in a move that says more about Beijing's … Full News here – Read [...]

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ISSCC: Eight core MIPS64 processor from Beijing Godson-3B1500 is a two-node eight-core 172.8Gflop/s MIPS64-compatible processor from Loongson in Beijing – a company whose processors have been adopted in several tablets. Fabricated in 32nm 10 Cu-layer high-k metal-gate bulk CMOS, it contains … Full News here – Read more on ElectronicsWeekly.com

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Unattended, 5 boys in China die from suffocation BEIJING — Five unsupervised boys aged 4 to 6 suffocated after lighting a fire inside an abandoned tobacco barn in southwestern China, state media reported Tuesday. The deaths Monday in the southwestern province of Guizhou focused attention on the … Full News here – Read more on [...]

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Province-sized hole in GDP figures from Beijing is likely to be hiding good news Then there is the abiding suspicion among economists that Beijing's statisticians habitually manipulate the mainland's economy-wide inflation figures – which they do not disclose – to smooth highly volatile nominal growth numbers and ensure that the … Full News here – [...]

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Postcard from… Beijing The Chinese Lunar New Year fell yesterday, marking the beginning of the Year of the Snake. And to fend off evil spirits and bad luck, people set off fireworks all over the country. By Saturday night in Beijing, the fireworks sounded like a full-on … Full News here – Read more on [...]

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Transfer of industry urged from Beijing to Tianjin Legislators in both Beijing and Tianjin have called upon governments to transfer some industries from the overloaded capital to the nearby port city. Zhang Jiaxing, a senior lawmaker in Tianjin, suggested at the ongoing meeting of the Tianjin People's … Full News here – Read more on [...]

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Beijing Air from Space: Before, After Dangerous Smog Thick, dangerous smog and air quality warnings were becoming a daily fact of life for residents in Beijing and many other China cities in mid-January, as the Asian nation faced one of its worst air quality periods in recent history. The Chinese … Full News here – [...]

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Some scenes from my Trans-Siberan train trip from Helsinki to Beijing, august 2012. I intended to make a video about the whole trip from Helsinki to Beijing, but the quality of my material from Helsinki to Urals part was too lame, unfortunately… Music: Global Communication – Alpha Phase

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Some of our favorite spotlights from 2012 Over the course of 2012, we've had the pleasure of meeting and profiling dozens of Beijing's finest, in fields from haute couture to finance, from hospitality to high tech. With the talent field in Beijing only ever increasing -. Patrick Chovanec … Full News here – Read more [...]

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