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  • Sex tape official stands trial in China

    The trial of a former official embroiled in a sex tape scandal opened Wednesday in a court in southwest China's Chongqing city. The Chongqing No.1 Intermediate People's Court will hear the case of Lei Zhengfu, former secretary of Chongqing's Beibei district committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Lei, who also stands accused of accepting bribes, was dismissed from his post and placed ...

  • Huawei introduces worlds thinnest smartphone Ascend P6

    China's telecom giant has unveiled the world's slimmest android-based smartphone- Ascend P6. The smarthphone is 6.18mm thick and has a 5 megapixel front camera for high quality self portraits. Huawei stated that it has 4.7in screen and is more than 3mm thin. If compared to the iphone 5 and the Alcatel One Idol Ultra which are known to be the slimmest phones yet, Ascend P6 is slimmer but ...

  • Chinese official executed for raping 11 girls

    An official in central China's Henan province was executed Tuesday for raping 11 girls, sources said Wednesday. Li Xingong, former deputy secretary general of the Yongcheng city committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was arrested in May 2012 on charges of raping several girls starting from the second half of 2011, reported Xinhua. The Shangqiu City Intermediate People's Court later ...

  • Manish Tiwari meets Chinas Information Minister

    Information and Broadcasting Minister, Manish Tiwari had discussions with the visiting Chinese information broadcasting minister, Cai Fuchao here this morning. They discussed media, entertainment industries and cinema The Chinese Minister was accompanied by a delegation. The high level Chinese delegation discussed the steps to increase cooperation in the field of media, entertainment ...

  • Australias ASX 200 0.98 and Chinas Shanghai -0.73

    Good Morning, - Euro in demand with all eyes in Fed's statement, Bernanke conference. - Asian shares: Japan's Nikkei 1.83%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng -0.58% (07:00 GMT), Korea's Kospi -0.65%, Australia's ASX 200 0.98% and China's Shanghai -0.73% - All the major currencies marked time on Wednesday as investors waited anxiously to see if the Federal Reserve could clarify ...


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Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris) [DVD]

Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris) [DVD]

Pioneering French writer/director Ren Clair was always a great populist. He believed that motion pictures should be a popular art form and that they should reflect the lives of the public. He didnt buy into the notion of a cinema of ideas, in which film was conceived of as a visual essay meant to propagate a particular ideology, which is probably why he was treated so harshly by the influential c ... ...

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  • Shanghai Festival Helen Mirren Charms Audience by Learning to Swear in Chinese

    – so her request to be taught how to say "pain in the arse" in Chinese during her first public appearance at the Shanghai International Film Festival stunned and amused the Chinese media ...

  • Shanghai shares at new 6-mth closing low as easing hopes dashed

    HONG KONG, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:08am EDT HONG KONG, June 19 (Reuters) - Shanghai shares closed at a new six-month low on Wednesday, as a cash squeeze in mainland money markets worsened and official news reports dampened hopes for policy easing. The Shanghai Composite Index ended down 0.7 percent at 2,143.5 points, its lowest closing level since December. The CSI300 of the ...

  • 15 suspects stand trial for Chinas largest online pyramid scam in Zhejiang

    FIFTEEN people accused of involvement in the nation's largest online pyramid scheme stood trial yesterday in a court in east China's Zhejiang Province. On June 11, police in Jinhua City busted a website offering discounts on online purchases and arrested Ying Jiancheng and another 14 people suspected of organizing the scam involving 24 billion yuan (US$3.9 billion). An ...

  • Shanghai Tower Co-opts with Eslite to Build New Urban Cultural Landmark

    TAIPEI, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Tower and the Eslite Spectrum in Taiwansigned a letter of intent for leasing agreement today, which marks the Eslite Life will be officially launched in Lujiazui in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai. The duo will collaborate to establish a new cultural landmark which combines the quintessence from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. This cooperation ...

  • Shanghai Brides Ranked As Chinas Most Costly For Suitors

    Would-be husbands of single young women in Shanghai are expected have to pay out more than 100,000 yuan, or almost $16,400, in "betrothal" gifts and cash in order to seal a marriage, more than elsewhere in China, the state-published Shanghai Daily reported today. And that doesn't include the cost of an all-important apartment, said the paper, citing a survey reported on the ...

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