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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 ...

  • Chinese supercomputer is worlds fastest at 33860 trillion calculations per second

    A Chinese university has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost doubling the speed of the US machine that previously claimed the top spot and underlining China's rise as a science and technology ...


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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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  • Hang Seng Shanghai end lower

    (1 hr 3 mins ago) Hong Kong stocks finished 1.13 percent lower on Wednesday, hit by reports that property tax trials will be launched in China this year in a bid to cap soaring prices. The benchmark Hang Seng Index ended down 238.99 points at 20,986.89 on turnover of HK$61.88 billion, AFP reports. Chinese stocks closed down 0.73 percent. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 15.84 ...

  • Shanghai shares hit 6-mth low as easing hopes dashed Hong Kong suffers too

    Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:53am EDT * Indexes: HSI -1.1 pct, H-shares -1.5 pct, CSI300 -0.7 pct * Reported IPO resumption, property tax expansion hit A-shares * Defensives slide in HK as investors await Fed outcome * Mengniu spikes after $1.6 bln Yashili takeover offer By Clement Tan HONG KONG, June 19 (Reuters) - Shanghai shares closed at their lowest since mid-December, exerting pressure on Hong Kong ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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