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Raj Bharath wins in Shanghai
India's Raj Bharath posted his first win of the 2013 Formula Masters championship in the third and final race at Shanghai International Circuit here Sunday. Backed by Bangalore-based Embassy Group and driving for Meco Motorsport, Raj, the 18-year old who had finished second in the second race Saturday, started fifth on the grid, but went on to win in mixed weather conditions ahead of Afiq Yazid ...
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300 kg drugs seized in China
Nearly 300 kg of drugs have been seized in China's Hubei province and 12 suspects detained during the latest police crackdown on people making and selling them. The drug ring was operating out of a deserted poultry farm and deflected suspicion by claiming to be processing medicine, reported Xinhua citing the public security bureau of Xishui county. It took about three months to bust the ...
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Shanghai Disney Resort to open at end of 2015
Covering an area of 1.16 square km, the theme park inside the 3.9-square-km Shanghai Disney Resort will be the world's sixth Disney amusement park and the first on the Chinese ...
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Expats try to provide help in Shanghais blood drive
/enpproperty--> Five months after last donating blood, Zachary Ludington - along with more than 150 other expatriates in Shanghai - came to the city's blood donation event on Sunday. "I came here with two of my friends who also want to donate blood. I will donate months later, because doctors said there should be an interval between donations," the US citizen ...
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Corrupt Chinese officials turn to black PR
In the middle of the biggest anti-corruption campaign for years, crooked Chinese politicians are paying to vanish from sight, with all negative stories about them scrubbed from the ...
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Movie Review
Footloose [Blu-Ray]
Footloose is a decent movie that arrived at the perfect time. It was released in the early winter of 1984, the same year that MTV fully hit its stride as a cultural institution (by then it reached more than 20 million households), Sony was selling millions o ... ...
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Liam Dann Keeping in step with Chinas rebalancing
NZ needs to hone its understanding as one of the greatest economic experiments of the modern era unfolds. Managing China's economic shift has been likened to a cyclist searching for the optimum speed. Photo / Getty ImagesI've spent the past week in Shanghai and Beijing immersed in the economy we devote so much space to dissecting in the business pages. On a media tour, arranged by the New ...
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Shanghai warns against telecom scams
/enpproperty--> Conning people into believing they are being investigated and fined by the country's top prosecuting agency is the latest in a string of telecom scams targeting people across the country, police have warned. More than 10 such cases have been reported to Shanghai police recently, police spokesman Zhuang Liqiang said without giving details of how much money has been ...
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Problematic tofu may have come to Shanghai
Although local quality control authorities said they have found no evidence that problematic tofu products from Jiangsu Province were sold to Shanghai, tofu produced at illegal plants in the province have been sold in the city for a long time, an industry insider said Sunday. Tofu products from small plants in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, are often sold in bulk at wet markets around Shanghai, said ...
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Eastday-Plate prices fall for 2nd month as curbs bite
SHANGHAI car plate prices dropped for the second consecutive month at yesterday's auction, as speculation continued to ebb following the implementation of a series of curbing ...
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Are Floating Pigs Behind China’s Avian Flu
repeated in others ). "And avoid eating or contact with dead and diseased livestock." That last directive might be a little tricky to fulfill. Since early March, Shanghai's waterways have been clogged by dead pigs ...
What They Said
We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
Hotel Review
Le Meridien Noumea, New Caledonia
This deluxe hotel is reputedly the finest in New Caledonia. The drive from Tontouta international airport is 45 minutes and ...
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