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18 Ibero-American films to be screened in Shanghai

Ibero-American films will not compete in the Shanghai International Film Festival, or SIFF, but will be represented with 18 films in Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Basque and Catalan, among the more than 300 selected for event. Latin presence will therefore show a sharp drop from 2012, up to now the biggest showing by the Ibero-American film industry, when it had two movies competing - Spain's ...
Chinas role in NSA snoopgate leak questioned by GOP politician

Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Rogers said that China's role is questionable in light of Edward Snowden's leaking NSA secret intelligence and his subsequent fleeing to Hong Kong despite its extradition treaty with US. Defending the NSA spy programme as an essential and life saving tool in the war on terrorism, Rogers said that Snowden is a traitor and not a hero, Washington Times ...
Shanghais Best New Restaurants

The scene: Chinese-American investment banker turned restaurateur John Liu attracts crowds of his peers--rich, worldly Chinese--to this 30-seat dining room in the central Luwan district furnished with distressed painted-wood tables and chairs and exposed brick. (It's unrelated to New York's restaurant of the same name.) The food: Without a day of professional cooking on his rsum, Liu ...
Temperatures in Shanghai and Yangzhou reach highest

Tourists take photos at the Bund in east China's Shanghai Municipality, June 17, 2013. The highest temperature in Shanghai reached 36 degrees centigrade on Monday. (Xinhua/Liu ...
Hang Seng dips Shanghai edges up

(1 hr 1 min ago) Stocks in Hong Kong opened 0.74 percent lower as investors awaited a Federal Reserve meeting for clues on whether it will soon start to reel in its massive stimulus spending. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 156.54 points to 21,069.36 in the first minutes of trade. In Shanghai shares were up slightly in early trading, lifted by overnight gains in US stocks, dealers said. The ...

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Shanghai Festival Oliver Stone Hails Edward Snowden as a Hero

Stone went on to praise WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, and condemned President Barack Obama's administration for its prosecution of ...
Delta launches new nonstop service between Seattle and Shanghai

SEATTLE, Wash. - Delta Air Lines celebrated new nonstop service from Seattle to Shanghai today with an inaugural service ceremony. The flight is the latest addition to Delta's growing Asian gateway in Seattle, as the service, between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Shanghai Pu Dong International Airport complements current nonstop service from Seattle to Beijing, Osaka, ...
China North Korea to discuss possible talks with United States

China's Foreign Ministry said Monday it would meet with North Korean officials Wednesday ahead of possible talks with the United States. Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said discussions between Beijing and Pyongyang would focus on bilateral relations and the situation on the Korean peninsula, Xinhua reported. On Sunday, North Korea announced it had proposed high-level talks with the ...
Chen Guangcheng claims Chinese pressure forced him out of NYU

Chen Guangcheng, the leading Chinese dissident, warned that academic independence in the West was "greatly threatened" by Beijing's financial muscle after being asked to leave his position at New York ...
China demands action from France as wine students attacked in Bordeaux

An apparently racist attack on six Chinese wine students in Bordeaux threatened to spiral into an international incident yesterday as China demanded France take appropriate measures to protect its ...

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China's role in NSA 'snoopgate' leak questioned by GOP politician

Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Rogers said that China's role is questionable in light of Edward Snowden's leaking NSA secret intelligence and his subsequent fleeing to Hong Kong despite its extradition treaty with US.

Defending the NSA spy programme as an essential and life saving tool in the war on terrorism, Rogers said that Snowden is a traitor and not a hero, Washington Times reports.

Rogers further slammed Snowden and said that he grabbed up the information, made preparations to flee to China and bolted there.

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough defended the snooping programme said that it is crucial to protect the American people and there is a need to strike right balance between privacy and security.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said that Snowden has committed crimes and his choosing Hong Kong to escape the US extradition is suspicious as no one would choose the place if interested in freedom of speech.

According to the report, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 but has some features of statehood, including an extradition treaty with the U.S., a pact China itself doesn't have. But Beijing has the right to veto extraditions on national security and diplomatic grounds. ...