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  • Eastday-Shanghai workers cash in despite slow economy

    Feng said China was aging rapidly due to its one-child policy and has begun to lose its demographic dividend, resulting in labor shortage and insufficient young workers.To some extent, their salary expectations are lower than locals and migrant workers are more hardworking as they want to survive in the city," Feng ...

  • Profit-taking weighs on Shanghai

    (49 mins ago) Stocks in Shanghai were down slightly in early trade due to profit-taking, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.13 percent, or 3.05 points, to ...

  • Op-Ed Contributor Chinas Brutal One-Child Policy

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  • Extensive gold reserves discovered in northwest China

    Geologists in China say they've found gold reserves in a northwestern province that could be worth $32 billion to the country's economy. The discovery was made in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the country's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. The gold deposit in Xinyuan County in the Ili Valley is estimated to contain at least 53 tons, Zeng Xiaogang, ...

  • Freed boat to continue fishing in Yellow Sea

    The private Chinese fishing boat freed by Pyongyang this morning after 12 days of detention will continue its operations in China's waters off the Yellow Sea, its owner said on Tuesday. Yu Xuejun, who was not on board, said that all the fishermen are safe and are returning without ransom having been paid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The boat's captain called Yu ...


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Movie Review

Twister

Unfortunately for "Twister," special effects alone do not a good movie make. Having said that, let me quickly praise Industrial Light and Magic for the outstanding job it did on the visual effects in this film. The computer-generated tornadoes rushing across the Oklahoma plains were so realistic as to be unnerving. You could literally feel the wind blowing across your face as the roar of the twist ... ...

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  • Shanghai to allow chicken again

    /enpproperty--> With no new confirmed cases of the H7N9 virus on the Chinese mainland for more than a week, Shanghai is planning to allow cold-processed poultry meat onto the market by the end of May, giving the heavily hit poultry industry a chance at ...

  • Shanghai Film Festival jury announced

    PanARMENIAN.Net - The Shanghai International Film Festival has announced the list of jurors who will join British filmmaker Tom Hooper in choosing the winner of its official competition next month, The Hollywood Reporter said. Czech master Jiri Menzel, German director Chris Kraus, Iranian filmmaker Khosro Masoumi and French critic Michel Ciment will be in Shanghai from May 16 to 25 alongside ...

  • Chinese troops suffering post-traumatic stress disorder in Tibet

    The battle to keep Tibetans under control is inflicting severe psychological damage on Chinese armed police, an internal training document has ...

  • Shanghai ISSON Power Quality Co. Ltd. Deploys Maxwell Technologies Ultracapacitors To Power Yangshan Deep-Water Port Electric Cranes

    ), a leading developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor-based energy storage products, today announced Shanghai ISSON Power Quality Co., Ltd. installed 126 of ...

  • Shanghai office seeks to increase engagement

    Shanghai Innovation Office (SIO) has hosted high-level delegations, coordinated conferences that have brought together Wisconsin and Chinese experts from academia as well as from the public and private sectors, and facilitated collaborative agreements. As UW–Madison moves to further strengthen connections in China, faculty and staff across campus are being encouraged to pursue new ideas ...

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