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  • 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 ...

  • Chinas FDI edges up

    China's actual use of foreign capital in May stood at $9.26 billion, up 0.29 percent year on year, the commerce ministry said Tuesday. This is the fourth straight monthly increase since February, when China reported a FDI recovery after declining for eight consecutive months since June of 2012, reported Xinhua. During the first five months, the inbound investment increased 1.03 percent from a ...

  • 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 ...

  • Space lotuses to touch down in Shanghai

    The 50 flowers of 13 varieties grown from seeds that traveled into space will be on show at Guyi Gardens on June 28. "The space lotuses will be a highlight, as many people are excited about the recent space mission," said Sun Jia, spokeswoman for the 500-year-old gardens in Jiading district. Sun added the best time to enjoy the show will be the full bloom period, which is expected to ...

  • Shanghai Film Museum opens to public China Economic Information Service

    Shanghai Film Museum opens to public SHANGHAI, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The Shanghai Film Museum, one of the country's largest film museums, opened on Monday in Shanghai, the birthplace of Chinese film. Covering an area of 10,000 square meters, the museum features multiple exhibitions detailing the city's role in the development of China's film industry. "I didn't expect that ...


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Movie Review

Beloved

Beloved

"Beloved" is a film that overwhelms. It overwhelms in many ways, some of them good, and some of them bad, and when the final scene fades to black, it's almost hard to know what to feel. Exhausted. Exhilarated. Confused. Unsure. Unsettled. Reawakened. Haunted. Not all of those feelings are particularly comfortable, and I have the notion that some viewers will interpret them as having disliked the m ... ...

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  • Zhejiang police deny allegations suspect died after being beaten in custody

    A 27-year-old man died after allegedly being beaten while he was detained for over six hours in a police station in Yongkang, Zhejiang Province Friday.The deceased, Chen Shaoxiong from Yunnan Province, was detained for theft, but died of undetermined causes in a local hospital, according to a statement from Yongkang Public Security Bureau on Tuesday."Three of us were surfing online in a ...

  • China has arrested 118 linked to pollution investigations

    Chinese police have arrested 118 people in investigations into environmental pollution cases since January, the Ministry of Public Security said Tuesday. Of the 118 arrests, 24 people have been charged by prosecutors and await trial, the ministry said in a statement. The ministry began a national campaign against environmental polluters earlier this year, and as part of that campaign, they ...

  • Flooding in China damages 2033 acres of farmland

    Torrential rains in northwest China have destroyed some 2,033 acres of farmland, affecting more than 17,000 people, local officials said Tuesday. The rains began Friday in much of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, including Aksu, Hotan, Kashgar and Kisilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture, the state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. The flooding and landslides destroyed ...

  • Chinese confiscate 213 illegal bear paws arrest two Russians

    Two Russians were detained by Chinese police after 213 bear paws were found inside a passenger van trying to enter northern China's Inner Mongolia region. The bear paws, worth about $400 a pound in China, were hidden inside the tires of the van, China Daily reported. The Chinese believe bear paws have a high nutritional value. To date this is the largest bear paw smuggling case in China, ...

  • Chinas Xi Jinping to launch thorough clean-up of Communist Party

    President Xi Jinping is to launch a "thorough clean-up" of the ruling Communist Party, state media has reported, the latest strongly-worded anti-corruption drive to be enacted by China's new ...

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