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  • Chinas state-sponsored hackers attack US again

    Chinese "state-sponsored" hackers have renewed attacks on the US, after a unit of the Chinese army was named in February as the source of many cyber attacks on US companies, a media report said. According to BBC, cyber-defence company Mandiant told the New York Times daily that the army's Unit 61398, believed to operate from a heavily guarded building in Shanghai, has recently stepped up its ...

  • India and China have more mutual interest than differences

    In wake of Chinese Premier Li's visit to India, Ambassador of India in China Jaishankar during a press conference said that India is a priority in China's agenda of global development. Jai Shankar said that the present visit of the Chinese Premier Li to India is significant because it is his first visit to India. " India surely is a priority in China's agenda today on global development. This ...

  • Shanghai focuses on elevator safety

    /enpproperty--> Shanghai leads the country in maintaining elevators and escalators, the director of the municipality's quality watchdog said on Tuesday. Around 7 million journeys are made in metros in Shanghai on a daily basis and passengers rely on escalators in the stations, Huang Xiaolu, director of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision said during an online ...

  • Shanghai holds 1777 sex education sessions targeting migrant teens

    The Shanghai Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission has held 1,777 training sessions over the past three years to help teenagers of migrant families avoid unwanted pregnancies, the commission said Wednesday. The sessions, which have been attended by more than 50,000 teenagers, have targeted the local migrant population because they are among the groups most at-risk for unplanned ...

  • Chinese analysts defend Sino-India trade imbalance

    China's growing surplus in trade with India, an issue of concern to New Delhi, is difficult to resolve and is likely to widen, Chinese experts said. The trade imbalance has come up during the current India visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Trade between India and China is one of the fastest growing, although the two Asian neighbors have longstanding border disputes that resulted in a ...


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The Firemen's Ball (Horí, má panenko) [DVD]

The Firemen's Ball (Horí, má panenko) [DVD]

Filmed in 1966 and released in 1967, just a few weeks before Soviet tanks rumbled in Czechoslovakia, Milos Forman's The Firemen's Ball (Hor, m panenko) was a political bombshell barely disguised as a seemingly innocuous comedy of errors. Its brilliance is its multifaceted take on human silliness, as it plays on one level as a hilarious setpiece about the disasters that befall a befu ... ...

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  • China Jiangsu Commodities Exhibition opens in Osaka

    China Jiangsu Commodities Exhibition 2013 kicked off on Tuesday in the western Japanese commercial city of Osaka, attracting more than 160 firms and manufacturers from the Chinese coastal province.The three-day event, held in "MyDome Osaka," a major exhibition hall in central Osaka, is mainly organized by the Japan-China Economic Relations and Trade Center in cooperation with the ...

  • North Korea releases detained Chinese sailors Xinhua

    North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ...

  • Negative starts for Hang Seng Shanghai

    (9 mins ago) Stocks in Hong Kong opened down 0.37 percent after Wall Street closed slightly lower in cautious trade ahead of the Federal Reserve chairman's testimony to Congress on the US economic outlook. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 87.80 points to 23,405.23 in the first minutes of trade. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is due to give testimony to Congress on Wednesday. In Shanghai, ...

  • Shanghai Festival Unveils Competition Jury and Entries

    in selecting the recipient of the Golden Goblet Award from a slate of 12 films. Hooper was already unveiled as president of the jury last month, while Masoumi was last year’s winner of the top award ...

  • Disabled Chinese toddler imprisoned for four years

    A four-year-old disabled Chinese boy was put in a prison for over three years because his parents were protesters, his foster father has ...

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