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  • Oliver tops 110m hurdles at World Challenge Beijing

    With the absence of Chinese star Liu Xiang, American David Oliver topped the men's 110-metre hurdles at the 2013 IAAF World Challenge Beijing here, while China's Li Jinzhe continued his good form and grabbed a second win in the men's long jump. Oliver, bronze medallist in the event at the 2008 Beijing Games, held off the challenge of London Olympic runner-up Jason Richardson and Jamaica's ...

  • `China-Pakistan have all-weather strategic ties

    Li Keqiang left India for Pakistan Wednesday, the second stop of his first overseas trip as China's premier. Xinhua described the Islamabad-Beijing ties as an "all-weather strategic partnership". It is worth noting that Li is the first foreign leader to visit Pakistan in the wake of the country's general elections, Xinhua said in a commentary. The two "firsts" testified to the "all-weather ...

  • Durian pizza a hit in Shanghai

    A restaurant in Shanghai is offering affluent middle-class Chinese with a growing taste for the exotic a popular, if unusual, dish - pizza with a Thai durian ...

  • Shanghai Copper Closes Marginally Higher

    The concerns of Chinese demand are well known though the prices posted a confident face at the time of closing. Shanghai August expiry contract closed at 53730 yuan per tonne on Wednesday, up 350 yuan per tonne.LME Copper three month futures gain is most likely to have boosted Copper in China. LME Copper was trading at $ 7463 per tonne, though it was below $ 7400 per tonne levels at the early ...

  • Heavy metal with a political message from Ai Weiwei

    The Chinese artist and political campaigner releases a music video for his heavy metal single Dumbass, which reconstructs the 81 days he spent detained by the ...


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Following [Blu-Ray]

Following [Blu-Ray]

Viewed in retrospect, one can easily recognize Christopher Nolans noiresque no-budget feature debut Following as a harbinger of things to come, an exercise in the kind of temporal gymnastics, sleight-of-hand shifts in perspective, and rigorous insights into the dark depths of human na ... ...

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  • Hang Seng Shanghai close lower

    (1 min ago) Stocks in Hong Kong closed down 0.45 percent despite a strong lead from Wall Street, as dealers awaited testimony by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on the economic outlook. The benchmark Hang Seng Index lost 105.29 points to 23,261 on turnover of HK$52.41 billion. Trading began in the city todat at 1pm after a delay over a severe rainstorm warning. Stocks in Shanghai ...

  • The Bund opened little changed

    technical factors to guide trading. So both the Bund and the US Treasuries went South in early US trading, approaching the recent, sell-off lows. However, no break occurred and helped ...

  • Man commits suicide after killing wife son in Jiangsus Wuxi

    A family quarrel escalated into a violent attack when a man killed his wife, one-year-old son and himself on Tuesday in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, local media reported today. The couple started quarrelling around noon and soon began to fight each other. Both were highly agitated and locked the door to fill their apartment with coal gas, neighbors said. Around 2:30pm, the wife was seen ...

  • Road cave-in kills five people in China

    A road in south China's Guangdong province caved in, killing at least five people, authorities said. The incident Tuesday occurred at the Huamao industrial park in Shenzen, a major city in the province in the southern tip of mainland China. Guangdong, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macau, has been hit by major flooding caused by heavy rainstorms that have claimed at least 33 lives. At the road ...

  • 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 ...

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