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Soulfull Vibes (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
A high profile Chinese performance artist is suing movie bosses for allegedly "insulting" the country’s national symbol in new animated film KUNG FU PANDA . Zhao Bandi has launched legal action against Dreamworks - the studio behind the movie - for apparently depicting the panda in a negative light and making a mockery of Chinese heritage. Bandi previously called on people in China to boycott...
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Auto Channel (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Company will host a conference call, to be simultaneously Webcast, on Thursday, August 7 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time / 8:30 p.m. Beijing Time. A question and answer session will follow management's presentation. Mr. Qingjie Zhao (Chairman & CEO), Mr. Ryan Yuan (CFO), Ms. Lydia Zhao (assistant CFO) and Mr. Yuechun Xie (Investor Relations Manager) will be the primary speakers...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Madam Zhao Ruheng is a slight woman, simply dressed, with a brown cardigan around her shoulders. Yet this unassuming, dignified figure is a power to be reckoned with. As a member of the National Ballet of China since its formation in 1959, and its director since 1994, she has seen a world of change. Plucked from provincial obscurity to join the fledgling school, she was taught by Russians who...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Beijing Time.
A question and answer session will follow management's presentation. Mr.
Qingjie Zhao (Chairman & CEO), Mr. Ryan Yuan (CFO), Ms. Lydia Zhao (assistant
CFO) and Mr. Yuechun Xie (Investor Relations Manager) will be the primary
speakers for the call.
To participate, please call the following numbers ten minutes before the
call start time:
Phone Number + 1 (877) 407-9210...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Time. A question and answer session will follow management's
presentation. Mr. Qingjie Zhao (Chairman & CEO), Mr. Ryan Yuan (CFO), Ms.
Lydia Zhao (assistant CFO) and Mr. Yuechun Xie (Investor Relations Manager)
will be the primary speakers for the call.
To participate, please call the following numbers ten minutes before
the call start time:
Phone Number + 1 (877) 407-9210 (North...
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Nature (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/pnas.0802361105 (2008)Rice is efficient, indeed disconcertingly so, at assimilating arsenic from the soils of paddy fields. But how it does this has been unclear. Now Fang-Jie Zhao at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, UK, Jian
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CXO Advisory (Free subscription) | yesterday
Does the degree to which out-of-the-money (OTM) put options are "overpriced" imply future returns for associated stocks? In other words, are options traders especially well-informed? In their March 2008 paper entitled , Xiaoyan Zhang, Rui Zhao and Yuhang Xing test whether option prices for individual stocks contain important information for the underlying equities. They focus on the predictive...
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Sinosplice: Life (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Those of us that learn Mandarin according to the Beijing standard typically learn the expression 二百五 pretty early. While it seems to be the innocent number “250,” it actually has a slang meaning: “stupid” or “idiot.” Zhao Wei: 十三点 Those of us spending time in China’s south eventually come to a realization: you don’t hear 二百五 that [...]
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... many expect will dislodge the United States from the top of the medal table. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhao Peng) MANILA, Philippines -- An official says the Philippine government and the private sector are offering $220,000 to any athlete who brings home the country's first-ever Olympic gold medal.The Philippines has not won an Olympic gold since its first games, at Paris in 1924. The most recent...
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Christian Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Chinese Government has granted a major evangelist permission to distribute a Christian-atheist book to athletes and coaches during the Beijing Summer Olympics.Evangelist Luis Palau will be giving a copy of his book, A Friendly Dialogue Between an Atheist and a Christian, to athletes attending the Games.The book records a conversation between atheist Chinese diplomat Zhao Qizheng – a high-ranking...
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Virtual China (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... however, it seems have all been a hoax based upon a chain of sloppy journalism. According to Xiao Zhao who took the time to investigate the matter: …the rumor was obviously started with a false message from a professor in China, named Chan, Zhang Tai who casually said UN will stop use Traditional Chinese in 2008 to a reporter with a Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong, Oriental Daily in March...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... matches and three women's matches, and more than 440,000 tickets have been sold so far, Vice Mayor Zhao Wen told the state-run Xinhua News Agency in a report. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) BEIJING -- China has clamped down further on issuing business visas, government officials said Thursday, in the latest expansion of already-tight entry restrictions for next month's Olympic Games.Beijing has...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... will begin once we have received approval, and will take about five years to complete," said Zhao Hua, head of the Nuclear Power Institute of China.The chosen site is to the east of the capital Chengdu, while the zone devastated by the May earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 and left thousands more missing, lies to its west.A team of experts visited the site after the quake to confirm...
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Animated News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
SlashFilm reports about a lawsuit filed by a Chinese artist Zhao Bandi against Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures for the offensive grotesqueries depicted in Kung Fu Panda. Zhao demanded a public apology but no monetary compensation in the lawsuit which has been accepted and allowed to proceed by Beijing Chaoyang District People’s Court.
