Jon Meade Huntsman, US ambassador to China, arrived in Jinan for the US-Shandong Business and Cultural Exchange Week on Nov 24. He said he was a student, learning from the people and traditions in the hometown of Confucius.
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SHENZHEN: Gao Chen is typical of a growing trend - she is educated, successful and married to a husband who has a mistress.
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Famous Chinese singer Zang Tianshuo has been given a six-year sentence after a second hearing in Beijing for organizing a gang fight last September that killed one person and injured several others.
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Webchats with foreign envoys in China.
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Police in Neihuang county, Henan province, arrested a suspect, wanted for more than two years, from a coalmine more than 3,000 meters underground on Monday night.
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China's consumer price index dipped 0.5 percent year on year in Oct, a decline 0.3 percentage points lower than that in Septemper. Foreign Trade Drops 10.7%
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China's top decision-making body on Friday pledged to maintain its pro-growth fiscal and monetary policies next year amid growing concerns that rising prices could create an asset bubble.
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Partly induced by the drop in trade between South Korea and China amid the global recession, officials from both sides committed to expediting negotiations for a free trade agreement.
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Chinese shares continued to drop at the opening Friday after the biggest drop in almost three months on Thursday.
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Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd is acquiring video website Ku6.com, in an effort to expand its market share in the interactive entertainment segment.
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While developed countries are busy shutting down incinerators, Chinese governors seem to see burning rubbish as the last resort in a losing battle.
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China's total premium income of 2008 reached 978.41 billion yuan ($143 billion), making it the sixth largest country in terms of premium income.
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Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the US to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit.
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Honduras chooses a new president on Sunday in an election that may defuse a crisis caused by a coup against President Manuel Zelaya, but the vote is splitting Washington and Latin America.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghan president for the second term on Thursday.
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Italy PM Silvio Berlusconi's estranged wife is seeking $65 million a year in alimony in a divorce case after her husband was embroiled in a sex scandal.
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The top suspect in Monday's slaughter in Maguindanao has been formally charged with multiple murder before the Philippine Department of Justice.
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Nikolay Davydenko sealed the last semi-final berth at the ATP World Tour Finals on Friday, claiming the victory he needed over Robin Soderling to send 2008 champion Novak Djokovic spinning out of the tournament.
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Jenson Button faces the toughest challenge of his Formula One career when he joins Lewis Hamilton at McLaren next season and he knows it.
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Fit-again Alessandro del Piero is keen to get his campaign underway after playing just 10 minutes with Juventus so far this season but the captain may have to take up an unfamiliar role to get back into the team.
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World number one Roger Federer squeezed into the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finals on Thursday despite a 6-2 6-7 6-3 defeat by Juan Martin del Potro but Britain's Andy Murray literally missed out by a fraction.
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Alex Rodriguez grabbed the World Series trophy and wouldn't let go.
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Wearing a pink sweater, blue jeans and a pair of sneakers, the pony-tailed Liu Shasha looks like the typical girl next-door.
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British singer Robbie Williams "proposed" to his actress girlfriend, Ayda Field, live on Australian radio on Friday, but his spokesman then said it was a joke.
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Victoria Beckham is hesitating about having an operation to remove her bunions because she won't be able to wear high heels for several months.
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Movie flops aren't just about losing money. Yes, big budgets that go bust are one consideration. But flops are also about lofty expectations dashed and high profiles brought low.
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U.S. music retailers are realizing a dream week with Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed A Dream" ringing cash registers far beyond expectations and Adam Lambert's album stirring sales after his sexually charged TV performance.
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Every decade has its landmark TV shows, and there will or should never be complete agreement on which 10 series belong at the top of the list.
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I was fully booked last week. Four different performance companies invited me to their shows and they all said: "This is the highlight program in the on-going Seventh Beijing International Theater and Dance Festival".
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Ashton Kutcher, the executive producer of new TV show 'The Beautiful Life' starring Mischa Barton, ''can't wait'' for people to see how strong Mischa's performance is.
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A Vietnamese man dug up his wife's corpse and slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed.
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Shop 'till you drop it's not, but U.S. women are finally starting to buy clothes again.
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Bulgarian villagers have named their home-made rakia brandy "Borisovka," playing on the name of Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to thank him for stopping parliament from raising taxes on alcohol.
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Hats Off, an annual culinary event held recently at The Westin Beijing Financial Street, gathered four chefs from around the world, who impressed guest with their up-to-date skills and some great culinary creations.
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More than 1,000 deaths from the H1N1 swine flu virus were officially reported in the past week, a sharp rise which brings the global total to at least 7,826, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Fancy a painting depicting the horror of last November's attacks in Mumbai? How about a comic book with superheroes taking on the Islamist militants, or a coffee mug or music album as a tribute to the victims?
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Treatments for erectile dysfunction such as the hugely popular drug Viagra do not appear to pose long-term damage to men's sight, a new study has shown.
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