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[2010-09-24 08:12]

Women's conference�20

Visions of a lost civilization

[2010-09-20 07:47]

The 46-year-old author Chi Zijian, from Heilongjiang province, has already won several awards, including the Lu Xun Literature Prize, and the 2008 Mao Dun Literature Prize, for her best-selling novel, Right Bank of the Ergun (E'erguna He You'an).

Magic mediums and their messages

[2010-09-20 07:47]

The Ergun River plays a crucial role in Chi Zijian's novel Right Bank of the Ergun. A tributary of the Amur River, it was established as the Sino-Russian border by the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689. The folk tales recounted by the characters tell how they were long ago driven from their ancestral homeland on the left bank by the Russian army, and are now "exiled" to the right bank.

Moving on to greener pastures

[2010-09-20 07:47]

The year was 2006. Jiang Juechi finally decided to leave her Tibetan students on a remote grassland in Sichuan province and head home to East China's Anhui province.

Korea meets pop art

[2010-09-19 07:55]

He has chosen to live in a neighborhood nicknamed "Oriental Hawaii" and his apartment on the top floor of a 14-story block has a panoramic view of the scenic surroundings of greenery and water.

Louis Vuitton embraces Chengdu's children

[2010-09-19 07:55]

French fashion house Louis Vuitton is investing in the future of orphaned children in Chengdu with plans to build a 1.5 million yuan ($221,100) multi-functional activity center at the SOS Children's Village in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.

Integrating waterfronts into city life

[2010-09-17 07:43]

The redevelopment of Shanghai's Bund waterfront provides a lesson in urban engineering, but there is still room to improve the spatial integration of the city's housing and office space, particularly in Pudong, according to a leading executive from Germany's $10-billion HafenCity project.

Green signal for WoW may prove to be too little, too late

[2010-09-14 08:05]

BEIJING - The Chinese government's recent approval of the second version of the online game World of Warcraft (WoW) was met with little fanfare as Chinese gamers say it is too little too late.

Kindle fails to kindle public demand

[2010-09-14 08:05]

Amazon's e-reader sales no match for Apple's iPad in China

Eedoo to take on big boys in video gaming market

[2010-09-14 08:05]

BEIJING - Chinese PC maker Lenovo will go head-to-head with the big boys in the video game console market, looking to snatch away market share from the likes of Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony.

Tianjin Port eyes big expansions

[2010-09-14 08:16]

TIANJIN - Tianjin Port's total cargo throughput is expected to reach 400 million tons - including 10 million containers - this year, up from 380 million tons in 2009, said Yu Rumin, chairman of Tianjin Port (Group) Co Ltd.

Chinese medicine firms learning lessons from the West

[2010-09-14 08:16]

TIANJIN - Chinese medicine companies are using the Summer Davos meeting as an opportunity to understand the market mechanism in developed countries, said Hao Feifei, president of Tianjin Zhongxin Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd.

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