With the number of banks, securities and futures trading firms, insurance agencies and other institutions now thriving, the financial sector in Qingdao is gaining momentum.
Drinkers raise a glass for festival fun in the home of Tsingtao
Leveraging the Olympic legacy, Qingdao has continued to excel as a hotspot for sailing professionals and spectators in recent years.
Aiming to be the nation's center of oceanographic research and technology commercialization, Qingdao is stepping up efforts to develop a new urban area sprawling across 576 square kilometers in the north of city called Blue Silicon Valley.
All the signs indicate that five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. will comfortably extend his unbeaten record when he faces Argentina's Marcos Maidana on Saturday - though the American is not expecting a pushover.
The National Basketball Association on Thursday launched its bid to oust Donald Sterling as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers for racist comments as a panel of 10 fellow team owners or their proxies unanimously agreed to proceed "as expeditiously as possible," the NBA said.
The number of players competing in top European leagues is a fair gauge of a nation's soccer development.
Alcides Ghiggia still remembers the shocked hush in the Maracana stadium, packed with more than 200,000 people, after he scored the goal that felled soccer's superpower.
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