Rodin masterpiece makes debut at city’s art fair

September 1st, 2010
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RODIN masterpiece "The Burghers of Calais" is to make its first visit to China when it goes on display at the Shanghai Art Fair from September 8 to 12 at ShanghaiMart.

The bronze sculpture, 2.2 meters high and 2.66 meters long, is valued at 4 million euro (US$5 million), making it the most expensive piece of art to have featured at the fair.

"The fair will attract about 126 galleries from 14 countries and regions," Gu Zhihua, the fair director, said yesterday.

Art forms, ranging from canvas, sculptures, watercolors and videos to ceramics and installations, will provide a visual feast for visitors, Gu said. "This year, our theme is ‘collecting art as a fashion mode,’" Gu added.

A team of experts will provide an appraisal service for visitors regarding antique ceramics, ancient books, traditional ink-wash paintings and jade on September 10 and 11.your best laptop bags should be big enough as to suit the size of your laptop perfectly, hold the power supply, files and

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ICOM, first established in 1946, organizes a general conference every three years and the theme for this one is "Museums for Social Harmony."

Keynote speakers include former Mali president Alpha Oumar Konare, Nigerian-born American curator Okwui Enwezor and Chinese author Feng Jicai.

Nearly 1,800 curators, experts and scholars in relevant industries from more than 100 countries and regions will attend nearly 100 speeches,,Fendi bags, seminars and conferences during the six-day event.

 

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Monthly sales growth had waned after March’s 63 pe

September 1st, 2010
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The rebound in sales is good news for car manufacturers worldwide are turning to China to drive sales of lower global demand. Sales this year should increase by more than 20 percent, even before an impressive 45 per cent in 2009.

The center, a set of monthly data from multiple sources on the Chinese auto sales and production, and estimated sales in August, from January to 9.5 million vehicles, nearly 32 percent during the same period of 2009.

AUTO sales in China rebounded in August as subsidies for energy-efficient vehicles and a stronger currency spurred demand.

Sales in the world’s biggest car market rose 55.7 percent over a year earlier to 1.a search of his work desk turned up a neatly folded canvas shoulder canvas school bag used for delivering Liberty21 million vehicles, up from 1 million vehicles the month before, the State Council’s China Automotive Technology and Research Center said yesterday. The increase compared with an annual 17 percent growth in July and 19.4 percent in June.

Sales of energy-saving vehicles rose 32 percent to 129,600, the center said in a report posted on its website.

Demand was also relatively strong for imported vehicles, as Japanese and European auto makers increasingly focus on serving the market for smaller, affordable cars, the center’s Chairman Zhao Hang said, without giving specific figures.

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Automakers have begun to adapt even jeopardize the production of slower demand.

Production rose 10 percent in August to 1.2 million units, down slightly from July, the report said. Output in the first eight months rose 35.5 percent, to 10.9 million vehicles,Safely transport your 17 inch laptop bag in any briefcase, messenger bag or backpack. it said.

 

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Other Apple’s new offerings included Ping

September 1st, 2010
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‘No smoking’ law comes into effect in Guangzhou

September 1st, 2010
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A local smoking-control law came into effect Wednesday in Guangzhou, the capital of south China’s Guangdong Province.

The law covers all of Guangzhou City. There, smoking in most public places, like offices, conference rooms, halls and elevators, is strictly prohibited.

Places of business larger than 150 square meters or having more than 75 seats may designate an area for smokers.

Those who break the law will be fined 50 yuan (about 7.35 U.S.,Australian ugg boots, dollars) and businesses not meeting their obligations will be fined up to 30,000 yuan.

However, some doubt the law is enforceable.

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"A quick smoke can take less than one minute. How can an enforcement agency come in such little time?" a different pedestrian asked a Xinhua reporter.Festival staff members have also examined expenditures and have taken action, from not hiring staff children stationery to not reordering

Hu Angang, an economics professor at Tsinghua University, said weak smoking-control in China means measurable goals should be included in the twelfth national development plan.

"Putting goals into the national plan shows great political will from state leaders. So the whole of society, especially local governments, will implement it without hesitation. The plan is a binding document for the government," said Hu.

Shanghai began implementing a regulation to ban smoking in 12 types of public places March 1 in an effort to have a smoke-free World Expo.

Shanghai declined a 200-million-yuan sponsorship deal for the 2010 World Expo from a tobacco company in July 2009.

One of the world’s largest tobacco producing and consuming nations, China manufactures about 100 billion packets of cigarettes each year.

It has a smoking population of 350 million, about one third of the world’s total smoking population.

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Guangdong prepares for storms’ fury

September 1st, 2010
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The tranquility in the air before tropical storm Lionrock’s possible landing on Wednesday night in Guangzhou calmed no one in eastern Guangdong province.

Clouds gather above Taiwan’s Hualien city as tropical storm Lionrock approaches, September 1, 2010.

Huang Shidong, 53, a villager of Jingzhou township in Chaozhou city, was among 30,000 local fishermen who docked their 1,500 boats for the approaching storm.

The eastern corner of the province, where 70 percent of the local income is derived from the fishing industry, is most likely to feel the first strike of the tropical storm, which on Tuesday joined forces with another tropical storm, Namtheun, as well as a typhoon, Kompasu, to threaten South and East China.

Chaozhou city authorities raised their warning for Lionrock to Level 2 on Wednesday, as local officials readied the city for any post-typhoon disaster efforts.The three designer laptop bag styles include a large Tote bag with a quilted laptop section and multiple pockets for girly stuff

Huang, who has fished for 40 years, told China Daily that tropical low pressure systems like those in this current season are the "most evil monsters" for the fishermen working on the South China Sea.

"The power of typhoons in early autumn is terrible on the sea," Huang said.Here’s one for the guys–the Expand-It bags for laptop Messenger bag by BBP Bags. "It can be so strong that it easily devours boats."

The director of Chaozhou city’s water affairs bureau, Zhang Muguang, said one of the biggest concerns for the city is a large amount of rainfall. He added that the typhoon that slammed into the region in 2006 wiped out one-eighth of its annual income.

"Floods and landslides are in the cards following big rains," said Zhang.

Local authorities on Wednesday said tropical storm Lionrock would bring heavy rains and strong gales to Southeast China’s coastal areas, closely following tropical storm Namtheun, which hit East China’s Fujian province on Tuesday night.

According to the Guangdong provincial observatory, tropical storm Lionrock had weakened but was moving quicker at 10 pm on Tuesday, heading toward the coastal cities of Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

Moving at a speed of 83 kilometers per hour, Lionrock is expected to make landfall in the area from Guangdong’s Shanwei city to Fujian’s Xiamen city, late Wednesday or early Thursday, and might strengthen before landing, said Lin Liangxun, forecaster of the observatory.custom engraved stationery; writing instruments; eyewear; leather goods; and, fashion accessories

Lionrock will bring heavy rain to the area from Tuesday to Thursday.

Tropical storm Namtheun made landfall in Hui’an county in Fujian at 11:50 pm on Tuesday and was expected to weaken early Wednesday afternoon.

Meanwhile Typhoon Kompasu is approaching the west sea area of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and is expected to travel at a speed of 25 to 30 kilometers per hour for the next 24 hours, Lin said.

Lionrock lashed Taiwan on Wednesday on its way to the Chinese mainland, bringing heavy rains and howling winds to areas battered by a deadly typhoon just over a year ago as a stronger front churned toward the Korean peninsula.

In Taiwan, authorities have cancelled classes, called off work and set up evacuation space for 19,000 people.

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Cancer haunts village near Zijin

September 1st, 2010
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VILLAGERS living near China’s biggest gold mine, Zijin Mountain in southeast China’s Fujian Province – which shocked the country with a massive pollution incident this July – say they are experiencing grave damage to their health.

Residents in Fujian’s Bitian Village told yesterday’s Southern Morning Post that they used to have idyllic homes nestled among green mountains. From time to time, they would collect some gold sand from local Tingjiang River for extra income.

But that changed 10 years ago when the Zijin mining group began to expand.

Forty people in the village of 1,300 got cancer in the past decade, and 35 of them died. Most were in their 30s.

The nearby village of Yueyangpian has also been haunted by a range of cancers. There are now more than 60 cancer patients in the village. Almost everyone who haThis cheap laptop bag bag makes a perfect addition to anyone’s outfit. It offers a protected laptop compartment, a numbers died in recent years was killed by cancer, the report said.My funniest experience was in late 2001 when they were weighing bags for laptops in Germany and comparing against a book of known laptop weights

Residents near Zijin Mountain accused the mine of discharging heavy metal into their drinking water, but their voice was largely ignored until July 3, when a toxic spill from the mine polluted Tingjiang River, killing tons of fish and attracting nationwide attention.

Villagers told the newspaper that Tingjiang used to be a broad,The Louis Vuitton handbags online store has gotten the 2010 hot new products. clear river rippling over smooth stones. But 40 days after the massive pollution, the river water is still green from the discharged copper.

The villagers previously relied on the river for drinking water.

But now even the most beautiful women hide their feet and legs in the hottest days because they appear to have rotted from the polluted water, the report said.

"It felt itchy even after merely touching the river water," said a villager named Zhong Shanlian. She said the dark green water would turn to dark red after heavy rains disturbed the residues.

Despite local environmental protection authority’s promise that the river is now safe, villagers are walking miles to draw from mountain springs instead.

Villagers who can afford it buy bottled water for their daily use. "Local radio station repeats again and again that the river is safe, but none of us believe it," a villager said.

 

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Other Apple’s new offerings included Ping

September 1st, 2010
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Other Apple’s new offerings included Ping, a social service that was built into newly-released iTunes 10 and next-generation apple TV starting at US$99.

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‘Hostile elements’ threatening Iraq

September 1st, 2010
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THE United States yesterday moved into the final phase of its military involvement in Iraq, with administration officials saying the war was ending even as the new commander of the remaining 50,000 troops warned of the ongoing threat from "hostile elements."

The transfer of authority came a day after President Barack Obama announced the shift from combat operations to preparing Iraqi forces to assume responsibility for their own security. Obama made clear in Tuesday’s speech that this was no victory celebration.

A six-month stalemate over forming a new Iraqi government has raised concerns about the country’s stability and questions over whether the leadership can cope with a diminished but still dangerous insurgency.

Newly promoted Army General Lloyd Austin also maintained a somber tone as he took the reins of the some 50,000 American troops who remain in Iraq, with a deadline for a full withdrawal by the end of next year.

He noted "hostile enemies" continue to threaten Iraq and pledged that "our national commitment to Iraq will not change."

"Although challenges remain, we will face these challenges together," Austin said during the ceremony at the opulent al-Faw palace of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.

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"This period in Iraq’s history will probably be remembered for sacrifice, resilience and change," Odierno said. "However, I remember it as a time in which the Iraqi people stood up against tyranny, terrorism and extremism, and decided to determine their own destiny as a people and as a democratic state."

Vice President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen presided over the ceremony, which was held at the main US military headquarters on the southwestern outskirts of Baghdad.

Gates, visiting American troops in the Iraqi city of Ramadi yesterday, said history will judge whether the fight was worth it for the US.,Fashion boots

"The problem with this war, I think,Festival staff members have also examined expenditures and have taken action, from not hiring staff children stationery to not reordering for many Americans, is that the premise on which we justified going to war turned out not to be valid," he said. "Even if the outcome is a good one from the standpoint of the United States, it’ll always be clouded by how it began."

Claiming that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, then-President George W. Bush ordered the invasion with approval of a Congress still reeling from the 9/11 attacks. Bush’s claims were based on faulty intelligence, and the weapons were never found.

 

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US Week makes a massive splash at Xintiandi

September 1st, 2010
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PERFORMANCES from Dance America! and "Sesame Street" characters prove irresistible at Xintiandi, reports Xu Wei.

The US Week at Xintiandi in downtown Shanghai brought laughter, fun and learning opportunities to children.,ugg boots

The week, held on August 23-29, was co-organized by Shui On Land and Sesame Street Workshop, which has presented the popular TV program for the past 40 years.

The event was part of Xintiandi’s "Mini Expo" series.consultant" for the upmarket family stationery firm, Smythson. She will work two days a week.

The week featured performances by Sesame Street characters and Dance America!, a famous troupe, at Xintiandi’s South Plaza.

Meanwhile, Sesame Street Workshop also prepared a family party for everyone. Well-known "Sesame Street" characters, including Elmo, Cookie Monster, Little Plum, Abby and Big Bird and others, were there to meet fans. The characters also sang and danced to the delight of little ones in attendance.

Since November 10, 1969, millions of children around the world have grown up with "Sesame Street." The show is broadcast in 140 countries and regions.

It has won 131 Emmy Awards, according to China.org.cn. It is loved by children because it’s fun and creative. It is popular with parents because it teaches young children in an engaging way.

The Dance America! troupe provided an energetic show that was much enjoyed by people of all ages.

According to officials from the USA Pavilion, they are proud to have Dance America! as cultural ambassador at Xintiandi, giving people the chance to experience the passion and creativity of American artists.

The dancers did their own choreography, combining each performer’s individual style into one piece offering spectators a chance to experience the fresh "edge" of contemporary American dance.

The USA Pavilion at World Expo 2010 is committed to promoting cultural exchanges between China and the United States. So far, the pavilion has received more than 4 million visitors.With Print Pelican customized stationery business card printing, customers can create eye catching materials to enhance the effectiveness of

Xintiandi’s "Mini Expo" series will continue tomorrow with the start of UK Week.

 

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Guangdong prepares for storms’ fury

September 1st, 2010
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The tranquility in the air before tropical storm Lionrock’s possible landing on Wednesday night in Guangzhou calmed no one in eastern Guangdong province.

Clouds gather above Taiwan’s Hualien city as tropical storm Lionrock approaches, September 1, 2010.

Huang Shidong, 53, a villager of Jingzhou township in Chaozhou city, was among 30,000 local fishermen who docked their 1,500 boats for the approaching storm.

The eastern corner of the province, where 70 percent of the local income is derived from the fishing industry, is most likely to feel the first strike of the tropical storm, which on Tuesday joined forces with another tropical storm, Namtheun, as well as a typhoon, Kompasu, to threaten South and East China.

Chaozhou city authorities raised their warning for Lionrock to Level 2 on Wednesday, as local officials readied the city for any post-typhoon disaster efforts.The three designer laptop bag styles include a large Tote bag with a quilted laptop section and multiple pockets for girly stuff

Huang, who has fished for 40 years, told China Daily that tropical low pressure systems like those in this current season are the "most evil monsters" for the fishermen working on the South China Sea.

"The power of typhoons in early autumn is terrible on the sea," Huang said.Here’s one for the guys–the Expand-It bags for laptop Messenger bag by BBP Bags. "It can be so strong that it easily devours boats."

The director of Chaozhou city’s water affairs bureau, Zhang Muguang, said one of the biggest concerns for the city is a large amount of rainfall. He added that the typhoon that slammed into the region in 2006 wiped out one-eighth of its annual income.

"Floods and landslides are in the cards following big rains," said Zhang.

Local authorities on Wednesday said tropical storm Lionrock would bring heavy rains and strong gales to Southeast China’s coastal areas, closely following tropical storm Namtheun, which hit East China’s Fujian province on Tuesday night.

According to the Guangdong provincial observatory, tropical storm Lionrock had weakened but was moving quicker at 10 pm on Tuesday, heading toward the coastal cities of Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

Moving at a speed of 83 kilometers per hour, Lionrock is expected to make landfall in the area from Guangdong’s Shanwei city to Fujian’s Xiamen city, late Wednesday or early Thursday, and might strengthen before landing, said Lin Liangxun, forecaster of the observatory.custom engraved stationery; writing instruments; eyewear; leather goods; and, fashion accessories

Lionrock will bring heavy rain to the area from Tuesday to Thursday.

Tropical storm Namtheun made landfall in Hui’an county in Fujian at 11:50 pm on Tuesday and was expected to weaken early Wednesday afternoon.

Meanwhile Typhoon Kompasu is approaching the west sea area of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and is expected to travel at a speed of 25 to 30 kilometers per hour for the next 24 hours, Lin said.

Lionrock lashed Taiwan on Wednesday on its way to the Chinese mainland, bringing heavy rains and howling winds to areas battered by a deadly typhoon just over a year ago as a stronger front churned toward the Korean peninsula.

In Taiwan, authorities have cancelled classes, called off work and set up evacuation space for 19,000 people.

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