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China Medicine's Letter To Shareholders And Business Update - Msn Moneycentral
guangzhou, china , oct. 10 /xinhua-prnewswire/ -- china medicine corporation (otc bulletin board: chme; "china medicine" or "the company"), a leading distributor and developer of prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, traditional chinese ...
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China Steps Up Anti-graft Efforts In Past 30 Years
china has beefed up the anti-corruption and discipline work since the country adopted the reform and opening-up policy 30 years ago, official sources said. to ensure major policies of the central government to be faithfully implemented at various levels, the ministry of supervision (mos), working with other relevant departments, has severely cracked down on defiant activities. in october 2006, ...
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Bartolina Checks In From China
editor's note: hammond resident erica bartolina, who is in china with her coach/husband mike to compete in the summer olympics, has been sending email updates to her fans from time to time. here is a synopsis of her recent activities as she prepares for the opening ceremonies on thursday and the pole vault competition a week from friday.)
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Ibm And Palace Museum Announce Opening Of The Forbidden City Virtual ... - Webwire
beijing, china .- today, some 600 years after construction began on the 178-acre site that would become the center of unrivalled imperial power known as china’s forbidden city, the palace museum and ibm (ibm: nyse) will open the walled fortress ...
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Group: China Censoring Internet Activities - United Press International
beijing, oct. 3 (upi) -- the chinese government has been censoring messages on the skype internet service, a research group in canada alleges. officials with the citizen lab research group have accused china of keeping a database full of politically ...
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Odim Snags Order For 2 Deepwater Cranes From China's Zhejiang Shipyard
an order worth about nok 95 million for two advanced deepwater cranes was awarded to odim by china's zhejiang shipyard, a subsidiary of sinopacific shipbuilding group.
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Visit China's Forbidden City As A Virtual Eunuch
beijing, china: culture fans thousands of miles from beijing can now visit its famous forbidden city, through a three dimensional recreation of the vast palace that also allows them to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan.
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Met-pro Corporation Purchases Approximately 540,000 Shares Of Mpr ... - Forbes
harleysville, pa., oct. 10 /prnewswire-firstcall/ -- raymond j. de hont, chairman and chief executive officer of met-pro corporation (nyse: mpr), announced today that the company has repurchased approximately 540,000 shares of its common stock in a ...
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China's Shenzhen Starts Spreading The News - The Australian
mao zedong still looms over beijing, betraying the tiniest hint of a smirk from his vast portrait gazing down from the tiananmen gate, across towards his own soviet-style mausoleum. but shenzhen, china's great new southern city, is dominated by a ...
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Hong Kong Safer For Trading Than China
welsh businesses looking for cheap manufacturing opportunities in the far east would do well to consider hong kong as a safer alternative than mainland china, according to a representative from the former colony.
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China Steps Up Anti-graft Efforts In Past 30 Years
china has beefed up the anti-corruption and discipline work since the country adopted the reform and opening-up policy 30 years ago, official sources said.
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Visit China's Forbidden City -- As A Virtual Eunuch - Post Chronicle
culture fans thousands of miles from beijing can now visit its famous forbidden city, through a three dimensional recreation of the vast palace that also allows them to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan. one of the jewels in china's ...
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Trade Deficit Remains Roughly 5 Percent Of Gdp In August; Job Losses ... - American Economic Alert
the commerce department reported today that the august deficit on trade in goods and services was $59.1 billion. this was not much changed from the july deficit of $61.3 billion. still, the trade deficit remains high because of high prices for ...
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China Medicine's Letter To Shareholders And Business Update
china medicine corporation , a leading distributor and developer of prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, traditional chinese medicines , nutritional and dietary supplements, medical devices, and medical formulations in the people's republic of china , today released a letter to shareholders from its chairman and ceo, mr.
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Visit China's Forbidden City -- As A Virtual Eunuch
culture fans thousands of miles from beijing can now visit its famous forbidden city, through a three dimensional recreation of the vast palace that also allows them to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan.
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U.s. May Take N. Korea Off The Terrorism List - Los Angeles Times
washington -- the bush administration appears poised to provisionally remove north korea from the state department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, perhaps as soon as saturday, sources close to the administration said. the move would keep alive ...
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Usaid Denies Funding To Abortion Group Implicated In Forced Abortions ... - Catholic Online
assistant administrator for global health dr. kent hill, has banned cooperation with uk-based marie stopes international (msi), one of the worlds largest purveyors of abortions, on the grounds that it is complicit in "coercive abortion and ...
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Who And What Are To Blame For The Bust
1 china: the source of the greatest of the "global imbalances" still troubling the world economy. the chinese government has kept the exchange rate of the yuan low to stimulate exports and build up foreign currency reserves - principally in dollars.
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The China-tibet Conflict: Need For Historic Decisions
both beijing and dharamsala frequently reiterate their 'sincerity' in the search for a resolution of the china-tibet conflict. as an ordinary tibetan i welcome any positive moves from either side.
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News - Politics And Law - Cnet News
the u.s. senate is investigating allegations by two national security agency whistleblowers who have described widespread monitoring of innocuous telephone conversations by the bush administration's clandestine program. the reports fill in some ...
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