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Chinese Ministry of Commerce responds to decline of investment in Japan

Chinese Ministry of Commerce responds to decline of investment in Japan

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Bingo! First giant panda twins born in U.S. after 26 years

July 16th, after a long time waiting, Lun Lun, a 15 year-old giant panda, gave birth to twins at Zoo Atlanta. So far the zoo hasn't disclosed these baby pandas' genders yet.

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Japan will Return Qing Dynasty Puyi Emperor’s Mahjong to China

Those legendary Chinese national treasured mahjong will return to the embrace of China soon. They have dozed in Japanese Mahjong Museum for many years. According to the last wish of the holder of Japanese Mahjong Museum, which is located in Chiba Prefecture of Japan, a large number of mahjong collections, including Puyi Emperor's exclusive Mahjong, will be returned to China.

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Huawei announces a new HD 7-inch tablet that support voice calls

July 16th, after Huawei's new MediaPad Youth tablet was exposed in a Federal Communications Commission filing back to June, Huawei confirms the new MediaPad 7 Youth, which can compete with Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Series Tablets. Huawei's new tablet aims towards the lower-end of the market.

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Zoomlion will sue “the men standing backstage”

Recently, Chinese construction machinery giant Zoomlion goes through troubled times. After the company was accused of financial fraud for the fifth time, Zoomlion expresses the willing to sue "the men standing backstage". Yesterday, Sun Changjun, Vice President of Zoomlion said: "This time we can not bear it any more. We must protect the rights of Zoomlion with legal weapons, so as to return the standards to construction machinery industry."

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Baidu to buy mobile platform operator 91 Wireless for $1.9 billion

July 16th, Baidu announces the company has signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire 100% shares of 91 Wireless Websoft, a mobile app distribution company, from Netdragon Websoft Inc. The total valuation is $1.9 billion.

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Stronger U.S. Dollar and Weaker Japanese Yen squeeze Chinese Economy

So far this year, the most remarkable change in international financial market is that U.S. dollar shows a clear trend to become stronger, but Japanese Yen exchange rate keeps declining driven by Abenomics, which refers to the economic policies advocated by Shinzō Abe, the current Prime Minister of Japan.

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GSK issue statement on China bribery investigations

July 11th, Ministry of Public Security of China announced they organized public security units from Changsha, Shanghai and Zhengzhou to detain four senior GlaxoSmithKline Plc executives on suspicion of economic crimes involving 3 billion yuan ($489 million) of spurious travel and meeting expenses, and receiving sexual favors. The four senior executives are Zhao Hongyan, Liang Hong, Huang Hong and Zhang Guowei.

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Hong Kong’s Best Actor sighs Chinese civilization has died in Mainland China

Hong Kong’s Best Actor sighs Chinese civilization has died in Mainland China

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Thousand Chinese Netizens sampled GM rice; rice expert says genetic engineering is a trend

July 14th, Huazhong Agricultural University carried out an activity on tasting GM rice voluntarily in Beijing. Rice experts want to title GM rice as a safe genetically modified food. These experts expresses their opinion on genetic engineering, it has been confirmed that genetically modified foods are safe to human beings. According to the organizer of the event, since May of 2013, they have held more than 22 such activities in many cities of China. There are more than a thousand volunteers who have taken part in the activity.

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Navy drone X-47B’s historic landing pumped up Japan’s media

Since U.S. Navy drone X-47B landed on an aircraft carrier for the first time on July 10th, American media speaks highly of the unmanned aircraft. According to U.S. Stars and Stripes (newspaper) on 10th, the test landing of X-47B was seen as a milestone in drone technology and the program that has been started since ten years ago. The success of X-47B will redefine naval aviation.

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Youxue Mo created history by winning Chinese first 100 meters gold medal at World Youth Championships

Beijing Time, early morning on July 12th, Chinese 17-year-old young athlete Youxue Mo won the first place in men's 100 meters of 2013 IAAF World Youth Championships, which is held in Donetsk, Ukraine. Youxue Mo made his personal best of an impressive 10.35 in the race. And he becomes the first Chinese champion to win the 100 meters gold metal in World Youth Championships

Whistle blower Snowden got sensitive documents about Chinese leaders

Recently, a National Security Agency internal review about Edward Snowden leaking documents on U.S. surveillance program PRISM focuses on a particular area. That is Snowden has got some sensitive documents about U.S. spying on Chinese leaders and other critical targets.

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Majority of senators object to Smithfield-Shuanghui Deal

Since the world's largest pig meat processing company Smithfield Foods, Inc announced in May 2013 that the company would be sold to Shuanghui International Holdings, owner of China's largest meat processing business, for $7.1 billion. The merger of the two giant companies has attracted significant attention. This will be a deal that represents China's largest purchase of a U.S. company.

Food Prices Are on the Rise in Taiwan

British Economist Intelligence Unit issued 2013 Global Food Security Index, China ranked 42

According to Voice of China on July 11th, British Economist Intelligence Unit just issued the 2013 Global Food Security Index. This is an annual report that consists of a set of indices from 107 countries. It measures food security across most of the countries of the world. What position will China be in the index? There are a thousand hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. Everyone has his or her own answer to the question.

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