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  • Share of developing nations in investments set to triple by 2030 Share of developing nations in investments set to triple by 2030

    WASHINGTON - The share of developing countries led by China and India in global investment is expected to triple by 2030 to three-fifths, from one-fifth in 2000, says the latest edition of the World Bank's Global Development Horizons (GDH) report, which explores patterns of investment, saving and capital flows as they are likely to evolve over the next two decades. Seventeen years from now, ...

  • Malayasian Chinese leader asked to apologise to Indians

    A Malaysian Indian politician of the Democratic Action party (DAP) has asked the party's Chinese-origin secretary-general to apologise to the Indian members of the party. N. Gobalakrishnan has asked Lim Guan Eng to apologise to over 700 Indian members of the party after they were stopped from attending the party's Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting last year, the New Straits Times ...

  • `Lis trip shows China keen to enhance ties with India

    The choice of India as the first leg of Li Keqiang's maiden overseas trip as Chinese premier has sent out a clear signal that Beijing's new leadership prioritizes enhancing ties with New Delhi but that "the two nations cannot fully restore mutual trust without resolving the border dispute", Xinhua news agency said in a commentary on Saturday. "The rationale is simple: With China and India being ...

  • Premier Li Keqiangs maiden foreign visit set to bolster Sino-India ties

    Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's maiden visit to India symbolises the rising significance of New Delhi as the two Asian giants seek to overcome a chequered past and border tensions to broaden strategic ties and boost bilateral trade. Premier Li arrives in India on Sunday on his first foreign trip since assuming office. He would also visit Pakistan, Germany and Switzerland during the week-long ...

  • Hurdler Merritt gears up for new Diamond League season

    American hurdler Aries Merritt, who won his first Olympic gold in London and set a world record in the men's 110m hurdles last year, has geared up for the 2013 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League Shanghai leg. "I will try to start the season in my best form and hopefully I'll be in my best so I won't disappoint the fans that come to watch the competition," ...

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Wings [Blu-Ray]

Wings [Blu-Ray]

Given the depth and breadth of special effects technologies now available in the digital era, one would think that a film about World War I aerial dogfighting from 1927when synchronized sound was still a noveltywould seem quaint, at best a charming, low-tech relic from an earlier, simpler cinematic ... ...

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  • Man kidnapped 23 years ago finds kin thanks to Google Maps

    A 28-year-old Chinese man who was kidnapped 23 years ago and sold to a family 1,500 km from his home, has met up with his biological parents again thanks to Google Maps, Hunan TV said Friday. Hazy childhood memories plus the popular search engine Google allowed Luo Gang to find his family in the central province of Sichuan after living most of his life with adoptive parents in the southeastern ...

  • Chinese may have practised agriculture before advent of rice cultivation 5000 yrs ago

    Archaeologists in southern subtropical China have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have practised agriculture -before the arrival of domesticated rice in the region. Current archaeological thinking is that it was the advent of rice cultivation along the Lower Yangtze River that marked the beginning of agriculture in southern China. Poor ...

  • Chinese man held in PoK over Koran desecration

    A Chinese man has been taken into protective custody in Pakistan administered Kashmir after he was accused of desecrating the Koran. The man, named only as Mr. Lee, works for a Chinese consortium that is building a dam in Kashmir. A police official was quoted by the BBC, as saying that Mr.Lee was held to prevent him from being lynched by an angry mob. Allegations of blasphemy are taken very ...

  • Chinese ambassador urges U.S. to be truly neutral on Sino-Japanese territorial dispute

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  • 55 dead as hailstorms lash south China

    A total of 50 people have died while 14 reported missing due to latest rain and hailstorms that have hit south China, the government statistics said Friday. The worst-hit Guangdong province reported 36 deaths and 10 missing people, reported Xinhua citing authorities related to disaster reduction. In the evening, the National Committee for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of Civil Affairs ...

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