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Giant Buddha's and Misty Mountains just another day on the road...

Source: Travel Blog, Nov 10 2012, 5:07am CST

As we mentioned in our last blog on Chengdu, we were really enjoying the Sichuan region so took a little side trip away from the city for a couple of days to the nearby towns of Leshan, to see the Giant Buddha, and Emei Shan, to ...

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China Expresses Interest in Mt. Wologizi

Source: AllAfrica.com  |   May 24 2013, 6:59am CDT

The Government of the People's Republic of China says the controversial Wologizi Mountain in Lofa County remains its vested area of investment in Liberia. Chinese Ambassador to Liberia Zhao Jianhua said ev ...

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4 detained in death of girl in school bus

Source: Shanghai Daily  |   May 24 2013, 5:51am CDT

FOUR people were detained yesterday after a 3-year-old girl died of suffocation in a school bus in Shaodong County, Henan Province. The school bus arrived at the privately-owned Jinbeibei Kindergarten yesterday morning, but ...

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'On Top Of The World' At 80: Japanese Climber Summits Everest

Source: NPR  |   May 23 2013, 9:00am CDT

Enlarge image i Miura Dolphins Co. Ltd./AP A Japanese mountaineer has become the oldest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, as Yuichiro Miura, 80, reached the 29,035-foot peak Thursday mornin ...

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Government to Start Issuing Loans To Bus Drivers

Source: Tumfweko  |   May 23 2013, 2:27am CDT

the government has facilitated a bus loan scheme which will enable over 1,300 public and private service drivers to become proprietors. The first beneficiary is Ms Sara Njovu, a widowed taxi driver who has supported h ...

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What can US learn from Chinese culture?

Source: China Daily  |   May 22 2013, 10:37pm CDT

Please don't get into government issues here. I'm talking strictly about common, everyday cultural things. Some things I noticed that I really like about Chinese culture that I wish we would incorporate here in the USA: Incorporate more exercise into e ...

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The Rest Of Everest Episode 188: Throwing Rocks

Source: The Adventure Blog  |   May 22 2013, 4:56pm CDT

The latest episode of The Rest of Everest is out and it continues a very exciting expedition to the Karakoram with mountaineer Brian Block. After spending the past few episodes simply getting to Base Camp, the first climb is ...

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Mountains with heart

Source: China Daily  |   May 22 2013, 4:41pm CDT

Guizhou offers tourists off the beaten track a sense of hospitality, tranquility - and a splendid cuppa, Tom Clifford reports. Guilt is a terrible thing to bring to a table. For hours our small bus had been buffeted by nature's wrath, expose ...

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Hospitals Ask Patients for a Blank Check

Source: The American Interest  |   May 22 2013, 1:30pm CDT

Miami’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center has just promised to publicly release the rates at which insurance companies reimburse the hospital for treatments. In any other industry, it would be routine for a vendor ...

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2 days ago

First Quarter 2013 Growth For Chinese Online Gaming Stocks Looking Solid

Source: Seeking Alpha  |   May 22 2013, 5:33am CDT

As the chart below shows, Giant Interactive and Changyou's solid revenue growth in first quarter 2013 are a continuation of a much longer secular growth in revenue. Perfect World and Shanda Game, on the other hand, have been experiencing more volatile ...

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2 Chinese died climbing summits in Nepal

Source: China Daily  |   May 22 2013, 4:43am CDT

KATHMANDU - Thirty climbers from China, 24 male and 6 female have been registered to scale various summits this spring but two of them have already died, officials said on Wednesday. Li Xiaoshi, 58, from Taiwan, died wh ...

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