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China Bars Exports by 750 Toy Makers
Aggregated Source: NYT > China
Post Date: December 11, 2007
The move was announced just days after U.S. legislators moved to bolster consumer protections and impose tougher penalties on companies that sell tainted or hazardous goods.
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80% agree with new holiday proposal
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 17, 2007
… The seven-day-long survey, conducted by the central government's office in charge of national holidays, asked six questions to more than 1.55 million people about their opinions on the proposal on four major news portals and the official Website of the nation's top economic planning body since last Friday.
The proposal, worked out by a special panel after more than a year's research, calls for scrapping the May Day Golden Week while adding three traditional festivals as national holidays, …
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Critical changes ahead for orbiter
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 6, 2007
CHINA'S first lunar probe Chang'e 1 is expected to slow twice more over the next two days as it gradually moves into its working orbit.
The two braking maneuvers are scheduled to take place about 11am today and 8am tomorrow, Pei Zhaoyu, spokesman for the National Space Administration, said at a news conference yesterday in Beijing.
The Beijing Aerospace Control Center guided the orbiter through its first successful braking maneuver at 11:15am yesterday. The satellite, named …
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Workers may soon get annual paid vacations
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 6, 2007
… running.
Those who have worked less than 10 years, including for other employers, will get five days a year in paid leave.
A worker is entitled to 10 days of paid vacation after working 10 years in total, and 15 days after working 20 years, the office said in its draft regulation.
The limit for paid annual holidays is 15 days.
Weekends and national holidays like May Day and Spring Festival holidays will not be counted as paid vacation, the draft said.
Employers must compensate its …
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Chang’e 1 to slow twice more by Wednesday
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 6, 2007
CHINA'S first lunar probe Chang'e 1 is expected to slow twice more over the next two days as it gradually moves into its working orbit.
The two braking manouvers are scheduled to take place about 11am tomorrow and 8am on Wednesday, Pei Zhaoyu, spokesman of the National Space Administration told at a news conference this afternoon in Beijing.
Following the instructions of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center, the orbiter started its first braking maneuver at 11:15am today when …
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Chang’e 1 to slow twice more by Wednesday
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 6, 2007
CHINA'S first lunar probe Chang'e 1 is expected to slow twice more over the next two days as it gradually moves into its working orbit.
The two braking manouvers are scheduled to take place about 11am tomorrow and 8am on Wednesday, Pei Zhaoyu, spokesman of the National Space Administration told at a news conference this afternoon in Beijing.
Following the instructions of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center, the orbiter started its first braking maneuver at 11:15am today when …
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Games tickets to be sold by lottery
Aggregated Source: China
Post Date: November 6, 2007
… will revert to a lottery draw, the Games organizers said yesterday.
The announcement comes days after sales - meant to be on a first-come, first-served basis - were suspended last Tuesday when the...
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Jiangxi police expand manhunt
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 6, 2007
… Province, have expanded their manhunt for two escaped convicts to the neighboring Gan County seven days after the pair broke out of jail, the Guangzhou Daily reported today.
The search front was extended to 80 kilometers from Xingguo to urban areas of Ganzhou. Police have set up road blocks and are searching in the mountains.
Officials from the Xingguo publicity department said they will not release details about how the pair escaped until they are caught, as statements from other …
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Jiangxi police expand manhunt
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 6, 2007
… Province, have expanded their manhunt for two escaped convicts to the neighboring Gan County seven days after the pair broke out of jail, the Guangzhou Daily reported today.
The search front was extended to 80 kilometers from Xingguo to urban areas of Ganzhou. Police have set up road blocks and are searching in the mountains.
Officials from the Xingguo publicity department said they will not release details about how the pair escaped until they are caught, as statements from other …
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Chang’e 1 enters lunar orbit
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 6, 2007
… control and crash into the moon.
The satellite is expected to brake twice more over the next two days to lower its speed to between 2.0 and 2.10 kilometers a second.
Chang'e 1 blasted off on a Long March 3A carrier rocket on October 24 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province.
The probe completed its fourth orbital transfer late Wednesday afternoon, shifting out of its 120,000-kilometer orbit around the Earth and moving toward a 380,000-kilometer circumlunar orbit. …
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Chang’e 1 enters lunar orbit
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 6, 2007
… control and crash into the moon.
The satellite is expected to brake twice more over the next two days to lower its speed to between 2.0 and 2.10 kilometers a second.
Chang'e 1 blasted off on a Long March 3A carrier rocket on October 24 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province.
The probe completed its fourth orbital transfer late Wednesday afternoon, shifting out of its 120,000-kilometer orbit around the Earth and moving toward a 380,000-kilometer circumlunar orbit. …
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Chang’e 1 brakes before entering lunar orbit
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 6, 2007
… was not done in time.
The satellite is expected to have another two brakes in the following two days to lower its speed to 1.60 km to 2.38 km per second.
Chang'e 1 blasted off on a Long March 3A carrier rocket on October 24 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province.
The probe completed its fourth orbital transfer late Wednesday afternoon, shifting out of its 120,000-kilometer orbit around the Earth and moving toward a 380,000-kilometer circumlunar orbit.
The control …
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Chang’e 1 brakes before entering lunar orbit
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 6, 2007
… was not done in time.
The satellite is expected to have another two brakes in the following two days to lower its speed to 1.60 km to 2.38 km per second.
Chang'e 1 blasted off on a Long March 3A carrier rocket on October 24 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province.
The probe completed its fourth orbital transfer late Wednesday afternoon, shifting out of its 120,000-kilometer orbit around the Earth and moving toward a 380,000-kilometer circumlunar orbit.
The control …
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Air Force grounds 700 F-15 fighters after Friday crash: AP
Aggregated Source: MarketWatch.com - All MarketWatch News
Post Date: November 6, 2007
… further comment pending an investigation of the crash. The wire service said the Air Force has 60 days to investigate the crash.
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Olympics take on new meaning in name game
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 5, 2007
… just a point of pride for China - it's such an important part of the national consciousness these days that nearly 3,500 children have been named after the event.
Most of the 3,491 people with the name "Aoyun," meaning Olympics, were born around the year 2000, as Beijing was bidding to host the 2008 Summer Games, the Beijing Daily reported yesterday, citing information from China's national identity card database.
The vast majority of people named Aoyun are male, the newspaper said. Only …
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Olympics take on new meaning in name game
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 5, 2007
… just a point of pride for China - it's such an important part of the national consciousness these days that nearly 3,500 children have been named after the event.
Most of the 3,491 people with the name "Aoyun," meaning Olympics, were born around the year 2000, as Beijing was bidding to host the 2008 Summer Games, the Beijing Daily reported yesterday, citing information from China's national identity card database.
The vast majority of people named Aoyun are male, the newspaper said. Only …
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China’s lunar probe enters moon’s orbit
(Reuters)
Aggregated Source: Yahoo! News: World - China
Post Date: November 5, 2007
Reuters - A Chinese lunar obiter entered the
moon's orbit on Monday, 12 days after takeoff, a feat hailed as
a new milestone in China's exploration of space.
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Changes to RMB Dialogue
Aggregated Source: China Business Blog
Post Date: November 5, 2007
… as well as global imbalances. This is not a new issue (I remember writing about it back in the days of my first [...]
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Chang’e-1 to fly to moon with no more corrections
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 5, 2007
… The center carried out an orbital correction of Chang'e-1 on November 2, about nine days after its launch. "The correction has made the satellite run accurately in the transforming orbit heading to the moon, and another correction planned on November 4 will be unnecessary," Tang said.
The Chang'e-1 lunar probe has been flying at a speed of 500-meter per second to the space where the moon's gravity could capture it.
It has completed four orbital transforms and one halfway …
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Chang’e-1 to fly to moon with no more corrections
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 5, 2007
… The center carried out an orbital correction of Chang'e-1 on November 2, about nine days after its launch. "The correction has made the satellite run accurately in the transforming orbit heading to the moon, and another correction planned on November 4 will be unnecessary," Tang said.
The Chang'e-1 lunar probe has been flying at a speed of 500-meter per second to the space where the moon's gravity could capture it.
It has completed four orbital transforms and one halfway …
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Olympics push Chinese kids to the max
(AP)
Aggregated Source: Yahoo! News: World - China
Post Date: November 4, 2007
AP - An 8-year-old girl runs 2,212 miles to Beijing in 55 days. A 10-year-old swims in a river with her hands and feet bound. And then there's 4-year-old Yang Yang, riding a 1,000-pound beluga whale.
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Olympics push Chinese kids to the max
(AP)
Aggregated Source: Yahoo! News: World - China
Post Date: November 4, 2007
AP - An 8-year-old girl runs 2,212 miles to Beijing in 55 days. A 10-year-old swims in a river with her hands and feet bound. And then there's 4-year-old Yang Yang, riding a 1,000-pound beluga whale.
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Subprime Today: Merrill hedge-fund arrangement in question
Aggregated Source: MarketWatch.com - All MarketWatch News
Post Date: November 3, 2007
… on Friday as investor concerns focused on Merrill Lynch and Washington Mutual. In the past few days, concerns seemed to shift from the companies' poor judgment and weak risk management to the possibility that business practices may not pass regulators' tests. See full story.
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Rescue ends as final bodies retrieved from coal mine
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 2, 2007
… who were maintaining the shaft underground.
Rescuers retrieved the body of the first victim two days later after the flood engulfed the colliery in Jingyuan County of Baiyin City.
Each family of the victims is expected to get 200,000 yuan (US$27,000) in compensation from the mine, according to the agreement reached with the boss of the mine.
The colliery was a county-level state-owned enterprise with an annual production capacity of 60,000 tons.
The company, which went into …
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Rescue ends as final bodies retrieved from coal mine
Aggregated Source: Shanghai Daily: National
Post Date: November 2, 2007
… who were maintaining the shaft underground.
Rescuers retrieved the body of the first victim two days later after the flood engulfed the colliery in Jingyuan County of Baiyin City.
Each family of the victims is expected to get 200,000 yuan (US$27,000) in compensation from the mine, according to the agreement reached with the boss of the mine.
The colliery was a county-level state-owned enterprise with an annual production capacity of 60,000 tons.
The company, which went into …
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Walgreen October same-store sales rise 6.9%
Aggregated Source: MarketWatch.com - All MarketWatch News
Post Date: November 2, 2007
… of 1.4 percentage points on comparable pharmacy sales. Patients fill more prescriptions on weekdays compared to weekends, and this year's October had one additional Wednesday and one fewer Sunday compared to the year-ago month, Walgreen said.
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I Find This Morally Reprehensible
Aggregated Source: China Business Blog
Post Date: November 2, 2007
… really. It’s also a relief as I haven’t put in for any yet and it gives me a few more days to get my act together.
The Fuwa: very silly but somehow likeable
Say what you want about the ticketing system, but those little bastards really creep me out. In the immortal words of Chef from South Park episode 109, "Starvin’ Marvin":
What is that thing supposed to be? It doesn’t look like anything!
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EMC Keeps on Trucking
Aggregated Source: China Business Blog
Post Date: November 2, 2007
… as Microsoft: market dominance through software piracy with the hope of better enforcement days to come.
What about intellectual property concerns with these R&D centers?
IP protection is at the top of every firms’ concerns when they move sensitive IP development projects to China. Will their China-based R&D facilities leak IP to potential domestic competitors?
That risk is no greater than an R&D facility in Silicon Valley or Moscow. It’s a …
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Mindray Medical International Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Aggregated Source: China Business Blog
Post Date: November 2, 2007
… or 22 million U.S.
dollars respectively.
Our average account receivable dates outstanding was 22 days
in the third quarter compared to 20 days in the third quarter 2006. And
inventory turnover was 64 days in the third quarter this year compared to 70
days in the third quarter last year.
It is our continued practice to maintain discipline,
especially in working capital management. We are maintaining our full-year 2007
net revenue guidance range of RMB2,155 million to RMB 2,185 million …
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Mindray Medical International Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Aggregated Source: Seeking Alpha China stocks
Post Date: November 2, 2007
… or 22 million U.S.
dollars respectively.
Our average account receivable dates outstanding was 22 days
in the third quarter compared to 20 days in the third quarter 2006. And
inventory turnover was 64 days in the third quarter this year compared to 70
days in the third quarter last year.
It is our continued practice to maintain discipline,
especially in working capital management. We are maintaining our full-year 2007
net revenue guidance range of RMB2,155 million to RMB 2,185 million …
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