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World Kite Championship in Weifang

www.chinanews.cn 2006-04-13 10:31:15

The World Kite Championship's regional preliminary competition of
Shandong's Weifang City was held at Yangjiabu on April 11. Winners of
this competition will participate in the 2nd World Kite Championship at
the international kite field on Weifang's Fuyan Mountain on April 21.

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China to cooperate with Australia in iron ore mining

www.chinanews.cn 2006-04-11 14:34:32

Chinanews, Apr.11 - A relevant administrative authority of China
proclaimed recently that a Chinese steel enterprise will take part in
exploitation of an iron ore mine in west Australia which is supposed to
produce 10 million tons of finished products a year.
The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of China
alleged on its official website that Anshan Iron & Steel Group Company of
China has reached an agreement with an Australian metal company on the
cooperative exploration of the Carrara iron ore mine whose annual
finished product output is estimated to reach 10 million tons.
Australia is a major iron ore exporter in the world. Proven reserves of
Carrara, which is located in west Australia, reach 700 million tons and
the total reserves in the mine will exceed 1 billion tons.
According to the agreement, the Chinese and Australian firms will each
hold a 50% stake of the project and are conducting further prospecting
and feasibility studies. Provided everything goes smoothly, the two
parties will carry on exploitation and operation based on the current
shareholding structure.
Statistics of China's Ministry of Commerce show that China imported 275
million tons of iron ore last year and is facing increasing pressure of
iron ore imports.

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Chinese garden in LA

www.chinanews.cn 2006-04-07 17:15:28

Managing director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and
Botanical Gardens stood in front of the model of China Garden which would
soon begin construction and indicated that Huntington will invite
Suzhou's gardeners to establish a classic summer palace of Chinese style
on Apr. 5.

Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens convened a
welcoming ceremony on Apr. 5 for the gardeners from Suzhou to commence
their work. The rockworks sculpted by Suzhou's gardeners in China,
including the one named "moon reflection in the pool," were delivered in
54 containers and have arrived in the United States. The installation of
these rockworks began on Apr. 5. The gardeners will set up a classic
summer palace of Chinese style in June.

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Learn mandarin - Phoenix Mountain Scenic Spot in Three Gorges to open

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Phoenix Mountain Scenic Spot in Three Gorges to open

www.chinanews.cn 2006-04-05 17:05:36

Hubei's Zigui County Tourism Bureau indicated that Zigui Phoenix Mountain
Scenic Spot in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region will be open to the
public during the golden week of May Day holiday. Up to now, cultural
relic restoration project in Phoenix Mountain Scenic Spot has achieved 30
million yuan (US$3.75 million) of investment and completed 6,500 square
meters of construction area. A few tourist attractions will be open in
the first phase, including monumental archway in Qu Yuan's (a patriotic
poet in the Warring States period from 475 to 221 BC) Hometown, Shuifu
Temple, Jiangdu Temple, Purple Light Pavilion and three ancient
residences.

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Learn Mandarin online - Oil painter sold his works in shopping mall

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Oil painter sold his works in shopping mall

www.chinanews.cn 2006-04-03 17:34:35

Cao Deming, a professional oil painter, created an imitation of an oil
painting at a bigger size in a large shopping mall in Nanjing. With
improvement of standards of living, people's demand for oil paintings
featuring western classic styles is in the ascendant. Custom-made oil
paintings according to different requirement of individuality are popular
at present.

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Biggest single-day drop of RMB exchange rate

www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-30 17:14:04

Chinanews, Mar. 30 - The US Federal Reserve raised its interest rate by
25 basis points on the early morning of Mar. 29th as expected, holding
back the uptrend of the RMB exchange rate. In the inter-bank forex market
on Mar. 29th, the middle price of the US dollar versus the RMB remarkably
soared 78 basis points to 8.0280 over the previous trading day. This
indicated that after having hit an all-time high for two consecutive
trading days, the RMB exchange rate dropped and saw the most abrupt fall
in a single day since the RMB exchange rate regime reform.
Echoing the trend of middle price, on Wednesday, the RMB exchange rate
showed the trend of marked decline in the matched trading market and the
inquiry trading market after hitting new highs for days in a row,
plummeting 35 basis points and 52 basis points respectively compared with
Tuesday.
Insiders believed that the RMB exchange rate's trend yesterday was
obviously affected by the Federal Reserve's raising its interest rate.
Just as investors expected, on the early morning of Mar. 29th, the
Federal Reserve Interest Rate Policy Session decided to raise the US
dollar interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.75%. Moreover, the Federal
Reserve revealed in an announcement after the session that deflationary
policies may be needed later, suggesting the possibility of further
interest rate hike and convincing the market that the Federal Reserve
will probably raise the interest rate again in May. Due to anticipation
of interest rate hike, the US dollar exchange rate started to grow on the
previous night. The exchange rate of the US dollar versus major
currencies went up to varied degrees, resulting in downtrend of the RMB
exchange rate.

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Biggest single-day drop of RMB exchange rate

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Chinanews, Mar. 30 - The US Federal Reserve raised its interest rate by
25 basis points on the early morning of Mar. 29th as expected, holding
back the uptrend of the RMB exchange rate. In the inter-bank forex market
on Mar. 29th, the middle price of the US dollar versus the RMB remarkably
soared 78 basis points to 8.0280 over the previous trading day. This
indicated that after having hit an all-time high for two consecutive
trading days, the RMB exchange rate dropped and saw the most abrupt fall
in a single day since the RMB exchange rate regime reform.
Echoing the trend of middle price, on Wednesday, the RMB exchange rate
showed the trend of marked decline in the matched trading market and the
inquiry trading market after hitting new highs for days in a row,
plummeting 35 basis points and 52 basis points respectively compared with
Tuesday.
Insiders believed that the RMB exchange rate's trend yesterday was
obviously affected by the Federal Reserve's raising its interest rate.
Just as investors expected, on the early morning of Mar. 29th, the
Federal Reserve Interest Rate Policy Session decided to raise the US
dollar interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.75%. Moreover, the Federal
Reserve revealed in an announcement after the session that deflationary
policies may be needed later, suggesting the possibility of further
interest rate hike and convincing the market that the Federal Reserve
will probably raise the interest rate again in May. Due to anticipation
of interest rate hike, the US dollar exchange rate started to grow on the
previous night. The exchange rate of the US dollar versus major
currencies went up to varied degrees, resulting in downtrend of the RMB
exchange rate.

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Cartoon exhibition on traffic safety

www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-28 16:22:47

Primary and middle schools in Beijing were visiting a cartoon exhibition
on traffic safety on March 27, China's 11th safety education day for
primary and middle school students. Beijing held a grand publicity and
education activity called "cherish life and safety first." As more and
more people own a car in recent years, safety of primary and middle
school students faces more threats.

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Disappearing "village bazaar" in city

www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-24 14:12:41

Colorful cloth booths and commodities decorated the bazaar at Qinlou
Street near the university city in Shandong's Rizhao City on March 23,
making people feel that spring was in the air. In recent years, with the
rapid urbanization, such "village bazaars" in urban areas are
disappearing gradually.

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Taiwanese artist of glove puppet show

www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-21 16:28:11

Lee Chuan-tsan, a famous Taiwanese artist of glove puppet show, was in
the glove puppet show museum of his late father Lee Tien-lu. Pictured, a
clip of the glove puppet show named "Emperor Qianlong's Visit to the West
Lake" performed by Lee Tien-lu.

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150-odd-year-old white pine

www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-17 16:20:01

After a series of thorough preparations, gardeners in Suzhou's Humble
Administrator's Garden turned over the pot and adjusted the leaning
150-odd-year-old white pine on Mar. 16, 2006. It is learnt that this
white pine in the garden is 1.6 meters tall and its trunk is 2.7 meters
in perimeter, and this is the first time for the pine to have "posture
adjusted" since the early 1990's.

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Dragon sculpture a new scenic spot in HK

www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-14 16:36:58

A sculpture featuring an auspicious tortuous dragon was set up at the
crossroad of Leighton Road and Morrison Hill Road in Hong Kong by HK Home
Affairs Department in Dec. 2003. This sculpture has become a landmark
architecture and a renowned tourist attraction on Hong Kong Island.

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Shenyang's first model women workers

www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-10 15:16:06

11 model women workers who have participated in Shenyang's first women's
congress on March 8, 1951 and taken a group photo met with each other
again on Wednesday afternoon after a 55-year break. 82-year-old Mr. Liang
Feng, their photographer at that time, took another photo for them on
Shenyang's city hall square with the assistance of his son Liang Daming,
who is also a photographer.

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Dog barking contest in Jinan

www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-06 17:19:17

A rare dog barking competition was held in Jinan City on March 4, when
70-odd pet dogs of various breeds followed their owners in three games
including "the most vibrant bark", "the most rhythmical bark" and the
"longest bark".

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