BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — China and Canada issued a joint statement in Beijing on Thursday after the official talks between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Following are the highlights of the joint statement:
CORE-INTEREST
Both sides reaffirmed the fundamental principle of respecting each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, core interests and [...]
The translation community YeeYan.com (译言) has been banned for “violation of relevant regulations”. Yeeyan sent an official tweet on 30th, Nov, saying that the site was down due to server outage. Today the company published an open letter to customers about 1 hour ago, for the first time admitted that the website was banned because [...]
3, Dec. A taphrogeny happened in Guoguang Village, Hengshan City of Hunan Province. With ground surface subsidence of about 1.5m in one week, over 30 families were left homeless. Those who were affected by the taphrogeny have been settled down properly.
This taphrogeny is caused by the digging work of several gypsum mining plants in Ginkgo [...]
The Annual Paris Crillon Haute-Couture Debutantes Ball is held at the ultra-chic Le Crillon hotel, overlooking Paris’ Place de la Concorde. Aristocracy and celebrity girls from all over the world will be trussed up in high-end pret au porter or couture and “presented” to society on the arm of a dashing escort chosen for them [...]
A commercial “Made in China, made with the world” was broadcasted on CNN and other international media recently. The advertisement was produced by Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China.
Made in China with American sports technology,
Made in China with European styling,
Made in China with software from Silicon valley
Made in China with French designers,
Made [...]
Chinese netizens are discussing about the character of the year. There’s a website for people to submit and vote for their ideas:
http://www.nianduhanzi.com/ ( 年度汉字 )
“The Character of the year” first started in Japan in 1995 (named The Kanji of the year – 今年の漢字 Kotoshi no Kanji ). This year the game attracted great interest of [...]
