• During the aerial silk show, the artist ended her performance by retrieving another festive bottle from a moon replica, bringing to light the limited edition Lunar New Year John Walker & Sons King George V. for Chinese New Year 2023. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Thankfully, 2023 marks the end of her 20-year loan to Memphis Zoo. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • In early February 2023, 24-year-old giant panda Le Le tragically and suddenly died from heart disease at Memphis Zoo. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • Top 10 China tours 2023/2024 for first visits and returns: embark on a lifetime experience. (chinahighlights.com)
  • Spring Festival 2023 falls on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2023, beginning a year of the Tiger . (chinahighlights.com)
  • Taliban deputy minister for civil aviation, Ghulam Jilani Wafa, hailed the resumption of Afghan flights to China, May 24, 2023. (co.ke)
  • Average manufacturing wages in China were $3,100 a year -- and that's updated to 2017 U.S. dollars. (forbes.com)
  • People perform during New Year celebrations at the Yongdingmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 31, 2017. (xinhuanet.com)
  • A similar incident happened in 2017 when Chuang Chuang, a 19-year-old giant panda died from heart failure due to obesity while on loan to Thailand's Chiang Mai zoo. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • FILE - Filipino soldiers stand at attention near a Philippine flag at Thitu island in disputed South China Sea, April 21, 2017. (voanews.com)
  • While the "build now, sell later" and ghost city phenomenon is relatively new, construction on the majority of Beijing's Wonderland amusement park occurred over the past five years as China's economy developed at breakneck speeds. (ibtimes.com)
  • That's especially true in digital health, where the China Innovation Hub continues to combine Philips' global technology expertise and China's innovation potential to create meaningful solutions that are locally relevant. (philips.com)
  • Philips' China Innovation Hub has a proven record of creating ecosystems in which insights from customers and end-users can be combined with health technology from Philips and new ways of thinking in start-ups and SMEs to develop products and services that will realize China's healthcare ambitions. (philips.com)
  • On October 18th, China's ruling Communist Party will begin its 19th Party Congress - a five-yearly high-level meeting of senior party officials that will determine the future makeup of the Chinese leadership. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • According to party norms, China's top two leaders are usually publicly anointed at a congress five years before they take power. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • Zhou Zhenglong, a farmer in Zhenping County, West China's Shaanxi Province, shows a photo of the Penthern tiger (South China Tiger) he took on the mountain on October 3. (mongabay.com)
  • A current project by the organization Save China's Tigers has taken South China Tigers from zoos and created a space for them in a South African reserve from what used to be sheep farms. (mongabay.com)
  • Scientists captured a wild Indo-Chinese tiger on film in a nature reserve in China's southeastern Yunnan Province, reports the Worldwatch Institute. (mongabay.com)
  • Last March, during China's annual rubber-stamp congress in Beijing, a politician presented a proposal urging the government to "strictly control Africans" living in China, claiming they "engage in drug trafficking, harassment of women, and fighting" and "have a high rate of AIDS and the Ebola virus. (hrw.org)
  • Chinese exports typically slump at the start of the year, with the country's factories shut or running at half speed for weeks because of China's New Year holiday, which this year fell in the first week of February. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • China's trade surplus was $183 billion last year, down from $196 billion in 2009 and a record $295 billion in 2008. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Citing dynastic-era maritime records, China claims 90% of the 3.5 million-square-kilometer tropical waterway that stretches from Hong Kong to Borneo, while Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam claim waters that overlap China's. (voanews.com)
  • FILE - This aerial photo taken through a glass window of a military plane shows China's alleged on-going reclamation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, May 11, 2015. (voanews.com)
  • For much of the year, China's coast guard made its presence felt in waters claimed by Malaysia, the most active explorer of undersea natural gas in the disputed region. (voanews.com)
  • There is no force that can shape the foundation of this great nation and no force that can stop the Chinese people and the Chinese nation from getting ahead," Xi Jinping, China's top leader and party chairman, said in an opening speech. (kpbs.org)
  • By bringing together scholars from China, Europe and elsewhere, this event aims to provide a much needed forum to reflect on, and assess, the legacy of China's four decades of reforms from an interdisciplinary perspective. (lu.se)
  • During 2018's Twin Sessions, two members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Zhang Endi and Ma Jin, put forward a proposal contrasting China's unchanged list with the annually updated IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, which reflects the conservation status of animal and plant species around the world. (lu.se)
  • Zhang Zhengwang is a professor at Beijing Normal University, deputy chair of the China Zoological Society and a member of China's Endangered Species Scientific Commission. (lu.se)
  • Based on the traditional Chinese paper cutout motifs for these annual celebrations, I hand-drew and animated a dog-themed motif for a homepage image, feature, emails and various site banners, utilizing Shopbop's own brand colors plus a traditional Chinese red, and keeping the style within Shopbop's own newly-established brand illustration style. (behance.net)
  • It has become a tradition for Johnnie Walker to paint the Chinese New Year celebrations blue with an exclusive bottle design for the Johnnie Walker Blue Label. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The lunar new year has come and gone, but Charlene Cheung's essay about what Chinese New Year celebrations meant to her growing up is still ripe for reading. (therumpus.net)
  • Ask students to find similarities and differences between Chinese new year celebrations and other new year traditions around the world. (globaldimension.org.uk)
  • What similarities can you find between Chinese New Year and other new year celebrations? (globaldimension.org.uk)
  • Another reason for this chosen name, and also for why the Spring Festival is relatively long, is because at that time, the newly formed government of the Republic of China wanted to include festivals of all Chinese ethnic spring celebrations into one inclusive holiday that was not labeled 'Chinese New year' in order to respect the different new year celebrations of other ethnic groups at different dates. (chinahighlights.com)
  • The event was the culmination of celebrations of the Chinese Communist Party's 70th year in power. (kpbs.org)
  • https://www.chp.gov.hk/files/pdf/local_situation_covid19_en.pdf [accessed 17 April 2020]. (who.int)
  • the rate of exclusive breast feeding for 0 - 5 months infants shall increase by 10% compared to the rate in the Year 2020. (who.int)
  • The awareness rate of nutrition and health knowledge of citizens shall be raised by 10% compared to the level in Year 2020. (who.int)
  • Mother's Bridged Race data are not available for live births in 2020 and later years. (cdc.gov)
  • An artwork of Tank Man by Taiwanese artist Shake, inspired by a sketch of dissident Chinese artist Baidiucao, is on display in front of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei on May 21, 2019. (cnn.com)
  • Pushback from Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam kept Beijing from adding artificial islets or control over existing features in the resource-rich South China Sea in 2019, analysts say. (voanews.com)
  • Despite political tensions between the governments in Hanoi and Beijing, Vietnam is well-placed to attract Chinese investment -- and investment from other companies looking to diversify their manufacturing base. (forbes.com)
  • Australia's troubled ties with China in recent years have had far-reaching costs - sweeping trade curbs from Beijing devastated the Australian wine industry , hit the livelihoods of farmers and fishers across the country, and impacted billions of dollars in trade. (cnn.com)
  • Now, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is headed to Beijing for a landmark trip - the first for an Australian leader in seven years - widely seen as a step forward in both sides' efforts to stabilize the relationship after years of economic tension. (cnn.com)
  • Stakes are high for the four-day visit, which begins on Saturday and will see Albanese meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang and make stops in Beijing and Shanghai. (cnn.com)
  • Beijing, meanwhile, has become increasingly alarmed by Canberra's growing security ties with Washington amid deepening US-China rivalry. (cnn.com)
  • In the past 30 years, Beijing lacked the courage to calmly reflect on the historical significance of the June 4th Incident," the council's statement said. (cnn.com)
  • The hollow exteriors of park outside of Beijing that has been abandoned for 15 years. (ibtimes.com)
  • Official statistics said that the city of Beijing authorized 1,337 firework stands this year compared to last year's 1,429 and allowed 750,000 cartons of fireworks to be sold, down from 810,000 last year. (ibtimes.com)
  • On Tuesday, the Chinese ambassador to Kabul, Wang Yu, told Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi that Beijing "has maintained normal relations with Afghanistan and is willing to strengthen it. (co.ke)
  • Troops prepare for the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on Tuesday in Beijing. (kpbs.org)
  • Every Lunar New Year's Eve, hundreds of millions of people across China gather around their televisions to watch the Spring Festive Gala on CCTV, the state broadcaster. (hrw.org)
  • A Reunion Dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, when families gather together to enjoy a traditional meal. (globaldimension.org.uk)
  • Café Studio in the Four Seasons provides a seafood buffet dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve. (smartshanghai.com)
  • As the Spring Festival is approaching, various decorations appeared in shopping malls in celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • In celebration of the Year Of The Rabbit, the Scotch whisky brand collaborates with an emerging Chinese designer, Angel Chen, to create a collectable whisky bottle. (bangkokpost.com)
  • When the clock struck 12 on Feb. 9, the eve of the Lunar New Year, city skylines across China lit up with fireworks in celebration of the start of the nation's biggest holiday, the Spring Festival. (ibtimes.com)
  • The Chinese New Year, some say, is a once-a-year celebration, where fireworks should not be restricted. (ibtimes.com)
  • Chinese New Year is typically a time when families across generations get together, so any celebration usually involves kids. (beau-coup.com)
  • the celebration for this festival in China began in ancient times, when traditional calendars were primarily used for practical agricultural purposes. (chinahighlights.com)
  • Considering this, the celebration of the Chinese Spring Festival does in fact fall at a time when farming activities such as ploughing and planting crops start to take place, signaling the coming of spring. (chinahighlights.com)
  • In 1912, when the Republic of China was formed, China adopted the use of the Gregorian Calendar (and therefore its celebration of the new year on January 1st), but still wanted to designate specific times for the celebration of their seasonal festivals. (chinahighlights.com)
  • In order to help distinguish between the Gregorian new year celebration and the traditional Chinese New Year, the name 'Spring Festival' seemed more fitting. (chinahighlights.com)
  • As Chinese New Year is celebrated by Chinese people of certain ethnic groups (primarily the Han majority ethnicity ), there are other ethnicities that may celebrate the Spring Festival in its more pure form, without regarding it as a 'new year' celebration, and instead celebrate a separate new year, unique to their culture or calendar, along with an independent spring festival. (chinahighlights.com)
  • The Miao ethnic minority have a separate festival known as the Lusheng Festival , which is a spring celebration of its own, but also has some similar elements with regards to the Chinese Spring Festival, and its associated agricultural activities. (chinahighlights.com)
  • China had already chafed for years over Australia's public expression of national security concerns, including its ban on telecoms provider Huawei in 2018. (cnn.com)
  • A custom-illustrated and layout for the China-only version of the Shopbop website, celebrating the Chinese Year of the Dog in 2018. (behance.net)
  • To celebrate the Chinese New Year, the Confucius Institute in the UV calls every year the traditional parade, stared by the Chinese Dragon, with different groups of taiji, wushu, marcial arts, traditional costumes and the lion and dragon dance. (uv.es)
  • Brooklyn Nets point guard Jeremy Lin helped celebrate Chinese New Year by. (brooklyneagle.com)
  • Fireworks light up the sky over the Victoria Harbor to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in Hong Kong. (ibtimes.com)
  • If you have any students with Chinese heritage this is a good opportunity to celebrate with them and, if they are confident enough, allow them to share their experiences of the festivities with your class. (globaldimension.org.uk)
  • Xinhua also reported that Taobao, the nation's biggest online retailer, comparable to eBay, saw a huge sales volume in electronic fireworks ahead of the Lunar New Year, up by 271 percent compared to last year. (ibtimes.com)
  • This is perhaps why, according to one Xinhua report, city sanitation workers could tell traditional fireworks were still preferred this year. (ibtimes.com)
  • WASHINGTON, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Rice, one of the world's most important staple foods sustaining more than half of the global population, was first domesticated in China about 10,000 years ago, a new study suggested Monday. (xinhuanet.com)
  • The average life expectancy in Shanghai reached more than 83 years in 2016, far higher than the national average of 76.3 in 2015 and close to the world's highest of 83.7 in Japan and 83.4 in Switzerland. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Financially, the Monkey is said to mean turbulence and Chinese stocks and currency markets have seen plenty of that in 2016 so far. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • For documentation on expanded data categories available for 2016 and later years, see Natality 2016-2022 (expanded) . (cdc.gov)
  • Because it is based on the Lunar Calendar the date of Chinese New Year changes every year. (beau-coup.com)
  • The traditional Chinese Lunar Calendar, which originated about 4,000 years ago during the Shang Dynasty , was historically called the 'farming calendar', and was aimed at dividing the year into seasons for agriculture. (chinahighlights.com)
  • China had implemented a blanket restriction on the manufacture and sale of consoles and games in 2000, denying gaming companies access to the world's most populous nation. (cnn.com)
  • When it comes to the protection of human rights, however, the Chinese government has consistently failed to live up to the world's expectations. (amnesty.org)
  • This gives rise to the Chunyun or 'spring transportation' - the world's biggest annual human migration as people in China head home to be with their family. (globaldimension.org.uk)
  • That cooperation lowers odds that the other governments will grow cozier with the United States, which has the world's strongest armed forces and resents Chinese maritime expansion, analysts have said. (voanews.com)
  • China will, in the next three years, further increase its financial contribution to the African Human Resources Development Fund for the training of up to 10,000 African personnel in different areas," said the action plan adopted by the just-ended Second Ministerial Conference of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum. (china.org.cn)
  • African countries, attaching great importance to stronger cooperation with China in human resources development, have initiated cooperation plans and provided logistic support for training programs and cooperation projects, said the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Addis Ababa Action Plan (2004-2006). (china.org.cn)
  • That skit, intended to showcase the Chinese government's friendship with African countries and the " One Belt, One Road " development initiative, featured a Chinese actress in blackface with an exaggerated fake posterior and a basket of fruit on her head, saying things such as "China has done so much for Africa" and "I love Chinese people! (hrw.org)
  • 8% as in Africa, South-east Asia and China) for illnesses such as anaemia, headache, [2]. (who.int)
  • Girls check out the iPhone 6 in an Apple store in Shanghai, China. (cnbc.com)
  • Public health standards in the city have been maintained at the advanced level of developed countries and regions for 13 consecutive years, the Shanghai Municipal Government's Information Office said when releasing the figures on Monday. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • By the end of last year, the number of Shanghai residents age 60 or older hit 4.58 million, accounting for 31.6 percent of the city's population. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Shanghai was the first Chinese city to have an advanced aging population. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The number of beds in Shanghai's 700 nursing homes totals more than 130,000, including nearly 10,000 that were newly added last year, according to the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • While most video game consoles are already manufactured by contractors based in China, the new rule requires units sold domestically in China to be built in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. (cnn.com)
  • We salute the heroes of the Chinese people who bravely stood up 30 years ago in Tiananmen Square to demand their rights," he said, urging the Chinese government to make a "full, public accounting" of the incident. (cnn.com)
  • The official task of the 2,287 carefully screened delegates selected to attend this year's event is to ponder and approve new policies and elect the people who will lead China for the next five years. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • A number of people who remain in prison were convicted of 'counter revolutionary' crimes that were removed from the Chinese Criminal Code in 1997," said Roseann Rife, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Deputy Director. (amnesty.org)
  • In all, the estimates suggest that the policy may cost the 500 million people living in northern China some 2.5 billion life years, said the study. (straitstimes.com)
  • In recent years people have criticized the show for its sexism: in the 2015 gala, for instance, a sketch depicted unmarried women over 30 as unwanted second-hand goods . (hrw.org)
  • The three together are important and that's why Chinese people feel multiples of three are lucky. (mamalisa.com)
  • The Chinese government can rightfully claim major achievements including decades of double-digit economic growth, widespread poverty reduction, improvement in the material wellbeing of hundreds of millions of citizens, and the construction of advanced physical and digital infrastructure connecting people across the country's vast territory. (lu.se)
  • In these regions of the United States, the incidence of Lyme disease is 10 to 100 cases per 100,000 people each year. (medlineplus.gov)
  • That means that rice domestication may have begun at Shangshan at about 10,000 years ago during the beginning of the Holocene, when taking into account the distance between phytolith samples and the lowest bottom of cultural strata of the site as well as a slow rate of rice domestication, Lu said. (xinhuanet.com)
  • The time coincided with the domestication of wheat in the Near East and maize in northern South America, both of which are also believed to have occurred at about 10,000 years ago, when the global climate experienced dramatic changes from cold glacial to warm interglacial. (xinhuanet.com)
  • As a result of the Chinese Government's 'Healthy China 2030' initiative, there is already a lot of support for healthcare innovation in China. (philips.com)
  • The data are derived from birth certificates issued in years 1995-2022. (cdc.gov)
  • Year - 1995-2022. (cdc.gov)
  • Although the Chinese government's recent initiative in launching the National Human Rights Action Plan, which reiterates guarantees against illegal detention and to protect human rights guaranteed in the Chinese Constitution, was welcomed by Amnesty International, the Plan's success hinges on the actual implementation. (amnesty.org)
  • Chinese companies have begun offshoring manufacturing jobs to Vietnam to take advantage of the country's much lower wages. (forbes.com)
  • The China Daily interviewed Liu Yang, from Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, home to the country's top-six most polluted cities, who is the mother of a 10-month-old and opted for electronic fireworks this year. (ibtimes.com)
  • Before Mao's Great Leap Forward the total population of South China Tigers was estimated at 4,000 individuals. (mongabay.com)
  • This was needed because our strategy to become a digital solutions innovator includes leveraging the strong and unique digital ecosystem in China. (philips.com)
  • All three have numerous investments across the digital ecosystem both in China and globally. (rediff.com)
  • Amnesty International urged the Chinese authorities on Tuesday to hold an open and independent inquiry into events of 1989. (amnesty.org)
  • The Chinese authorities should immediately release these prisoners as a first step towards accountability. (amnesty.org)
  • The Chinese authorities' ongoing suppression of public discussion of the events means that many have been sentenced to imprisonment after 1989 simply for exercising their right to freedom of expression. (amnesty.org)
  • That suppression has intensified in the lead up to the 20th anniversary of the protests, as the Chinese authorities have detained and threatened human rights activists and lawyers across the country. (amnesty.org)
  • Amnesty International has documented at least 100 cases of activists who have been detained briefly or faced violence from authorities this year as they defended land rights, housing rights and labour rights. (amnesty.org)
  • This is no aberrational slip-up by Chinese authorities. (hrw.org)
  • Employees of the Chinese customs authorities and logistics sector must be vaccinated against COVID-19 before CNY. (dsv.com)
  • In 2011, the forestry authorities consulted with the China Zoological Society and organised expert discussions. (lu.se)
  • WASHINGTON (AFP) - A decades-old Chinese policy of giving free coal for winter heating to residents in the north has shaved more than five years off life expectancy there, a study said on Monday. (straitstimes.com)
  • The researchers said their analysis can also be extended to other countries, showing that long term exposure of an additional 100 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic metre is linked to a lower life expectancy at birth of about three years. (straitstimes.com)
  • The result has been much heavier pollution in the north, up to 55 per cent more than in the south, and life expectancies that are 5.5 years lower, said the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (straitstimes.com)
  • Such an age for the beginnings of rice cultivation and domestication would agree with the parallel beginnings of agriculture in other regions of the world during a period of profound environmental change when the Pleistocene was transitioning into the Holocene," Lu Houyuan, professor of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who led the study, said. (xinhuanet.com)
  • The research, published in the U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was done in collaboration with Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Relics and Archaeology and the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Ping Xiaoge and Zeng Yan, both of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Zoology, described in a paper how important inclusion on the list can be for a species. (lu.se)
  • The commencement date of the Chinese New Year is determined by the lunisolar calendar traditionally used in China. (uv.es)
  • Lunisolar calendars use the month, thus the Chinese New Year cannot be transferred into an exact date in the Gregorian calendar, but it can befall between the 21st January and he 21st February. (uv.es)
  • In traditional East Asian lunisolar calendars, which is where the ancient Chinese calendar originates from, a year is divided into 24 solar terms . (chinahighlights.com)
  • The Chinese government has tightened security and regulatory measures in recent weeks to maintain stability and attain optimal conditions in preparation for the week-long summit. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • The Chinese government has not released official figures but several non-governmental organizations estimate between 20 and 200 individuals remain in detention. (amnesty.org)
  • In the midst of a global economic downturn, the Chinese government has demonstrated its readiness to take up leadership in stabilizing the world economic system," said Roseann Rife. (amnesty.org)
  • Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, his host counterpart Meles Zenawi and a dozen of African heads of state or government attended the opening ceremony. (china.org.cn)
  • It's not that the Chinese government set out to cause this," Prof Greenstone said. (straitstimes.com)
  • Chinese government agencies have described particulate-matter levels of more than 400 micrograms per cubic metre between 1981 and 2001, the researchers said. (straitstimes.com)
  • The government has in the past pointed to a narrower trade surplus as evidence that it is making headway in tilting China away from excessive reliance on exports, a shift that is seen as a crucial part of putting the global economy on firmer footing. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Many Chinese companies, factories and government institutions are therefore closed for a long time during this period. (dsv.com)
  • It is not entirely clear what kind of restrictive measures the Chinese government will take. (dsv.com)
  • In China, partly due to language but mostly due to government policy, they have ensured that homegrown players dominate. (rediff.com)
  • These flights would directly impact enhancing economic, political, and commercial ties between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and China," Wafa said, using the official title for the Taliban's unrecognized government. (co.ke)
  • Not only does CNY fall on a different period than New Year in the Western world, the festivities also lasts much longer. (dsv.com)
  • Since al the festivities around CNY are family orientated, most economical activities in China stand still during this period. (dsv.com)
  • Dietary Patterns and Association with Anemia in Children Aged 9-16 Years in Guangzhou, China: A Cross-Sectional Study. (bvsalud.org)
  • A total of 1476 children aged 9-16 years old were included in this study. (bvsalud.org)
  • One of the most memorable events in those first years was a visit by the then Chinese Prime Minister, Wen JiaBao, to the Netherlands, during which he communicated with research scientists back in China via communications technology developed by Philips. (philips.com)
  • Because of distortions caused by the Chinese New Year, some analysts prefer to look at data for January and February together. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Military analysts had closely monitored satellite images of Chinese military facilities and nearby traffic for signs of the missile being readied for display. (kpbs.org)
  • the emoji celebrates the chinese year of the dog and is modelled after creative director, alessandro michele's own dogs. (designboom.com)
  • Albanese's trip also carries symbolic overtones, marking 50 years since the first official visit by an Australian leader to Communist China after the two countries established ties. (cnn.com)
  • Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang attended a trilateral dialogue with the Taliban and Pakistan in Islamabad earlier in May, and he agreed to extend Beijing's global Belt and Road Initiative to Afghanistan. (co.ke)
  • A military standoff between India and China, which have deployed tens of thousands of troops along their Himalayan borders, has entered its fourth year. (voanews.com)
  • If you accidentally watched the Spring Festival Gala, please take an antidote," someone posted on WeChat, the popular Chinese social media platform. (hrw.org)
  • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (left) and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. (cnn.com)
  • Hurun surveyed 376 Mainland Chinese millionaires, which the group defined as individuals with a personal wealth of 10 million yuan ($1.6 million). (cnbc.com)
  • We help companies to reach requirements given by environmental legislations in Mainland China, Hong Kong or Sweden. (lu.se)
  • With luxury gifting expected to be down a further 5 percent this year, on top of a 25 percent drop last year, this has provided a strong opportunity for more affordable luxury, such as Apple,' said Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman and chief researcher of the Hurun Report, a monthly magazine best known for its 'China Rich List. (cnbc.com)
  • Life expectancies for men and women climbed to 80.83 years and 85.61 years respectively last year, an increase of 0.36 years and 0.52 years year-on-year. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Nationally, the proportion was 16.7 percent at the end of last year. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Since October, when foreigners buying property have had to hold a New Zealand bank account and Inland Revenue number - and pay capital gains tax on rental houses sold within two years - sales at auctions in Auckland have dropped from 70 per cent two years ago to 30 per cent near the end of last year. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Net profit in the April-to-June quarter was 1.08 billion Singapore dollars (US$796 million), compared with S$885 million in the same period last year, the Singapore bank said in a statement. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The average trade balance for the first two months of 2011 was a $0.4 billion deficit, far below the monthly average of a $15 billion surplus last year. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • To mark the 20th Anniversary of Philips Research in China, we talked to Henk van Houten, Philips' Chief Technology Officer, and Jyh-Ching Yaur, Head of Philips' China Innovation Hub, about why China is a fast-moving and exhilarating place to innovate in healthcare. (philips.com)
  • He expects demand from China to pick up after a slump since New Zealand introduced new tax rules on October 1 and China began cracking down on capital outflows. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • The Chinese New Year, best known in China as the Spring Festival (春节, 春節, chūnjíe), is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese calendar. (uv.es)
  • It's a lovingly rendered flashback to when Cheung was still eager to please her parents and bring a traditional Chinese doll to show-and-tell at school. (therumpus.net)
  • Full of symbolism and cultural significance, Chinese New Year is one of the most important, and festive traditional Chinese holidays. (beau-coup.com)
  • Encourage guests to wear red, the traditional color of Chinese New Year. (beau-coup.com)
  • CNY is the traditional Chinese spring festival that ushers in the new year. (dsv.com)
  • It is one of the most important traditional festivals both in China itself and in large parts of Asia. (dsv.com)
  • Tomorrow is Chinese new year and is the year of Monkey. (digitalpoint.com)
  • Have a fantastic Monkey year ahead! (digitalpoint.com)
  • Happy Year of the Monkey to all. (digitalpoint.com)
  • Who might not want to know their feng shui for the Year of the Monkey, which starts today? (nzherald.co.nz)
  • If the Year of the Monkey brings more balanced investment, it will be good fortune indeed. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • To ring in the Year of the Monkey the right way, first. (brooklyneagle.com)
  • Chinese officials had cited worries over violent content and the potential for moral decay in explaining the ban. (cnn.com)
  • The deal would bring about $540 million in Chinese investment and would create an estimated 3,000 jobs, according to Taliban officials. (co.ke)
  • At the time it was seen as political retaliation for then prime minister Scott Morrison's calls for an international inquiry into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic in China, though relations had been deteriorating for some time. (cnn.com)
  • Even a century after the signing, when Chinese immigration was still largely restricted to male labour, the diversity of the population today would not have been imagined. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Net-interest income rose 7% on year to S$1.35 billion in the quarter, largely driven by strong lending growth across the bank's corporate and consumer businesses. (foxbusiness.com)
  • [ 8 , 9 ] The annual death toll has decreased from 55 deaths per year for a 10-year average in 2001 to fewer than 20 deaths per year for the last several years, largely because of the educational efforts of the National Lightning Safety Council and its predecessor, the NOAA Lightning Safety Week Committee. (medscape.com)
  • Hundreds of civilians were killed and injured 20 years ago during the violent military crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on 3 and 4 June 1989. (amnesty.org)
  • In 2012, Chinese ships entered into a prolonged standoff with the Philippines at a shoal near Luzon Island and eventually took control of it. (voanews.com)
  • China was still three years away from being officially recognized as a middle-income country. (forbes.com)
  • For the last 70 years, one east Asian country after another has found prosperity as economic development has spilled over from rising countries to their poorer but hungrier neighbors. (forbes.com)
  • As China started to become more open at the time and began to invest heavily in science and innovation, Philips took the bold move of establishing an innovation center in the country to work on locally relevant innovations and to tap into the rapidly growing talent base there. (philips.com)
  • In a sense, the Chinese New Year is the same as the Spring Festival only for those who regard the Chinese New Year as the Lunar New Year of their respective calendar, which today, the majority of the country does. (chinahighlights.com)
  • No country, including China, has recognized the Taliban as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan, mainly over human rights concerns and restrictions imposed on women's access to education and work. (co.ke)
  • China has stepped up engagements with its conflict-ravaged neighbor since the Taliban reclaimed power in August 2021, when all United States-led Western troops closed out their involvement in the Afghan war and departed the country after almost two decades. (co.ke)
  • Muttaqi's office said the Chinese diplomat promised his country would facilitate increased Afghan exports to China and expedite "preliminary work" on the Mes Ainak mines, which contain Afghanistan's largest copper deposits. (co.ke)
  • The inclusion types of HBV inactivated vaccines are criteria were: age 6-12 years and having re- available, plasma-derived vaccine and re- ceived the full course of hepatitis B vaccine combinant DNA vaccine [6]. (who.int)
  • SD) scores using the National Center for 6-12 years after receiving the vaccine, and Health Statistics/Centers for Disease Con- to determine the factors associated with trol and Prevention (NCHS/CDC) standards immunity. (who.int)
  • Many scientists believe that the South China Tiger is the subspecies from which all other tigers evolved. (mongabay.com)
  • Having a Chinese New Year party designed for kids is a great opportunity to teach the next generation the cultural traditions and share with them the significance of the holiday. (beau-coup.com)
  • Ask, how do these traditions differ in different regions of China? (globaldimension.org.uk)
  • During the several weeks following the Lunar New Year, the holiday distortions affect exports much more than imports because exporters have a much greater tendency to take extended holidays," Yu Song and Helen Qian, economists with Goldman Sachs, said in a note. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Both imports and exports are lower than expected, and seasonal factors alone can't explain the sharp monthly drop," said Xu Biao, economist with China Merchants Bank in Shenzhen. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • On that combined basis, exports rose 21.3 percent from a year earlier and imports increased 36.0 percent, both of which were faster than December's pace. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • We were expecting exports and imports to slow this year due to weak external demand, so this is line with that," said Tao Wang, chief China economist for UBS. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • As commemorations for the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre take place worldwide Tuesday, any coverage or discussion of the event will be tightly censored in China . (cnn.com)
  • Yesterday, I helped at a Chinese New Year event at my daughter's school. (mamalisa.com)
  • The National People's Congress has within its powers the ability to lead the way in calling for an account of all those who died, those who were imprisoned and those who remain in prison still as a result of the crackdown," wrote Amnesty International in an open letter sent to Wu Bangguo, the Chairman of the National People's Congress of China, on 13 May 2009. (amnesty.org)
  • In January, Taliban Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar and Wang jointly announced a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in the northern provinces of Afghanistan over the next 25 years. (co.ke)
  • The annual holiday, which falls on February 19-20 this year, is a time of gift exchange between family, colleagues and business contacts. (cnbc.com)
  • It was the first time the rare Indo-Chinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) has been photographed in Yunnan. (mongabay.com)
  • For many Chinese, it is the only time of the year when they can see their family. (dsv.com)
  • For economic reasons most of the Chinese work and live in the enormous cities, but at this time of year they are visiting their families in the countryside. (dsv.com)
  • The risk of developing Lyme disease is influenced by a variety of lifestyle and environmental factors that reflect how likely a person is to get bitten by an infected tick, such as where a person lives, how much time is spent outdoors, and the time of year. (medlineplus.gov)
  • For the first time, it will cover a 10-year period. (who.int)
  • Five years ago, we expanded the lab with a strong digital architecture and software engineering team and elevated its status to that of a Global Innovation Hub. (philips.com)
  • But a revision which came into force at the start of that year requires an update every five years. (lu.se)
  • Firstly, we are at least a decade behind China across all the relevant metrics of internet usage, broadband penetration, and purchasing power. (rediff.com)
  • Over the past decade, China has alarmed the other claimants by using landfill to create or expand three tiny islets, in the sea's Spratly Islands and others in the Paracel chain. (voanews.com)
  • Over the last 11 years, Vietnam's economy has grown at a compound annual rate of 5.0% in per capita terms, according to calculations based on IMF data. (forbes.com)
  • While there has been proof that the South China Tiger still lives in the Shaanxi province-sightings by locals, findings of footprints, hair, and teeth-there has been no photographic evidence of this species since 1964. (mongabay.com)
  • But on October 3rd a local farmer, Zhou Zhenglong, took a total of 71 pictures of a South China Tiger in the wild. (mongabay.com)
  • It is one of two tiger species in China, since Amur, or Siberian, Tigers still survive in Northeastern China. (mongabay.com)
  • For many years the South China Tiger was thought to be extinct in the wild. (mongabay.com)
  • The greatest fear is that the South China Tiger may no longer possess the genetic diversity necessary to maintain a population in the long run. (mongabay.com)
  • Beijing's economic campaign sharpened rising concerns in Australia over alleged Chinese espionage and political interference , its ambitions in the neighboring Pacific Islands , and its detention of Australian citizens. (cnn.com)
  • Also present are Chinese and African foreign ministers and ministers in charge of international economic cooperation. (china.org.cn)
  • The Taliban have announced the resumption of direct flights between Afghanistan and China after a gap of three years, saying it would help boost bilateral economic and political relations . (co.ke)
  • Islamabad has received billions of dollars in Chinese investment, building major economic infrastructure projects, such as roads, power plants, and ports. (co.ke)
  • The collaboration - the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC - is the BRI's flagship project. (co.ke)
  • In exchange for its economic outreach, China primarily seeks assurances from the Taliban to prevent the spread of extremism from Afghanistan into Xinjiang and beyond and ensure the security of Chinese nationals. (co.ke)
  • This "flying geese" pattern lifted first Japan, then the "four tigers" of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, and finally China out of poverty. (forbes.com)