The Hong Kong film company Emperor Motion Pictures is to set up a strategic partnership with UA Cinemas to invest in and operate cinemas on the mainland. The first Emperor UA Cinema is scheduled to open in Foshan, a city of more than three million people near Guangzhou, early next year. The first “five-star”...
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Emperor Motion Pictures signs mainland China cinema deal with UA
Police investigating forest fire in Hubei
Police in Central China are investigating a fire that destroyed 60 hectares of forest, Xinhua News Agency reported. The blaze started on March 7 at a farm in Songzi, Hubei province. It took 50 firefighters and 200 farm workers 14 hours to extinguish the fire. No casualties were reported, and no damage was caused...
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Air route to link central China’s Wuhan, Kuala Lumpur
WUHAN – A direct air route linking Wuhan, capital of Central China’s Hubei province, and Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia is expected to open next month, authorities said Saturday. According to the agreement signed on Saturday by the Tourism Ministry of Malaysia and the tourism bureau of Hubei Province, charter flights will be available between...
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Detailing China’s ancient architecture
Dazzling: The eaves of a building in China’s Forbidden City feature colourful painting on the beams, lintels and ceilings. The rich detailing on China’s ancient architecture is becoming a lost art. IT’S easy to find colourful painting on the beams, pillars, lintels and ceilings of ancient Chinese architecture, especially in imperial palaces. For Wang...
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Central China province suffers post-Spring Festival labor shortage
WUHAN, (Xinhua) — Central China’s Hubei Province is facing severe labor shortage problems, which have spread from coastal areas to the country’s central and western regions. The problems come in the wake of the week-long Spring Festival, which ended Feb. 15. About 80,000 to 100,000 workers are needed in Wuhan, mainly in processing and...
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Part-time jobs, internships lack legal protection
Part-time jobs are often favored by university students who want to earn some money and gain experience. However, Li Wei, a junior student at Hankou University, Hubei Province, complained on Weibo Tuesday that his employer forced him to work by refusing to pay him his wages. Li has worked in a local restaurant, earning 1,800...
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China school crush kills four children in Hubei
Four children have been killed in a stampede at a school in Hubei province, Chinese media report. The Xinhua news agency said several children were also injured in the incident at Qinji Primary School in Laohekou City. The cause of the early morning stampede is not clear – Xinhua said it was being investigated....
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New water-saving irrigation technology developed in China
WUHAN, (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists have developed a new irrigation technology that consumes 50 percent less water than drip irrigation technology.@ The trace quantity irrigation technology is based on the soil capillary force principle. When the technology is applied, plants take the initiative in absorbing water according to their respective demands, rather than being watered...
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Provinces Joins Hands with Regions along Volga, Russia for Cooperation
Recently, State Council approved Report on the Cooperation Between Regions Along the Middle and Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River and the Middle and the Regions Along Upper Reaches of the Volga, Russia jointly submitted by National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs in December, 2012. The report stipulated that...
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No restart for three inland nuclear power plants
Due to safety issues, three inland nuclear power plants — the Taohuajiang plant, Pengze plant and Dafan plant — have so far been on suspension for three years and counting. According to the State Council’s new deployment in 2012, they still would not opt to re-activate the plants even during the 12th Five-Year Plan...
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